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Brownout; voluntary curbs on st and display ad lighting as conservation measure announced, NYC
Roosevelt urges early Cong action on Fed educ program in message accompanying com on post-war educ for service personnel rept; endorses over-all recommendations
hearing; 4 jurists testify as character witnesses for Aurelio; Aurelio again testifies; weeps in denying he asked Costello aid or knew record; tells of seeking LaGuardia aid; questioned on telephone conversation; LaGuardia testifies on Aurelio attempt to have J Capozzoli apptd magistrate to clear way for own nomination
Lausanne Gazette correspondent discusses pub pessimism and effect of bombardments on Ger people; OWI tells of Ger High Command order to officers to have comforting talks with soldiers going to and from bombed areas
1943Jimmy McRae, Scottish race car driver[†]
James Steele McRae is a Scottish former rally driver. He was highly successful in the British Rally Championship, winning the title a record five times in 1981, 1982, 1984, 1987 and 1988 which as of 2023 still stands. In the European Rally Championship for drivers, he was runner-up in 1982, while his highest placing in the World Rally Championship was fifteenth in 1983. McRae runs a plumbing business in his home town of Lanark. He and his wife Margaret had three sons, Colin, Alister and Stuart. Both Colin and Alister were World Rally Championship drivers, with Colin winning the world championship in 1995. McRae's brother-in-law Hugh "Shug" Steele is also a former rally driver.
1943Karalyn Patterson, English psychologist and academic[†]
Karalyn Eve Patterson is a British psychologist in Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. She is a specialist in cognitive neuropsychology and an Emeritus Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.