Alan Bennett is an English playwright, author, actor and screenwriter. He has received numerous awards and honours including four BAFTA Awards, four Laurence Olivier Awards, and two Tony Awards. In 2005 he received the Society of London Theatre Special Award.

Headlines from May 9, 1934

Russian Airplane Picks Glider Off Ground; Development of 'Air Trains' Is Foreseen

MAYOR WILL NAME CONTROLLER TODAY; M'GOLDRICK LEADS; Cunningham Successor Must Be Appointed Before Sinking Fund Board Can Meet. FUSIONISTS URGE FINEGAN Need to Pick Rival Candidate May Bring About Tammany Conference This Week. MAYOR WILL NAME CONTROLLER TODAY

2 FANATICS NAMED AS POLICE SLAYERS; Brothers Were on Way to Burn 'Any Church' at Time of the East Harlem Shooting.

INSULL PUT IN JAIL WHEN $200,000 BAIL IS SET AT CHICAGO; He Is Stunned by Amount and Son Says It Is Impossible to Raise Such a Sum. BOOED AS TRAIN PULLS IN Near Collapse as He Threads Way Through Crowd -- Shares Ward With Boy Slayer. INSULL IS JAILED IN BOND DEFAULT

Nazis Free Fault-Finding Editor; Allow the Press Limited Liberty; Welk of Gruene Post, Who Accepted Goebbels's Invitation for Criticism, Is Released From Camp -- New Decree Seeks to End Uniformity of Newspapers. NAZIS FREE EDITOR WHO TURNED CRITIC

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