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October 28, 1937

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DEFENSE IMPROVED; Withdrawal Had Been Long Urged by Experts of Other Countries

By Hallett Abend

On Shanghai front, Chinese take up stronger position from Liuho south to Soochow Creek and along south bank of creek; map; T V Soong on retreat to new line; Japanese claim capture of Little Nansiang; Amer and Brit guards tell of prisoners killed by Japanese; refugees from Jessfield and Chenju areas flock to Internatl Settlement; 6 div under Gen Li Ping-hsien reptd to have fought on Tachang and Nansiang fronts; plight of wounded described; Amer Red Cross sends tetanus anti-toxin: Chinese suicide detachment refuses to surrender on border between Chapei sector and Internatl Settlement

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Graham Bond

1937Graham Bond, English keyboard player, singer, and saxophonist (died 1974)[†]

Graham John Clifton Bond was an English rock/blues musician and vocalist, considered a founding father of the English rhythm and blues boom of the 1960s.

Lenny Wilkens

1937Lenny Wilkens, American basketball player and coach[†]

Leonard Randolph Wilkens is an American former professional basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been inducted three times into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, first in 1989 as a player, as a coach in 1998, and in 2010 as part of the 1992 United States Olympic "Dream Team" for which he was an assistant coach. In 1996, Wilkens was named to the NBA 50th Anniversary Team, and in 2021 he was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. In addition, in 2022 he was also named to the list of the 15 Greatest Coaches in NBA History, being the only person to be in both NBA 75th season celebration lists, as a player and as a coach. He is also a 2006 inductee into the College Basketball Hall of Fame.