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FROM out of the Hollywood lots last week came word, more authentic than usually is the case, that George Tabori, the Hungarian journalist, novelist, film writer and playwright, is ready for another tussle with the Broadway theatre critics.
Bernard Shaw and Mrs Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence: ed by A Dent
UN turns back Chinese probing attempts along W and central fronts; UN arty pounds enemy N of Kumhwa; enemy fire from Papasan slackens; map
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va., Nov. 8 -- After years of discussion, efforts of New York savings bankers to solve their "biggest real problem," the establishment of additional branch offices, is no nearer to peaceful solution.
1952Sherrod Brown, American academic and politician[†]
Sherrod Campbell Brown is an American politician who served from 2007 to 2025 as a United States senator from Ohio. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative for Ohio's 13th congressional district from 1993 to 2007 and the 47th secretary of state of Ohio from 1983 to 1991. He started his political career in 1975 as a state representative. Brown is widely regarded within the Democratic Party as a left-wing populist figure. He is the most recent Democrat to represent Ohio in the U.S. Senate.
1952Gladys Requena, Venezuelan politician[†]
Gladys del Valle Requena is a Venezuelan politician. She served in the National Assembly until 2015, becoming the Minister for Women and Gender Equality under Nicolás Maduro. After serving in his cabinet, she became a member of the 2017 Constituent National Assembly. She has been sanctioned by the EU for her role in undermining the rule of law in the Venezuelan presidential crisis.
1952Jim Riggleman, American baseball player, coach, and manager[†]
James David Riggleman is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) manager and bench coach who coached with several teams between 1989 and 2019.
1952Philip Murray, Scottish-American labor leader (born 1886)[†]
Philip Murray was a Scottish-born steelworker and an American labor leader. He was the first president of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC), the first president of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA), and the longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
1952Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist, academic, and politician, 1st President of Israel (born 1874)[†]
Chaim Azriel Weizmann was a Russian-born Israeli statesman, biochemist, and Zionist leader who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. Weizmann was instrumental in obtaining the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and convincing the United States government to recognize the newly formed State of Israel in 1948.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]