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Plan to import Ital miners fails; Coal Bd tells about 1,000 Itals to seek other employment or be sent home at Brit expense; opposition of Yorkshire miners blamed; Manchester Guardian scores costly fiasco
Long before the Pirates got their first hit off Ben Wade, the Dodgers had a dozen runs yesterday at Ebbets Field. No club, let alone this youth-conscious, experimental group that Billy Meyer has under his wing, can spot a rival so many points and entertain a reasonable hope for survival, and so another Pittsburgh defeat was inevitable.
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., May 17 -- Sam Snead retained the lead at the end of the fourth round in the Palm Beach round-robin golf tournament at the Wykagyl Country Club today despite a record-breaking effort on the part of Cary Middlecoff.
illus, Pimlico horse racing meet
Sec Pace sees armistice an uneasy truce at best
1952Diane Duane, American author and screenwriter[†]
Diane Duane is an American science fiction and fantasy author, long based in Ireland. Her works include the Young Wizards young adult fantasy series and the Rihannsu Star Trek novels.
1952David Leakey, English general and politician[†]
Lieutenant General Arundell David Leakey, is a former British Army officer. He was Director General of the European Union Military Staff in the Council of the European Union, Brussels. In 2010 he was appointed Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, a role he held until February 2018.
1952George Strait, American singer, guitarist and producer[†]
George Harvey Strait Sr. is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, music producer, and rancher.
1952Jeana Yeager, American pilot[†]
Jeana Lee Yeager is an American aviator. She co-piloted, along with Dick Rutan, the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world in the Rutan Voyager aircraft from December 14 to 23, 1986. The flight took 9 days, 3 minutes, and 44 seconds and covered 24,986 miles (40,211 km), almost doubling the old distance record set by a Boeing B-52 strategic bomber in 1962.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]