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Sen Bilbo offers bill to establish 2 mil and naval acads
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Germans claim USSR forces split, 1 group attempting escape by Kerch, the other by Sevastopol
cites Helsinki's failure to reply
1941Kafi Benz, American conservationist, environmentalist, historic preservationist, author, artist, community leader[†]
Kafi Benz is an American author and artist who began participation in social entrepreneurship through environmental preservation and regional planning in 1959 as a member of the Jersey Jetport Site Association, which opposed plans by the New York Port Authority to found a new airport in the Great Swamp, the central feature of a massive 55-square-mile watershed in New Jersey bounded to the south and east by the Watchung Mountains, 30 miles west of Manhattan.
1941Lyndall Gordon, South African-English author and academic[†]
Lyndall Gordon is a British-based biographical and former academic writer, known for her literary biographies. She is a senior research fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford.