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Sec Kimball says US naval strength deters war
nominates Gov Stevenson for US Pres, Sen Sparkman for VP; Stevenson s; Sen Lehman message
Impellitteri authorizes Lundy to hold up assessments; Shells finds Clemente got 25 contracts totaling $600,000 in last 2 yrs; cites Controller's bd '50 hearings charge that Clemente was unreliable; bd denied him 2 contracts
Nam protests new incidents in SK stockades, lr to UN truce team; demands full data; Boatner sees more incidents among unruly POWs; Peiping radio says incidents show POWs seek repatriation; charges UN withholds data on incidents; 1 POW reptdiy killed accidentally, 26 injured in new incident
Eisenhower pledges fighting campaign soon after Labor Day, reply to queries at confs with NYS and NJ leaders, I Nurkiewicz Polish-Amer group, Comr P A Miller NJ labor group and Mrs C W Weis Jr women's group; Gen says he purposely started campaign on low note; Mrs C N Bailey and Gen's aide comment; NJ AFL Bldg Trades Council pres, Nurkiewicz, other Polish-Amers back Gen; Miller int on NJ labor stand; W L Pfeiffer, J J Dickerson on campaign pledge; latter quotes Gen on Taft role; BLFE pres D B Robertson and Ry Labor Execs Assn chmn G E Leighty conf with Gen; Gen Pfeiffer, J R Sprague illus
1952Karen Hesse, American author and poet[†]
Karen S. Hesse is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings. She received the Newbery Medal for Out of the Dust (1997).
1952Dave Malone, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
The Radiators, also known as The New Orleans Radiators, are an American swamp rock band from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The band's musical style, which draws from blues, rock, rhythm and blues, funk and soul music, has attracted a dedicated fanbase who the band calls "fish heads". Described by OffBeat magazine as "New Orleans' longest-running and most successful rock band", The Radiators had only limited commercial success, with only a handful of chart appearances, but, as a party band from a party town, their enthusiastic live performances, danceable beats and relentless touring earned the band a dedicated following and the admiration of many of their peers.
1952Don Schlitz, American Hall of Fame country music songwriter[†]
Donald Allen Schlitz Jr. is an American songwriter who has written more than twenty number one hits on the country music charts. He is best known for his song "The Gambler", and as the co-writer of "Forever and Ever, Amen", and "When You Say Nothing at All". For his songwriting efforts, Schlitz has earned two Grammy Awards, and four ASCAP Country Songwriter of the Year awards.
1952Deborah Van Valkenburgh, American actress[†]
Deborah Van Valkenburgh is an American actress best known for her screen debut as Mercy in the 1979 cult film The Warriors, and her role as Jackie Rush for five seasons (1980–1985) on the television situation comedy Too Close for Comfort. In 2012, she won the Best Supporting Actress in a Fantasy Film award at the PollyGrind Underground Film Festival for the film Road to Hell.
1952Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer (born 1894)[†]
Anton Piëch was an Austrian-German lawyer and the son-in-law of Ferdinand Porsche. He headed Volkswagenwerk GmbH between 1941 and 1945, which produced the Volkswagen vehicles (KdF-Wagen) at the factory in Wolfsburg, Germany.
1952American experimental composer John Cage's 4’33” premieres at Maverick Concert Hall, played by American pianist David Tudor.[†]
Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, institutionalized compositional, performing, and aesthetic conventions in music. Elements of experimental music include indeterminacy, in which the composer introduces the elements of chance or unpredictability with regard to either the composition or its performance. Artists may approach a hybrid of disparate styles or incorporate unorthodox and unique elements.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]