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Admr Cochrane confident superliner United States will set new Atlantic speed mark in sea trials; record held by HMS Queen Mary
20 more policemen will face charges with 13 who go on trial May 26; delay until June 9 seen; Gross statement he paid foot patrolmen $2 a day probed
TOKYO, Thursday, May 15 -- The New United Nations commander, Gen. Mark W. Clark, today promised an early conclusion of the investigation into the incident on Koje Island where Communist prisoners kidnapped the camp commander, Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd, and held him captive for seventy-eight hours while bargaining for concessions from headquarters.
French cordon Bey's home to bar direct contact with Prince Chedly and Princess Zakia, 2 of his children, who are assoc with nationalists; deny ordering guard because Bey refused to countersign martial law decree; put Chenik and 3 ex-Mins under guard; French Foreign Office denies cordon; Hauteclocque and Gen Garbay see Bey on bombings
1952Chazz Palminteri, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Calogero Lorenzo "Chazz" Palminteri is an American actor. He is best known for his film roles in A Bronx Tale (1993), based on his play of the same name, Bullets Over Broadway (1994) for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and The Usual Suspects (1995), as well as his recurring role as Shorty in Modern Family (2010–2019).
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]