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On plans to handle work as CWA ends
Abandons efforts and refers both sides to action by Roosevelt
ISTANBUL, Turkey, March 30. -Samuel Insull, weary and sick from court fights in Greece and a subsequent dash toward the Black Sea, was reported today to have attempted suicide by trying to jump into the Bosporus. He is said to have been restrained, however, and placed under a heavy police guard.
Sen McNaboe plans to ask investigation into Thayer activities and into general situation; L Waldman asks inquiry
1934Richard Chamberlain, American actor (died 2025)[†]
George Richard Chamberlain was an American actor and singer, whose career on stage and in film and television spanned over 60 years. He was the recipient of many accolades, including three Golden Globe Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, two Drama Desk Award nominations, and a Grammy Award nominations.
1934Shirley Jones, American actress and singer[†]
Shirley Mae Jones is an American actress and singer. In her six decades in show business, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of musical films, such as Oklahoma! (1955), Carousel (1956), and The Music Man (1962). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a vengeful prostitute in Elmer Gantry (1960). She played the lead role of Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children, in the musical situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family (1970–1974), which co-starred her real-life stepson, David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy.
1934John D. Loudermilk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2016)[†]
John Dee Loudermilk Jr. was an American singer and songwriter. Although he had his own recording career during the 1950s and 1960s, he was primarily known as a songwriter.
1934Grigory Nelyubov, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut (died 1966)[†]
Grigory Grigoryevich Nelyubov was one of the original 20 Soviet cosmonauts, who was dismissed from the Soviet space program in 1963 for drunk and disorderly conduct. His existence in the program was kept secret until the advent of Soviet glasnost in the late 1980s. He killed himself on 18 February 1966.
1934Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Carlo Rubbia is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN.
1934Kamala Surayya, Indian poet and author (died 2009)[†]
Kamala Surayya , popularly known by her one-time pen name Madhavikutty and married name Kamala Das, was an Indian poet in English as well as an author in Malayalam from Kerala, India. Her fame in Kerala primarily stems from her short stories and autobiography, My Story, whereas her body of work in English, penned under the pseudonym Kamala Das, is renowned for its poems and candid autobiography. Her works are known for originality, versatility and indigenous flavour of the soil. She was also a widely read columnist and wrote on diverse topics including women's issues, child care, politics, etc. Her liberal treatment of female sexuality, marked her as an iconoclast in popular culture of her generation. On 31 May 2009, aged 75, she died at Jehangir Hospital in Pune.