Elizabeth Allen was an American theatre, television, and film actress and singer whose 40-year career lasted from the mid-1950s through the mid-1990s, and included scores of TV episodes and six theatrical features, two of which were directed by John Ford.

1929Robert Faurisson, English-French author and academic (died 2018)^[†]

Robert Faurisson was a British-born French academic who became best known for Holocaust denial. Faurisson generated much controversy with several articles published in the Journal of Historical Review and elsewhere, and by letters to French newspapers, especially Le Monde, which contradicted the history of the Holocaust by denying the existence of gas chambers in Nazi death camps, the systematic killing of European Jews using gas during the Second World War, and the authenticity of The Diary of Anne Frank. After the passing of the Gayssot Act against Holocaust denial in 1990, Faurisson was prosecuted and fined, and in 1991 he was dismissed from his academic post.

1929Benny Golson, American saxophonist and composer (died 2024)^[†]

Benny Golson was an American bebop and hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, more as a writer than a performer, before launching his solo career. Golson was known for co-founding and co-leading The Jazztet with trumpeter Art Farmer in 1959. From the late 1960s through the 1970s Golson was in demand as an arranger for film and television and thus was less active as a performer, but he and Farmer re-formed the Jazztet in 1982.

Headlines from January 25, 1929

Maid Knocked Out Twice Battling Burglars; Her Cries Rout Thugs in Uptown Home

BETHLEHEM STEEL RESUMES DIVIDEND; Grace Sees Prosperity Ahead as $1 Is Voted on Common After Lapse of Five Years. HIGHER EARNINGS REPORTED Netted $6.52 a Share in 1928 and Plants Are Operating at 82% of Capacity. BETHLEHEM STEEL RESUMES DIVIDENDS

Bank of England Finances Great Merger Of Cotton Mills in the American Trade

Poe First Edition Found in Pile of Old Books; Copy, One of Three Extant, Brings $25,000

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