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November 16, 1941

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Headlines from November 16, 1941

WINDSWEPT. By Mary Ellen Chase. 440 pp. New York: The Macmillan Co. $2.75.; Mary Ellen Chase

By Katherine Woods

HOUSE and headland, Windswept stood solitary and stalwart against the buffeting of gales and ocean, on the bold eastward-pressing coast of Maine. Philip Marston bought the untouched stretch of shore and wilderness in 1880 and planned the house for his son and himself; and young John Marston built the long, low dwelling on the little promontory seventy feet above the sea and lived there as his father had dreamed.

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PETERS TIGER STAR; Princeton Captain Goes In With Yale Ahead, Sets Victory Pace

By Robert F. Kelley

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 15 -- Robert L. Peters Jr. of the Kingsport, Tenn., Peterses, came back from the hospital today and Princeton suddenly blossomed into a football team. By the time the Tiger captain had finished an exhibition of running, passing, kicking and tackling, with his teammates rising to the chance with him, the men of Nassau had mastered Yale's eleven and taken the sixty-fifth game of the series, 20 to 6.

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Notable Births

Angelo Gilardino

1941Angelo Gilardino, Italian guitarist, composer, and musicologist (died 2022)[†]

Angelo Gilardino was an Italian composer, guitarist, and musicologist.

1941Gerry Marshall, English race car driver (died 2005)[†]

Gerald Dallas Royston Marshall was a British racing driver. He was commonly referred to by the nickname Big Gerry. According to a 2002 edition of Motor Sport Magazine poll, he was one of the best drivers of all time. According to the 28 August 2019 edition of Motorsport News, he is the United Kingdom's number one British motorsport hero. He was awarded the BARC Gold Medal in 2002, the first saloon car driver to be presented with the honour and was a life member of the prestigious BRDC. He took 625 overall and class wins and countless championship wins throughout his motor racing career.

1941Dan Penn, American singer-songwriter and producer[†]

Dan Penn is an American songwriter, singer, musician, and record producer, who co-wrote many soul hits of the 1960s, including "The Dark End of the Street" and "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" with Chips Moman and "Cry Like a Baby" with Spooner Oldham. Penn also produced many hits, including "The Letter", by The Box Tops. He has been described as a white soul and blue-eyed soul singer. Penn has released relatively few records featuring his own vocals and musicianship, preferring the relative anonymity of songwriting and producing. Dan Penn produced an album on Ronnie Milsap in 1970 on Warner Bros.

Notable Deaths

Eduard Eelma

1941Eduard Eelma, Estonian footballer (born 1902)[†]

Eduard Eelma until 1937 Eduard-Vilhelm Ellmann, was an Estonian footballer — one of the most famous before World War II. He played 60 times for Estonia national football team and with 21 goals, was their record goalscorer during the country's first period of independence.

Miina Härma

1941Miina Härma, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (born 1864)[†]

Miina Härma was an Estonian composer. She was the second Estonian musician with higher education.