FIRETRAP INQUIRY, HEADED BY MOSES, ORDERED BY MAYOR; Six High City Officials Directed to Solve Problem of 54,155 Old-Law Tenements
apptd to head com to probe NYC housing violations
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apptd to head com to probe NYC housing violations
would reject plank not based on collective security and Amer self-interest
carrier planes again hit power plants, Fusen and Changjin; by-pass Supung; more than half of NK generating capacity reptd destroyed; damage summarized
Justice Dept aide repts charge baseless; officials probe its source; State Dept silent; aides hold Dept would be delinquent if it had not acted; decry publicity; charge revealed to have been given CIA by 'previously reliable source' and sent as routine to FBI and State Dept; evaluation was left to latter agencies; Seattle Times repts Seattle man faked charge; Fed grand jury probe ordered
Baby sitter and 3 children fall from 5th floor apt, NYC; girl, 2, dead
1952PĂ©ter ErdĆ, Hungarian cardinal[â ]
PĂ©ter ErdĆ is a Hungarian cardinal of the Catholic Church who has served as the Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest and Primate of Hungary since 2003. He was president of the Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe from 2006 to 2016. He was the relator general for the Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome.
1952Tim Finn, New Zealand singer-songwriter[â ]
Brian Timothy Finn is a New Zealand singer, songwriter, musician, and composer. He is best known as a founding member of Split Enz. Finn founded the band in 1972 with Phil Judd, and the two served as the band's co-lead singers and songwriters. Judd's 1977 departure initially left Finn as the sole lead singer and songwriter, though Judd's replacement, Finn's brother Neil, eventually joined Tim as co-lead singer and songwriter. Tim Finn wrote or co-wrote some of the band's best-known songs, including "I See Red", "Dirty Creature" and "Six Months in a Leaky Boat". While still a member of Split Enz, he released his first solo album Escapade in 1983. A critical and commercial success, the album also produced two hit singles with "Fraction Too Much Friction" and "Made My Day". Finn left Split Enz in early 1984, though he briefly returned for the band's farewell tour later that year.
1952Martin Gerschwitz, German singer-songwriter and keyboard player[â ]
Martin Gerschwitz is a German violinist, keyboardist, singer and composer.
1952Kristina Abelli Elander, Swedish artist[â ]
Ellen Kristina Abelli Elander is a Swedish artist. She received her education at BirkagÄrdens folkhögskola between 1972 and 1973, and made her solo debut at Galleri HÀnder in Stockholm in 1978. Early on, she worked with paintings in acrylic and canvas, and openly criticized the gender issues of the time.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[â ]