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Time, it has often been proved in the past, means nothing when the Dodgers and the Braves come to grips and so, when they clashed again at Ebbets Field yesterday, it was not altogether surprising that the crowd of 7,079 fans, only 3,389 of whom paid, had to sit by and await overtime developments.
Two months ago last night the French section of Hitler's Atlantic Wall was quiet except for the passage of Allied bombers overhead. In the east, along the vast front curving from the Baltic through White Russia to Rumania, the lull of several weeks remained unbroken.
Canadian Losses: Allied hdqrs rept on losses, Normandy, June-July 20
1944Inday Badiday, Filipino journalist and actress (died 2003)[†]
Maria Lourdes Jimenez Carvajal, popularly known as Inday Badiday, was a Filipino TV host and journalist who was known as Philippine television's "queen of showbiz talk shows" and "queen of intrigues".
1944Michael Mingos, English chemist and academic[†]
David Michael Patrick Mingos is a British chemist and academic. He was Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 1999 to 2009, and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford.
1944Martin Wharton, English bishop[†]
John Martin Wharton, is a British Anglican bishop, a retired Bishop of Newcastle.