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August 10, 1952

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Headlines from August 10, 1952

MANY WRITERS: FEW PLAYS; Creative Minds Appear To Have Lost Heat And Originality

By Arthur Miller

A Miller article charges authors lack originality

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LONDON'S AMERICANA

By W. A. Darlingtonlondon

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U. S. Unemployment Statistics Fail to Show Effects of the Recent National Steel Strike

By J. E. McMahon

Some persons are considered employed, even though they are out of work, by the Department of Commerce in its compilation of total employment of the nation. This was indicated in its report of a slight decrease in the working force in the month ended July 12, despite a nation-wide steel strike at the time.

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ARNALL QUITS POST AS PRICE DIRECTOR; TRUMAN PLEA FAILS; President Holds Up Acceptance of Resignation, Urging He Stay Till After Election BUT GEORGIAN IS ADAMANT Says the Press of Own Affairs, and Not Steel Price Rise, Is Cause -- Due to Go Sept. 1 ARNALL QUITS POST AS PRICE DIRECTOR

By Charles E. Eganspecial To the New York Times

Arnall denies price rise order by Steelman was factor in resignation as OPS Dir

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World Record of 1,400 Miles Is Set In Light Plane Hop by Kansas Flier

By the Associated Press

B Faris (US) set world non-stop distance mark for very light planes on 1,400-mi hop, Wichita, Kan-Montpelier, Vt

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Notable Births

1952Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor^[†]

Daniel Hugh Kelly is an American stage, film and television actor. He is best known for his role on the 1980s ABC TV series Hardcastle and McCormick (1983–1986) as the ex-con Mark "Skid" McCormick, co-starring with actor Brian Keith.

1952Diane Venora, American actress^[†]

Diane Venora is an American stage, television and film actress. She graduated from the Juilliard School in 1977 and made her film debut in 1981 opposite Albert Finney in Wolfen. She won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress for Bird (1988). Her other films include The Cotton Club (1984), Ironweed (1987), Heat (1995), Romeo + Juliet (1996), The Jackal (1997), The Insider (1999) and Hamlet (2000).

Historical Context for August 10, 1952

In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people^[†]