Wilkes Regional Medical Center was opened in 1952 as Wilkes General Hospital.

* Christopher Reeve ( 1952 – 2004 ), of Superman fame, kept a sailboat, the sloop-rigged Chandelle, at a Fairhaven shipyard and sometimes flew into New Bedford Regional Airport to pick it up or to stay in town during a stopover en route to Martha's Vineyard.

At the same time, the new mayor William Jackson donated land for a Public Library Building, Jackson would go on to be mayor almost continuously until 1952, he also served as Warden of York County ( leader of the Regional Government ).

In 1952, Dawson was the featured speaker at the first annual conference of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership ( a civil rights organization ), held in the all-black town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi.

Miroslav Mikolášik ( born on 11 September 1952 in Dolný Kubín ) is a Slovak politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Krestansko-demokraticke hnutie, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development.

) In 1951 the promotion failed after competing in the Division Two Regional comptetition and a few open meetings were staged in 1952.

In 1952, Finland and the countries of the Nordic Council entered into a passport union, allowing their citizens to cross borders without passports and soon also to apply for jobs and claim social security benefits in the other countries.

The agency was formally established through a revision of National Security Council Intelligence Directive ( NSCID ) 9 on October 24, 1952, and officially came into existence on November 4, 1952.

On 13 May 1952, in a meeting of the Executive Council, Prime Minister Robert Menzies established ASIS by the executive power of the Commonwealth under s 61 of the Constitution, appointing Alfred Deakin Brookes as head.

On August 21, 1952, the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus at its annual meeting adopted a resolution urging that the change be made universal and copies of this resolution were sent to the President, the Vice President ( as Presiding Officer of the Senate ) and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

IIT experienced its greatest period of growth from 1952 to 1973 under President John T. Rettaliata, a fluid dynamicist whose research accomplishments included work on early development of the jet engine and a seat on the National Aeronautics and Space Council.

Dulles also served as the Chairman and Co-founder of the Commission on a Just and Durable Peace of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America ( succeeded by the National Council of Churches ), the Chairman of the Board for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1935 to 1952, and was a founding member of Foreign Policy Association and Council of Foreign Relations.

* Waterbury Council of Girl Scouts ( 1929 / 1936-1952 ) changed its name in 1952 to Waterbury Area Council of Girl Scouts ( 1952 – 1956 ) and again in 1956 to Blue Trails Council of Girl Scouts ( 1956 – 1964 ).

* Steve Corodemus ( born 1952 ), represents the 11th legislative district in the New Jersey General Assembly, and was a member of the Atlantic Highlands Borough Council from 1986 – 1988, serving as its President in 1988.

In 1952, a plan to merge the BMO with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra was avoided by an arrangement with the Arts Council for the orchestra to accompany Welsh National Opera for several weeks.

He served on the City Council from 1947 to 1952, and as mayor from 1952-1956.

In 1952 he comfortably topped the polls in Belize City Council elections.

Between 1952 and 1969 trolley-buses operated by the Brisbane City Council used the bridge.

The earliest known reference to the ship and the incident is in the May 1952 issue of the Proceedings of the Merchant Marine Council, published by the United States Coast Guard.

Willoch's first political post was as a member of the Oslo City Council from 1952 to 1959.

In 1952 the position of prime minister was created and the Executive Council became the cabinet.

In 1950, Lord Killanin became the head of the Olympic Council of Ireland ( the OCI ), and became his country's representative in the IOC in 1952.

* 1885 – Abe Manley, Negro League Baseball owner ( d. 1952 )

After relocating to Indianapolis, Indiana, eighteen-year-old Aaron helped the Indianapolis Clowns win the 1952 Negro League World Series.

* Philadelphia Stars ( baseball ), a baseball team in the Negro Leagues from 1933 to 1952

He was a Third-class Clerk, Treasury Department, Lagos ( 1921 – 1924 ); Recruit, Gold Coast Police Force ( Jul .- September 1924 ); Solicitor Clerk to the late Mr. Justice Graham Paul at Calabar ( Jan .- Aug. 1925 ); Instructor in Political Science, Lincoln University ( 1931 – 34 ); University Correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American ( 1928 – 34 ); General and Sports Correspondent for the Philadelphia Tribune ( 1928 – 34 ); Editor-in Chief of the West African Pilot ( 1937 – 45 ); Correspondent for the Associated Negro Press ( 1944 – 47 ); Correspondent for Reuters ( 1944 – 46 ); Managing Director of Zik ’ s Press Limited printers and publishers of the West African Pilot ( Lagos ), Eastern Guardian ( Port Harcourt ), Nigerian Spokesman ( Onitsha ), Southern Nigeria Defender ( Ibadan ), Daily Comet ( Kano ), and Eastern Sentinel ( Enugu ); Managing Director of Comet Press Limited ( 1945 – 53 ); Chairman of West African Pilot Limited and the Associated Newspapers of Nigeria Limited and six other limited liability companies ( 1952 – 53 ); Chairman, Nigerian Real Estate Corporation Limited ( 1952 – 53 ); etc.

