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September 19, 1927
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Headlines from September 19, 1927
Swims Around Manhattan Under Nine Hours; Byron Summers, Aided by Tide, Sets a Record
B Summers completes swim around in 8 hours, 36 minutes
Famous Romney Is Bought by American; Shows Passions and Infant Shakespeare
Romney's Infant Shakespeare Attended by the Passions bought by G Wells for unnamed collector
DRIVE ON SMITH SEEN IN VISIT OF M'ADOO AND MEREDITH HERE; Simultaneous Presence in City Viewed by Governor's Friends as Move to Head Off Boom. MOVEMENTS NOT DISCLOSED Local Democrats Believe a Campaign Is On to Unite AntiSmith Elements of Party. THREE RIVALS TO CENTRE ON Walsh, Meredith and Reed Could Be Backed in Respective Fields to Cut the Governor's Strength. DRIVE ON SMITH SEEN IN VISIT OF M'ADOO
Move against him seen in presence of McAdoo and E T Meredith in N Y C
MAN'S NOTE TO WIFE OF MURDERED DOCTOR NEW CLUE IN CRIME; Prosecutor Says He Will Ask That Widow Be Held as Material Witness.
Prosecutor will ask to have widow held as material witness; letter addressed to her found at scene of murder; 2 negroes arrested, then released
Notable Births

1927Helen Carter, American singer (died 1998)[โ ]
Helen Myrl Carter Jones was an American country music singer. The eldest daughter of Maybelle Carter, she performed with her mother and her younger sisters, June Carter and Anita Carter, as a member of The Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle, a pioneering all female country and folk music group. After the death of A.P. Carter in 1960, the group became known as The Carter Family.
1927Rosemary Harris, English actress[โ ]
Rosemary Ann Harris is an English actress. She is the recipient of an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and three Laurence Olivier Awards. Harris was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1986, and she won the Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre in 2017.

1927William Hickey, American actor (died 1997)[โ ]
William Edward Hickey was an American actor. He is best known for his Academy Award-nominated role as Don Corrado Prizzi in the John Huston film Prizzi's Honor (1985), as well as Uncle Lewis in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) and the voice of Dr. Finkelstein in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).

1927Nick Massi, American singer and bass player (died 2000)[โ ]
Nicholas E. Macioci was an American bass singer, songwriter, and bass guitarist. He is best known for his work as the bassist and bass vocalist for The Four Seasons, for whom he performed under the stage name Nick Massi.
Notable Deaths
1927Michael Ancher, Danish painter (born 1849)[โ ]
Michael Peter Ancher was a Danish realist artist, widely known for his paintings of fishermen, the Skagerak and the North Sea, and other scenes from the Danish fishing community in Skagen.