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1,500 N Y children approve test radio program
Yale retains title by defeating Annapolis
reaches 233 mph in trial; freak accident marks dash
HAVING submitted Clifford Odets's "Awake and Sing!" the Group Theatre has skipped over a couple of other matters and simply nominated Mr. Odets as its No. 1 playwright. The next step is this: some time this month, in a theatre away from Broadway, a twin bill will offer "Waiting for Lefty," Mr. Odets's acclaimed one-act play about the taxi strike; and with it another oneacter by the same author, an anti-Nazi work entitled "Paradise Lost."
1935Mal Anderson, Australian tennis player[†]
Malcolm James Anderson is an Australian former tennis player who was active from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. He won the singles title at the 1957 U.S. National Championships and achieved his highest amateur ranking of No. 2 in 1957. He became a professional after the 1958 season and won the Wembley World Professional Tennis Championships in the 1959 season. In the Open Era, he was runner-up at the 1972 Australian Open.
1935Michael Walzer, American philosopher and academic[†]
Michael Laban Walzer is an American political theorist and public intellectual. A professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, he is editor emeritus of the left-wing magazine Dissent, which he has been affiliated with since his years as an undergraduate at Brandeis University, an advisory editor of the Jewish journal Fathom, and sits on the editorial board of the Jewish Review of Books.
1935Zhelyu Zhelev, Bulgarian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of Bulgaria (died 2015)[†]
Zhelyu Mitev Zhelev was a Bulgarian politician and former dissident who served as the first democratically elected and non-Communist President of Bulgaria, from 1990 to 1997. Zhelev was one of the most prominent figures of the 1989 Bulgarian Revolution, which ended the 35 year rule of President Todor Zhivkov. A member of the Union of Democratic Forces, he was elected as President by the 7th Grand National Assembly. Two years later, he won Bulgaria's first direct presidential elections. He lost his party's nomination for his 1996 reelection campaign after losing a tough primary race to Petar Stoyanov.