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HERE are a few items -- and diverse they are -- about musical shows: Ernest Cossart will leave the cast of "Mary of Scotland," which goes touring, in order to have a part in "The Great Waltz," opening at the Center Theatre a week from Saturday night.
GLENS FALLS, N.Y., Sept. 8. -- Two marvelous 68s in the closing rounds of the Glens Falls Open Golf tourney enabled Paul Runyan, the National P.G.A. champion, to finish the 72-hole test with a score of 280 and tie Ky Laffoon, the Denver sensation.
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1934Nicholas Liverpool, Dominican lawyer and politician, 6th President of Dominica (died 2015)[†]
Nicholas Joseph Orville Liverpool was a politician and jurist from Dominica who served as the sixth President of Dominica from 2 October 2003 to 17 September 2012.
1934Sonia Sanchez, American poet, playwright, and activist[†]
Sonia Sanchez is an American poet, writer, and professor. She was a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement and has written over a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books. In the 1960s, Sanchez released poems in periodicals targeted towards African-American audiences, and published her debut collection, Homecoming, in 1969. In 1993, she received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and in 2001 was awarded the Robert Frost Medal for her contributions to the canon of American poetry. She has been influential to other African-American poets, including Krista Franklin. Sanchez is a member of The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective.
1934Roger Fry, English painter and critic (born 1866)[†]
Roger Eliot Fry was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism. He was an early figure to raise public awareness of modern art in Britain, and he emphasised the formal properties of paintings over the "associated ideas" conjured in the viewer by their representational content. He was described by the art historian Kenneth Clark as "incomparably the greatest influence on taste since Ruskin ... In so far as taste can be changed by one man, it was changed by Roger Fry". The taste Fry influenced was primarily that of the Anglophone world, and his success lay largely in alerting an educated public to a compelling version of recent artistic developments of the Parisian avant-garde.