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BALTIMORE, Dec. 15--Maryland's leading rider, Nick Shuk, today won the $16,900 Pimlico Cup with Wise Margin, the 3-2 favorite. The winner set a track record of 3:37 for the two miles and a sixteenth.
comment on significance of Eisenhower rejection of ground fish fillets duty rise; liberalization policy seen more firmly applied after period of compromise
Bell Telephone researchers, testing certain crystals in Brookhaven Lab reactor, find radiation spurs growth on metal of 'whiskers,' hairlike metallic strands; illus
Prof J I Griffin book Indus Location in NY Area, cites NYS Labor Dept figures showing drop in mfg employment from 1,023,200 in '47 to 977,900 in '54
TORONTO, Dec. 15--Dick Duff's third-period goal led the Toronto Maple Leafs into a tie for fourth place in the National Hockey League tonight. They defeated the New York Rangers, 2--1, before 12,539 at the Gardens.
1956Lizzy Mercier Descloux, French musician, singer-songwriter, composer, actress, writer and painter (died 2004)[†]
Martine-Elisabeth Mercier Descloux was a French musician, singer-songwriter, and composer.
1956Nina Hamnett, Welsh painter and author (born 1890)[†]
Nina Hamnett was a Welsh artist and writer, and an expert on sailors' shanties, who became known as the Queen of Bohemia.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]