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organized Jap resistance ends, Sanananda area; Allies gain entire Papuan peninsula control; illus
Montgomery order to troops sets Tripoli fall as goal
Family joins him in Stockholm
bootleg bands reptd making new recordings in ban defiance; E E Oberstein, distributor, refuses to reveal recordings origin
Navy cargo plane, 6 aboard, missing; reptd found near Flagstaff
1943Gary Burton, American musician[â ]
Gary Burton is an American retired jazz vibraphonist, composer, and educator. Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the prevailing two-mallet technique. This approach caused him to be heralded as an innovator, and his sound and technique are widely imitated. He is also known for pioneering jazz fusion and popularizing the duet format in jazz, as well as being a major figure in music education from his 30 years teaching at the Berklee College of Music.
1943Gil Gerard, American actor[â ]
Gil Gerard is an American actor, whose roles include Captain William "Buck" Rogers in the 1979â81 television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
1943Ăzhan Canaydın, Turkish basketball player and businessman (died 2010)[â ]
Ăzhan Canaydın was a businessman, basketballer and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray.
1943Alexander Woollcott, American actor, playwright, and critic (born 1887)[â ]
Alexander Humphreys Woollcott was an American drama critic for The New York Times and the New York Herald, critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine, a member of the Algonquin Round Table, an occasional actor and playwright, and a prominent radio personality.
1943World War II: Troops of the British Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the GermanâItalian Panzer Army.[â ]
The Eighth Army was a field army of the British Army during the Second World War. It was formed as the Western Army on 10 September 1941, in Egypt, before being renamed the Army of the Nile and then the Eighth Army on 26 September. It was created to better control the growing Allied force based in Egypt and to direct its efforts to lift the siege of Tobruk via Operation Crusader.