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reference to Pres Roosevelt alleged telephone talk with J A Hartford on proposd loan seen
REDEPLOYMENT AND DEMOBILIZATION: US Army to move troops across US by air for Pacific service
Field Marshal Sir H R L G Alexander apptd Gov Gen; to take office in Spring
DIST LEADER ELECTIONS: Loughlin candidates win 9 leaderships at issue in primary election; 5 incumbent leaders Kennedy, Sullivan, Barry, J H Broderick and H L Bruce and other Loughlin opponents defeated, R B Blaikie majority over Broderick, 7th AD, noted
1945Douglas Osheroff, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Douglas Dean Osheroff is an American physicist known for his work in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular for his co-discovery of superfluidity in Helium-3. For his contributions he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics along with David Lee and Robert C. Richardson. Osheroff is currently the J. G. Jackson and C. J. Wood Professor of Physics, emeritus, at Stanford University.