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September 11, 1955

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Headlines from September 11, 1955

SMALL BUT POTENT; 'The Phenix City Story' An Exciting Film

By Bosley Crowther

AFTER the superb surprise of "Marty," it hardly seemed likely that we would get another outstanding film achievement from the area of small, low-budget pictures this year. Yet that, in a sober analysis, is what "The Phenix City Story" is. This little Allied Artists shocker turns out to be an extraordinarily good and forceful film.

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Notable Births

1955Sharon Lamb, American psychologist and academic[โ€ ]

Sharon Lamb is an American professor in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston's, College of Education and Human Development, and a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA). She also sits on the editorial board of the academic journals Feminism & Psychology, and Sexualization, Media, and Society.

Historical Context for September 11, 1955

In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[โ€ ]