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Cong reaction; George, Murray and others seek Cong, not exec, lead in planning
The decision of the Army to abandon its specialized training program in most colleges will not open the way to formal athletic competition in the local institutions that have been associated with the project, it was indicated yesterday.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 19 -- Coward and Dupuy's 8-year-old gelding Marriage won the $25,000 added New Orleans Handicap at the Fair Grounds today, beating William Helis' Rounders by a nose.
1944Robert de Cotret, Canadian economist and politician, 56th Secretary of State for Canada (died 1999)[†]
Jean Robert René de Cotret was a Canadian economist and politician.
1944Lew Soloff, American trumpet player, composer, and actor (died 2015)[†]
Lewis Michael Soloff was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and actor. He was a founding member of the band Blood, Sweat & Tears.
1944Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer and coach[†]
Willem "Wim" van Hanegem is a Dutch former football player and coach who played as a midfielder. In a playing career spanning over 20 years, he won several domestic honours in the Netherlands, as well as both the European Cup and UEFA Cup with Feyenoord. He was also part of the Dutch national team that were runners-up in the 1974 FIFA World Cup.
1944World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.[†]
Operation Argument, after the war dubbed Big Week, was a sequence of raids by the United States Army Air Forces and RAF Bomber Command from 20 to 25 February 1944, as part of the Combined Bomber Offensive against Nazi Germany. The objective of Operation Argument was to destroy aircraft factories in central and southern Germany in order to defeat the Luftwaffe before the Normandy landings during Operation Overlord were to take place later in 1944.
1944World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Atoll.[†]
Enewetak Atoll is a large coral atoll of 40 islands in the Pacific Ocean and with its 296 people forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands. With a land area total less than 5.85 square kilometers (2.26 sq mi), it is no higher than 5 meters (16.4 ft) and surrounds a deep central lagoon, 80 kilometers (50 mi) in circumference. It is the second-westernmost atoll of the Ralik Chain and is 305 kilometers (190 mi) west from Bikini Atoll.