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Greek-Yugoslav Incident: Yugoslav Govt charges violation of frontier by Greek plane; Greek Govt says plane was shot down; Yugoslavs intern pilot
TERRITORIAL CLAIMS: Min Gruber reaches compromise agreement with Ital Premier on S Tyrol; plan to be submitted to Paris Peace Conf and Foreign Mins Council; provides that Austrian pub in area are to get regional autonomy and minority privileges
Ukrainian rept on Greek-Albanian crisis read at Security Council hearing for amusement value
UNRRA dir LaGuardia and 2 other UNRRA delegates comment on refusal to load ship; stevedores still fail to appear
1946Willie Crawford, American baseball player (died 2004)[†]
Willie Murphy Crawford was an American professional baseball outfielder. He played in the major leagues with the Los Angeles Dodgers (1964–1975), St. Louis Cardinals (1976), Houston Astros (1977) and Oakland Athletics (1977). Crawford was born in Los Angeles, California. He batted and threw left-handed, and was the father of UCLA football player Willie Crawford who graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1988.
1946Joe Klein, American journalist and author[†]
Joe Klein is an American political commentator and author. He is best known for his work as a columnist for Time magazine and his novel Primary Colors, an anonymously written roman à clef portraying Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. Klein was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. In April 2006 he published Politics Lost, a book on what he calls the "pollster–consultant industrial complex." He has also written articles and book reviews for The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Life, and Rolling Stone.
1946Suzyn Waldman, American sportscaster[†]
Suzyn Waldman is an American sportscaster and former musical theater actress. Since the 2005 season, she has been the color commentator for New York Yankees baseball, working with John Sterling, Justin Shackil and Dave Sims on radio broadcasts, first for WCBS-AM and currently for WFAN in New York City.