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1945Sharon Creech, American author and educator[†]
Sharon Creech is an American writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal and the British Carnegie.
1945Mircea Lucescu, Romanian footballer, coach, and manager[†]
Mircea Lucescu is a Romanian professional football manager and former player, currently the head coach of the Romania national team. He is one of the most decorated managers of all time.
1945The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.[†]
The BBC Light Programme was a national radio station which broadcast chiefly mainstream light entertainment and light music from 1945 until 1967, when it was replaced by BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2. It opened on 29 July 1945, taking over the long wave frequency which had earlier been used – prior to the outbreak of the Second World War on 1 September 1939 – by the BBC National Programme.
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US pilots rept waters off Kobe strewn with burning vessels
Westchester County home communities continue to attract new owners. Clarence W. Olcott. vice president of the Robert E. Farley Organization reports a steadily rising interest. Only a shortage of available properties, he says, has prevented a greater increase in the selling volume.
Whitman, W; Portable Walt Whitman
Purchase of a 200-acre estate at Patchogue, L.I., by Allen Properties, a syndicate of building operators, was announced yesterday for a large bungalow and cottage development. The tract was bought from Fenton R. Brydle, founder of the Tylo Roofing Company of Stratford, Conn., and now chairman of the board.
On May 11, 1940, a gray, misty day, Winston Spencer Churchill traveled the half mile from the Admiralty in London to Buckingham Palace on the most momentous errand of his crowded life.
Penthouse studio destroyed by part of wreckage from Empire State Bldg-bomber crash; damage
LARCHMONT, N. Y., July 28-- Thrashing through a wet easterly that uprooted unusual seas for Long Island Sound, 156 craft competed today in the Larchmont Yacht Club's race week program, running the total of starts in seven days to 1,229.
Ct orders refund for lessee under NYC rent control law
The Big Three met at Yalta in February. Yesterday at Potsdam they gathered again. In the five months between, two of the faces had changed. President Roosevelt died in April.
SEABRIGHT, N. J., July 28-- Bill Talbert stroked his way into the final of the Seabright Lawn Tennis and Cricket Club's fiftyseventh annual invitation tennis tournament today. Opposing Sidney B. Wood Jr, of New York, Talbert registered a decisive triumph, 10--8, 6--2.
HOLLY WOOD. HERBERT J. YATES, presi dent of Republic Pictures, stated in an interview that his company will spend be tween $1,500,000 and $2,000,000 on the filming of "Concerto," first in a group of pictures to be produced and directed by Frank Borzage on