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delegate drift to Harriman seen slowing; McDonald assures Harriman of more Penna votes; organized drive on to get labor delegates; Harriman confs with J B Carey; sees Johnson; gives reception for delegates
Sec Wilson sets up special com to end unauthorized leaks of secret mil data; urges com rush interim rept to end security threat; notes House Appropriations Com fear over leaks
keynote s, Dem Natl Conv; sharply attacks Pros Eisenhower, Vice Pres Nixon; makes 10-count indictment against Adm; illus
loyalty-oath issue buried in show of party unity; Humphrey and Battle, who led '52 fight, urge Rules Com adopt new non-controversial 'good faith' rule; rule unanimously adopted by Com; rule assumes everyone is faithful Dem; places on natl committeemen and state orgns responsibility of seeing that official ticket gets on ballot; Credentials Com, 52-2, votes to seat regular Mississippi and SC delegations; Sweetland holds barring Eastland from conv would add 1 million votes to ticket; Stennis denies charges against some Mississippi delegates
Knowland predicts Eisenhower-Nixon ticket after White House conf with Pres and Maj Gen Persons; Stassen repts gains; gets funds; Hall repts 80-85% of mail recd backs Nixon
1956Jackée Harry, American actress and television personality[†]
Jacqueline Yvonne "Jackée" Harry is an American actress, comedian, and television personality. She starred as Sandra Clark, the nemesis of Mary Jenkins, on the NBC sitcom 227 (1985–1990), and as Lisa Landry on the ABC/The WB sitcom Sister, Sister (1994–1999). Harry was the first African-American to win a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
1956Andy King, English footballer and manager (died 2015)[†]
Andrew Edward King was an English professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He made 350 appearances and scored 92 goals in the Football League in the 1970s and 1980s, and also played abroad. He was capped twice by England at under-21 level. After retiring as a player, he had a lengthy career in management.
1956Rusty Wallace, American race car driver[†]
Russell "Rusty" William Wallace Jr. is an American former NASCAR racing driver. He won the 1984 NASCAR Cup series Rookie of the Year and the 1989 NASCAR Winston Cup Championship. For the accolades over the course of his successful career, Wallace has been inducted in the NASCAR Hall of Fame (2013), the International Motorsports Hall of Fame (2013), the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (2014) and the National Motorsports Press Association Hall of Fame (2010).
1956Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (born 1898)[†]
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, Brecht wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre and the Verfremdungseffekt.
1956Konstantin von Neurath, German lawyer and politician, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1873)[†]
Konstantin Hermann Karl Freiherr von Neurath was a German politician, diplomat and convicted Nazi war criminal who served as Foreign Minister of Germany between 1932 and 1938.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]