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Presides at Young Repubs' conf; predicts Pres Hoover's reelection
N M Butler asks plan to meet menace; s in Paris
Seabury asks removal of Magistrate Silbermann on grounds that he "fixed" cases; J W Brown charged with influencing Silbermann
D S Grossman, clerk of Bd of Educ's Bronx Bur of Construction and Maintenance, charged with getting $20,000 in gratuities for favoring contractors on bldg repair jobs
15 hurt when auto crashes into bus
1931Trevanian, American author and scholar (died 2005)[†]
Rodney William Whitaker was an American film scholar and writer who wrote several novels under the pen name Trevanian. Whitaker wrote in a wide variety of genres, achieved bestseller status, and published under several other names, as well, including Nicholas Seare, Beñat Le Cagot, and Edoard Moran. He published the nonfiction book The Language of Film under his own name.
1931Rona Jaffe, American novelist (died 2005)[†]
Rona Jaffe was an American novelist who published numerous works from 1958 to 2003. During the 1960s, she also wrote cultural pieces for Cosmopolitan.