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Nobile acclaimed in N Y; gets gold medal presented on behalf of Italian assns in U S; received by Mayor Walker; gets message of congratulation; por
Coast Guardsmen Reeder and Sanderson testify to bribe offer at seizure of Robt C Clowry, alleged contact boat of ring; say C A Smith offered it; Police Capt Skehan questions Bellevue Hosp employes on Smith's testimony; Spellman maintains testimony does not implicate his clients; objects to R Rigg's testimony that L Halle, one of present defense counsel was previously retained by Dwyer
New agents allotted to fight speakeasies and industrial alcohol diversion
Twilight Inn destroyed; list of missing, injured and saved, illus
Quackenbush announces co's intention of bringing damage suits against strikers; pay seized as first step; strike com calls suit admission of defeat; service shows improvement
1926Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan-French journalist and author (died 2007)[†]
Driss Chraïbi was a Moroccan author whose novels deal with colonialism, culture clashes, generational conflict and the treatment of women and are often perceived as semi-autobiographical.
1926Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentinian general and politician, 44th President of Argentina (died 2003)[†]
Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri Castelli was an Argentine military officer who served as the de facto President of Argentina from December 1981 to June 1982. Galtieri ruled as a military dictator during the National Reorganization Process as leader of the Third Junta with Jorge Anaya and Basilio Lami Dozo.
1926Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (died 2015)[†]
Raymond George Gosling was a British scientist. While a PhD student at King's College, London he worked under the supervision of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin. The crystallographic experiments of Franklin and Gosling, together with others by Wilkins, produced data that helped James Watson and Francis Crick to infer the structure of DNA.
1926Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet, English diplomat (died 2019)[†]
Sir John Alexander Noble Graham, 4th Baronet, was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Iraq, Iran and NATO.