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April 25, 1943

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Battle of Tunisia

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Princeton Defeats Penn Crew by Two Feet On Schuylkill, With Rutgers Home Third; PRINCETON'S CREW WINNER BY 2 FEET

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

PHILADELPHIA, April 24 -- Battling against a strong head wind and rough water, Princeton's varsity crew won its second straight race of the season today by beating Pennsylvania and Rutgers in the opening of the Red and Blue's sixty-ninth rowing campaign on the Schuylkill.

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SHORTAGE OF MEAT GROWS ACUTE HERE; Already Worse Than a Month Ago, Chains Say -- Agencies Seek to Fix Responsibility SHORTAGE OF MEAT GROWS ACUTE HERE

By Jefferson G. Bell

OPA announces ceilings enforcement; repts dealer warnings and summonses on violations; Schwartz repts Butter and Egg Merchants Assn injunction proceedings against city prosecutions

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Japanese Justice'

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On April 18, 1942, sixteen American bombers were over Japan. They had taken off from the deck of the carrier Hornet, 800 miles off the coast, and flown in to strike at armament works, railroad yards, dockyards and oil refineries. Last week the story of what had happened to the eighty men in the crews was released.

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1943Tony Christie, English singer-songwriter and actor^[†]

Anthony Fitzgerald, known professionally as Tony Christie, is an English musician and singer. He is best known for his recording of "(Is This the Way to) Amarillo", a double UK chart success.

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1943Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian director, producer, and playwright (born 1858)^[†]

Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko was a Soviet and Russian theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer and theatre administrator, who founded the Moscow Art Theatre with his colleague, Konstantin Stanislavski, in 1898.

Headlines from April 25, 1943

Battle of Tunisia

Princeton Defeats Penn Crew by Two Feet On Schuylkill, With Rutgers Home Third; PRINCETON'S CREW WINNER BY 2 FEET

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SHORTAGE OF MEAT GROWS ACUTE HERE; Already Worse Than a Month Ago, Chains Say -- Agencies Seek to Fix Responsibility SHORTAGE OF MEAT GROWS ACUTE HERE

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