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The rambling country estates that once formed New York's suburbs offer ideal locations for colonies of more modest homes. But the conversion of a large estate into a home development involves a good deal more than chopping up the land into plots and putting a house on each one.
The Constitution enjoins the President "from time to time [to] give to the Congress information on the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient."
Althea Gibson of New York and Sidney Schwartz of Long Beach, L.I., were placed first in the women's and men's Eastern Lawn Tennis Association singles rankings yesterday.
Students at the New York School of Printing are assured of a brighter future.
WEST POINT, N. Y., Jan. 12--Army athletes experienced one of their busiest days on the Plain today. A total of 500 athletes from eighteen schools competed in seventeen...
1957Claudia Emerson, American poet and academic (died 2014)[†]
Claudia Emerson was an American poet. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Late Wife, and was named the Poet Laureate of Virginia by Governor Tim Kaine in 2008.
1957Mary Glindon, English lawyer and politician[†]
Mary Theresa Glindon is a British Labour Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend since 2024, and previously for North Tyneside from 2010 until the abolition of the constituency in 2024.
1957Lorrie Moore, American author[†]
Lorrie Moore is an American writer, critic, and essayist. She is best known for her short stories, some of which have won major awards. Since 1984, she has also taught creative writing.
1957Mark O'Meara, American golfer[†]
Mark Francis O'Meara is an American retired professional golfer. He was a tournament winner on the PGA Tour and around the world from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He spent nearly 200 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking from their debut in 1986 to 2000. He won two major championships, the 1998 Masters Tournament and the 1998 Open Championship, becoming the oldest player to win two majors in one year. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2015.
1957A. E. Coppard English poet and short story writer (born 1878)[†]
Alfred Edgar Coppard was an English author, noted for his short stories, many of which had rural settings. Largely self-taught, he was championed by Ford Madox Ford and Arnold Bennett, among others, in his lifetime, and more recently by Frank O’Connor, Doris Lessing and Russell Banks. Some of his stories were dramatised for British television in the 1960s and 1970s.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]