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CHICAGO, March 13 -- Major league hitters today envisioned improved averages after a three-man committee voted to put the "jack rabbit" back into the standard baseball.
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On the plains of Russia the Red Army last week continued its grim endeavors. Its aim, as always, was to sap the strength of Adolf Hitler's war machine. Its successes were no longer being measured in vast stretches of regained territory. In places it battled desperately to hold what it had won.
CALIFORNIA is taking a cruel revenge upon Chicago. As if in retaliation for the city's steadfast rejection of all plays which depend upon Hollywood stars or acting, California has fastened upon the midland metropolis two sun-born dramas that threaten to be everlasting.
1943Anita Morris, American actress and singer (died 1994)[†]
Anita Rose Morris was an American actress, singer and dancer. She began her career performing in Broadway musicals, including Jesus Christ Superstar, Seesaw and Nine, for which she received a Tony Award nomination.
1943The Holocaust: The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed.[†]
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were committed primarily through mass shootings across Eastern Europe and poison gas chambers in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Chełmno in occupied Poland. Separate Nazi persecutions killed millions of other non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs); the term Holocaust is sometimes used to include the murder and persecution of non-Jewish groups.