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August 17, 1952

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Headlines from August 17, 1952

DELIVERIES BEHIND IN FALL GARMENTS; Coat and Suit Manufacturers Are Held Up by Delays in Production of Fabrics PLANTS RUNNING FULL TILT Out-of-Town Retail Business Found Better Than Here -- Camel's Hair Popular

By Herbert Koshetz

Apparel buyers seeking fall merchandise in the New York market in the next few weeks will find it difficult to obtain quick deliveries of the wanted items in women's coats and suits. Manufacturers are running behind on deliveries, mainly because of delays in production of fabrics.

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NEWS AND GOSSIP OF THE RIALTO

By Lewis Funke

TECUMSEH, behaving like a New England farmer beholding the recent rains, last week hailed the announcement that Stanley Young's "Mr. Pickwick" would open at the Plymouth on Sept. 17, thereby ending the local play drought.

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Secretary, Typist, Clerical Jobs At $45 to $65 a Week Go Begging; 35 Openings Said to Await Every Graduate of New York Business Schools, but Only 'Glamour' Work, Like TV, Is Wanted

By William M.freeman

Having trouble finding a secretary? So is everybody else. Here's the situation:

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GIANTS AND BRAVES KEPT IDLE BY RAIN; Durocher Will Call on Koslo and Hearn Against Spahn and Surkont Today

By Joseph M. Sheehan

The weather, which has dealt the Giants many a foul blow this season, crossed them up again yesterday. A series of heavy showers led Horace Stoneham to call off his team's scheduled game with the Braves just before noon, so there was no action at the Polo Grounds.

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COTTON YIELD SEEN EXCEEDING DEMAND; Easing of Drought Seen Lifting Crop East of Mississippi Above Government Total MILL NEEDS MAY RISE But Export Prospects Are Not as Good as in '51 -- Price Advantage Is Reduced

By J. H. Carmical

Despite the drought over a large part of the cotton belt, prospects are that this year's crop will exceed the demand. The recent forecast by the Department of Agriculture of a yield of 14,735,000 bales would exceed the expected consumption by domestic mills and exports in the present season.

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Notable Births

1952Aleksandr Maksimenkov, Russian footballer and coach (died 2012)^[†]

Aleksandr Ivanovich Maksimenkov was a Soviet and Russian football player and coach.

1952Nelson Piquet, Brazilian race car driver and businessman^[†]

Nelson Piquet Souto Maior is a Brazilian former racing driver and businessman, who competed in Formula One from 1978 to 1991. Piquet won three Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won in 1981, 1983, and 1987, and won 23 Grands Prix across 14 seasons.

1952Mario Theissen, German engineer and businessman^[†]

Mario Albert Theissen is the former BMW Motorsport Director and was team principal of BMW Sauber, the company's Formula One team from 2005 until 2009, when BMW sold the team back to Peter Sauber.

1952Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player^[†]

Guillermo Vilas is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He was the world No. 1 of the Grand Prix seasons in 1974, 1975 and 1977. He won 62 singles titles and 16 doubles titles during his career, including four singles major titles and the 1974 Tour Finals. World Tennis, among other rankings and publications, rated him as world No. 1 in 1977. In the computerized ATP rankings, he peaked at No. 2 in April 1975, a position he held for a total of 83 weeks, although some have argued that Vilas should have been ranked No. 1 for at least 10 weeks, particularly in 1977 when he won two majors. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1991, two years after his first retirement.

Historical Context for August 17, 1952

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