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WILD ponies, oysters seven inches long, Japanese deer, fig trees flourishing in back yards, crabs that shed their shells before your eyes, communities with no mayor or police, plus bargain vacation rates await the traveler who seeks out the hidden islands of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Delaware and Virginia.
CLEVELAND, May 23 -- Jim Bunning yielded only six hits and was backed by four home runs as the Detroit Tigers defeated the Cleveland Indians, 6 -- 4, today at Municipal Stadium. Lou Berberet, Frank Boiling, Al Kaline and Rocky Bridges hit homers against the Tribe in helping Bunning to post his fifth victory against three defeats.
LARCHMONT, N. Y., May 23 -Bob Currey, the race chairman of the Horseshoe Harbor Yacht Club, had his hands full today as a fleet of fifty-three craft appeared for the first regatta of the Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound season.
Like the weather last week, Wall Street was in a "sticky" mood. Stock prices, as measured by the averages, went up, down and up again in comparatively sluggish trading. Volume dropped to 15,969,910 shares from 18,115,455 shares in the preceding week.
ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 23 -Borrowed equipment proved no deterrent to a spirited Wisconsin varsity crew on the Severn this afternoon. The Badgers, who left their shell and oars back home in Madison, rowed away to a two-length victory over Navy in a mile-and-three-quarters race.
1959Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish-American ice hockey player (died 1985)[†]
Göran Per-Eric "Pelle" Lindbergh was a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender who played five seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was the first European-born goaltender to be drafted in the NHL Entry Draft and the first to achieve success in North America.
1959Barry O'Farrell, Australian politician, 43rd Premier of New South Wales[†]
Barry Robert O'Farrell is an Australian former politician who was Australia's High Commissioner to India and non-resident Ambassador to Bhutan from February 2020 to 30 June 2023. O'Farrell was the 43rd Premier of New South Wales and Minister for Western Sydney from 2011 to 2014. He was the Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party from 2007 to 2014, and was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1995 to 2015, representing Northcott until 1999 and representing Ku-ring-gai on the Upper North Shore of Sydney from 1999 to 2015. He was President and Independent Board Chair of Diabetes Australia, Chair of the Wests Tigers Rugby League Football Club and CEO of Racing Australia Ltd until taking up his role in India.
1959John Foster Dulles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (born 1888)[†]
John Foster Dulles was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as United States secretary of state under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959. A member of the Republican Party, he was briefly a U.S. senator from New York in 1949. Dulles was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, who advocated an aggressive stance against communism throughout the world.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]