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Rear Adm Strauss offered post of exec asst for consultation on atomic matters
Willa Cather: A Critical Biography: by E K Brown and L Edel
ITHACA, N. Y., March 7 -- Columbia and Cornell tied for the Heptagonal indoor track title tonight. Pennsylvania and Army's defenders were third and fourth by fractional margins in a four-way team battle whose changing tides kept an overflow crowd of 4,500 at Barton Hall in a dither.
MOSCOW, March 7 -- Premier Georgi M. Malenkov's Government of unity and strength moved resolutely ahead tonight, firmly treading the paths of domestic and foreign policy laid down by Stalin.
Pioneer Club: W Druetzler wins 1-mi run
1953Jim Rice, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster[†]
James Edward Rice is an American former professional baseball left fielder and designated hitter who played in Major League Baseball (MLB). Rice played his entire 16-year MLB career for the Boston Red Sox. In 2009, Rice was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]