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CHICAGO, Aug. 14 -- With his 7-year-old son clutching his hand through most of the eighteen holes, bespectacled Earl Stewart Jr. scored an amazing 65 today on Tam O'Shanter's rain-soaked course to take the fifty-four-hole lead from Bob Toski in the rush for the "world" golf title and its first prize worth $100,000.
NEWPORT, R. I., Aug. 14 -- Hamilton Richardson defeated the last of the Australians, Rex Hartwig, and there will be an All-American final tomorrow in the Newport invitation tennis tournament. On the center court of the Casino where he overcame Lewis Hoad in last year's quarter-finals, Richardson again distinguished himself with victory over the player who had crushed Arthur Larsen.
Once known as a scavenger operation, the fertilizer industry has been transformed into one of the larger segments of America's heavy chemical industry.
Brig Gen Zwicker assigned to US Far East forces, Japan
Growth of artificial flavor and aroma indus discussed; aid to mass market selling stressed; Dodge & Olcott co operations described; illus
1954Stieg Larsson, Swedish journalist and author (died 2004)[†]
Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson was a Swedish writer, journalist, and far-left activist. He is best known for writing the Millennium trilogy of crime novels, which were published posthumously, starting in 2005, after he died of a sudden heart attack. The trilogy was adapted as three motion pictures in Sweden, and one in the United States. The publisher commissioned David Lagercrantz to write the next trilogy, and Karin Smirnoff to write the third trilogy in the series, which has seven novels as of September 2024. For much of his life, Larsson lived and worked in Stockholm. His journalistic work covered socialist politics and he acted as an independent researcher of right-wing extremism.
1954Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.[†]
Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda was a Paraguayan politician, army general, and military dictator who ruled as the 42nd president of Paraguay from 15 August 1954 until his overthrow in 1989. Known there as El Stronato, his dictatorship was marked by political violence. Before his accession to the presidency, he was the country's de facto leader from May to August 1954.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]