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April 16, 1933

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GAVE $161,680 FREE AID.; New York Nursery Met Burden for Year by Drastic Economy.

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WHAT NEWS ALONG THE RIALTO?; Mr. Beckhard Plans to Revive "Another Language -- Certain Other Contenders for the Pulitzer Prize -- London Boasts an Active Holiday Week

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ARTHUR J. BECKHARD, who is producing or staging practically everything these mad days, plans to revive "Another Language." This event will take place April 25, and there will be what they call "virtually the original cast."

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120,000 FAMILIES IN NEED OF CLOTHES; Appeal Made to Public to Give to Destitute Garments Cast Off at Easter. SPECIAL BUREAU SET UP Red Cross Reports $6,000,000 In Food and Clothing Has Been Distributed Here.

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GUNNERS LEAD VAN FOR BIG WAR GAME; Fort Totten Artillery Men Reach Kentucky as First of Army Thousands to Gather. 113 PLANES TO TAKE PART ' Battle's' Significance Lies in Test of Anti-Aircraft Weapons -- Mechanized Unit to Be Tried.

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FORT KNOX, Ky., April 15 -- Twenty-one artillerymen from Fort Totten, N.Y., moved into quarters here today, forming the advance guard of a troop concentration which in the next month will bring here thousands of infantry, artillery and cavalry soldiers and 113 fighting airplanes for one of the largest peacetime war games the army ever staged.

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25 Defendants in Vote Frauds Vanish; Medalie Says Many Are Hiding in Canada; 25 ARE FUGITIVES IN ELECTION CASES

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25 defendants in 17th A D Fed inquiry vanish

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Notable Births

1933Marcos Alonso Imaz, Spanish footballer (died 2012)^[†]

Marcos Alonso Imaz, nicknamed Marquitos, was a Spanish footballer who played as a defender. He was best known for his participation in Real Madrid's five European Cup conquests, mainly in the 1950s.

1933Joan Bakewell, English journalist and author^[†]

Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party peer. Baroness Bakewell is president of Birkbeck, University of London; she is also an author and playwright, and has received a Humanist of the Year award for services to humanism.

1933Perry Botkin Jr., American composer, arranger and musician (died 2021)^[†]

Perry Botkin Jr. was an American composer, producer, arranger, and musician.

1933Vera Krepkina, Russian long jumper (died 2023)^[†]

Vera Samuilovna Krepkina was a Soviet-Ukrainian track and field athlete. She competed for the Soviet Union at the 1952, 1956, and 1960 Olympics. At all these Olympics she finished fourth in the 4 × 100 m relay and was eliminated in the heats of the 100 m sprint. In 1960, she also took part in the long jump and won a surprise gold medal with an Olympic record of 6.37 m, ahead of the defending champion Elżbieta Krzesińska and the world record holder Hildrun Claus.

1933Ike Pappas, American journalist and actor (died 2008)^[†]

Icarus Nestor Pappas, better known as Ike Pappas, was an American television journalist who worked as a CBS News correspondent for 25 years.