But in 1952, when General Motors president Charles E. Wilson, nominated for a cabinet post, told Congress "... what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa ," he inspired one of Capp's greatest satires — the introduction of General Bullmoose, the robust, ruthless, and ageless business tycoon.

Colonel Charles Edward (" Chuck ") Jones ( November 4, 1952 – September 11, 2001 ) was a United States Air Force officer, a computer programmer, and an astronaut in the USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program.

In 1952, William Buckler identified the author of the novel as Charles Warren Adams and in 2011 American investigator Paul Collins found a number of lines of evidence that confirmed Buckler's initial claim.

* 1952 – Charles Scott Sherrington, English scientist, Nobel laureate ( b. 1857 )

* 1871 – Charles Collett, English engineer ( d. 1952 )

Meanwhile, the first modern mass-market wargame, based on cardboard counters and maps, was designed and published by Charles S. Roberts in 1952.

* November 27 – Charles Scott Sherrington, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1952 )

* September 10 – Charles Collett, Great Western Railway Chief mechanical engineer ( d. 1952 )

* March 30 – Charles Herbert Lightoller, 2nd Officer of the RMS Titanic ( d. 1952 )

** Charles K. French, American film actor ( d. 1952 )

* In 1952 he was awarded the Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal by the National Academy of Sciences for his contributions to Cambrian paleontology.

* September 3, 1952: in Lawrenceville, Illinois After 25-year-old Georgine Lyon ended her engagement with Charles Petrach, Petrach shot and killed Lyon in a classroom at Lawrenceville High School where she worked as a librarian.

Researcher Charles Brewer Jones estimates that since 1952, when the Buddhist Association of the ROC organized public ordination, female applicants have outnumbered males by about three to one.

In April 1952, Virginia Haggard left Chagall for the photographer Charles Leirens ; she went on to become a professional photographer herself.

* Previté-Orton, Charles William, The shorter Cambridge Medieval History, Cambridge University Press, 1952.

Hold Back the Dawn was adapted as a radio play on the November 10, 1941 episode of Lux Radio Theater with Charles Boyer, Paulette Goddard and Susan Hayward, again on the February 8, 1943 episode of The Screen Guild Theater with Charles Boyer and Susan Hayward, the July 31, 1946 episode of Academy Award Theater starring Olivia de Havilland and Jean Pierre Aumont, the May 31, 1948 episode of Screen Guild Theater with Charles Boyer and Ida Lupino, the May 14, 1949 episode of Screen Director's Playhouse with Boyer and Vanessa Brown, the May 4, 1950 episode of Screen Guild Theater with de Havilland and Boyer and the June 15, 1952 Screen Guild Theater with Barbara Stanwyck and Jean Pierre Aumont.

Hans Christian Andersen is a 1952 Hollywood musical film directed by Charles Vidor, with words and music by Frank Loesser.

* Charles Edward Jones ( 1952 – 2001 ), former member of NASA's astronaut group, victim of the September 11, 2001, attacks

Bachelor Mother was adapted as a radio play on several occasions, including five broadcasts of The Screen Guild Theater: the first starred Laraine Day, Henry Fonda and Charles Coburn ( February 1, 1942 ); the second starred Ann Sothern and Fred MacMurray ( November 23, 1942 ); the third starred Ginger Rogers, Francis X. Bushman and David Niven ( May 6, 1946 ); the fourth starred Lucille Ball, Joseph Cotten and Charles Coburn ( April 28, 1949 ); the fifth starred Ann Sothern and Robert Stack ( April 20, 1952 ).

During this time he also gave the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, from which the book A Composer's World was extracted ( Hindemith 1952 ).

* 1952: Charles Evans Hughes by Merlo J. Pusey

* In 1952 soaring over the mountains here Charles Atger set the world duration record in a sailplane.

Nin appeared in the Kenneth Anger film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome ( 1954 ) as Astarte ; in the Maya Deren film Ritual in Transfigured Time ( 1946 ); and in Bells of Atlantis ( 1952 ), a film directed by Guiler under the name " Ian Hugo " with a soundtrack of electronic music by Louis and Bebe Barron.

* 1952 – Kenneth Edwards, American golfer ( b. 1886 )

Melvin Kenneth " Mel " Smith ( born 3 December 1952 ) is an English comedian, writer, film director, producer and actor.

* Kenneth Bird ( 1949 – 1952 )

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

In 1952, Kenneth Tynan, blaming the director for a badly-received Macbeth said he " seems to have imagined that Ralph Richardson, with his comic, Robeyesque cheese face, was equipped to play Macbeth.

* Kenneth Roy Long 1949 – 1952

* Llewelyn Powys: A Selection ( 1952 ) edited by Kenneth Hopkins

* Minority leader: Kenneth S. Wherry, until January 8, 1952

In his 1952 election, he defeated six-term incumbent Kenneth McKellar.

Kenneth May first published this theory in 1952.

* Kenneth Morgan Harris ( 1952 – 1982 )

* Kenneth Hayes Miller ( 1876 – 1952 ), American painter and teacher

He appeared in the 1949 The New British Poets: an anthology edited by Kenneth Rexroth ; but from 1952 with The Dark Island he devoted himself to fiction.

Her mother subsequently married Tom and Jerry animator Kenneth Muse in 1952.

Kenneth " Kenny " Hahn ( 1920 – 1997 ) was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for forty years, from 1952 to 1992.

* 1952 Kenneth More and Peggy Ashcroft in Terence Rattigan ’ s The Deep Blue Sea.

He lost his council seat in the 1952 municipal election, falling to Kenneth A. Davidson by a margin of 611 votes to 383.

Peter Kenneth Dews ( born 22 April 1952 ) is a British philosopher, in the fields of critical theory and continental philosophy.