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July 16, 1943

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ROW OVER SCHOOLS GROWS AS MAYOR LETS 2 KEEP JOBS; One Was Barred Earlier at His Order -- Third Appointee of Board Rejected CHEAP TRICK' IS CHARGED Suit Over 'Independence' of School System to Be Pressed -- Educators Indignant MAYOR LETS TWO KEEP SCHOOL JOBS

By Unknown Author

scores bd for Kuper post elimination

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Mubo, New Guinea, Taken; U.S. Destroyer Gwin Lost; MUBO IS CAPTURED; DESTROYER IS LOST JAPANESE SUFFER NEW SETBACKS IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC

By Tillman Durdinby Cable To the New York Times

US-Australian troops take Mubo area; press on to Komiatum; Jap planes raid Allied ground forces in effort to hinder Mubo operations; US planes raid Salamaua area; map

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BISCARI CAPTURED; Americans Fight Way North in Sicily and Take Airdrome BRITISH IN ADVANCE Push Four Miles Beyond Augusta After Crushing Axis Stab to Port AIR BASE CAPTURED BY U.S. IN SICILY

By Herbert L. Matthewsby Wireless To the New York Times

Brit repulse Ger counter-attack against Augusta and advance 4 mi beyond to Brucoli

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OPA to Ask Congress Votes On All Major Ration Plans; Brown Asserts No Program Will Start Until Fund for It Has Been Approved -- WFA Says Civilian Meat Quota Will Stand OPA RATION MOVES TO GO TO CONGRESS

By Charles E. Eganspecial To the New York Times

Admr Brown reveals grade labeling plan dropped

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BROWN URGES END OF 'A' DRIVING CURB; But Ickes Insists Military Needs Still Preclude Pleasure Motoring BROWN URGES END OF 'A' DRIVING CURB

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Brown urges driving ban end; Ickes insists mil needs preclude pleasure driving

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Notable Births

1943Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban-American author, poet, and playwright (died 1990)^[†]

Reinaldo Arenas was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who is known as a vocal critic of Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban government. His memoir of the Cuban dissident movement and of being a political prisoner, Before Night Falls, was dictated after his escape to the United States during the 1980 Mariel boatlift and published posthumously. Arenas, who was dying of AIDS, killed himself in 1990.

1943Vernon Bogdanor, English political scientist and academic^[†]

Sir Vernon Bernard Bogdanor is a British political scientist, historian, and research professor at the Institute for Contemporary British History at King's College London. He is also emeritus professor of politics and government at the University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford.

1943Jimmy Johnson, American football player and coach^[†]

James William Johnson is an American former sports analyst and football coach. Johnson served as a head football coach in the collegiate level from 1979 to 1988 and in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons. He is the first head football coach to win both a college football national championship and a Super Bowl, achieving the former with the University of Miami and the latter with the Dallas Cowboys.

Notable Deaths

1943Saul Raphael Landau, Polish Jewish lawyer, journalist, publicist and Zionist activist (born 1870)^[†]

Saul Raphael Landau was a Polish Jewish lawyer, journalist, publicist and Zionist activist.