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May 22, 1938

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RESERVISTS CALLED; Cabinet Acts Decisively on News of German Army Concentrations MOVES ON EVE OF VOTING Terrorism Curbed as Henlein Backers Are Surprised--Their Chief Is in Berlin Czechoslovakia Calls Men Two Sudeten Germans Killed CZECHS PUT 400,000 NEAR REICH BORDER British Exert Pressure Avoids Formal Mobilizing Germans Respond to Call Officials Hail Move Reich Radio Stresses Killingss Heleinists Issue Communique Hopes to Avoid War Czechs Are Indignant

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Govt calls reserves, Germans respond

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Notable Births

Richard Benjamin

1938Richard Benjamin, American actor and director[†]

Richard Samuel Benjamin is an American actor and director. He has starred in a number of well-known films, including Goodbye, Columbus (1969), Catch-22 (1970), Portnoy's Complaint (1972), Westworld, The Last of Sheila and Saturday the 14th (1981). In 1968, Benjamin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance on the CBS sitcom He & She, which aired from 1967-1968. In 1976, Benjamin received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture for his performance as aged vaudevillian Willy Clark's comedically long-suffering nephew, confidante and talent agent, Ben Clark, in Herbert Ross' The Sunshine Boys (1975), based on Neil Simon's 1972 hit stage play of the same name.

Susan Strasberg

1938Susan Strasberg, American actress (died 1999)[†]

Susan Elizabeth Strasberg was an American stage, film, and television actress. Thought to be the next Hepburn-type ingenue, she was nominated for a Tony Award at age 18, playing the title role in The Diary of Anne Frank. She appeared on the covers of LIFE and Newsweek in 1955. A close friend of Marilyn Monroe, she wrote two best-selling tell-all books. Her later career primarily consisted of slasher and horror films, followed by TV roles, by the 1980s.

Notable Deaths

William Glackens

1938William Glackens, American painter and illustrator (born 1870)[†]

William James Glackens was an American realist painter and one of the founders of the Ashcan School, which rejected the formal boundaries of artistic beauty laid down by the conservative National Academy of Design. He is also known for his work in helping Albert C. Barnes to acquire the European paintings that form the nucleus of the famed Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. His dark-hued, vibrantly painted street scenes and depictions of daily life in pre-WW I New York and Paris first established his reputation as a major artist. His later work was brighter in tone and showed the strong influence of Renoir. During much of his career as a painter, Glackens also worked as an illustrator for newspapers and magazines in Philadelphia and New York City.