WITHIN a space of nine days New York has had an opportunity to see one of Sean O'Casey's earliest plays and one of his latest, "The Shadow of a Gunman" (1923), which was put on last Thursday, is the first O'Casey play acted by Dublin's Abbey Theatre. "Cock-A-Doodle Dandy," which opened on Nov. 12, represents the epic style in which he was writing in 1949.

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Intentionally Home First In $168,020 Pimlico Race; Favored Intentionally, Shoemaker Up, Captures $168,020 Pimlico Futurity BROOKFIELD COLT GAINS EASY SCORE Intentionally Outruns Rico Tesio and Earns $121,416 -- Black Hills Is Third

By Joseph C. Nicholsspecial To the New York Times

BALTIMORE, Nov. 22 -- Intentionally made the task of picking up $121,416 look quite easy today. The Brookfield Farms' colt earned this sum by winning the $168,020 Pimlico Futurity by almost two lengths from the Briardale Farm's Rico Tesio.

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1958Martin Snedden, New Zealand cricketer and lawyer^[†]

Martin Colin Snedden is a former New Zealand cricketer, who played 25 cricket tests, and 93 One Day Internationals, between 1980 and 1990. He was a member of New Zealand's seam bowling attack, alongside Richard Hadlee and Ewen Chatfield, throughout its golden age in the 1980s.

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1958Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (born 1880)^[†]

Nikolaos Georgantas was a Greek athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw.

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In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people^[†]

Headlines from November 23, 1958

THE WORLD

EVOKING THE SPACIOUS DAYS OF A GREAT COLONIAL PLANTATION

Bankers Are Disappointed but Not too Unhappy With Recent Business Borrowings; Industry Steps Up Production Faster Than Use of Bank Credit BUSINESS LOANS TRAILING OUTPUT

TWO BY O'CASEY; 'Cock-A-Doodle Dandy' and 'Shadow Of a Gunman' Open Within 9 Days

Intentionally Home First In $168,020 Pimlico Race; Favored Intentionally, Shoemaker Up, Captures $168,020 Pimlico Futurity BROOKFIELD COLT GAINS EASY SCORE Intentionally Outruns Rico Tesio and Earns $121,416 -- Black Hills Is Third

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