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December 18, 1927

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LINDBERGH AND PEACE HAILED BY MEXICANS; CALLES EXALTS FLIER; Fifty Thousand Join in Huge Demonstration at Stadium in American's Honor. PRESIDENT ESCORTS HIM And Proclaims Another Holiday -- 6,000 School Children Entertain Nation's Guest. CALLES FLIGHT TUESDAY American Airman Will Be the First to Take Republic's President Into the Air.

By Russell Owen. Staff Correspondent of the New York Times.copyright, 1927, By the New York Times Company. All Rights Reserved.by Wireless To the New York Times

plans to take Calles for flight

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NATIONALS CRUSHED BY GIANTS, 5 TO 1; Victors Show Edge From Start and Lead, 3 to 0, at Half in Polo Grounds Soccer. WANDERERS TRIUMPH BY 1-0 Curtis Scores in First Four Minutes of J.&P. Coats Game at Pawtucket to Decide Issue.

By Unknown Author

The New York Giants soccer team crushed the New York Nationals by 5 to 1 at the Polo Grounds yesterday in an American League game before a crowd of 3,000. The Giants played one of their best games this season against the much improved Nationals and were on top from the opening whistle. Ernie Schwarz and Davie Brown gave a wonderful exhibition and starred throughout the game.

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GOSSIP OF THE RIALTO; The Renascent Mr. Cohan -- Just Three Triumphant Shows GOSSIP OF THE RIALTO

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MR. COHAN'S resolve to come back to the theatre, it seems, has been stimulated rather than dissipated by the two productions that he has already brought to town this season. In his dressing room the other night -- Mr. Cohan is so busy these days that he transacts most of his business between cues -- he declared that there will probably be three more Cohan shows in town before the season is over.

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Notable Births

Ramsey Clark

1927Ramsey Clark, American lawyer and politician, 66th United States Attorney General (died 2021)[†]

William Ramsey Clark was an American lawyer, activist, and federal government official. A progressive, New Frontier liberal, he occupied senior positions in the United States Department of Justice under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, serving as United States Attorney General from 1967 to 1969; previously, he was Deputy Attorney General from 1965 to 1967 and Assistant Attorney General from 1961 to 1965.

Roméo LeBlanc

1927Roméo LeBlanc, Canadian journalist and politician, 25th Governor General of Canada (died 2009)[†]

Roméo-Adrien LeBlanc was a Canadian journalist and politician who served as the 25th governor general of Canada from 1995 to 1999.