While working as a professor of Romance Philology at Columbia University, Pei wrote over 50 books, including the best-sellers The Story of Language ( 1949 ) and The Story of English ( 1952 ).

However, these negotiations came to nothing, since the Bidwills insisted on retaining a controlling interest in the franchise and were unwilling move their team to a city where a previous NFL franchise had failed in 1952.

In 1970, he purchased the Seattle Pilots in bankruptcy court and renamed them the Milwaukee Brewers after minor league team of the same name he had watched in his youth, which existed until the arrival of the Braves in Milwaukee in 1952.

* 1877 – Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner ( d. 1952 )

In 1952, Geelong easily defeated Lou Richards ' Collingwood team.

In 1952, while still in reform school, Brown met future R & B legend Bobby Byrd, who was there playing baseball against the reform school team.

Selig had already announced plans to rename the team the Brewers, a name that had been used by past Milwaukee baseball teams ( most notably by a very successful minor league team that played there from 1902 to 1952 ).

On June 23, 1952, the team moved to Charleston, West Virginia, that state's capital city, and became the Senators.

) When in 1952 the Soviet Union football team lost to Yugoslavia at the Summer Olympics, Stalin ordered that all footage of the event be destroyed.

Osvaldo César Ardiles ( born 3 August 1952 in Bell Ville, Córdoba Province ), often referred to in Britain as Ossie Ardiles, is a football coach, pundit and former midfielder who won the 1978 World Cup as part of the Argentine national team.

A team event was added to the Olympic Games in 1952 and discontinued in 1992.

* Albert Lasker ( 1880 – 1952 ), pioneer of the American advertising industry, part owner of baseball team the Chicago Cubs, and wife Mary Lasker ( 1900 – 1994 ), an American health activist and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal

The link with the gluten component of wheat was made in 1952 by a team from Birmingham, England.

The NFL's Houston Texans revived the name of the WFL's franchise for that city ; " Texans " has also been used by an NFL Dallas team in 1952 – the remnants of which became the Baltimore / Indianapolis Colts, by an AFL Dallas team in the early 1960s – who became the Kansas City Chiefs, by an arena football team in Dallas in the early 1990s, and by a CFL San Antonio team for one year in the 1990s.

Clyde Lovellette, who was drafted in 1952, helped the team win the Western Division.

* Eufaula was home to a minor league baseball team, the Eufala Millers, in 1952 and 1953.

Headland was home to the Headland Dixie Runners, a minor league baseball team in the Alabama State League / Alabama-Florida League from 1950 to 1952.

In 1952, the Dodge Center football team became one of six Minnesota high school teams to not allow a single point in a season.

David Da-i Ho (; born November 3, 1952 ) is a Taiwanese American AIDS researcher famous for pioneering the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV-infected patients with his team.

* Norv Turner ( born 1952 ), current head coach of the San Diego Chargers football team ( NFL )

Regardless of Stalin's death in 1952, the USSR and its satellite countries continued to encourage workers to exceed production targets and to publicise those who did so. In September 1959 near Neustrelitz, East Germany, a forester on his Simson ( company )# 250cc road models | AWO 425T motorcycle congratulates a team of women who achieved 184 % of work target by planting 25, 000 saplings in the time that they were set a quota of 16, 000.

The I. A. P. A. found itself driven from journalism into politics as it did its best to bring about the downfall of the Castro Government and the return of the Cuban press to the freedom it knew before Batista's dictatorship began in 1952.

Fearless Fosdick — and Capp's other spoofs like " Little Fanny Gooney " ( 1952 ) and " Jack Jawbreaker "— were almost certainly an early inspiration for Harvey Kurtzman's Mad Magazine, which began in 1952 as a comic book that specifically parodied other comics in the same distinctive style and subversive manner.

The prototype weapon began unpowered flight-tests in 1947, and made its first aerial interception in 1952.

Cable television in Canada began in 1952 with community antenna connections in Vancouver and London, Ontario ; which city is first is not clear.

Campbell began his speed record attempts using his father's old boat Bluebird K4, but after a structural failure at on Coniston Water, Lancashire in 1951, and the death of John Cobb, who was killed in 1952 trying to break the water speed record, he decided that he would develop a new boat.

In 1952 he began a teaching career as a political theorist, first at Columbia University, then at Harvard University, then at Brandeis University from 1958 to 1965, where he taught philosophy and politics, and finally ( by then he was past the usual retirement age ), at the University of California, San Diego.

Lewis began hosting telethons to benefit MDA in 1952.

A provincial tour of Pagan in the Parlour began in September 1952 and it appeared that the play would be a hit.

After a period of seclusion and fasting Meher Baba ended the New Life in February 1952 and once again began a round of public appearances throughout India and the West.

Debuting in August 1952 ( cover date October – November ), Mad began as a comic book published by EC, then located in lower Manhattan at 225 Lafayette Street.

Research into fusion for military purposes began in the early 1940s as part of the Manhattan Project, but this was not accomplished until 1951 ( see the Greenhouse Item nuclear test ), and nuclear fusion on a large scale in an explosion was first carried out on November 1, 1952, in the Ivy Mike hydrogen bomb test.

Another annual tradition that began in West Berlin ( in 1952 ) and was re-routed into the east via Potsdamer Platz following German reunification is the Weihnachtszug ( Christmas train ).

These began in 1952, when the government was still based in Busan due to the ongoing war.

Around 1952 Norman MacLeod at his company the Explosive Research Corporation began working on the concept of a small directional mine for use by infantry.

Television in Venezuela began in 1952 when the dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez launched the state channel Televisora Nacional, making Venezuela the ninth country in the world to have television.

In 1952 he began to apply quantum mechanics to the analysis of the reaction between Lewis acid and base molecules.

Succeeded in 1952 by his son Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Bhutan began to slowly emerge from its isolation and began a program of planned development.

The first organized international competitions for athletes with a physical disability ( not deaf ) began in 1952, when the first international Stoke Mandeville Games were organized for World War II veterans.

In 1952 the army began using the term CONEX, short for " Container Express ".

Nimoy's film and television acting career began in 1951, but after receiving the title role in the 1952 film Kid Monk Baroni, a story about a street punk turned professional boxer, he played more than 50 small parts in B movies, TV shows such as Perry Mason, and Dragnet, and serials such as Republic Pictures ' Zombies of the Stratosphere ( 1952 ).

The modern era of the NCAA began in July 1952 when its executive director, Kansas City, Missouri native Walter Byers, moved the organization's headquarters from the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago ( where its offices were shared by the headquarters of the Big Ten Conference ) to the Fairmount Building at 101 West 11th Street in Downtown Kansas City.