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Loses NJ Repub Pres primary to Gen Eisenhower
1st Lt V Goodwin gets 2-yr prison sentence and dismissal for refusing flight duty, Briggs Base; Goodwin says he spurned duty to be with wife when she had child; 8 reserve officers score regulars, Randolph Base; ask Cong probe of reserve program
UN plans to move POWs from Koje Is to smaller stockades as facilities become available; seeks better control over unruly Communist agitators; cites crowding, water supply and logistic problems; Koje Is riots recalled
further NJ results
State Crime Comm sends out financial questionnaire; 1 sent to pol leaders of both parties, another only to Dems; Tammany leaders reptdly balk at 'discrimination' against them; hint they will return forms but not submit sworn statements
1952Joe Alaskey, American voice actor (died 2016)[†]
Joseph Francis Alaskey III was an American actor and comedian. He was one of Mel Blanc's successors at the Warner Bros. Animation studio until his death. He alternated with Jeff Bergman, Greg Burson, Jim Cummings, Bob Bergen, Maurice LaMarche and Billy West in voicing Warner Bros. cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester, Tweety, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepé Le Pew, Marvin the Martian, Speedy Gonzales, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner and Taz, among many others. He also voiced Plucky Duck on Tiny Toon Adventures from 1990 to 1995. Alaskey was the second actor to voice Grandpa Lou Pickles on Nickelodeon's Rugrats. He would later reprise his role in the spin-off series All Grown Up!.
1952Pierre Guité, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Pierre Guité is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 377 games in the World Hockey Association. He played for the Quebec Nordiques, Michigan Stags, Baltimore Blades, Cincinnati Stingers and Edmonton Oilers. He was traded from the Nordiques to the financially troubled Stags, along with Michel Rouleau and Alain Caron, for Marc Tardif, just weeks before the Stags folded and the league took over the team, moving it to Baltimore.
1952John McColl, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey[†]
General Sir John Chalmers McColl, is a retired senior British Army officer and a past Lieutenant Governor of Jersey. McColl previously served as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe from 2007 to 2011.
1952Željko Ražnatović, Serbian commander "Arkan" (died 2000)[†]
Željko Ražnatović, better known as Arkan, was a Serbian warlord, mobster and head of the Serb paramilitary force called the Serb Volunteer Guard during the Yugoslav Wars, considered one of the most feared and effective paramilitary forces during the wars. His paramilitary unit was responsible for numerous crimes in Eastern Bosnia, including murder, pillaging, rape and ethnic cleansings. Arkan was one of the most celebrated and iconic figures in Serbia during his time.
1952John Robertson, Scottish businessman and politician[†]
John Webster Robertson is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Anniesland and Glasgow North West from 2000 to 2015. Until 2010, he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Yvette Cooper.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]