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MacArthur favors treaty initiation now; holds UN could be protector and admr after occupation troops withdraw, press conf; Jap reaction
Estimate Bd to consider all plans; city operation seen favored; Mayor would create separate Aviation Dept
US seizes heroin worth $1,147,500 on board, NYC; 2 crew members held for smuggling
Sup Ct upholds Civil Service Comm authority to dismiss employes suspected of Communist sympathies or activities by declining to rev M Friedman case
1947Patrick Barlow, English actor and playwright[†]
Evan George Patrick Barlow is an English actor, comedian and playwright. His comedic alter ego, Desmond Olivier Dingle, is the founder, artistic director and chief executive of the two-man National Theatre of Brent, which has performed on stage, on television and on radio. Barlow was born in Leicester.
1947Patrick Chesnais, French actor, director, and screenwriter[†]
Patrick Chesnais is a French actor, film director and screenwriter.
1947David Lloyd, English cricketer, journalist, and sportscaster[†]
David Lloyd is an English former cricket player, umpire, coach and commentator, who played county cricket for Lancashire County Cricket Club and Test and One Day International cricket for the English cricket team. He also played semi-professional football for Accrington Stanley. He is known through the cricketing world as Bumble due to the ostensible similarity between his facial profile and those of the Bumblies, characters from Michael Bentine's children's television programmes.
1947B. J. Wilson, English rock drummer (died 1990)[†]
Barrie James "B. J." Wilson was an English rock drummer. He was best known as a member of Procol Harum for the majority of their original career from 1967 to 1977.
1947William C. Durant, American businessman, co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet (born 1861)[†]
William Crapo Durant was an American businessman. A leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry, he was the founder of General Motors and co-founder of Chevrolet. He created a system in which a company held multiple brands – each seemingly independent, with different automobile lines – bound under a unified corporate holding company. He also founded Frigidaire.