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Repr Powell says Negroes fear his election
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 -- President Truman appeared to exude high confidence of Democratic success in the election as he returned to Washington today for a forty-eight-hour rest before setting forth again on his campaign for the Democratic ticket.
Asst Sec Hickerson (US) says US will press for more troops; he and Sen Wiley score Vishinsky and Skrzeszewski ss
H M Tiner, C Manly, acting Asst Sec Gen Feller and C Binder debate role, NY Herald Tribune Forum
series on progress of Pres election campaign
1952Melanie Mayron, American actress and director[†]
Melanie Joy Mayron is an American actress and director of film and television. Mayron is best known for her role as photographer Melissa Steadman on the ABC drama thirtysomething for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1989, and was nominated for same award in 1990 and 1991. In 2018, the Santa Fe Film Festival honored Mayron for her outstanding contributions to film and television.
1952Derek Ridgers, English photographer and art director[†]
Derek Ridgers is a British photographer known for his photography of music, film and club/street culture. He has photographed people including James Brown, the Spice Girls, Clint Eastwood and Johnny Depp, as well as politicians, gangsters, artists, writers, fashion designers and sports people. Ridgers has also photographed British social scenes such as skinhead, fetish, club, punk and New Romantic.
1952Wilma Salgado, Ecuadorian politician and economist[†]
Wilma Josefina Salgado Tamayo is an Ecuadorian politician and economist.
1952The Governor of Kenya Evelyn Baring declares a state of emergency and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising.[†]
Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale, was Governor of Southern Rhodesia from 1942 to 1944, High Commissioner for Southern Africa from 1944 to 1951, and Governor of Kenya from 1952 to 1959. Baring played an integral role in the suppression of the Mau Mau rebellion. Together with Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, Baring played a significant role in the government's efforts to deal with the rebellion, and see Kenya through to independence. He was created Baron Howick of Glendale in 1960.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]