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Banquet waiters sue Waldorf-Astoria for $3 million allegedly withheld over 6 yrs; Trades Council seeks to intervene as defendant; asks arbitration
Eisenhower gets 9, possibly 11, Maine delegates; Taft gets 5; he, Stassen, Sen M C Smith comment
Bey appts pro-French S B M Boccouche Premier; urges Tunisians cooperate; sees Hauteclocque and Auriol envoys; they pledge greater independence including civil service priority for Tunisians and predominately Tunisian Parliament; insist on representation for 150,000 French residents; mixed comm to study reforms; Hauteclocque says Bey will withdraw UN plea; nationalists protest Baccouche; Arab and Asian bloc defers UN plea
US holds LoDolce, Rochester, as fugitive from Ital justice; illus; he is held without bail, Buffalo; his atty T G Presutti challenges US Dist Ct jurisdiction; Icardi atty R Aldisert says Icardi awaits arrest
6 major cos to conf jointly with USWA; Wilson reptd to favor price rise to avoid strike; Putnam and Arnall said to oppose it; union meets with Bethlehem, Crucible and Inland Steel, NYC and Chicago; Murray says members will be advised on progress
1952Jo-Ann Mapson, American author[†]
Jo-Ann Mapson is an American author. She is the author of twelve works of fiction, set mainly in the American Southwest.
1952Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer and engineer (died 2012)[†]
Teófilo Stevenson Lawrence was a Cuban amateur boxer who competed from 1966 to 1986.
1952Bola Tinubu, Nigerian politician, President-elect of Nigeria[†]
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu is a Nigerian politician serving as the 16th and current president of Nigeria since 2023. He previously served as the governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007, and senator for Lagos West in the Third Republic.
1952Alec Wilkinson, American writer[†]
Alec Wilkinson is an American writer who has been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1980. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer he is among the "first rank of" contemporary American "literary journalists...(reminiscent) of Naipaul, Norman Mailer and Agee".
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]