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LONDON, Dec. 9 -- Fast-breaking Huddersfield, with only two more matches to be played in the English League North soccer championship, retained a one-point lead today as games throughout the country produced heavy scoring and better than average attendances.
It was an all-losing night for the metropolitan teams at Madison Square Garden as Brooklyn College and Long Island University dropped from the ranks of the unbeaten college basketball squad before 16,422 persons last night. However, neither the Kingsmen nor Blackbirds, toppled respectively by Western Michigan, 58 -- 52, and by Valparaiso, 64-59, lost prestige.
USSR forces describe 60-mi arc around Budapest from Vac to Gardony, Lake Velence; seize Dunaharaszti and Rakociliget, Budapest southern suburbs; Pest isolated; Stalin announces Malinovsky troops 37-mi advance, Danube break-through and Balassagyarmat capture, northern area; orders Moscow salute; reveals 55 gens participate in drive; Vac and Aszod capture cited; troops drive westward between Vacand Balassagyarmat into Boerzsoeny Mts; other Malinovsky units take Szigetszentmiklos, Csepel Is; drive through Ercsi, Rackersztur and Szazhalombatta Station; reach Lake Velence; join Tolbukhin troops 6 mi from Szekesfehervar; USSR and Yugoslav troops cross Danube; take Sotin; Tito repts Zagreb panic; map
Urges army to act to prevent meat shutdowns, NY and NJ
The American Third Army, striking multiple blows into Germany's strategic Saar Valley, was the focus of attention last week in the hard-fought battle of the Reich frontier. For the second time in the great Allied offensive from the west, General Patton's forces were in motion while other Allied armies held the Wehrmacht's largest concentration in a bitter battle of position.
1944Andris Bērziņš, Latvian businessman and politician, 8th President of Latvia[†]
Andris Bērziņš is a Latvian businessman and politician who was President of Latvia from 2011 to 2015. Bērziņš was the President of Unibanka from 1993 to 2004. He was elected as President by the Saeima on 2 June 2011.
1944John Birt, Baron Birt, English businessman[†]
John Birt, Baron Birt is a British television executive and businessman. He is a former Director-General (1992–2000) of the BBC.
1944Steve Renko, American baseball player[†]
Steve Renko, Jr. is a former American right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Montreal Expos (1969–1976), Chicago Cubs (1976–1977), Chicago White Sox (1977), Oakland Athletics (1978), Boston Red Sox (1979–1980), California Angels (1981–1982) and Kansas City Royals (1983).
1944John Brunt, English captain, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1922)[†]
Captain John Henry Cound Brunt, was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.