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ALBANY, Dec. 20 -- Governor Dewey will ask the 1954 Legislature to provide financial backing for a new state research program to determine whether there is a relationship between cigarette smoking and cancer of the lung.
Comr Mulrain sends $15 to Londoner D J Davies who claimed, in lr to Impellitteri, $5 was due him for shoveling snow in '26
Communists stop demanding right to int POWs from partially processed compounds; 21 of 1st 171 Chinese interviewed ask repatriation; NNRC reptdly approves sending lr from UN Command to pro-Communist POWs; Communists call for Mil Armistice Comm meeting
FOA studies means to increase US Investments
Tompkins says at least 100 other orgns soliciting in NYS are as guilty of fraud or objectionable practices as those mentioned in hearings; says com will recommend legis to require licensing of professional fund-raisers, regis of charities except bona fide religious groups, annual repts to sponsors and penalties for use of names without authorization
1953András Schiff, Hungarian-English pianist and conductor[†]
Sir András Schiff is a Hungarian-born British classical pianist and conductor. He has received numerous awards and honours, including the Grammy Award, Gramophone Award, Mozart Medal, and Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize, and was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to music.
1953Betty Wright, American singer-songwriter (died 2020)[†]
Bessie Regina Norris, better known by her stage name Betty Wright, was an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter and background vocalist. Beginning her professional career in the late 1960s as a teenager, Wright rose to fame in the 1970s with hits such as "Clean Up Woman" and "Tonight Is the Night". Wright was also prominent in her use of whistle register.
1953Kaarlo Koskelo, Finnish-American wrestler and businessman (born 1888)[†]
Kaarlo Anton "Kalle" Koskelo was a Greco-Roman wrestler from Finland who won the featherweight event at the 1912 Olympics. He then fought in World War I and Finnish Civil War, and in 1919 immigrated to the United States. He settled in Astoria, Oregon, where he became a prominent local businessman.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]