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Pres Truman scores Eisenhower endorsement, s, Colorado Springs
W S White 10-state Southern survey shows strengthening of 2-party system
Deputy Premier Beria assails US, Communist Cong; charges war plot
contractor A Capatano refuses to yield records to Sheils on ground move would incriminate him; Shells to ask ct action; no complaint on record against Capatano; $5 million in city contracts cited
Eisenhower, in Eugene, Ore, recalls Truman said there on June 11 '48 that he liked 'old Joe' (Stalin)
1952Takis Koroneos, Greek basketball player and coach[†]
Panagiotis "Takis" Koroneos is a retired Greek professional basketball player and a professional basketball coach. He is also a former member of the Greece men's national basketball team. During his playing career, his nickname was, "The Galis Before Galis".
1952Jan Marijnissen, Dutch journalist and politician[†]
Johannes Guillaume Christianus Andreas "Jan" Marijnissen is a retired Dutch politician of the Socialist Party (SP).
1952Edward Zwick, American director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Edward M. Zwick is an American filmmaker. He has worked primarily in the comedy drama and epic historical film genres and received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his work producing Shakespeare in Love (1998).
1952Joe Adams, American baseball player and manager (born 1877)[†]
Joe Edward "Old Wagon Tongue" Adams was an American Major League Baseball player and minor league manager. He was also known as "Old Wagon Tongue."
1952The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.[†]
The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash was a three-train collision at Harrow and Wealdstone station in Wealdstone, Middlesex during the morning rush hour of 8 October 1952. The crash resulted in 112 deaths and 340 injuries, 88 of these being detained in hospital. It remains the worst peacetime rail crash in British history and the second deadliest overall after the Quintinshill rail disaster of 1915.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]