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dinner, NYC, opens drive; Lawrence s on NY fund quota and reads Gen Eisenhower message; W W Aldrich s on '43 gifts; other ss noted
situation along Moselle from Nancy to Thionville discussed
1944Steve Beshear, American lawyer and politician, 61st Governor of Kentucky[â ]
Steven Lynn Beshear is an American attorney and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 61st governor of Kentucky from 2007 to 2015. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1974 to 1980, was the state's 44th attorney general from 1980 to 1983, and was the 49th lieutenant governor from 1983 to 1987.
1944Marcus Binney, English historian and author[â ]
Marcus Hugh Crofton Binney is a British architectural historian and author. He is best known for his conservation work regarding Britain's heritage.
1944Fannie Flagg, American actress, comedian, and author[â ]
Fannie Flagg is an American actress, comedian, and author. She is best known as a frequent panelist on the 1973â1982 versions of the game show Match Game and for her 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which she adapted into the script for the 1991 motion picture Fried Green Tomatoes. She was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay adaptation. Flagg lives in California and Alabama.
1944Hamilton Jordan, American politician, 8th White House Chief of Staff (died 2008)[â ]
William Hamilton McWhorter Jordan was an American politician who served as Chief of Staff to President of the United States Jimmy Carter.
1944Bobby Tench, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)[â ]
Robert Tench was a British singer, guitarist, sideman, songwriter and arranger.
1944Alexander Koshetz, Ukrainian choral conductor, arranger, composer (born 1875)[â ]
Alexander Koshetz was a Ukrainian choral conductor, arranger, composer, ethnographer, writer, musicologist, and lecturer. He helped popularize Ukrainian music around the world. His name is sometimes transliterated as Oleksandr Koshyts.
1944Artur Phleps, Romanian general (born 1881)[â ]
Artur Gustav Martin Phleps was an Austro-Hungarian, Romanian and Nazi German army officer who held the rank of SS-ObergruppenfĂźhrer und General der Waffen-SS in the Waffen-SS during World War II. An Austro-Hungarian Army officer before and during World War I, Phleps specialised in mountain warfare and logistics, and had been promoted to Oberstleutnant by the end of the war. During the interwar period he joined the Romanian Army, reaching the rank of General de divizie, and also became an adviser to King Carol. After he spoke out against the government, he was sidelined and asked to be dismissed from the army.