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survivors arrive, Westover Field, Mass; survivor Lt V Arnett and Cavnar accts; illus
Bevin, in s opening Commons debate, charges US pol wrecked possibility of solution of differences between Arabs and Jews, citing Truman Oct '46 plea for 100,000 Jews admission, made during US pol campaign; recalls he tried to stop statement but was told Dewey planned similar one; revs Brit mandate adm; still hopes for settlement; criticizes Jewish Agency; Col O Stanley leads attack on Bevin s; scores Govt tactics
conf with Sec Marshall on Conf; approves J F Dulles apptmt to Marshall delegation
election; E R Carr named pres
1947Sandie Shaw, English singer and psychotherapist[†]
Sandra Ann Goodrich, known professionally as Sandie Shaw, is a retired English pop singer. One of the most successful British female singers of the 1960s, she had three UK number one singles with "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" (1964), "Long Live Love" (1965) and "Puppet on a String" (1967). With the latter, she became the first British entry to win the Eurovision Song Contest. She was seen as epitomising the Swinging Sixties and was often described as "the barefoot pop princess of the 1960s". She returned to the UK Top 40, for the first time in 15 years, with her 1984 cover of the Smiths song "Hand in Glove". Shaw retired from the music industry in 2013.
1947Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (born 1868)[†]
Heinrich Häberlin was a Swiss politician, judge and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1920–1934).