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THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Oct. 8, 1950

• Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Cleveland Browns
• First NFL game played between rivals
• National Football League at Forbes Fields

The front page of the sport's section (near

NEW YORK POST July 31, 1952

• Washington D.C. Flap
• Flying Saucers - UFOs

Page 2 has a heading that reads: "Sky Ghosts Fading As Capital Blushes" (see images) 
Complete with all 48 pages, tabloid size,

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 7, 1952

• Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England disaster
• de Haviland DH. 110 jet fighter crash - John Derry

The bottom of the front page has a two column heading: "Jet

ROTO LIVING magazine section only of the Detroit Free Press ,Sept. 14, 1952

• 19 year old actress Lori Nelson
• "Bend of the River" film debut

The front page of this section has a nice color photo of the

THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 20, 1950

• 1st ever kidney transplant operation
• Surgery - Surgeon - Ruth Tucker

Page 30 has a somewhat discrete report with one column heading: "Kidney Transplant Reported A

THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 11, 1951

• Sugar Ray Robinson upset loss
• World Middleweight Boxing Championship
• vs. Randolph "Randy" Turpin (British)

Near the bottom  of the front page is a two column heading:

THE DETROIT NEWS, December 4, 1951

• Tennessee Volunteers
• National champions (1st report)
• NCAA college football

The front page of the sport's section (page 45) has a two column heading: "Trophy to

THE NEW YORK TIMES, December 23, 1951

• West Frankfort - Lakeland
• Franklin County, Illinois
• Coal mine explosion disaster

The front page has a two column heading: "32 Miners Dead, 50 Missing; Search of

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., April 9, 1951

• Ben Hogan wins Masters Tournament
• Augusta National Golf Club - Georgia

The top of page 12 has a two column heading: "Hogan Snares Masters Crown by Two

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., March 31, 1953

• SSM-N-8 Regulus is 1st demonstrated
• Submarine launched cruise missile launched
• United States Navy USS Tunny (SS-282)

The top of the front page has a three

THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 10, 1951

*Hebrew Calendar Alignment

• The Ma'abarot Crisis - "Tzena" Era

The top of page 4 has a one column heading: "Israelis Begin Celebrating State's Third Anniversary" (see

THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, New Orleans, November 28, 1950

• Battle of Chosin Reservoir begins
• People's Republic of China enter
• Korean War

The top of the front page has a three column headline: "U.N. FLANK

THE DETROIT NEWS, July 10, 1953

• Lavrentiy Beria ousted as traitor
• Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Joseph Stalin secret police chief

The top of the front page has a four column headline: "Beria Facing

THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 27, 1953

• Jonas Salk announces a historic medical breakthrough
• Polio - Infantile Paralysis virus vaccine is a success

The front page has a historic announcement on the

THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 17, 1951

• The day when a MLB legend debuted at Yankee Stadium
• Mickey Mantle makes his Major League Baseball premiere
• New York Yankees successor to Joe DiMaggio vs. Red Sox

The

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., April 1, 1953

• Spree killer Fred McManus captured
• Rampage killings - murders
• Arrested in Dubuque, Iowa

The front page has a one column heading: "N.Y. YOUTH, 18, SAID TO

THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, Nov. 12, 1952

• "General" William Jordan Bush death
• Last surviving Civil War Confederate soldier
• Company B of the 14th Georgia Infantry

The front page has a two column heading: "Last

THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, April 8, 1951

• Southwest Airways Flight 7 disaster
• Douglas DC-3 airliner - airplane crash
• Refugio Pass - Santa Ynez Mountains

The front page hs a six column headline: "Airliner

THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 4, 1951

• Joe DiMaggio "The Yankee Clipper"
• New York Yankees MLB baseball
• Announces his last year as a player

The front page of the sport's section (near the back) has a two

THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, New Orleans, Nov. 10, 1952

• Chaim Weizmann death
• State of Israel 1st president
• Israeli Zionist statesman - leader
• Jewish - Jews - Judaica

The top of the front page has a one column

THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, New Orleans, June 26, 1950

• Korean war begins
• U.S. involvement starts

The top of the front page has a three column headline: "NORTH KOREAN DRIVE IS REPORTED HALTED" and more. (see

THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 19, 1951

• Jersey Joe Walcott wins boxing heavyweight title
• Oldest in history at the time vs. Ezzard Charles

The top of page 27 has a seven column heading: "Walcott Knocks Out

THE DETROIT NEWS, Oct. 31, 1950

• Jayuya Uprising - Puerto Rican Nationalist Revolt
• Pedro Albizu Campos - Utuado, Puerto Rico

The front page has a one column heading: "Attack Rebels in Puerto Rico"

FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Mass., Sept. 15, 1950

• Battle of Incheon - Korean War
• United States Marines invasion
• Amphibious warfare & bombardment

The front page has a banner headline: "U.S. Marines Push Toward

THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 29, 1952

• Willie Mays "The Say Hey Kid"
• New York Giants baseball player
• Joins the United States Army (Korean War)

