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BASEBALL The Giants swept a double bill with the Phils, 7 -- 1 and 5 -- 3, at the Polo Grounds yesterday to stay in first place, while the Dodgers lost twice to the Braves, 6 -- 3, 3 -- 0, dropping to fourth. The Yankees were blanked by the Athletics, 1 -- 0 and 4 -- 0.
world-wide tributes to US war dead described
CAB inquiry begins
casualty list
Friends and kin of the victims of the United Airlines DC-4 crash at La Guardia Field on Thursday night identified their dead yesterday with extraordinary emotional control. Their task made easier by an efficient police plan, they moved quickly through the morgue at Queens General Hospital in Jamaica.
1947Junior Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer[†]
Junior Campbell is a Scottish composer, songwriter and musician. He was a founding member, lead guitarist, pianist, and singer with the Scottish band Marmalade and co-wrote and produced some of their biggest successes, including "Reflections of My Life", "I See the Rain" and "Rainbow".
1947Gabriele Hinzmann, German discus thrower[†]
Gabriele Hinzmann is a German former track and field athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw, such as at the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where she competed for East Germany and won the bronze medal.
1947Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.[†]
Ferenc Nagy was a Hungarian politician of the Smallholders Party who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1946 until his forced resignation in 1947. He was also a Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary and a member of the High National Council from 1945 to 1946. Nagy was the second democratically elected prime minister of Hungary, and would be the last until 1990 not to be a Communist or fellow traveler. The subsequent Hungarian prime minister Imre Nagy was unrelated to him.