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Plane hits power line in 1st fatal crash; 4 killed, 5 hurt, Daytona Beach, Fla; illus; investigation
strikers rout Duplan non-strikers attempting to organize under Independent Labor Fed of Amer in Hazleton, Pa, City Hall; Fed heads rescued by police; tactics scored by W Neale, co treas; TWOC submits terms to Paterson Silk Comm Mfrs Assn; Silk & Rayon Mfrs Assn meets; Hillman predicts stabilized industry
Confers with other foreign consuls on plans for demilitarization of Shanghai
delay threatened by farm bloc
REPUBLICANS LA GUARDIA TICKET For Mayor-Fiorello H. La Guardia. For Controller-Joseph D. McGoldrick. For President of the CouncilNewbold Morris. For District Attorney--Irving Ben Cooper.
1937Anna Massey, English actress (died 2011)[†]
Anna Raymond Massey was an English actress. She won a BAFTA Best Actress Award for the role of Edith Hope in the 1986 TV adaptation of Anita Brookner's novel Hotel du Lac, a role that one of her co-stars, Julia McKenzie, has said "could have been written for her". Massey is also well known for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972) as a barmaid who becomes involved with a suspected killer. She performed over one hundred character roles in British film and television. On the stage, in 1982, Massey won the Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a Supporting Role for The Importance of Being Earnest and was nominated for the Award for Actress of the Year in a New Play for Summer.
1937Patrick Joseph McGovern, American businessman, founded International Data Group (died 2014)[†]
Patrick Joseph McGovern Jr. was an American businessman, and chairman and founder of International Data Group (IDG), the company with subsidiaries in technology publishing, research, event management and venture capital.
1937Edith Wharton, American novelist and short story writer (born 1862)[†]
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.