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1946Alan Bleasdale, English screenwriter and producer[†]
Alan George Bleasdale is an English screenwriter, best known for social realist drama serials based on the lives of ordinary people. A former teacher, he has written for radio, stage and screen, and has also written novels. Bleasdale's plays typically represented a more realistic, contemporary depiction of life in Liverpool than was usually seen in the media.
1946Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (born 1875)[†]
Gilbert Newton Lewis was an American physical chemist and a dean of the college of chemistry at University of California, Berkeley. Lewis was best known for his discovery of the covalent bond and his concept of electron pairs; his Lewis dot structures and other contributions to valence bond theory have shaped modern theories of chemical bonding. Lewis successfully contributed to chemical thermodynamics, photochemistry, and isotope separation, and is also known for his concept of acids and bases. Lewis also researched on relativity and quantum physics, and in 1926 he coined the term "photon" for the smallest unit of radiant energy.
Sec Byrnes to represent US in UN Security Council depact; Churchill warns that UN Security Council must bate on USSR issue; USSR repr Amb Gromyko conf with Pres Truman; no details; GB to fight USSR attempt to delay council debate
to represent US in UN Security Council debate on Iran
membership denied
MONTREAL, March 22--Fred Rose, Labor Progressive Member of Canada's Parliament, and Sam Carr, national organizer of the Labor Progressive party, were "recruiting agents" in a Russian organization of agents in Canada, a former code clerk in the Soviet Embassy at Ottawa asserted today.
Amer Veterans Com members invade Real Estate Bd of NY offices asking shelter
Truman postpones test for 6 wks; heavy legis program which would keep Cong members from attending given as reason, White House statement; speculation on other reasons; Groves and Sen McMahon comments; Maj Gen McAuliffe describes plans for testing Army equipment
House com group presses 9-mo extension as compromise plan; Patterson asserts Eisenhower agrees on yr's extension; hints Army approval of limiting induction to men 18-25 inclusive
pickets clash with police who succeed in escorting W R Hoyt and D Roof into factory; entrance of W P Munson barred; Baldwin warns of drastic action
Stalin says fear of conflict is caused by propagandists; asserts no nations want war
Addes urges creation of 12 million dollar internatl strike fund; cites operating deficits and assets, rept to conv delegates; conv to open; Reuther says he will announce candidacy at caucus if requested
Sen com seeks Cong authority in armaments sales following cosideration of future use