Arlene Martel was an American actress. Before 1964, she was frequently billed as Arline Sax or Arlene Sax. Casting directors, among other Hollywood insiders, called Martel the Chameleon because her appearance and her proficiency with accents and dialects enabled her to portray characters of a wide range of races and ethnicities.

1936Bobby Nichols, American golfer^[†]

Robert Herman Nichols is an American professional golfer, best known for winning the PGA Championship in 1964.

1936Frank Serpico, American-Italian soldier, police officer and lecturer^[†]

Francesco Vincent "Frank" Serpico is an American retired New York City Police Department detective, best known for whistleblowing on police corruption. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was a plainclothes police officer working in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan to expose vice racketeering. In 1967, he reported credible evidence of widespread police corruption, to no effect. In 1970, he contributed to a front-page story in The New York Times on widespread corruption in the NYPD, which drew national attention to the problem. Mayor John V. Lindsay appointed a five-member panel to investigate accusations of police corruption, which became the Knapp Commission.

Headlines from April 14, 1936

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Soviet Urges 8,000 Youths to Be Aviators; Leader Says Best Fliers Will Win Next War

RED GROUP IN WPA STIRS DISCONTENT, RIDDER IS WARNED; City Projects Council, Ruled by Communists, Keeps Workers in Fear, Report Says. TWO-THIRDS FOUND LOYAL Link to Moscow Is Charged -- 'Action' Is Promised When Inquiry Is Completed. RED GROUP IN WPA ACCUSED IN REPORT

MUD ON BED A CLUE IN TITTERTON CASE; Bits Found in Slain Woman's Home Compared With Earth on Shoes of a Suspect. MAN EXAMINED BY POLICE Prisoner, Held in Pistol Case, Also Is Said to Have Been Confronted by Witnesses. MUD ON BED A CLUE IN TITTERTON CASE

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