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Wallander augments night patrols, orders manpower survey; police repts
Mayor-elect O'Dwyer announces Stebbins reapptmt to serve until July, '46; por
collective bargaining com splits on disputes settlement policy; labor and mgt delegates file separate repts with Taylor; jurisdiction com difference noted; speculation on govt intervention; unions oppose legis
suggests UNO Assembly name atomic energy control comm; refers to Washington conf; says only scientists can explain difference between bomb mfg secrecy and research, press conf
Sen rejects adm proposal to delay return to States; strikes out Fed policing power clause; approves return within 120 days
1945Vincent Di Fate, American artist[â ]
Vincent Di Fate is an American artist specializing in science fiction, fantasy and realistic space art illustration. He was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011.
1945Goldie Hawn, American actress, singer, and producer[â ]
Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress, producer, dancer, and singer. She achieved stardom and acclaim for playing lighthearted comedic roles in film and television. In a career spanning six decades, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
1945Robert Benchley, American humorist, newspaper columnist, and actor (born 1889)[â ]
Robert Charles Benchley was an American humorist, newspaper columnist and actor. From his beginnings at The Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University, through his many years writing essays and articles for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and his acclaimed short films, Benchley's style of humor brought him respect and success during his life, from his peers at the Algonquin Round Table in New York City to contemporaries in the burgeoning film industry.
1945Al Davis, American boxer (born 1920)[â ]
Al "Bummy" Davis, born Albert Abraham Davidoff, was an American lightweight and welterweight boxer who fought from 1937 to 1945. He was a serious contender, and a world ranked boxer in both weight classes.
1945Ellen Glasgow, American author (born 1873)[â ]
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel In This Our Life. She published 20 novels, as well as short stories, to critical acclaim. A lifelong Virginian, Glasgow portrayed the changing world of the contemporary South in a realistic manner, differing from the idealistic escapism that characterized Southern literature after Reconstruction.
1945Alexander Patch, American general (born 1889)[â ]
Alexander McCarrell Patch was a senior United States Army officer who fought in both world wars, rising to rank of general. During World War II, he commanded U.S. Army and Marine Corps forces during the Guadalcanal campaign in the Pacific, and the Seventh Army on the Western Front in Europe.
1945The United Auto Workers strike 92 General Motors plants in 50 cities to back up worker demands for a 30-percent raise.[â ]
From November 21, 1945, to March 13, 1946, CIO's United Automobile Workers (UAW), organized "320,000 hourly workers" to form a nationwide strike against General Motors, workers used the tactic of the sit down strike. It was "the longest strike against a major manufacturer" that the UAW had yet seen, and it was also "the longest national GM strike in its history".