BRAZIL PLEDGES END OF PRESS SEIZURES
Date: 12 September 1956
Special to The New York Times
Govt bars further seizures of Opposition news media
Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing (born Cheung Fat-chung; 12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003) was a Hong Kong singer and actor. One of the most influential cultural icons in the Sinophone world, Cheung was known for his debonair demeanor, flamboyant screen characters, and avant-garde, androgynous stage presence. Throughout his 26-year career, he released over 40 music albums and acted in 56 films.
Born in Kowloon, British Hong Kong, Cheung studied in England from the age of 12 until he returned home in 1976. He garnered attention in 1977 when entering RTV's Asian Singing Contest and achieved popularity in 1984 with a hit single "Monica". Cheung is regarded as one of the founding fathers of Cantopop for defining the music genre in the 1980s. He announced his "retirement" from music in 1989 and emigrated to Canada the following year, but he returned to Hong Kong in 1994. His reemergence from the musical retirement in the late 1990s, particularly in his 1996 album Red, was marked by sonic experimentation and daring imagery.
In addition to music, Cheung achieved pan-Asian fame with such films as A Better Tomorrow (1986) and A Chinese Ghost Story (1987). He won the Best Actor at the 1991 Hong Kong Film Awards for his role in Days of Being Wild (1990), and became world-renowned for his performances in Farewell My Concubine (1993) and Happy Together (1997).
On April 1st, 2003, Cheung, suffering from clinical depression, committed suicide by jumping off the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel, Hong Kong.
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Date: 12 September 1956
Special to The New York Times
Govt bars further seizures of Opposition news media
Date: 13 September 1956
Special to The New York Times
only non-Communist Western newsmen now in Poland seen admitted to trials
Date: 13 September 1956
By GREG MacGREGOR Special to The New York Times
Greg Special
Recent Govt remedial steps after press attacks noted; rise of free press seen sign of growing Govt confidence
Date: 13 September 1956
FCC grants $626,000 yrly rise on press rates and money orders to Canada and Mex
Date: 12 September 1956
By JOHN D. MORRIS Special to The New York Times
Fine repts on Louisville; no incidents; teachers rept classes act as though Negroes had always attended; some hs and jhs students resentful; tension eased, Sturgis; Clay school still guarded by segregationists but Mrs Gordon enrolls children at all-Negro school in Providence; mob at Clay school accosts NY Times and 2 Brit reporters, bars them from nearing school; 1 of latter wires protest to Chandler; notes they complained to Clark, but he barred intervention; text
Date: 12 September 1956
A D Murphy pres
Date: 13 September 1956
Buys 2d trailership from Natl Container
Date: 13 September 1956
To drop all non-Canadian members after Canadian members protest their inclusion; Time, Reader's Digest and Mayfair (pubs) resign
Date: 13 September 1956