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Yugoslavia urges peaceful settlement, note to Italy; protests ban on exports; Borba comment on riots; Italy holds strategic materials cannot be exported as long as Yugoslav army threatens frontier
Truman 'cheerfully' accepts subpoena from com agent G E Cooper; Cooper describes incident; Truman keeps silent on case; may be preparing rebuttal; conf with S I Rosenman and Murphy linked
Eisenhower rejection of rise on briar pipes linked with leaning toward liberalization
ALBANY, Nov. 10 -- A plan for redrawing the state's Senate district lines and strengthening Republican chances for maintaining a safe majority in the Legislature's upper house was made public today.
House Un-Amer Activities (Velde) Com subpoenas Justice Clark to testify in late H D White case
1953Marshall Crenshaw, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Marshall Howard Crenshaw is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for hit songs such as "Someday, Someway", a US top 40 hit in 1982, "Cynical Girl", and "Whenever You're on My Mind". He is also the co-author of one of the biggest radio hits of the 1990s, Gin Blossoms's "Til I Hear It from You". His music has roots in classic soul music and Buddy Holly, to whom Crenshaw was often compared in the early days of his career, and whom he portrayed in the 1987 film La Bamba.
1953Andy Partridge, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer[†]
Andrew John Partridge is an English guitarist, singer-songwriter and record producer best known for co-founding the band XTC. He and Colin Moulding each acted as a songwriter and frontman for XTC, with Partridge writing and singing about two-thirds of the group's material. While XTC were a formative British new wave group, Partridge's songwriting drew heavily from 1960s pop and psychedelia and his style gradually shifted to more traditional pop, often with pastoral themes. The band's only UK top 10 hit, "Senses Working Overtime", was written by Partridge.
1953Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (born 1866)[†]
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine, later Princess Henry of Prussia, was the third child and third daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine. Her maternal grandparents were Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Her paternal grandparents were Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Elisabeth of Prussia. She was the wife of Prince Henry of Prussia, a younger brother of Wilhelm II, German Emperor and her first cousin. The SS Prinzessin Irene, a liner of the North German Lloyd was named after her.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]