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Ranger wins
Whalen withdraws in favor of Mahoney; Tammany denounced; Copeland comments; reprs of Jewish organizations organize to make Mahoney sole Dem candidate
rept on proposed budget for 1938 and 1st 6 mos of 1939
com scraps 70c-35-hr plan and Wheeler-Johnson bill; adopts 7 amendments proposed by Green; other changes; final draft approved
Bronx Repubs designate D H Grieve; Ingersoll Repub petitions circulate, Bklyn
1937Herb Brooks, American ice hockey player and coach (died 2003)[†]
Herbert Paul Brooks was an American ice hockey player and coach. His most notable achievement came in 1980 as head coach of the gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic team at Lake Placid. At the Games, Brooks' American team upset the heavily favored Soviet team in a match that came to be known as the "Miracle on Ice."
1937Brian G. Marsden, English-American astronomer and academic (died 2010)[†]
Brian Geoffrey Marsden was a British astronomer and the longtime director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.