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October 18, 1956

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Idaho Favors Eisenhower; Cut in 1952 Margin Likely; 'Component' Is Favored Idaho Favors Eisenhower, but Cut Is Expected in 1952 Margin, Survey Indicates STATE PRESENTS A MIXED PICTURE Southern Farms Are Lush, but Potato Growers Score Low Price for Crop Not Worth Growing Benson Is the Target 'Contract' Miners Work Eisenhower Is Popular Hollywood Types --Firmly Pro or Con 'Ike and Herm'

By Gladwin Hill Special To the New York Times.the New York Times (BY MEYER LIEBOWITZ)

BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 16--His name is John W. Reynolds. He is a small farmer in southern Idaho, raising beans, hay and dairy products. And running for office.

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Notable Births

Craig Bartlett

1956Craig Bartlett, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor[†]

Craig Michael Bartlett is an American animator. He wrote, directed, created, and produced the Nickelodeon television series Hey Arnold! and the PBS Kids television series Ready Jet Go! and Dinosaur Train.

Martina Navratilova

1956Martina Navratilova, Czech-American tennis player and coach[†]

Martina Navratilova is a Czech-American former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles for 332 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 seven times, and was world No. 1 in women's doubles for a record 237 weeks. Navratilova won 167 top-level singles titles and 177 doubles titles, including an Open Era record 59 major titles: 18 in singles, a record 31 in women's doubles, and 10 in mixed doubles. Her nine Wimbledon singles titles are an all-time record. Alongside Chris Evert, her greatest rival, Navratilova dominated women's tennis for much of the 1980s.

Jim Talent

1956Jim Talent, American lawyer and politician[†]

James Matthes Talent is an American politician who was a U.S. Senator from Missouri from 2002 to 2007. He is a Republican and resided in the St. Louis area while serving in elected office.

Notable Deaths

Yoshio Markino

1956Yoshio Markino, Japanese painter and author (born 1869)[†]

Yoshio Markino was a Japanese artist and author who from 1897 – 1942 was based in London. During the Edwardian years of 1903 – 1915 he was the most well known Japanese person living in London, and was widely praised for bridging the Japanese and Western artistic aesthetic in his artwork, particularly in his depiction of London's fog, gaslights and wet streets, which became his hallmark. Like his contemporaries Whistler and Monet, he viewed the London fog from an outsider's point of view and marvelled at the effect it had on light, both natural and artificial. Markino became known affectionately as Heiji of London Fog, and wrote: 'I think London without mists would be like a bride without a trousseau'. His autobiography A Japanese Artist in London, published in 1910 and written in an eccentric style, described his years of extreme poverty in London while trying to establish himself as an illustrator and artist. From his early years he was fascinated by Western culture and remained a committed Anglophile all his life.

Historical Context for October 18, 1956

In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]