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LONDON, Dec. 8. THOUGH the theatres are beginning to be filled with plays intended for the holiday season, it is chance and not the turn of the year that has brought a revival of Shaw's "Getting Married" to the Little Theatre and has made its production roughly coincide with that of a new farcical comedy, unhappily called "Good' Morning, Bill!" by P. G. Wodehouse.
BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 24. -- Playing in bitter cold weather, the Brooklyn Wanderers bowed today before the Boston eleven in their American Soccer League fixture. Boston won by the score of 4 goals -- to 0 and held on to first place in the League competition.
LOOKING back over a year of life as mirrored in a year of books I find that the forces of change have been at work but that the world, in its main features, is still recognizable. The war against Habit and Inertia, which has been under way since the armistice, scored successes during the year, yet a few habits persist.
Accident suspected when long overdue in flight from Roosevelt Field to Harbor Grace, N F, in transatlantic attempt
1927Nellie Fox, American baseball player and coach (died 1975)[†]
Jacob Nelson Fox was an American professional baseball player. Fox was one of the best second basemen of all time, and the third-most difficult hitter to strike out in Major League Baseball (MLB) history. Fox played in the big leagues from 1947 through 1965 and spent the majority of his career as a member of the Chicago White Sox; his career was bookended by multi-year stints for the Philadelphia Athletics and, later, the Houston Astros.
1927Ram Narayan, Indian sarangi player (died 2024)[†]
Ram Narayan, often referred to with the title Pandit, was an Indian musician who popularised the bowed instrument sarangi as a solo concert instrument in Hindustani classical music and became the first internationally successful sarangi player.
1927B. R. Ambedkar and his followers burn copies of the Manusmriti in Mahad, Maharashtra, to protest its treatment of Dalit people.[†]
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India based on the debates of the Constituent Assembly of India and the first draft of Sir Benegal Narsing Rau. Ambedkar served as Law and Justice minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru. He later renounced Hinduism, converted to Buddhism and inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement.