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August 23, 1931

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RENTING IS ACTIVE IN PHIPPS HOUSES; Model Apartments in Sunnyside Gardens Are Nearing Completion. WILL HOUSE 344 FAMILIES Twenty-two Bulidings Erected Around Large Landscaped Court to Give Ample Light and Air. Modern Conveniences Provided. Income Used For New Houses.

By Unknown Author

One of the largest apartment developments in the metropolitan district is nearing completion at Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, where the Society of Phipps Houses is erecting model residential facilities with up to-date living standards for whitecollar workers' families.

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EL LAGARTO VICTOR IN GOLD CUP CLASS; Reis's Boat Captures Two of Three Heats in National Sweepstakes Regatta. Engage in Bitter Duel. EL LAGARTO VICTOR IN GOLD CUP CLASS Losers Make Best Time. Fleet Darts Over Line. Sets Out After Others.

By Arthur J. Daley. Special To the New York Times

RED BANK, N.J., Aug. 22.-- Churning the bumpy gray waters of the Shrewsbury River to a whitefoamed wake as it won the first two heats and then plodding along at a leasurely pace in the final, El Lagarto, owned and driven by George ...

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Notable Births

Barbara Eden

1931Barbara Eden, American actress and singer[†]

Barbara Eden is an American actor and singer, who starred as the title character in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie (1965–1970). Her other roles included Roslyn Pierce opposite Elvis Presley in Flaming Star (1960), Lieutenant (JG) Cathy Connors in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961), and a single widowed mother, Stella Johnson, in the film comedy Harper Valley PTA (1978) and in the spinoff television series.

Hamilton O. Smith

1931Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]

Hamilton Othanel Smith is an American microbiologist and Nobel laureate.