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1935Maurício de Sousa, Brazilian journalist and cartoonist[†]
Mauricio Araújo de Sousa, known artistically as Mauricio de Sousa or mononymously just as Mauricio, is a Brazilian cartoonist and businessman who has created over 200 characters for his popular series of children's comic books named Turma da Mônica.
1935Charlie Tagawa, Japanese-American banjo player and educator (died 2017)[†]
Charlie Tagawa was a Japanese-born American musical entertainer and banjoist. In a music career spanning seven decades, he was regarded as one of the best contemporary four-string banjo players. He performed regularly across the U.S. and in Japan, where he was known professionally as "Japan's Harry Reser". A 2003 inductee into the National Four-String Banjo Hall of Fame, Tagawa often performed as the headline act at banjo jazz festivals and shows. He was also the international goodwill ambassador for the Peninsula Banjo Band.
1935Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver (born 1897)[†]
Ernest Arthur Douglas Eldridge was a British racing driver who broke the world land speed record in 1924. His was the last land speed record set on an open road.
Neolithic relics found in Himalayas, Kashmir
If ever Jockey Sammy Renick won a race by dint of keen intelligence and powerful driving, it was in the Yorktown Handicap at Empire City yesterday when he got home first with Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Good Harvest. Another big crowd of 12,000 saw a thrilling finish, with Good Harvest outlasting Spanish Way by a head.
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Might have surpassed white men in culture, says R P Bolton
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 26. -- The all-conquering march of one of the pluckiest and most brilliantly armed football teams to wear the Blue ran head on into one of the great lines of the season today and Yale's high hopes for an unbeaten campaign were dashed to earth with its fourth successive defeat by Army. The score was 14 -- 8.
Sec Hull sends reply to League note; affirms U S intention to exert moral influence for peace within limitations of policies previously defined, but to avoid foreign entanglements and involvement in war; no commitments made; liberty of action reserved; Ital and Geneva reaction
Animal Hero Day celebrated; T Hannaberry, ASPCA driver, awarded statuette for heroic rescues
ITHACA, N.Y., Oct. 26. -- Princeton established a new high in its twenty-four-game series with Cornell by scoring almost at will today against the ill-fated Red team. While 10,000 looked on from the crescent stand at Schoellkopf Field, the Tigers registered eight touchdowns and converted for six additional points, making the final score 54 to 0.
Plans for 25th annual clinical cong
Carrying red banners and vivid placards, more than 15,000 members of organizations ranging from churches to Communist groups paraded in a demonstration against war yesterday afternoon from lower Harlem to Central Park West and Sixty-third Street, where they held a mass meeting under the windows of residents who had protested against the parade.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (AP). -- Edwin H. Barker, chairman of the Asbury Park bondholders committee of New York, testified before the Securities and Exchange Commission today that the committee's agreement with its depositors of bonds permitted it to borrow money on the bonds in its trust in order to pay the compensation of the three members of the committee.