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January 14, 1944

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FRENCH WIN PEAKS IN CASSINO REGION; Put Squeeze on Acquafondata and Viticuso -- Outskirts of Rome Reported Bombed

By Milton Bracker

US forces enter Cervaro and occupy Mt Capraro; 5th Army French units under Gen Juin recapture 2 peaks in Cassino region; new Allied line described; Rome radio repts Allies bombed city outskirts and hit homes; claims 3 planes downed; roads and bridges around Arce bombed; RAF bombs Perugia airfield; Brit destroyers again shell Adriatic coast; map

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Notable Births

1944Marjoe Gortner, American actor and evangelist[†]

Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner is an American former evangelist preacher and actor. He first gained public attention during the late 1940s when his parents arranged for him to be ordained as a preacher at age four due to his extraordinary speaking ability, making him the youngest known in that position to this day. As a young man, he preached on the revival circuit and brought celebrity to the revival movement.

1944Graham Marsh, Australian golfer and architect[†]

Graham Vivian Marsh MBE is an Australian golfer. In 1968, Marsh turned pro and won several tournaments on the Australasian circuits early in his career. He joined the PGA Tour in the mid-1970s and won the 1977 Heritage Classic. However, he elected to focus the remainder of his career overseas, ultimately winning ten times on the European Tour and twenty times on the Japan Golf Tour. As a senior, he continued with much success on the Champions Tour, winning two senior majors, including the U.S. Senior Open.

Nina Totenberg

1944Nina Totenberg, American journalist[†]

Nina Totenberg is an American legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) focusing primarily on the Supreme Court of the United States. Her reports air regularly on NPR's news magazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. From 1992 to 2013, she was also a panelist on the syndicated TV political commentary show Inside Washington.

Notable Deaths

Mehmet Emin Yurdakul

1944Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Turkish author and politician (born 1869)[†]

Mehmet Emin Yurdakul was a Turkish nationalist writer, poet and politician. Being an ideologue of Pan-Turkism, his writings and poems had a major impact on defining the term vatan (Fatherland).