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Ingersoll, R: Battle Is the Pay-Off
The grouped flags of the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union formed the centerpiece of a round table in Moscow's Spiridonovka House last week. In this one-time residence of a rich merchant, now official guest house of the Soviet Union, the Conference of Foreign Ministers was getting under way.
SWARTHMORE, Pa., Oct. 23 -- Swarthmore crushed an undermanned City College eleven, 79 -- 0, today before a slim crowd of 2,200 at Alumni Field.
When Japan set the pattern for her war of conquest in the Pacific she set also the pattern for her own ultimate defeat. That pattern is one of swift sea-air thrusts that break the way for operations by land forces. These methods gain beachheads or island bases -- footholds for further moves. Rut they impose new problems of supply and the necessity of maintaining local sea and air superiority.
5th Army repulses Ger counter-attack at Alife and occupies ridges north of town; 8th Army captures Lupara; repulses attack at Montecilfone; Allied fliers continue attacks on communications and transport north of Rome; map
1943Bill Dundee, Scottish-American wrestler and manager[†]
William Cruickshanks is an Australian retired professional wrestler and author better known by his ring name Bill Dundee. Cruickshanks is the father of Jamie Dundee and was the father-in-law of wrestler Bobby Eaton.
1943Phil Hawthorne, Australian rugby player and coach (died 1994)[†]
Phillip Francis Hawthorne was an Australian rugby league and rugby union footballer – a dual-code international. He represented the Wallabies in twenty-one Tests and the Kangaroos in three Tests. He captained Australia in rugby league the 3rd Test of the 1970 Ashes series. His mother was killed in a car accident in Newcastle when he was 14.
1943Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (born 1912)[†]
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau was a Canadian poet, writer, letter writer, and essayist, who "was posthumously hailed as a herald of the Quebec literary renaissance of the 1950s". He is mainly recognized for his literary work – in particular, for the only book published during his lifetime, entitled Regards et Jeux dans l'espace, published in 1937 – but he was also a painter. Almost all of his writings are published, without cuts, between 1970 and 2020.