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Roosevelt to send message to Cong asking 8-mo 1941 fund; House members comment
Gibson told showmen he played violin in burlesque show as boy
World War veterans freed from fighting for duty on home front
pickets City Hall in protest against educ budget
1940Joseph L. Goldstein, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Joseph Leonard Goldstein ForMemRS is an American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1985, along with fellow University of Texas Southwestern researcher, Michael Brown, for their studies regarding cholesterol. They discovered that human cells have low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors that remove cholesterol from the blood and that when LDL receptors are not present in sufficient numbers, individuals develop hypercholesterolemia and become at risk for cholesterol related diseases, notably coronary heart disease. Their studies led to the development of statin drugs.
1940Mike Vickers, English guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter[†]
Michael Graham Vickers is an English musician who came to prominence as the guitarist, flautist, and saxophonist with the 1960s band Manfred Mann.