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1927Harlan Howard, American songwriter (died 2002)[†]
Harlan Perry Howard was an American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard is credited with writing more than 4,000 songs, over 100 of which reached country music's Top 10.
1927Robert L. Rock, American politician, 42nd Lieutenant Governor of Indiana (died 2013)[†]
Robert Lee Rock was an American politician who served as the Lieutenant Governor of Indiana from 1965 to 1969 and as the Mayor of Anderson, Indiana, from 1972 to 1980. He was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Indiana in 1968, but lost to Republican Edgar Whitcomb.
1927Marguerite Frank, American-French mathematician (died 2024)[†]
Marguerite Straus Frank was a French-American mathematician who was a pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming.
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HARBOR GRACE, N.F., Sept. 7. -Somewhere over the Atlantic the airplane Sir John Carling, with Captain Terry Tully and Lieutenant James Medcalf aboard, was believed tonight to be winging a silent course to the British Isles on a flight from London, Ontario, to London, England.
2 S O S signals; radio log; map; A Fokker's comment; search on; Hearst's warnings to Payne; Payne's father had premonition of disaster
O'Kay's Style Shop released from paying rent for next 7 1/2 yrs because landlord cut space 6 inches
Demonstrates noctovision before British Assn for Advancement of Science
On N Y C truckmen's position in strike
S Lecointe will try again
Leave Harbor Grace for London, Eng; pors; illus plane, description; flight was financed by Carling Brewery