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Govt and lines reprs form com to increase safety; promise Queens citizens take-offs will be ever least settled areas; Air Transport Assn to work out new schedules; officials doubtful of fields' ability to handle load rise
White House, denying rept of judgeship for Kilgore, cites Truman endorsement over A Edmiston in primary
Leaves US for Eur confs; illus
Impellitteri and Joseph arrive, Albany; illus; Mayor repts city will impose auto use tax and 25% surtax on state retail liquor license fees; estimates auto tax, permitted under '47 legis, yield at $6 million yrly
1952Ed Gagliardi, American musician (died 2014)[†]
Edward John "Ed" Gagliardi was an American bass guitarist, best known as the original bass player for the 1970s rock band Foreigner. He was a member of Foreigner from the beginning in 1976. Gagliardi, most notably, played a Fireglo Rickenbacker bass guitar, left-handed even though he was naturally right-handed. It is widely known that he did so out of admiration, and devotion to Paul McCartney. Gagliardi was on the albums Foreigner and Double Vision
1952Josephine Tey, Scottish author and playwright (born 1896)[†]
Elizabeth MacKintosh, known by the pen name Josephine Tey, was a Scottish author. Her 1951 novel The Daughter of Time, a detective work investigating the death of the Princes in the Tower, was chosen by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990 as the greatest crime novel of all time. Her first play Richard of Bordeaux, written under another pseudonym, Gordon Daviot, starred John Gielgud in its successful West End run.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]