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Walker confers with bankers
Brooklyn Inst of Arts and Sciences
Brit resolution for qualitative disarmament adopted; text; coms to study which weapons are most offensive; French press halts attack on alleged Anglo-Amer conspiracy against France
4 Japanese apptd to key positions; North Manchuria ravaged
1932Halston, American fashion designer (died 1990)[â ]
Roy Halston Frowick, known mononymously as Halston, was an American fashion designer, who rose to international fame in the 1970s.
1932Jim Fixx, American runner and author (died 1984)[â ]
James Fuller Fixx was an American who wrote the 1977 best-selling book The Complete Book of Running; he is credited with helping start America's fitness revolution by popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogging. Fixx died of a heart attack while jogging at 52 years of age; his genetic predisposition for heart problems and other previous lifestyle factors may have caused his heart attack.
1932RafaĆ Gan-Ganowicz, Polish mercenary, activist, and journalist (died 2002)[â ]
RafaĆ Gan-Ganowicz was a Polish soldier-in-exile, mercenary, journalist, member of the National Council of Poland, and political and social activist, dedicating his life to anti-communism.