Page 22 has a editorial by New York Times sportswriter Arthur

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., December 10, 1952

• Brown vs. Board of Education
• Segregation in the South 1st argued
• Chief Council Thurgood Marshall

The top of page 9 has a one column heading: "SUPREME

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., March 20, 1953

• Atomic bomb tests - Cold War w/ Russia
• Operation Upshot-Knothole - nuclear weapons
• "Doom Town" photos of destruction - "Annie"

The bottom of the front page

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 12, 1952

• Convicted of "Leering" from a distance
• Yanceyville, Caswell County, North Carolina
• President Eisenhower's "Crusade of Freedom" speech

The front page has: "Negro in

TAUNTON DAILY GAZETTE, Taunton, Massachusetts, June 19, 1953  This 18 page newspaper has a two column headline on page 14: "Bosox Break Seven Records In 23-2 Romp" with box scores. (see)

This was a

THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 5, 1951

• The death of Serge Koussevitzky
• Russian music conductor & composer
• Boston Symphony Orchestra director

Near the bottom of the front page is a two column heading: "Serge

THE DETROIT NEWS, December 29, 1951

• Experimental Breeder Reactor No. 1
• National Reactor Testing Station
• Arco, Butte County, Idaho
• 1st nuclear power into electricity

The bottom of the front page has a

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, July 28, 1953

• Korean War ends (1st report)
• North and South Korea

Although this publication is known for it's financial news of the day, this issue has a very small heading on

THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 3, 1952

• Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co v. Sawyer
• Supreme Court decision checks Presidential Authority

The front page has a displayable photo and  a 4

THE DETROIT NEWS, December 23, 1951

• West Frankfort - Lakeland
• Franklin County, Illinois
• Coal mine explosion disaster

The top of the front page has a six column headline: "60 ENTOMBED MINERS ALL FEARED

THE DETROIT NEWS, Feb. 8, 1952

• Princess Elizabeth becomes Queen of England
• re. the death of  her father - King George VI

The front page has a nice banner headline: "BRITAIN PROCLAIMS QUEEN" with

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Dec. 10, 1950

• Chemist & spy Harry Gold sentenced
• Atomic secrets to Soviet Union (Russia)

The top of the front page has a one column heading: "GOLD, ATOM SPY, GETS 30-YEAR MAXIMUM

MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE, Minn. June 10, 1953

• 1953 Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence

The top of the front page has four column headline: "Tornado Kills 69 in Massachusetts; Hundreds

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., November 23, 1950

• Long Island Railroad (LIRR)
• Kew Gardens, Queens train wreck
• Richmond Hills NY (1st report)

The front page has a nice banner headline: "AT LEAST 75 DIE

SPORT'S SECTION only of the New York Times, April 19, 1953

• Mickey Mantle's famous 565 foot home run
• New York Yankees legend - MLB baseball

The front page has a one column heading: "MANTLE HOMER HIT

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., Aug. 30, 1951

• John Raymond Rice military honors
• Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Nation
• Native American - Indian
• Korean & World War II hero
• Arlington Cemetery interment

The front page

THE DETROIT NEWS, Sept. 23, 1950

• Ralph J. Bunche wins Nobel Peace Prize
• First African American to win prestigious award

Page 3 has two column photo with heading: "Bunche Wins Nobel Peace Prize" And a

THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Oct. 7, 1951

• Will Keith Kellogg death w/ photo
• American food industrialist
• Kellogg Company - Kellogg's
• Breakfast cereals pioneer

Page 2 has a two column heading: "W. K. Kellogg

THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 23, 1951

• Disney's animated movie "Alice in Wonderland" to be introduced to the world
• Opening day premiere advertisement for Manhattan (5 days prior)

Page 14 has a 5 3/4 x 4

THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 26, 1951

• Disney's animated movie "Alice in Wonderland" is introduced to the world
• World premiere advertisement for Manhattan

Page 17 has a nice half page advertisement for

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass. July 31, 1951

• Ty Cobb and the integrity of MLB baseball & other sports
• Testifies to U.S. Congress re. organized crime & gambling

The top of page 19 has a two column

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 5, 1951

• Very first coast to coast TV broadcast
• President Harry S. Truman on television
• Japanese peace treat conference in S.F.

The top of the front page has a five column

POUGHKEEOSIE NEW YORKER, New York, Oct. 24, 1950

• Al Jolson death (1st report)
• "The Jazz Singer" fame
• Singer - comedian actor

The front page has a three-line heading: "Al Jolson Dies With a Quip on His

LOS ANGELES TIMES, June 3, 1953  The front page has a large photo with a banner headline: "CORONATION SPECTACLE HAS GLORIOUS CLIMAX" with related subheads. Several more related photos inside.
The

THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 18, 1951

• Frank Costello - NYC gangster - mob boss
• Luciano crime family - "The Prime Minister of the Underworld"
• United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in

THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, March 19, 1953

• Boston Braves move to Milwaukee
• MLB baseball (current Atlanta Braves)

The front page has a one column inset with heading: "Milwaukee, New Home Of Braves" with