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hearing; FCC suspends limited commercial operation; RCA scored for sales drive; D Sarnoff comments
Teleki arrives, Rome; Ital circles see Allied position weakened in Balkans because of French Cabinet crisis and Finnish-USSR peace terms; Ital press supports German denials of pressure on Rumania; Hungarian press and observers stress friendship with Italy
Legis Repubs rept amended Moffat-Coudert bill; power to tax cigarettes and gen fund diversion right dropped; Moffat and Coudert comment
Reles reveals murders; expects leniency; M Golob and F Abbandando charged with J Murtha's murder; both identified by F Nestfield; murders of Y Miller and S Goldstein, revealed; bodies reptd in Sullivan County; O'Dwyer's and Reles' pors
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1940Bob Mackie, American fashion designer[â ]
Robert Gordon Mackie is an American fashion designer and costumier, best known for his dressing of numerous entertainment personalities for television, movies, concerts, and live stage shows. He was the costume designer for all of the performers on The Carol Burnett Show during its entire eleven-year run, and the creator of memorable ensembles for Cher and Elton John.
1940Ădouard Branly, French physicist and academic (born 1844)[â ]
Ădouard EugĂšne DĂ©sirĂ© Branly was a French physicist and inventor known for his early involvement in wireless telegraphy and his invention of the coherer in 1890.