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Churchill pledges continued support to Brit-US alliance; says comradeship is basis for Brit policy
Marine fighter-bomber attack illus
The nominees are Eisenhower and Stevenson but the campaign sounds more and more as if they were Taft and Truman. It was plain last week that both sides had adopted new lines of strategy.
to sell all 1,341,085 shores to investment syndicate; offering seen totaling over $42 million; Bank-Corp ties revd
1952Trevor Chappell, Australian cricketer and coach[â ]
Trevor Martin Chappell is a former Australian cricketer, a member of the South Australian Chappell family which excelled at cricket. He played 3 tests and 20 One Day Internationals for Australia. He won the Sheffield Shield with New South Wales twice, and scored a century for Australia against India in the 1983 World Cup. His career was overshadowed, however, by an incident in 1981 in which he controversially bowled an underarm delivery to New Zealand cricketer Brian McKechnie to prevent the batsman from hitting a six.
1952BĂ©la CsĂ©csei, Hungarian educator and politician (died 2012)[â ]
Béla Csécsei was a Hungarian educator and politician, who served as Mayor of Józsefvåros from 2 February 1993 to 2 September 2009.
1952Roger Heath-Brown, English mathematician and theorist[â ]
David Rodney "Roger" Heath-Brown is a British mathematician working in the field of analytic number theory.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[â ]