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prominent Czechs in Reich arrested as hostages
Runciman leaves Prague for London
Reich to stay hand pending new conf
nominations include R E Baldwin for Gov, J A Danaher for Sen; platform
flight of 23,000 Sudetens to Reich reptd
1938Paul Benedict, American actor (died 2008)[†]
Paul Bernard Benedict was an American actor who made numerous appearances in television and films, beginning in 1965. He was known for his roles as The Number Painter on the PBS children's show Sesame Street and as the English neighbor Harry Bentley on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons.
1938Perry Robinson, American clarinet player and composer (died 2018)[†]
Perry Morris Robinson was an American jazz clarinetist and composer. He was the son of composer Earl Robinson.
1938Bobby Wine, American baseball player and coach[†]
Robert Paul Wine Sr. is an American former shortstop, coach and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). An excellent fielder who struggled as a hitter, Wine spent 12 seasons in the National League with the Philadelphia Phillies and the Montreal Expos (1969–72). He won the NL Gold Glove Award in 1963.
1938Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet and author (born 1901)[†]
Bruno Jasieński was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright, Catastrophist, and leader of the Polish Futurist movement in the interwar period. Jasieński was also a communist activist in Poland, France and the Soviet Union, where he was executed during the Great Purge. He is acclaimed by members of the various modernist art groups as their patron. An annual literary festival Brunonalia is held in Klimontów, Poland, his birthplace, where one of the streets is also named after him.