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EVER since "The Cretan Woman" opened on July 8, the attendance at the Provincetown Playhouse has been so good that the engagement has been extended until Sept. 26. This is another comforting episode in the saga of off-Broadway producing.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 4 -- Del Crandall's second home run of the game in the eleventh inning today gave the Milwaukee Braves a 5-4 victory over the Cincinnati Redlegs.
D Daiches on popularity of Amer novels in GB
CHICAGO, Sept. 4 -- The Chicago White Sox took advantage of two Cleveland defensive lapses in the sixth inning tonight and poured across five unearned runs for an 8-5 victory over the Indians.
tour; in ss at stops stresses Adm believes in local rather than natl initiative
1954Richard Austin, Jamaican footballer and cricketer (died 2015)[†]
Richard Arkwright Austin was an international cricketer from Jamaica, who played two Tests and one One Day International for the West Indies.
1954Frederick Kempe, American journalist and author[†]
Frederick Kempe is president and chief executive officer of the Atlantic Council, a foreign policy think tank and public policy group based in Washington, D.C. He is a journalist, author, columnist and a regular commentator on television and radio both in Europe and the United States. His book BERLIN 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth (Putnam) was released May 10, 2011, and was a New York Times bestseller.
1954Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (born 1860)[†]
Eugen Schiffer was a German lawyer and liberal politician. He served as Minister of Finance and deputy head of government in the Weimar Republic from February to April 1919. From October 1919 to March 1920, he was again deputy head of government and Minister of Justice. In 1921, he once more became Minister of Justice. Schiffer was a founder-member of the liberal German Democratic Party (DDP) in 1918 and 1919 and co-founder in 1946 of its East German successor party, the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD).
1954KLM Flight 633 crashes into the River Shannon in Shannon, County Clare, Ireland, killing 28.[†]
KLM Flight 633 was a passenger flight from Amsterdam to New York City. On 5 September 1954, immediately after takeoff from Shannon Airport, the Super Constellation Triton ditched on a mudbank in the River Shannon. 28 people were killed in the accident. It was caused by an unexpected re-extension of the landing gear, possibly compounded by pilot error.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]