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January 10, 1954

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Headlines from January 10, 1954

FORDHAM'S RALLY TRIPS ARMY, 73-61, ON MAROON COURT; Rams Get 26 Points in Third Quarter in Scoring Ninth Triumph of Campaign CONLIN STAR FOR VICTORS Leads Drive With 24 Tallies -- Hannon Shows Way for Cadet Five With 20 FORDHAM'S RALLY TRIPS ARMY, 73-61

By William J. Briordy

Johnny Bach's Fordham basketball team rebounded from its upset at the hands of St. Francis last Wednesday by uncorking a 26-point third period to defeat Army, 73 to 61, at the Fordham gymnasium yesterday afternoon.

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DECODING THE CODE; Being Some Observations on the Old Instrument for Purifying the Screen

By Bosley Crowther

THE recent call by Samuel Goldwyn for a revision of the screen's Production Code to bring that instrument of self-regulation into closer "harmony" with the "greater maturity among audiences today" was no more than a frank and realistic recognition of the long apparent fact that the code as written and administered is an ambiguous and antiquated thing, out of tune with contemporary moves and the changing character of the commerce of the screen.

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Notable Births

Baba Vaziroglu

1954Baba Vaziroglu, Azerbaijani writer, poet and translator[†]

Baba Vaziroglu is a prosaist, poet, translator, member of Union of Azerbaijani Writers since 1981, laureate of Republic Komsomol award, and an Honoured Art Figure of Azerbaijan Republic since 1 August 2005.

Notable Deaths

Chester Wilmot

1954Chester Wilmot, American journalist and historian (born 1911)[†]

Reginald William Winchester Wilmot was an Australian war correspondent who reported for the BBC and the ABC during the Second World War. After the war he continued to work as a broadcast reporter, and wrote a well-appreciated book about the liberation of Europe. He was killed in the crash of a BOAC Comet over the Elba island.

Historical Events

BOAC Flight 781

1954BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea, killing 35 people.[†]

BOAC Flight 781 was a scheduled British Overseas Airways Corporation passenger flight from Singapore to London. On 10 January 1954, a de Havilland Comet passenger jet operating the flight suffered an explosive decompression at altitude and crashed, killing all 35 people on board.

Historical Context for January 10, 1954

In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]