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Blamed by H Fish Jr for City Trust failure
May be transferred to hosp
Chinese organize defense as Reds are reptd active
Sino-Russian arbitration
Operation: condition
1929John Barber, English racing driver (died 2015)[†]
John David Barber was a racing driver from England. Before his racing career he was a fish merchant in London.
1929Leonid Stolovich, Russian-Estonian philosopher and academic (died 2013)[†]
Leonid Naumovich Stolovich was a Russian-Estonian philosopher, Doctor of Philosophy (1966) and professor (1967). Stolovich graduated from the Leningrad University in 1952, from 1953 on he worked at Tartu University, Estonia, from 1994 on as a professor emeritus. Above all, Stolovich studied esthetics: its history, theories of esthetics and axiology. He is the author of more than forty books and 400 publications in 20 languages.
1929Neil Welliver, American painter (died 2005)[†]
Neil Gavin Welliver was an American modern artist, best known for his large-scale landscape paintings inspired by the deep woods near his home in Maine. One of his sons, Titus Welliver became a successful actor as well as also being a painter.
1929Baselios Thomas I, Indian bishop (died 2024)[†]
Mor Baselios Thomas I was the Catholicos of India (Maphrian) and head of the Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church. He also served as the Metropolitan of the Angamali Diocese. He was the first head of the Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church to use the title "Catholicos of India".