The song made its first recorded appearance as " We Shall Overcome " ( rather than " We Will Overcome ") in 1952 on a disc recorded by Laura Duncan ( soloist ) and The Jewish Young Singers ( chorus ) conducted by Robert De Cormier co-produced by Ernie Lieberman and Irwin Silber on Hootenany Records ( Hoot 104-A ) ( Folkways, FN 2513, BCD15720 ), where it is identified as a Negro Spiritual.

* 1952 UGA National Negro Open

Martiniquan psychiatrist and philosopher, Frantz Fanon in his 1952 book Black Skin, White Masks mentions the grinning Senegalese tirailleur as an example of how in a burgeoning consumer culture, the Negro appears not only as an object, but as " an object in the midst of other objects ".

He was associate editor of the Negro Yearbook in 1952 and contributed articles to journals.

At age 60, Donaldson was voted a first-team member of the 1952 Pittsburgh Courier player-voted poll of the Negro leagues best players ever.

In a poll taken in 1952 by the African-American weekly Pittsburgh Courier poll named Hill the fourth-best outfielder in Negro League history, behind Oscar Charleston, Monte Irvin and Cristóbal Torriente.

The RCNL ’ s annual meetings in Mound Bayou between 1952 and 1955 attracted crowds of ten thousand or more.

Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

* Theo Altenberg ( b. 1952 ), German artist

Between 1950 and 1960, van Vogt produced collections, notable fixups such as: The Mixed Men ( 1952 ) and The War Against the Rull ( 1959 ), and the two " Clane " novels, Empire of the Atom ( 1957 ) and The Wizard of Linn ( 1962 ), which were inspired ( like Asimov's Foundation series ) by the fall of the Roman Empire, specifically Claudius.

For example, the analysis of the debris at the testing site of the first U. S. hydrogen bomb, Ivy Mike, ( 1 November 1952, Enewetak Atoll ), revealed high concentrations of various actinides including americium ; due to military secrecy, this result was published only in 1956.

In They Do It with Mirrors ( 1952 ), it is revealed that, in her distant youth, Miss Marple spent time in Europe at a finishing school.

In They Do It With Mirrors ( 1952 ), it is mentioned that Miss Marple grew up in a cathedral close, and that she studied at an Italian finishing school with Americans Ruth Van Rydock and Caroline " Carrie " Louise Serrocold.

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

* Adrian Biddle ( 1952 – 2005 ), English cinematographer

In 1952 Aalto married architect Elissa Mäkiniemi ( died 1994 ), who had been working as an assistant in his office.

Originally used in Baker House to signify the Ivy League university tradition, on his return to Finland Aalto used it in a number of key buildings, in particular, in several of the buildings in the new Helsinki University of Technology campus ( starting in 1950 ), Säynatsalo Town Hall ( 1952 ), Helsinki Pensions Institute ( 1954 ), Helsinki House of Culture ( 1958 ), as well as in his own summer house, the so-called Experimental House in Muuratsalo ( 1957 ).

* 1949 – 1952: Säynätsalo Town Hall, 1949 competition, built 1952, Säynätsalo ( now part of Jyväskylä ), Finland

Examples include Edward Elgar's Great is the Lord ( 1912 ) and Give unto the Lord ( 1914 ) ( both with orchestral accompaniment ), Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb ( 1943 ) ( a modern example of a multi-movement anthem and today heard mainly as a concert piece ), and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' O taste and see ( 1952 ) ( written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ).

* Alexandra Kollontai ( 1872 – 1952 ), Russian politician

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.

Between 1952 and 1972, he hosted at least five television shows – three different talk shows called The Al Capp Show ( 1952 and 1968 ) and Al Capp ( 1971 –' 72 ), Al Capp's America ( a live " chalk talk ," with Capp providing a barbed commentary while sketching cartoons, 1954 ), and a CBS game show called Anyone Can Win ( 1953 ).