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NOTRE DAME, Ind., Oct. 6. -- The Longhorns of the University of Texas, led by the brilliant Bohn Hilliard, stampeded through Elmer Layden's first Notre Dame team today for a 7-to-6 intersectional victory before 33,000 fans. A brisk north breeze played havoc with kicks, and fumbles led to the scores of both teams.
Los Angeles Times repts organized campaign in Southern Cal, among navy men and students
IT was a pretty gloomy week-end seven days ago in London, with the withdrawal of three plays for which better things had been hoped. Hermann Bahr's "Josephine" quit His Majesty's after a scant five evenings, a costly failure in which Mary Ellis was involved as the title player and Frank Vosper as the title player's husband.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 6. -- A tall, slender right-handed pitcher, bearing a close resemblance to the celebrated two Deans, tried to pass himself off today as a third one, but an alert and very much aroused array of Tigers would have none of it.
1934Amiri Baraka, American poet, playwright, and academic (died 2014)[†]
Amiri Baraka, previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University. He received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone. Baraka's plays, poetry, and essays have been described by scholars as constituting defining texts for African-American culture.
1934Ulrike Meinhof, German far-left terrorist, co-founder of the Red Army Faction, journalist (died 1976)[†]
Ulrike Marie Meinhof was a German left-wing militant, journalist and founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in West Germany, commonly referred to in the press as the "Baader-Meinhof gang". She is the reputed author of The Urban Guerilla Concept (1971). The manifesto acknowledges the RAF's "roots in the history of the student movement"; condemns "reformism" as "a brake on the anti-capitalist struggle"; and invokes Mao Zedong to define "armed struggle" as "the highest form of Marxism-Leninism".
1934Willie Naulls, American basketball player (died 2018)[†]
William Dean Naulls was an American professional basketball player for 10 years in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was a four-time NBA All-Star with the New York Knicks and won three NBA championships with the Boston Celtics.
1934Julian Thompson, English general and historian[†]
Major-General Julian Howard Atherden Thompson, is a military historian and former Royal Marines officer who commanded 3 Commando Brigade during the Falklands War.