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Accommodations for 200 families are contemplated by Frank I. Spano Sons, builders, for a fifty-acre tract of the former Henderson estate in North Brentwood, L.I. The model house is on display on Washington Avenue, north of Suffolk ...
BOWIE, Md., April 7--Sailor splashed his way to an easy triumph in the $110,750 Campbell Handicap today. In winning, the Brookmeade Stable star suffered a leg injury.
The Aluminum Company of America plans to start construction immediately on an alumina plant to cost more than $45,000,000, adjacent to its big primary aluminum smelter at Point Comfort, Tex.
The Knott Hotels Corporation has sold to realty investors the fifteen-story building at 120 East Fifty-sixth Street, formerly the Fairfax Hotel. Geisinger Rau, the buyers, plan to convert the structure to offices.
Landy runs 1 mi in 3:58.6, his 4th mi under 4 min
1956Michael Benton, Scottish-English paleontologist and academic[†]
Michael James Benton is a British palaeontologist, and professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. His published work has mostly concentrated on the evolution of Triassic reptiles but he has also worked on extinction events and faunal changes in the fossil record.
1956Christine Boisson, French actress[†]
Christine Boisson was a French actress.
1956Roman Dragoun, Czech singer-songwriter and keyboard player[†]
Roman Dragoun is a Czech singer, songwriter and keyboardist. In 1980–1983 and 2007–present he is member of Progres 2. He was member of Stromboli, T4 and Futurum. He was a session musician for number of musicians and he was singer for musical theatre. In 2012, Dragoun was inducted into Beatová síň slávy.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]