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BACK in the dark, bank-closing days of 1932, Robert Porterfield. a stage-struck young actor who had been raised on a farm in near-by Glade Spring, rounded up a band of unemployed, literally hungry Broadway actors and hitchhicked here to set up a theatre, the Barter Theatre -- price of admission: 35 cents or produce: beans, corn, cows or sows.
Gen Paik says his 1st allegiance is to SK, pledges compliance with Rhee orders, news conf; US officers doubt SK Army can be kept in line if UN and SK go separate ways; so advise Clark and Collins; mil consequences if SK opposes truce discussed
Business and industrial activity maintained a fast gait last week at the close of the year's first half, but the tempo of trading in security markets slowed virtually to a walk. The continued suspense on the Korean truce negotiations and on the fate of the excess profits tax was responsible for the hesitancy.
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Mark up another one -- his fifteenth in sixteen tries -- for Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's 3-year-old colt, Native Dancer.
1953David Morrow, Australian radio host and sportscaster (died 2024)[†]
David William Morrow was an Australian sports radio and television broadcaster/commentator, best known for his association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and 2GB, and his calling of horse racing and the NRL, but also other sport and his coverage of the Olympics and Commonwealth Games.
1953Caryn Navy, American mathematician and computer scientist[†]
Caryn Linda Navy is an American mathematician and computer scientist. Blind since childhood, she is chiefly known for her work in set-theoretic topology and Braille technology.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]