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Mfrs Trust Co: 3 Jurors chosen for Sutton and Kling trial; De Venuta gets severance of trial
Communists reject Seoul and Pyongyang as entry ports; UN modifies plan; asks designation of Inchon with nearby airfields and Chinnampo with airfields around Pyongyang; differences reptd on designating Suwon, Taegu, Hamhung, Hungnam and on areas around ports to be open to inspection
Acheson repts UN thus far unable to get other UN members to send more troops, Sen com
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1952Warren Lees, New Zealand cricketer and coach[†]
Warren Kenneth Lees is a New Zealand cricketer and coach. He played 21 Test matches and 31 One Day Internationals (ODIs) between 1976 and 1983 as a wicket-keeper batsman. He was coach of the New Zealand national cricket team between 1990 and 1993.
1952Martin Ravallion, Australian economist and academic (died 2022)[†]
Martin Ravallion was an Australian economist. He was the inaugural Edmond D. Villani Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, and had previously been director of the research department at the World Bank. He held a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics.
1952Harvey Weinstein, American film producer and sex offender[†]
Harvey Weinstein is an American former film producer and convicted sex offender. In 1979, Weinstein and his brother, Bob Weinstein, co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989); The Crying Game (1992); Pulp Fiction (1994); Heavenly Creatures (1994); Flirting with Disaster (1996); and Shakespeare in Love (1998). Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love and also won seven Tony Awards for plays and musicals including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded the Weinstein Company (TWC), a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]