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1936Shirley Knight, American actress (died 2020)[†]
Shirley Knight Hopkins was an American actress who appeared in more than 50 feature films, television films, television series, and Broadway and Off-Broadway productions in her career, playing leading and character roles. She was a member of the Actors Studio.
1936James Mirrlees, Scottish economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)[†]
Sir James Alexander Mirrlees was a British economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in the 1997 Birthday Honours.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I., July 4. -- Miss Helen Stephens, the Fulton (Mo.) farm girl who is rapidly becoming a second Babe Didrikson in women's track and field circles, continued her habit of winning three events in the national championships on Brown University Field today.
TROY, N.Y., July 4. -- "Uncle Sam," the traditional figure used to symbolize the government, is to have a convention dedicated to his memory.
THIS is really more of a shipnews story. It might also find itself among the "Travel and Resorts," vaguely -- and by inference -- among "Sports" or even more properly allied to the news of doings in the night spots. But the Summer is long and hot, and Broadway is drowsing in the shade.
Before Empire City's largest and most distinguished crowd, form exploded in small pieces yesterday as favorite after favorite went down to defeat, including the three-ply Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt entry in the $9,525 Empire City Handicap where Esposa was the winner.
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The Giants and the Bees entertained a holiday crowd of 35,000 with a noisy fireworks demonstration yesterday at the Polo Grounds, but after the close to five hours of pyrotechnics through two games honors were divided.
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Introduces Roosevelt, Independence Day s, Charlottesville, Va
The staccato beat of the riveter's hammer in various parts of Manhattan is heralding a broad upturn in building operations throughout the city.
THIS is beyond a doubt one of the most remarkable first novels produced by an American writer. It is also one of the best. I would go so far as to say that although it is not the equal in style or in artistic conception of such a first novel as Miss Roberts's "The Time of Man,"