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SYRACUSE, N.Y., Feb. 10. -- The Syracuse University basketball team, undefeated on its own court since 1932, added Fordham to its string of victims by a 29 -- 24 score in a fast game tonight.
A trust company acting as trustee of a fund cannot necessarily be compelled to make good on the principal of the fund if the securities become uncollectable, it was held by the Appellate Division in Brooklyn in a decision published yesterday.
LOUIS BROMFIELD, down in Princeton, has been writing a play in collaboration with John Gearon. The novelist says that its name is "De Luxe," and he adds that it concerns "the horrors of the very rich."
THE present book, Spengler tells us, grew out of a lecture on "Germany in Danger," which he delivered in Hamburg in 1932 "without meeting with much comprehension." The larger part of the first half of the book was finished a year ago, and that part is now published without alteration, "for I write," he declares, "not for a few months ahead or for next year, but for the future.
1934Mel Carnahan, American lawyer and politician, 51st Governor of Missouri (died 2000)[†]
Melvin Eugene Carnahan was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 51st governor of Missouri from 1993 until his death in 2000. Carnahan was a Democrat and held various positions in government.
1934Tina Louise, American actress and singer[†]
Tina Louise is an American actress widely known for her career on stage, film and television, including her role as movie star Ginger Grant in the popular television situation comedy Gilligan's Island.
1934Manuel Noriega, Panamanian general and politician, Military leader of Panama (died 2017)[†]
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno was a Panamanian dictator and military officer who was the de facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989. He never officially served as president of Panama, instead ruling as an unelected military dictator through puppet presidents. Amassing a personal fortune through drug trafficking operations by the Panamanian military, Noriega had longstanding ties with American intelligence agencies before the U.S. invasion of Panama removed him from power.
1934David Taylor, English veterinarian and television host (died 2013)[†]
David Conrad Taylor, BVMS, FRCVS, FZS, was a British veterinary surgeon. He was the first veterinary surgeon to specialise in zoo and wildlife medicine. Taylor worked with zoo and wild animals from 1957, acting as a consultant on the treatment of some of the rarest species on Earth. He was an expert in marine mammal medicine. From 1968, he was the vet in charge of Cuddles, the first captive orca to be kept in the UK, at Flamingo Park, North Yorkshire.