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Eisenhower repts new offensive expected to destroy every Ger west of Rhine
Pierre Etchebaster, the world open court tennis champion, and three Navy lieutenant commanders who rank high among the amateurs, joined in a series of exhibitions for the benefit of the American Red Cross at the Racquet and Tennis Club yesterday.
Despite his steady insistence that "manpower and not transportation" is the problem that must be solved by major league baseball this year, President Branch Rickey of the Dodgers yesterday depleted his club's manpower by selling Carden Gillenwater to the Braves.
League Hall of Fame game canceled
1945Mário de Andrade, Brazilian author, poet, and photographer (born 1893)[†]
Mário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. He wrote one of the first and most influential collections of modern Brazilian poetry, Paulicéia Desvairada, published in 1922. He has had considerable influence on modern Brazilian literature, and as a scholar and essayist—he was a pioneer of the field of ethnomusicology—his influence has reached far beyond Brazil.