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1944Ralph McTell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Ralph McTell is an English singer-songwriter and guitar player who has been an influential figure on the UK folk music scene since the 1960s. McTell is best known for his song "Streets of London" (1969), which has been covered by over two hundred artists around the world.
1944Craig Raine, English poet, author, and playwright[†]
Craig Anthony Raine, FRSL is an English contemporary poet. Along with Christopher Reid, he is a pioneer of Martian poetry, a movement that expresses alienation with the world, society and objects. He was a fellow of New College, Oxford, from 1991 to 2010 and is now emeritus professor. He was the editor of Areté from 1999 to 2020.
1944António Variações, Portuguese musician (died 1984)[†]
António Joaquim Rodrigues Ribeiro, was a Portuguese singer and songwriter. Despite his short-lived career due to his premature death at the age of thirty-nine, using the stage name of António Variações, he became one of the most culturally significant performing artists of recent Portuguese history. His recorded works blended contemporary music genres with traditional Portuguese rhythms and melodies, creating music which for many is symbolic of the liberalization that occurred in Portuguese society after the Carnation Revolution of 1974. The original and provocative nature of his recorded works has led to him being widely recognized as one of the most innovative artists in the recent history of Portuguese popular music.
1944Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.[†]
The Greek Civil War took place from 1946 to 1949. The conflict, which erupted shortly after the end of World War II, consisted of a Communist-led uprising against the established government of the Kingdom of Greece. The rebels declared a people's republic, the Provisional Democratic Government of Greece, which was governed by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and its military branch, the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE). The rebels were supported by Albania and Yugoslavia. With the support of the United Kingdom and the United States, the Greek government forces ultimately prevailed.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2 -- Sgt. Jim Ferrier of the United States Army, former Australian golf champion who took a short furlough just to see the professionals play, fired sensationally long drives and putted like a master today for a par-shattering 66 to take the lead at the halfway mark in the $14,500 San Francisco open golf tournament.
ATHENS, Ga., Dec. 2 -- Georgia Tech's Yellowjackets, stinging with the pent-up fury engendered by going without victory here since 1893, won the Southeastern Conference football title with touchdowns to spare today, defeating Georgia's Bulldogs, 44 to 0, before 28,000 melancholy fans.
Russian officials yesterday gathered at a Moscow railway station to welcome another visitor from the west. Gen. Charles de Gaulle, head of the Provisional Government of France, was arriving on the invitation of Premier Joseph Stalin. For Frenchmen the visit marked another step in the rejuvenation of France as a world power.
US Army officer believes army led by professional soldiers instead of by Hitler
Life dramatized in radio program to aid war bond drive
Germany last week was fighting her most desperate battles of the war. They were the first true battles of the Reich, a fanatical effort to keep the Allied armies from the arsenals of western Germany. The whole front, 450 miles from Switzerland to the Netherlands, was ablaze, but on the approaches to the industrial Ruhr and Saar the fighting was of unprecedented heat.
FRANK CARRINGTON, who, as director of the Paper Mill Playhouse over in Millburn, N.J., makes SHort Hills 7-3000 one of those horrible -- albeit lucrative -- busy signals, has fashioned a book for an operetta. This is something new as far as contemporary Carrington is concerned.
TORONTO, Dec. 2 -- Paced by Nick Metz, Toronto fought its way from behind to a 4-3 victory over the New York Rangers at Maple Leaf Gardens tonight and rose to first place in the National Hockey League standings, one point in front of the idle Montreal Canadiens.
US 9th Army troops win nearly 1/3 of Juelich; occupy Linnich and Leefarth and retake other towns; 1st Army stalled in attempt to break across Inde River; Ger paratroops counter-attack in Gey sector; 3d Army enters Saarlautern at 2 points, following air bombardment of city; holds 14-mi stretch of Saar River; enters Bisten and fights inside Sarre Union; Ger tank forces counter-attack fiercely, re-enter Mackwiller; US 7th Army troops enter Haguenau and Selestat; French win Dollar River bridgehead at Mulhouse; Brit 2d Army reptd pressing against Venlo as rocket-firing Typhoons destroy Ger strong point in factory in Venlo suburbs
US planes bomb rr yds at Coblenz and Bingen
Now thoroughly converted to a belief in the existence of Santa Claus, the Giants are in tip-top shape mentally and physically for today's clash with the Redskins, a game that is of vital importance to both teams, since a defeat for either one will spell disaster in case the Eagles win their two remaining home games with Brooklyn and Cleveland.
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