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Bill creating post signed by Mayor Impellitteri; Citizens Union exec sec Hallett lauds it
J Reston on outlook for Pres Eisenhower program
Estimate Bd adjusts 9 private bus cos fares and franchise taxes to help them meet cost of arbitration award resulting from Jan '53 strike
SK Min Pyun threatens violence against Indian custodial troops on learning that ???35 Chinese POWs chose repatriation during 'head count' of 4,385 POWs; Indians deny screening
Times Sq celebration; crowd estimated at 750,000; illus
1954Richard Edson, American actor[†]
Richard Edson is an American actor and musician.
1954Bob Menendez, American lawyer and politician[†]
Robert Menendez is an American former politician, and lawyer who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 2006 until his resignation in 2024. A member of the Democratic Party, he also represented New Jersey's 13th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2006. His political career ended after he was convicted in a political corruption case in 2024, making him the first sitting member of Congress convicted of conspiracy to act as a foreign agent.
1954Dennis O'Driscoll, Irish poet and critic (died 2012)[†]
Dennis O'Driscoll was an Irish poet, essayist, critic and editor. Regarded as one of the best European poets of his time, Eileen Battersby considered him "the lyric equivalent of William Trevor" and a better poet "by far" than Raymond Carver. Gerard Smyth regarded him as "one of poetry's true champions and certainly its most prodigious archivist. His book on Seamus Heaney is regarded as the definitive biography of the Nobel laureate.
1954Yannis Papathanasiou, Greek engineer and politician, Greek Minister of Finance[†]
Yannis Papathanasiou is a Greek politician, former Minister for Economy and Finance of Greece. He is a member of the Hellenic Parliament with the conservative New Democracy party since 2002.
1954Duff Cooper, English politician and diplomat, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1890)[†]
Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich,, known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician and diplomat who was also a military and political historian and writer.
1954Leonard Bacon, American poet and critic (born 1887)[†]
Leonard Bacon (1887–1954) was an American poet, translator, and literary critic. The great-grandson of preacher Leonard Bacon, he graduated from Yale University in 1909, and subsequently taught at University of California, Berkeley until 1923. In 1923, he started publishing poetry in the Saturday Review of Literature under the pseudonym 'Autholycus'. He and his family lived in Florence, Italy from 1927 to 1932. He won the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his satiric poems Sunderland Capture. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1942.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]