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1927Greta Andersen, Danish swimmer (died 2023)[†]
Greta Marie Andersen was a Danish swimmer who won a gold and a silver medal in 100 m freestyle events at the 1948 Summer Olympics. In the mid-1950s she moved to the United States, where she set several world records in marathon swimming in the distances up to 50 miles.
1927Bernard Vukas, Yugoslav-Croatian footballer (died 1983)[†]
Bernard Vukas was a Croatian footballer who played for Yugoslavia.
1927Albert Zafy, Malagasy politician, 3rd President of Madagascar (died 2017)[†]
Albert Zafy was a Malagasy politician and educator who served as the fourth president of Madagascar from 1993 to 1996. In 1988, he founded the National Union for Democracy and Development (UNDD).
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Tardieu, A, France and America
Statement by J E Harrington urging ban on midtown parking and amendment to building laws to permit construction of ramp garages
WEST POINT, April 30. -- Army defeated Columbia on the diamond today by a score of 9 to 4. Stribling, except for a momentary lapse in the second inning, was the Lions' master at all times, allowing only six hits. Burke was nicked hard at intervals.
A bay three-year-old colt, his neck straightened out and his legs flying in a mad burst of speed in one final jump for victory, flashed as a possible Preakness and Kentucky Derby winner at the Jamaica course of the Metropolitan Jockey Club yesterday afternoon.
Paris Reds prepare demonstrations
Cambridge wins shuttle relay race
WASHINGTON, April 30. -- Contributions for the Mississippi River flood relief operations of the American Red Cross had climbed to within sight of the first goal of $5,000,000 when reports late this afternoon brought the total up to $4,376,200. Of this, $2,765,450 came from the Eastern States, $1,118,000 from the Middle West and $392,750 from the Pacific Coast.
Through the mist that hovered over the Polo Grounds yesterday the Giants emerged into the sunshine of victory on winged feet. They literally ran the Braves ragged and the nerves of the paying patrons were in the same condition when Eddie Farrell drove home the winning run in the ninth.
Veterans' smoker in Hudson-Fulton Hall, Bklyn, raided; performers arrested for indecent performance, and 300 in audience arrested for disorderly conduct