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NYC and NJ official to rept on stockpiles
World War II veterans among miners barred from unemployment benefit provisions of GI Bill of Rights
US MILITARY: planes taking part in US Navy Antarctic expedition described
Mex Pres Aleman reaffirms stand for hemisphere unity and good-neighbor policy
Reptd booed at NYC Polo Grounds as he viewed football game
1946John Banks, New Zealand businessman and politician, 38th Mayor of Auckland City[†]
John Archibald Banks is a New Zealand former politician. He was a member of Parliament for the National Party from 1981 to 1999, and for ACT New Zealand from 2011 to 2014. He was a Cabinet Minister from 1990 to 1996 and 2011 to 2013. He left Parliament after being convicted of filing a false electoral return – a verdict which was later overturned.
1946David Macaulay, English-American author and illustrator[†]
David Macaulay is a British-born American illustrator and writer. His works include Cathedral (1973), The Way Things Work (1988), and its updated revisions The New Way Things Work (1998) and The Way Things Work Now (2016). His illustrations have been featured in nonfiction books combining text and illustrations explaining architecture, design, and engineering, and he has written a number of children's fiction books.
1946Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, founded Versace (died 1997)[†]
Giovanni Maria "Gianni" Versace was an Italian fashion designer and businessman. He was the founder of Versace, an international luxury-fashion house that produces accessories, fragrances, make-up, home furnishings and clothes. He also designed costumes for theatre and films. As a friend of Eric Clapton, Princess Diana, Whitney Houston, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Madonna, Elton John, Tupac Shakur, Joan Collins and many other celebrities, he was one of the first designers to link fashion to the music world. He and his partner Antonio D'Amico were regulars on the international party scene. The place where he was born and raised, Reggio di Calabria, greatly influenced his career.