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Natl Committeemen's talk of him spurs Repub insurgents' move for protest candidate
Banditry flourishes due to unsettled conditions; 4 missing generals declared rebels; arrest of several prominent persons for being implicated in revolt; Pallavicini assured civil trial through intercession of foreign friends
Bomb found in ruins of tenement house at 416 W 35th St is like one found in I R T subway last July
1927Dana Elcar, American actor and director (died 2005)[†]
Ibsen Dana Elcar was an American television and film character actor. He appeared in about 40 films as well as in the 1960s television series Dark Shadows as Sheriff George Patterson and the 1980s and 1990s television series MacGyver as Peter Thornton, MacGyver's immediate supervisor at the Phoenix Foundation. Elcar had appeared in the pilot episode of MacGyver as Andy Colson before assuming the role of Thornton.
1927Jon Locke, American actor (died 2013)[†]
Joseph Lockey Yon, also known as credited as Jon Locke, was an American actor who appeared in many television and film westerns.
1927Thomas Wilson, American-Scottish composer and educator (died 2001)[†]
Thomas Wilson CBE FRSE was an American-born Scottish composer, a key figure in the revival of interest in Scottish classical music after the second world war.
1927Gustave Whitehead, German-American pilot and engineer (born 1874)[†]
Gustave Albin Whitehead was a German–American aviation pioneer. Between 1897 and 1915, he designed and built gliders, flying machines, and engines. Controversy surrounds published accounts and Whitehead's own claims that he flew a powered machine successfully several times in 1901 and 1902, predating the first flights by the Wright brothers in 1903.