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March 23, 1952

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Historical Context for March 23, 1952

In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[โ€ ]

Notable Births

Francesco Clemente

1952Francesco Clemente, Italian painter and illustrator[โ€ ]

Francesco Clemente is an Italian contemporary artist. He has lived at various times in Italy, India and New York City. Some of his work is influenced by the traditional art and culture of India. He has worked in various artistic media including drawing, fresco, graphics, mosaic, oils and sculpture. He was among the principal figures in the Italian Transavanguardia movement of the 1980s, which was characterized by a rejection of Formalism and conceptual art and a return to figurative art and Symbolism.

Kim Stanley Robinson

1952Kim Stanley Robinson, American author[โ€ ]

Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer best known for his Mars trilogy of novels. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes, featuring scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the World Fantasy Award. The Atlantic magazine has called Robinson's work "the gold standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing." According to an article in The New Yorker magazine, Robinson is "generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers."

Rex Tillerson

1952Rex Tillerson, American businessman, engineer and diplomat; 69th United States Secretary of State[โ€ ]

Rex Wayne Tillerson is an American energy executive and former diplomat who served as the 69th United States secretary of state from 2017 to 2018 in the first administration of Donald Trump. From 2006 to 2016, he was chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of ExxonMobil.

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AS THE PRESIDENT SEES HIMSELF; MR. PRESIDENT. The First Publication From the Personal Diaries, Private Letters, Papers and Revealing Interviews of Harry S. Truman, Thirty-second President of the United States of America. By William Hillman. Photographs by Alfred Wagg. 253 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus & Young. $5.

By Adolf A. Berle Jr

CAMPAIGN years bring out a spate of campaign biographies of Presidential candidates (and sometimes of a President who may succeed himself) and 1952 is no exception. "Mr. President" is not one of these. It is a real and revealing piece of political literature.

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Trading Nears in German Stocks Here; Bond Dealings Are Remote; SALE HERE NEARS IN GERMAN STOCKS

By Paul Heffernan

It may be many months before holders of defaulted German dollar bonds can dispose of their investments in public exchanges here. In the meantime, however, a market is being established here for certain internal securities -- industrial, public utility and banking stocks -- of the former German Reich. And a market exists in Switzerland for many of the defaulted government and corporate dollar bonds of pre-war Germany.

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THE WORLD

By Unknown Author

There are two categories of issues in the Korean truce talks: subsidiary and major. For bargaining purposes, the Communists frequently scramble the two groups. The United Nations truce delegates have had constant difficulty during the nine-month negotiations in unscrambling them.

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Bandwagon?

By Unknown Author

" I have found in my long political career," a Congressman (Walter Pierce of Oregon) once observed, "that the strongest argument * * * my friends can make in my behalf is, 'He's going to win. You might as well get on the bandwagon.'"

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