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Another overflow week-end crowd of 38,571 saw the Sunshine Stable's reliable 3-year-old gelding, Buzfuz, and the Belair Stud's Apache stage a thrilling duel in the twenty-sixth running of the $12,050 Scarsdale Handicap, mile and seventy-yard feature for 3year-olds and upward on the Empire City card at Jamaica yesterday.
George D. Busher and William E. Boyland, retiring president and president-elect, respectively, of the Real Estate Board of the Bronx, will be installed at a dinner of the board to be held Nov. 14 at the Concourse Plaza Hotel.
Illus of Navy Day crowd listening to Pres Truman, Sheep Meadow
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In the seventy-five days since World War II ended, disputes and rising tensions have been threatening the Big Three unity established during the war. Amid the danger of new national rivalries Washington has been looked to for leadership in peace. Many Americans have raised anew the question: what is America's foreign policy?
1945Sandy Berger, American lawyer and politician, 19th United States National Security Advisor (died 2015)[†]
Samuel Richard "Sandy" Berger was a Democratic attorney who served as the 18th US National Security Advisor for U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001 after he had served as the Deputy National Security Advisor for the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1997.
1945Wayne Fontana, English pop singer (died 2020)[†]
Glyn Geoffrey Ellis, known professionally as Wayne Fontana, was an English rock and pop singer best known for fronting the beat group the Mindbenders, with whom he recorded the hit singles "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um" (1964) and "The Game of Love" (1965). After leaving the Mindbenders to pursue a solo career, Fontana had further UK successes including "Pamela Pamela" (1966). Despite legal issues in the 2000s, he continued to perform on the 60s nostalgia circuit until his death.
1945Don Iverson, American golfer[†]
Donald Iverson is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1970s.
1945Kesago Nakajima, Japanese general (born 1881)[†]
Kesago Nakajima was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese forces under Nakajima's command committed the 1937 Nanjing Massacre.