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November 26, 1940

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NAZIS 'CLOSE' PACT; Hungary, Rumania and Slovakia Said to Make Up 'Second Group' RELIEF VOICED IN SOFIA Decision Is Interpreted as Signifying That Russia Has Withheld Assent Hitler Receives Grandi Relief Is Felt in Sofia Yugoslav "Threats" Cited AXIS PACT 'CLOSED' WITHOUT BULGARIA Russians Confer in Sofia Rome Appears Hopeful BULGARIA SOVIET'S FRIEND Pravda Cites Sofia Assertions That Relations Are Firm Soviet's Hand Held Free

By Unknown Author

Berlin sources say Bulgaria will not join pact

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GREEKS CLOSING IN; Fall of Second Vital Fascist Center in Albania Near PORT OF DURAZZO RAIDED Italian Debarkation Point Is Said to Have Been Damaged --More Prisoners Reported Greeks Reach Tomor Mountains Direct Hits Reported ITALIANS FLEEING, FALL OF BASE NEAR Albanians Give Greeks Aid Italian Retreat Held General Entire Army Seen Endangered ITALIANS 'COUNTER-ATTACK' Rome Also Says That Its Aviation Is Bombing Greek Positions ITALIAN ROUTES HARASSED British in South Adriatic Said to Be Inflicting Heavy Losses Submarine Halts Trawler

By A.c. Sedgwick By Telephone To the New York Times

Greek planes bomb Elbasan and Arygrokastron airdrome

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Notable Births

Enrico Bombieri

1940Enrico Bombieri, Italian mathematician and academic[†]

Enrico Bombieri is an Italian mathematician, known for his work in analytic number theory, Diophantine geometry, complex analysis, and group theory. Bombieri is currently professor emeritus in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Bombieri won the Fields Medal in 1974 for his work on the large sieve and its application to the distribution of prime numbers.

Davey Graham

1940Davey Graham, English guitarist and songwriter (died 2008)[†]

David Michael Gordon "Davey" Graham was a British guitarist and one of the most influential figures in the 1960s British folk revival. He inspired many famous practitioners of the fingerstyle acoustic guitar such as Bert Jansch, Wizz Jones, John Renbourn, Martin Carthy, John Martyn, Paul Simon and Jimmy Page, who based his solo "White Summer" on Graham's "She Moved Through the Fair". Graham is probably best known for his acoustic instrumental "Anji" and for popularizing DADGAD tuning, later widely adopted by acoustic guitarists.

Kotozakura Masakatsu I

1940Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna (died 2007)[†]

Kotozakura Masakatsu was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Kurayoshi, Tottori. He was the sport's 53rd yokozuna. He made his professional debut in 1959, reaching the top division in 1963. After several years at the second highest rank of ōzeki, in 1973 he was promoted to yokozuna at the age of thirty-two years two months, becoming the oldest wrestler to be promoted to yokozuna since 1958, when the current six tournaments system was established. After his retirement he was head coach of Sadogatake stable and produced a string of top division wrestlers.

Quentin Skinner

1940Quentin Skinner, English historian, author, and academic[†]

Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner is a British intellectual historian. He is regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought. He has won numerous prizes for his work, including the Wolfson History Prize in 1979 and the Balzan Prize in 2006. Between 1996 and 2008 he was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. He is the Emeritus Professor of the Humanities and Co-director of The Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London.