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1947Dolores "LaLa" Brooks, American pop singer[†]
Dolores Brooks, also known as Sakinah Muhammad or La La Brooks, is an American singer and actress. She is best known as the second lead singer of the girl group The Crystals and the lead vocalist on the Crystals' hits "Then He Kissed Me" and "Da Doo Ron Ron".
1947Bugsy Siegel, American mobster (born 1906)[†]
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was a Jewish-American mobster who was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip. Siegel was influential within the Jewish Mob, along with his childhood friend and fellow gangster Meyer Lansky; the Italian-American Mafia; and the largely Italian-Jewish National Crime Syndicate. Described as "handsome" and "charismatic," Siegel became one of the first front-page celebrity gangsters.
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top Adm source says Truman has decided to veto bill; House vote to override veto and close Sen vote forecast; W S Morris quotes Truman as not listening to labor or business leaders and not wanting to listen to Dems; Dem Natl Com poll shows 103 committeemen favor veto; Sen absenteeism noted; labor groups tour Washington for veto; L Hendeson says bill, as law, will create indus strife and Cong wrangling
SPEED, JET PLANES: AAF P-80R breaks world record at 623.8 mph; hits 632 mph; pilot Col Boyd comments
4 workers go on trial; charges described; denied by men; Sacher charges bd is putting TWU on trial, not men; says other workers resent action
bill approved, 48-38, Sen; bill history and Sen debate revd
Controller Joseph asks funds to add 127 motor patrol cars; O'Dwyer and exec com study request
Govt White Book to contain Kovacs confession and other evidence of alleged conspiracy; Nagy defended by Deputy V Nagy, Assembly
by Sen; Natl Fair Rent Com opposes veto rather than rent decontrol
Brit Sec Bevin and MP A Eden warn of 'oppression' spreading, Commons
rept clears him; charges revd