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BLE Grand Engineer Shields assures Eisenhower train mishaps had no pol significance; revs incidents; wires exch
A record registration in New York City for this year's Presidential election was in sight last night despite the failure of the usual closing-day rush to materialize on Saturday.
3d major outbreak, Trenton quelled; 2 inmates wounded; rioters seek pub sympathy for leaders in spring riots who were segregated
Pinay insists France must be treated as great power
Wagner and Moses propose widening 92d-98th Sts and 115th-117th Sts sees of Drive; map; cost put at $300,000; TB&TA to assume $20,000 cost of relocating center mall, 115th-117th Sts; Wiley not consulted
1952Mundo Earwood, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2014)[†]
Raymond "Mundo" Earwood was an American country music singer-songwriter. Earwood's eponymous debut album was released by Excelsior Records in 1981. His most successful single, "Things I'd Do for You", reached the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in 1978. For a time, he also recorded as Mundo Ray.
1952Beverly Johnson, American model, actress, and singer[†]
Beverly Ann Johnson is an American model, actress, singer, and businesswoman. Johnson rose to fame when she became the first Black model to appear on the cover of American Vogue in August 1974, after Donyale Luna was the first Black model to appear on the cover of British Vogue in 1966. In 2012, Johnson was the star of the reality series Beverly's Full House that aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). In 2008, The New York Times named Johnson one of the 20th century's most influential people in fashion.
1952John Lone, Hong Kong-American actor[†]
John Lone is a Chinese-American retired actor. He starred as Puyi in the Academy Award-winning film The Last Emperor (1987), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]