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1937María Kodama, Argentine writer and translator (died 2023)[†]
María Kodama Schweizer was an Argentine writer and translator. The widow of author Jorge Luis Borges, she was the sole owner of his estate after his death in 1986. Borges had bequeathed to Kodama his rights as author in a will written in 1979, when she was his literary secretary, and bequeathed to her his whole estate in 1985. They were married in 1986, shortly before Borges' death.
1937Sam Hall, American diver, legislator, and mercenary (died 2014)[†]
Samuel "Sam" Wesley Hall was an American Olympic silver medalist diver and politician who served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
1937Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian journalist and author (born 1884)[†]
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin, sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamiatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire.
comments on defeat of Kleinfeld resolution
Suicide; por
N Y S Appeals Ct upholds Feld-Crawford Law, Bourjois Inc case
revealed that Insurgents were informed of Mar Cantabrico's plans by agent in N Y (F T Birchall); officers of 2 Brit destroyers rept vessel, still afloat, was being convoyed to Rebel port; J Boo, sailor, escapes
G Addes, union official, issues statement claiming 95% representation in co's plants
Becomes involved in incident causing disturbance in visitors' gallery of Chamber of Deputies
Plan to padlock Red propaganda sources
M Saraga, former owner of gun, questioned on return from Eur; held without ball as material witness; admits selling guns to Dutch Schultz gang; Schultz gunman sought by Breslin
first CIO city centrals will probably be established in Cleveland and Columbus
Stages sit-down strike in auto in protest against muddy st, Joliet, Ill