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October 29, 1944

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Headlines from October 29, 1944

WAR ON TWO SCREEN FRONTS

By Bosley Crowther

THE caustic criticism of Hollywood's war films which civilized Elliot Paul wrote in the columns of this newspaper a couple of Sundays ago was a little bit more reproachful than a working critic's comments might be -and possibly a little more bitter than the evidence would safely support.

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OF MAMA WHO RUNS THE FAMILY

By Lewis Nichols

ALTHOUGH the temptation may be strong at the moment it is perhaps not strictly fair to say the American theatre consists of John van Druten. The American theatre also includes "Oklahoma!" No one can reasonably deny, however, that Mr. van Druten is doing as well as may be expected of an author who can be in only two places at once.

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Notable Births

1944Claude Brochu, Canadian businessman[†]

Claude Brochu, CM, is a Canadian businessman best known as former president and principal owner of the Montreal Expos.

Mehmet Haberal

1944Mehmet Haberal, Turkish surgeon and academic[†]

Mehmet Haberal, is the founder of Başkent University in Ankara, Turkey, best known for becoming the first transplant surgeon in Turkey after leading the team that performed Turkey's first living-related kidney transplant in 1975, after he returned from surgical training under the mentorship of American surgeon Thomas Starzl, with whom he also performed some of the longest surviving early liver transplantations.

Denny Laine

1944Denny Laine, English singer-songwriter and musician (died 2023)[†]

Brian Frederick Hines, known professionally as Denny Laine, was an English musician who co-founded two major rock bands: the Moody Blues and Wings. Laine played guitar in the Moody Blues from 1964 to 1966 and sang their hit cover version of "Go Now". Laine befriended Paul McCartney of the Beatles, who later asked him to join his band Wings.

Robbie van Leeuwen

1944Robbie van Leeuwen, Dutch musician and songwriter[†]

Robbie van Leeuwen is a Dutch musician who was a guitarist, sitarist, background vocalist and main songwriter for multiple Dutch bands, including The Motions and Shocking Blue, with whom he recorded the worldwide hit "Venus". In 1967, he played guitar on the only single ever released by "The Six Young Riders" titled "Let the Circle Be Unbroken". As of January 2023, he is the only surviving member of Shocking Blue's best known four-piece lineup.

Historical Events

Breda

1944The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.[†]

Breda is a city and municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant. The name derived from brede Aa and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. Breda has 185,072 inhabitants on 13 September 2022 and is part of the Brabantse Stedenrij; it is the tenth largest city/municipality in the country, and the third largest in North Brabant after Eindhoven and Tilburg. It is equidistant from Rotterdam and Antwerp.

World War II

1944World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.[†]

World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.