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If it stops raining for a couple of hours, the Giants and Dodgers will attempt to get in a ball game today at 2:30 P. M. at the Polo Grounds. They were thwarted again yesterday by the weather.
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DES MOINES, April 26 -- Illinois' record-breaking triumph in the university two-mile relay shared the spotlight with twice-victorious Kansas runners today in the finals of the forty-third Drake Relays.
JUST as some wise and cautious people make it a practice to visit their doctors from time to time for those check-ups which happily assure them that they are continuing in admirable health, it is wise to put the movies on the table now and again and give them a going-over to determine what condition they are in.
F Stranahan wins North-South Amateur Champ
1952Larry Elder, American lawyer and talk show host[†]
Laurence Allen Elder is an American conservative political commentator and talk radio host. He hosts The Larry Elder Show, based in California. The show began as a local program on Los Angeles radio station KABC in 1993 and ran until 2008, followed by a second run on KABC from 2010 to 2014. The show was nationally syndicated, first through ABC Radio Networks from 2002 to 2007 and then Salem Media Group from 2015 to 2022. He maintains ties to The Epoch Times, a newspaper published by the new religious movement Falun Gong. While Elder is primarily known as a conservative, he also self-identifies as a "small l libertarian", summarizing his political ideology as "I believe that a government that governs less governs best."
1952George Gervin, American basketball player[†]
George Gervin, nicknamed "the Iceman", is an American former professional basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Virginia Squires, San Antonio Spurs, and Chicago Bulls. Gervin averaged at least 14 points per game in all 14 of his ABA and NBA seasons, and finished with an NBA career average of 26.2 points per game. Widely regarded as a top ten shooting guard in NBA history, in 1996 Gervin was named as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, and in 2021, Gervin was named as one of the 75 greatest players in NBA history.
1952Ari Vatanen, Finnish race car driver and politician[†]
Ari Pieti Uolevi Vatanen is a Finnish rally driver turned politician and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 to 2009. He won the World Rally Championship drivers' title in 1981 and the Paris Dakar Rally four times. In addition, he won the 1997 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies.
1952Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician and statistician (born 1865)[†]
Guido Castelnuovo was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for his contributions to the field of algebraic geometry, though his contributions to the study of statistics and probability theory are also significant.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]