Stocks drifted aimlessly yesterday in one of the dullest sessions of the year on the New York Stock Exchange and closed steady and mixed. Sales there totaled 160,260 shares, compared with 140,540 in the previous week-end market, and 420 different issues were traded.

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1941Rudolf Adler, Czech filmmaker: 88^[†]

Rudolf Adler is a Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue.

1941Uta Frith, German developmental psychologist^[†]

Dame Uta Frith is a German-British developmental psychologist and emeritus professor in cognitive development at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London (UCL). She pioneered much of the current research into autism and dyslexia. Her book Autism: Explaining the Enigma introduced the cognitive neuroscience of autism. She is credited with creating the Sally–Anne test along with fellow scientists Alan Leslie and Simon Baron-Cohen. Among students she has mentored are Tony Attwood, Maggie Snowling, Simon Baron-Cohen and Francesca Happé.

1941Vladimir Voronin, Moldovan economist and politician, 3rd President of Moldova^[†]

Vladimir Voronin is a Moldovan politician. He was the third President of Moldova from 2001 until 2009 and has been the leader of the Party of Communists of Moldova (PCRM) since 1994. He was Europe's first democratically elected communist party head of state after the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc.

Headlines from May 25, 1941

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THE EAST GOES WEST; A Tenderfoot Gets Tough Riding a Dude Range Not Far From City

ISLAND BATTLE HOT; Parachutists Continue to Drop to Join Fight for Maleme Airport BRITISH BOMB NAZIS Desperate Effort Made to Block Seizure of Candia, Crete's Best Port FIGHT FOR MALEME ON CRETE GOES ON

SPREAD OF STRIKE NOW THREATENING 12TH COAST YARD; Signing of Master Pact Puts Western Pipe and Steel in Peril of a Walkout UNION'S COURSE IN DOUBT Its Agents Are on Way to the Capital -- Bethlehem Talks on Separate Accord Deadlocked STRIKE THREATENS 12TH COAST YARD

FINANCIAL MARKETS; Stocks Slightly Lower on Day but Trifle Higher on Week; No Final Discernible Trend

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