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Deputy Min Gromyko offers to support Ital bid if others back Bulgarian, Finnish, Hungarian and Rumanian bids, Security Council session; Brit, US and Australian delegates criticize stand; other nations line-ups noted
arbitrator awards Triboro Coach Co and Green Bus Lines' Motor Coach Employes union members 7Âą hrly pay rise; award discussed
Called model for Pres Truman by USSR press
1947Lucius Allen, American basketball player[â ]
Lucius Oliver Allen Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He is one of only a select few players to have won at least one high school state championship, collegiate national championship, and NBA championship.
1947Lynn Anderson, American singer and actress (died 2015)[â ]
Lynn René Anderson was an American country singer and television personality. Her crossover signature recording, "Rose Garden", was a number one hit internationally. She also charted five number one and 18 top-ten singles on the Billboard country songs chart. Anderson is regarded as one of country music's most significant performers.
1947Philippe Lavil, French singer and actor[â ]
Philippe Lavil, pseudonym of Philippe Durand de La Villejégu du Fresnay, is a French singer. He remained particularly famous for his hits singles "Il tape sur des bambous", "Elle préfÚre l'amour en mer" and "Kolé séré", a duet with Jocelyne Béroard. He was also member of Les Enfoirés in 1996, 1997 and 1998.
1947Dick Roth, American swimmer[â ]
Richard William Roth is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in two events.
1947Hugh Lofting, English-American author and poet (born 1886)[â ]
Hugh John Lofting was an English-American writer, trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children's literature character Doctor Dolittle. The fictional physician talking to animals, based in an English village, first appeared in illustrated letters to his children which Lofting sent from British Army trenches in the First World War. Lofting settled in the United States soon after the war and before his first book was published.