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March 20, 1938

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SOCIETY ARRANGES ITS SPRING PARTIES; Senior Holiday Dance, Under Direction of Mrs. Huntington Tappin, to Be Held Friday

By Unknown Author

The Easter holiday season, as in years past, will bring to the attention of younger members of society a round of subscription dances, these entertainments in many cases having been arranged to conclude the series begun in the Thanksgiving or Christmas recesses for the diversion of future debutantes and young men at home from college or school for the vacation period.

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Notable Births

1938Sergei Novikov, Russian mathematician and academic, winner of the Fields Medal (died 2024)[†]

Sergei Petrovich Novikov was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, noted for work in both algebraic topology and soliton theory. He became the first Soviet mathematician to receive the Fields Medal in 1970.