The Press: Top Ten

In an Associated Press poll, U.S. newspaper editors this week picked as the top ten stories of 1953:

1) Korean war truce and prisoner exchanges.

2) Stalin's death and Malenkov succession.

3) Greenlease kidnaping.

4) Elizabeth II's coronation.

5) Harry Dexter White case and "Reds in government" issue.

6) Eisenhower inauguration.

7) Rosenbergs' execution.

8) Taft death.

9) Downfall of Beria.

10) Berlin rioting and food giveaway.

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