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LaGuardia to sponsor city-wide celebration for opening; organizes business men's com; to participate in Times Sq clean-up drive
testimony on over-40 employment problem cited
Maj Gen Carton de Wiart says action is only starting
denies von Ribbentrop allegation of Allied invasion plans
J D Rockefeller Jr gives 1,200-acre site near Alpine, N J, to N Y and North Bergen County Council; wk-end camps planned
1940George Adams, American musician (died 1992)[†]
George Rufus Adams was an American jazz musician who played tenor saxophone, flute and bass clarinet. He is best known for his work with Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Roy Haynes and in the quartet he co-led with pianist Don Pullen, featuring bassist Cameron Brown and drummer Dannie Richmond. He was also known for his idiosyncratic singing.
1940Peter Diamond, American economist[†]
Peter Arthur Diamond is an American economist known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy and his work as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010, along with Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides. He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On June 6, 2011, he withdrew his nomination to serve on the Federal Reserve's board of governors, citing intractable Republican opposition for 14 months.