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PHILADELPHIA this Saturday night gets the first chance to draw the bead on "The Ladies of the Corridor," the Dorothy Parker-Arnaud d'Usseau play which producer Walter Fried is aiming for an Oct. 21 opening at the reclaimed Longacre Theatre.
At a three-day meeting in the Statler Hotel last week the Quality Bakers of America Cooperative, Inc., demonstrated how the industry in general is surviving the attacks of the diet faddists and the girth-conscious.
US officials deny attempt to gain Spanish membeiship in signing bilateral defense pact
Columbia began its 1953 gridiron operations yesterday by defeating Lehigh at Baker Field. While a crowd of 10,000 looked on the local athletes held off a surprisingly strong band of En gineers to carve out a triumph by the score of 14 to 7.
1953Diane Abbott, English journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development[ā ]
Diane Julie Abbott is a British politician who has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. She was the first black woman elected to the UK Parliament, and in 2024 became its longest-serving female MP, earning the title Mother of the House. A former Shadow Home Secretary and Privy Counsellor, Abbott has been a prominent figure on the Labour left and a vocal campaigner on issues of race and inequality. She was suspended from the Labour Party in 2023 over comments about racism, later apologised, and had the whip restored ahead of the 2024 general election. In July 2025, she was suspended again after reiterating those remarks in a BBC interview, and currently sits as an independent MP.
1953Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian guru and saint[ā ]
Sri MÄtÄ AmritÄnandamayÄ« Devi, often known as Amma ("Mother"), is an Indian Hindu spiritual leader, godwoman, guru and humanitarian. She is the chancellor of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, a multi-campus research university.
1953Claudio Gentile, Italian footballer and manager[ā ]
Claudio Gentile is an Italian football manager and former player who played as a defender in the 1970s and 1980s.
1953Greg Ham, Australian keyboard player, saxophonist and songwriter (died 2012)[ā ]
Gregory Norman Ham was an Australian musician, best known as a member of the 1980s band Men at Work. He played saxophone, flute, organ, piano, and synthesizer.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[ā ]