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June 6, 1943
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Headlines from June 6, 1943
AN EAGLE CALLED "THE SWOOSE"; QUEENS DIE PROUDLY. By W.L. White. 273 pp. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. $2.50.
White, W L; Queens Die Proudly
COUNT FLEET FIRST BY THIRTY LENGTHS IN $50,090 BELMONT; 1-20 Favorite Clips Record for Race as He Earns $35,340 for $250,300 Total
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THE BAT OF THE THEATRE; Being an Interview With the Producer of The Pulitzer Play
CHAOS is the key to Michael Myerberg. With it he can make not only order but money. Without it he is the bat of the theatre, equally capable of soaring with idealists or plodding with business men; a creature of the dramatic twilight, always in search of strange morsels.
Notable Births

1943Richard Smalley, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate in 1996 for chemistry (died 2005)[โ ]
Richard Errett Smalley was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University. In 1996, along with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs. He was an advocate of nanotechnology and its applications.