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Dun & Bradstreet repts '54 failures up 35% to 12,000; liabilities up 28%; NY Credit and Mgt Assn exec Davis, Credit Execs Assn exec Volper comment
foster daughter Mrs Wallach writes to husband, Washington, and mother, London, from Vorkuta labor camp in USSR; repts recg mail and pkgs; US will not decide to press for release until Field case is clarified
Met AAU indoor; NY Pioneer Club wins team champ
B Wyatt gets 5-yr pact, Term
The financial district is unconcerned about the downturn in the stock market. Strange to say, even if the drop were to turn into a sizable reaction, Wall Street would not be worried.
1955Bruce Boudreau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach[†]
Bruce Allan Boudreau is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. He previously served as head coach of the Washington Capitals, Anaheim Ducks, Minnesota Wild, and Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). As a player, Boudreau played professionally for 20 seasons, and was a third round pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs at the 1975 NHL Amateur Draft. He played 141 games in the NHL with the Maple Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks, and 30 games in the World Hockey Association (WHA) with the Minnesota Fighting Saints. Boudreau played most of his career in the American Hockey League (AHL) for various teams where he was known for his goals and point-scoring abilities, recording 316 goals and 483 assists for 799 points in 634 games.
1955J. K. Simmons, American actor[†]
Jonathan Kimble Simmons is an American actor. Considered one of the most prolific and well-established character actors of his generation, he has amassed over 200 screen and stage credits since his 1986 debut. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing an abusive instructor in Damien Chazelle's independent film Whiplash (2014), and received a second nomination for portraying William Frawley in Being the Ricardos (2021). His other various accolades include a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]