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Devonshire; nearly strikes Bellerophon, Alexandria
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Former Mayor James J. Walker, returning to New York aboard the United States liner Manhattan today after a three-year absence abroad, will be met at Quarantine by more than one hundred friends who "knew him when."
1935Dale Brown, American basketball player and coach[โ ]
Dale Duward Brown is an American former college basketball coach. He was the head coach of the LSU Tigers for 25 years, and his teams earned Final Four appearances in 1981 and 1986. Brown is also remembered as one of the most vocal critics of the NCAA, saying it "legislated against human dignity and practiced monumental hypocrisy."
1935Ronald Graham, American mathematician and theorist (died 2020)[โ ]
Ronald Lewis Graham was an American mathematician credited by the American Mathematical Society as "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years". He was president of both the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, and his honors included the Leroy P. Steele Prize for lifetime achievement and election to the National Academy of Sciences.
1935David Harvey, English-American geographer and academic[โ ]
David William Harvey is a British-American academic best known for Marxist analyses that focus on urban geography as well as the economy more broadly. He is a Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Harvey has authored many books and essays that have been prominent in the development of modern geography as a discipline. He is a proponent of the idea of the right to the city.