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London, S B: teen-agers D Ferrick and E Baldwin admit slaying; Ferrick fired fatal shot
Truman expected to seize certain mills able to produce combat materiel under Selective Service Act; 10% of indus to be affected; conf of defense officials linked; Arnall says, on Adm behalf, he will not permit price rise beyond $2.84; denies Weirton request for $5.50 rise a ton, lr to co Pres Millsop; says offer of more, 'if made,' was withdrawn; claims Steelman and Admr Putnam backing; Steelman office denies withdrawing offer; C M White scores seizure threat; cites offer to open Repub plant for defense output; other indus sources reaction; threat seen aimed at forcing strike end
Black Gull (freighter): swept by flash fire from deck cargo of naphthalene off Montauk Pt, LI; crew of 42 and 9 passengers abandon ship after lifeboats burn; liners Gripsholm and Excalibur join USCG craft in search for survivors
WASHINGTON, July 18 -- President Truman is planning to leave Walter Reed Hospital tomorrow morning and return to the White House. For the second day he was without fever and the virus infection that struck him last Sunday apparently had cleared up.
Ghavan holds oil settlement prime task; assails Mossadegh Govt handling of issue; upholds nationalization principle; police and troops occupy 2 Natl Front groups hdqrs; disperse demonstrators, Teheran; Ghavam warns against disorders by pol-religious groups; Shah restores his title of 'High Excellency'; they conf; Natl Front organ attacks Ghavam
1952Allen Collins, American guitarist and songwriter (died 1990)[†]
Larkin Allen Collins Jr. was an American guitarist, and one of the founding members of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He co-wrote many of the band's songs with frontman and original lead singer Ronnie Van Zant.
1952Jayne Anne Phillips American novelist and short story writer[†]
Jayne Anne Phillips is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer who was born in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia. She was a professor of English at Rutgers-Newark from 2005 to 2020 and helped establish the MFA program at Rutgers University-Newark.
1952Opening of the Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.[†]
The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]