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W Ger leaders shocked
Eisenhower signs bill revising '46 McMahon Act; lauds provisions for data exch and indus development, statement
A E Stevenson scores rulings of reconstituted NLRB
GB assures Israel lifting of arms embargo against Egypt is subject to Western Big-3 '50 declaration barring arms use for aggression
Ger role in EDC killed as French Assembly rejects treaty by approving, 319-264, motion to adjourn debate sine die; Mendes-France sees several alternatives; speculation
1954Julie Brown, American actress and screenwriter[†]
Julie Ann Brown is an American actress, comedian, musician, writer, and director.
1954Elsa Barker, American author and poet (born 1869)[†]
Elsa Barker (1869–1954) was an American novelist, short-story writer and poet. She became best known for Letters from a Living Dead Man (1914), War Letters from the Living Dead Man (1915), and Last Letters From the Living Dead Man (1919), books containing what she said were messages from a dead man produced through automatic writing.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]