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The curtain came down on the 1959 performance of the stock market last week with traders pleased about the year just ended and expecting another good one in 1960. Stocks finished 1959 on a fairly strong note after recovering from some unsettlement earlier in the week.
Pres Cresap int as he begins 3d yr in post; co gains noted
L Rymkus named Amer Football League (AFL) Houston coach
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 2 -- Jim Mooty, a speedy all-America halfback, bolted 19 yards in the third period today to lift Arkansas to a 14-7 victory over Georgia Tech in the Gator Bowl. His run broke a 7-7 tie.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2 -- Don Meredith of Southern Methodist threw two touchdown strikes in the fourth quarter today to propel the West to a 21-14 upset victory over the East in the thirty-fifth annual Shrine football game.
1960Russell Spence, English racing driver[†]
Russell James Spence is a British racing driver. He now runs a construction business in London. In 2011, Spence was jailed for 13 months for his part in a fraud scam involving a chain of car washes.
1960Eric P. Kelly, American journalist, author, and academic (born 1884)[†]
Eric Philbrook Kelly was an American journalist, academic and author of children's books. He was a professor of English at Dartmouth College and briefly a lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He won the 1929 Newbery Medal recognizing his first published book, The Trumpeter of Krakow, as the preceding year's most distinguished contribution to American children's literature.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]