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E Schroeder wins 5,000-meter race; summaries; Norwegian royal family attends
John D. Rockefeller 3d, son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., builder of Rockefeller Center, will be the chief speaker at the craftsmanship exercises to be held in the seventy-story RAC Building, main unit in the midtown development, on Wednesday at 11:45 A.M.
HAVANA, Jan. 28. -- The 8-year-old Hollister gelding, Pigeon Hole, which last year descended to competition on the half-mile tracks when it was thought that he was through with racing, proved an easy winner at Oriental Park today in the Jose Marti Handicap.
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1933Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (died 2004)[†]
Alexandre "Sacha" Distel was a French musician and singer who had hits with a cover version of "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" in 1970, which reached No. 10 on the UK charts, "Scoubidou", and "The Good Life". He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 1997. He had also scored a hit as a songwriter when Tony Bennett recorded "The Good Life" in 1963. It peaked at No. 18 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart and reached the top 10 of the Easy Listening chart.
1933Sara Teasdale, American poet (born 1884)[†]
Sara Trevor Teasdale was an American lyric poet. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and used the name Filsinger after her 1914 marriage. In 1918, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection Love Songs.