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greets Abps Spellman and Glennon and Bishop Tien, Shannon airport
Seeks mobile Army generators to maintain milk supply in Duquesne Light Co strike
On Argentina and Amer nations mutual assistance pact
50,000 parade in Allahabad, protesting rations cut and demanding more wheat for bread
agreement reached
1946Richard Blumenthal, American sergeant and politician, 23rd Attorney General of Connecticut[â ]
Richard Blumenthal is an American politician, lawyer, and Marine Corps veteran serving as the senior United States senator from the state of Connecticut, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 1991 to 2011 as the 23rd Connecticut attorney general, from 1984 to 1991 as a member of the Connecticut General Assembly, and from 1977 to 1981 as U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut.
1946Janet Finch, English sociologist and academic[â ]
Dame Janet Valerie Finch DBE, DL, FAcSS is a British sociologist and academic administrator. She was Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Social Relations at Keele University, and has held a number of other public appointments in the UK. She currently holds an honorary position at the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life, based in the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. She is also part of Flooved advisory board.
1946Colin Matthews, English composer and educator[â ]
Colin Matthews, OBE is an English composer of contemporary classical music. Noted for his large-scale orchestral compositions, Matthews is also a prolific arranger of other composer's music, including works by Berlioz, Britten, Dowland, Mahler, Purcell and Schubert. Other arrangements include orchestrations of all Debussy's 24 PrĂ©ludes, both books of Debussy's Images, and two movementsâOiseaux tristes and La vallĂ©e des clochesâfrom Ravel's Miroirs. Having received a doctorate from University of Sussex on the works of Mahler, from 1964â1975 Matthews worked with his brother David Matthews and musicologist Deryck Cooke on completing a performance version of Mahler's Tenth Symphony.