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March 14, 1946
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Headlines from March 14, 1946
World News Summarized
RUSSIANS AT KARAJ; Mass Armored Vehicles There With Six Planes at Near-By Airport GHAVAM ADMITS FAILURE Newsmen, in Air Observation, Suggest Sherman Tanks Are Used by Soviet Fourteen Tanks Sighted in Area RED ARMY'S TANKS APPROACH TEHERAN Head for Turkish Border Talks End in Stalemate
speculation
SEES RACE THEORY; Russian Leader Likens Churchill to Hitler for Plea to U.S. SAYS SOVIET CAN WIN WAR Holds Regimes in East Europe More Democratic Than OneParty British Government Likens Churchill to Hitler First Reply to Offer CHURCHILL INCITES WAR, SAYS STALIN
Stalin compares him with Churchill
CHURCHILL PLANS 'IMPORTANT' SPEECH; THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER MEETS THE GOVERNOR
inability to attend NYC dinner for W S Churchill noted
Notable Births
1946Wes Unseld, American basketball player, coach, and manager (died 2020)[โ ]
Westley Sissel Unseld Sr. was an American professional basketball player, coach and executive. He spent his entire National Basketball Association (NBA) career with the Baltimore/Capital/Washington Bullets. Unseld played college basketball for the Louisville Cardinals and was selected with the second overall pick by the Bullets in the 1968 NBA draft. Known as "The Incredible Hulk" and "The Oak Tree" because of his immense physical presence, Unseld was named the NBA Most Valuable Player and NBA Rookie of the Year during his rookie season and joined Wilt Chamberlain as the only two players in NBA history to accomplish the feat. He won an NBA championship with the Bullets in 1978 and the Finals MVP award to go with it.