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Sponsors bill to abolish direct primaries in municipal nominations in N Y S
Pres S W Smith, L E Buswell and W A Barber discharged in move by Childs family to regain control
C A Shongood, U S auctioneer in bankruptcy cases, ousted; B J McCorry testifies
Gold braid to be used for full dress; braid ordered in France
1929Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)[†]
Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer was a German physicist who shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert Hofstadter for his discovery of the Mössbauer effect, which is the basis for Mössbauer spectroscopy.
1929Jean Simmons, English-American actress (died 2010)[†]
Jean Merilyn Simmons was a British actress and singer. One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets", she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Britain during and after the Second World War, followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950 onwards.