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USN repts Neptune with 13 aboard shot down off Swatow by Chinese Communist anti-aircraft guns; USCG Mariner crashes on takeoff after picking up 11 survivors; ships save some; none badly hurt; 5 Brit and US warships sent to scene; map
Speaker Kashani breaks with Mossadegh over full powers; says he cannot permit Majlis to consider bill; holds it violates Const and means return of dictatorship; Deputies seek reconciliation; com to ask Kashani to modify stand; speculation on effect of break on Natl Front; pub seen backing Mossadegh; Kashani backed by Fadayan Islam and some pol leaders; speculation on tie to Communists
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 -- Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, Republican leader of the Senate, looked today to Herbert Brownell Jr., the Attorney General-designate, to suggest a way Charles E. Wilson could be confirmed as Secretary of Defense without liquidating his General Motors stock holdings.
1953Desi Arnaz Jr., American actor and singer[†]
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, better known as Desi Arnaz Jr., is an American retired actor and musician. He is the son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
1953Richard Legendre, Canadian tennis player and politician[†]
Richard Legendre is a former professional tennis player and politician in Quebec, Canada.
1953Wayne Schimmelbusch, Australian footballer and coach[†]
Wayne Schimmelbusch is a former Australian rules footballer in the (then) Victorian Football League (VFL).
1953Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.[†]
I Love Lucy is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, with 180 half-hour episodes across six seasons. The series starred Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz, along with Vivian Vance and William Frawley, and follows the life of Lucy Ricardo (Ball), a young, middle-class housewife living in New York City, who often concocts plans with her best friends and landlords, Ethel and Fred Mertz, to appear alongside her bandleader husband, Ricky Ricardo (Arnaz), in his nightclub. Lucy is depicted trying numerous schemes to mingle with and be a part of show business. After the series ended in 1957, a modified version of the show continued for three more seasons, with 13 one-hour specials, which ran from 1957 to 1960. It was first known as The Lucille Ball–Desi Arnaz Show, and later, in reruns, as The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]