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Premier Malenkov would welcome talks to settle disputes, reply to C E Shutt questionaire
Parisi, A R, Workmens Compensation Bd chmn
Vietminh econ accords with Communist China viewed as major policy move; French business men wary of working with Vietminh despite Hanoi accord with France; J Sainteny urges French guarantee to idemnify them
Appeals Ct reverses M Jelke compulsory prostitution conviction because Judge Valente barred press and pub from '53 trial; Dist Atty's office spokesman repts Jelke will be re-tried; P Ward, M Cordova and P Sands held as material witnesses; Valente and Jelke comment
Pres Eisenhower creates emergency bd headed by Judge Wenke to act on IAM wage dispute with 6 major lines
1955Mary Beard, English classicist, academic and presenter[†]
Dame Winifred Mary Beard is an English classicist specialising in Ancient Rome. She is a trustee of the British Museum and formerly held a personal professorship of classics at the University of Cambridge. She is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature.
1955LaMarr Hoyt, American baseball player (died 2021)[†]
Dewey LaMarr Hoyt Jr. was an American professional baseball right-handed pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox and San Diego Padres from 1979 to 1986. He won the 1983 American League Cy Young Award and was an All-Star in 1985.
1955Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, Indian colloid chemist, academic, and scientific administrator (born 1894)[†]
Sir Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar was an Indian colloid chemist, academic and scientific administrator. The first director-general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Bhatnagar is revered as the Father of Research Laboratories in India. He was also the first Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC).
1955Arthur C. Parker, American archaeologist and historian (born 1881)[†]
Arthur Caswell Parker was a Native American archaeologist, historian, folklorist, museologist and noted authority on Native American culture. Of Seneca, Scottish, and English ancestry, he was director of the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences from 1924 to 1945, when he developed its holdings and research into numerous disciplines for the Genesee Region. He was an honorary trustee of the New York State Historical Association. In 1935, he was elected the first president of the Society for American Archaeology.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]