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Some of the economies claimed by Mayor Wagner for his $1,917,224,418 executive budget for 1956-57 were branded yesterday as nonsense.
Storms cause heavy damage in Midwest and South; 32 reptd dead; 2-day death toll at 44; over 100 hurt; damage heavy; Mich, Wis hardest hit; illus
Harriman pledges early action on bill; calls it pol but pledges careful study; answers Heck
dinner; awards; Pres Eisenhower message lauds press standards; Truman s
Wis primary; early results; Pres total seen under past Repub margins; Repub chmn Kuehn comments; sees no farm revolt; Pres drop in rural dists noted
1956Evelyn Hart, Canadian ballerina[†]
Evelyn Anne Hart is a Canadian ballerina and former principal dancer with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.
1956Tom Herr, American baseball player and manager[†]
Thomas Mitchell Herr is an American former professional baseball second baseman, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Minnesota Twins, Philadelphia Phillies, San Francisco Giants, and New York Mets, from 1979 to 1991. Although he never won a Gold Glove Award, Herr retired with the highest all-time career fielding percentage for National League second basemen (.989), a figure that was matched and surpassed a few years later when Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg retired.
1956David E. Kelley, American screenwriter and producer[†]
David Edward Kelley is an American television writer, producer, and former attorney. He has created and/or produced a number of television series including Doogie Howser, M.D., Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice and its spin-off Boston Legal, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Goliath, Big Little Lies, and Big Sky. Kelley is one of very few screenwriters to have created shows that have aired on all four top commercial American television networks as well as cable giant HBO.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]