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On bill for remonetization of silver
Bd of Estimate passes furlough and pay cut provisions of bill
Dismissed as a staff engineer of N Y C Park Dept
1934Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet, essayist, and translator (died 2014)[†]
Mark Strand was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004. Strand was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University from 2005 until his death in 2014.
1934Ron Pember, English actor, director and playwright (died 2022)[†]
Ronald Henry Pember was an English actor, stage director and dramatist. In a career stretching over thirty years, he was a character actor in British television productions in the 1970s and 1980s, usually in smaller parts or as a support playing a worldly-wise everyman.