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Govt accepts Inter-Amer Peace Comm proposal to negotiate directly with Colombia on Haya de la Torre case; awaits Colombian move; Internatl Ct of Justice '50 decision and countries previous stands recalled; both nations seen eager to settle
The New York Knickerbockers racked up their sixth straight triumph and increased their lead in the Eastern Division of the National Basketball Association race to four and a half games by beating the Milwaukee Hawks, 75 -- 63, at the Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory last night.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23 -- Middleweight champion Carl (Bobo) Olson shot a right to the jaw to drop Joe Rindone of Roxbury, Mass., for the full count in the fifth round of their scheduled ten-round nationally televised non-title fight tonight.
History will be made tomorrow on the New York Stock Exchange when its monthly investment plan, designed to give people of modest means opportunity to acquire stocks on a monthly payment basis, goes into effect. This will be the first time that Exchange members have used such a plan to sell securities.
1954Jo Gartner, Austrian race car driver (died 1986)[†]
Josef Anton Gartner was a Formula One and sports car endurance driver from Austria. After a successful lower formula career, including a win in the Formula Two Pau Grand Prix, he participated in eight Formula One Grands Prix for Osella during the 1984 season, scoring no points. He was killed in an accident at the 1986 24 Hours of Le Mans.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]