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March 17, 1935

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Fred T. Mackenzie

1935Fred T. Mackenzie, American biologist and academic (died 2024)[โ€ ]

Frederick T. Mackenzie was an American sedimentary and global biogeochemist. Mackenzie applied experimental and field data coupled to a sound theoretical framework to the solution of geological, geochemical, and oceanographic problems at various time and space scales.

Adam Wade (singer)

1935Adam Wade, American singer, drummer, and actor (died 2022)[โ€ ]

Patrick Henry "Adam" Wade was an American singer, musician, and actor.

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On June 28, 1919, Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles. In the Hall of Mirrors, Hermann Mueller, the chief German representative, in the presence of Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George. Georges Clemenceau and hundreds of dignitaries of the victorious powers, but his pen to the document which symbolized a disarmed, dismembered and defeated Germany.

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LEHIGH TEAM KEEPS LEAGUE MAT CROWN; Scores 23 Points and Takes Title Fifth Year in Row as Scobey and Ashman Win.

By Kingsley Childs

PHILADELPHIA, March 16. -- Two Eastern individual crowns apiece went to three colleges, Lehigh, Penn State and Columbia, tonight as Lehigh clinched the Eastern intercollegiate wrestling association team title for the fifth straight year in the final session of the thirty-first annual competition at University of Pennsylvania's palestra.

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NEWS AND GOSSIP OF BROADWAY; Young Mr. Cooper and a Play That Will Bloom in the Spring -- What? More Plans for Katharine Hepburn?

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AT this point in the far-gone season, when it is so quiet that you can hear a play drop, any brand-new project is bound to be breakfast-table news of a sort. This morning's brand-new one, certified, is "Do-Re-Me," a comedy by Alladine Bell, which Irving Cooper will place in rehearsal this week under the direction of Anton Bundsmann.

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