Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Suzy Parker, 26, top U.S. fashion model, now a budding cinemactress (The Best of Everything), and Pierre de la Salle, 31, French playboy and sometime writer: their first child, a daughter; in Paris. Name: Georgia. Weight...
Born. To Isaac Stern, 39, Russian-born violinist, and Vera Lindenblit Stern, 32: a second child, first boy; in Manhattan. Name: Michael. Weight...
Died. Soumay Tcheng, 65, petite, irrepressible Chinese patriot who spent her life fighting for the freedom of China and the emancipation of women, became China's first woman lawyer, wife of Wei Tao-ming, Chinese ambassador to the U.S. (1942-46); of cancer; in Los Angeles. At 17 Madame Wei left home to join Sun Yat-sen's exiled Kuomintang Party in Japan, returned to help plot the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty. She carried secret messages and bombs in a suitcase, held revolutionary meetings in her own home, even though her father was a prominent figure...
Died. Andrés Martinez Trueba, 75, President of Uruguay who voluntarily stepped down in his second year (1952) of office to permit the introduction of a government by council, patterned after Switzerland's, with a rotating chairmanship, and was elected first chairman; in Montevideo, Uruguay...
...most of the world's industrialized nations reached new peaks of production and wealth, and less developed nations tasted the first fruits of free enterprise and asked confidently for more...