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USSR-bound convo??? revealed defended against Ger attack by Brit destroyers pending Brit cruisers arrival off Norway; Capt Sherbrooke's leadership cited; Brit cruiser damaged; destroyer lost; convoy arrives safely
roasters rept acute NYC shortage despite rationing; cite total US stocks; NYS Retail Food Merchants Assn comments on problem
A J Altmeyer, in Soc Security Bulletin, holds Roosevelt expanded program anti-inflationary; Pres notes pol opposition in Cong, says forthcoming special message will be factual
USSR forces take 20 points, including Zimovniki, lower Don River; menace Georgievsk; retreating Gers from Grozny reptd imperiled; USSR chides Ger for effort to conceal from pub true status of forces; Ger defense stiffens, Rostov; new USSR air formations in campaign revealed; Gers rept strong USSR attacks repulsed, Caucasus, Don and northwest of Stalingrad; map
1943Robert Drewe, Australian author and playwright[†]
Robert Duncan Drewe is an Australian novelist, non-fiction and short story writer.
1943Elmer MacFadyen, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2007)[†]
Elmer Eric MacFadyen was a Canadian politician. He represented Sherwood-Hillsborough in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1996 to 2007 as a Progressive Conservative member.
1943Scott Walker, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (died 2019)[†]
Noel Scott Engel, better known by his stage name Scott Walker, was an American-British singer-songwriter and record producer who resided in England. Walker was known for his emotive voice and his unorthodox stylistic path which took him from being a teen pop icon in the 1960s to an avant-garde musician from the 1990s to his death. Walker's success was largely in the United Kingdom, where he achieved fame as a member of pop trio the Walker Brothers, who scored several hit singles, including two number ones, during the mid-1960s, while his first four solo albums reached the top ten during the later part of the decade, with the second, Scott 2, reaching number one in 1968. He lived in the UK from 1965 onward and became a UK citizen in 1970.