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Communist liaison team charges UN planes bombed NK Camp 11, Kangdong; warns on repetition of incidents
apptd Amb to GB by Pres-elect Eisenhower
ILA leaders defy Ryan attempt to form united front on eve of NYS Crime Comm hearings; voice distrust of Ryan leadership at closed meetings; decline use of union counsel Waldman & Waldman; select own attys; A Di Brizzi reptd only official willing to use union attys
schedule of witnesses
NYC Magistrates Bd urges rev of present 'unsatisfactory' method of testing for intoxication
1952Stephen Poliakoff, English director, producer, and playwright[†]
Stephen Poliakoff is a British playwright, director and screenwriter. In 2006 Gerard Gilbert of The Independent described him as the UK's "pre-eminent TV dramatist" and that he had "inherited Dennis Potter's crown".
1952The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.[†]
The Daily News is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson in New York City as the Illustrated Daily News. It was the first U.S. daily printed in tabloid format, and reached its peak circulation in 1947, at 2.4 million copies a day. As of 2019, it was the eleventh-highest circulated newspaper in the United States. For much of the 20th century, the paper operated out of the historic art deco Daily News Building with its large globe in the lobby. Today's Daily News is not connected to the earlier New York Daily News, which shut down in 1906.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]