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Elizabeth ex-detectives chief Capt Winkelmann and Comr DeStephano commit suicide; were recently called before Union County grand jury probing gambling; link between 2 deaths doubted
Resigns as Montgomery Ward pres; seeks re-election as dir
House, 328-66, approves 8.8% pay rise bill; Ress motion to recommit beaten 275-118
session; USSR demands Article 35 on property rights be adopted without changes; wants USSR concessions, negotiated with Austria in Moscow, embodied in separate bilateral pact; stresses that Austria and West had twice offered to accept old treaty draft unaltered and that Austria accepted USSR pledge of concessions in Moscow; speculation; Austrian Amb Bischoff repts Molotov said that USSR would be ready to sign treaty May 15
Salk sees greater protection if 2d shot is delayed beyond 4 wks after 1st; inoculates 8,000 children, Pittsburgh area; NYC officials hold Foundation program can be completed in 5 days; O'Connor notes Southern priority on vaccine because of earlier polio season; Foundation vaccine for 1st shots sent to all states but Mass and NY
1955Chris Berman, American sportscaster[†]
Christopher James Berman, nicknamed "Boomer", is an American sportscaster. He has been an anchor for SportsCenter on ESPN since 1979, joining a month after its initial launch, and hosted the network's Sunday NFL Countdown program from 1985 to 2016 and NFL Primetime from 1987 to 2005 and since 2019. He has also anchored Monday Night Countdown, U.S. Open golf, the Stanley Cup Finals, and other programming on ESPN and ABC Sports. Berman calls play-by-play of select Major League Baseball games for ESPN, which included the Home Run Derby until 2016.
1955Mark David Chapman, American murderer[†]
Mark David Chapman is an American man who murdered English musician John Lennon in New York City on December 8, 1980. As Lennon walked into the archway of The Dakota, his apartment building on the Upper West Side, Chapman fired five shots at the musician from a few yards away with a Charter Arms Undercover .38 Special revolver. Lennon was hit four times from the back. He was rushed to Roosevelt Hospital and pronounced dead on arrival. Chapman remained at the scene following the shooting and made no attempt to flee or resist arrest.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]