On this day
Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
1947Dave Pegg, English bass player and producer[†]
Dave Pegg is an English multi-instrumentalist and record producer, primarily a bass guitarist. He is the longest-serving member of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention and has been bassist with a number of folk and rock groups including the Ian Campbell Folk Group and Jethro Tull.
1947Kate Linder, American actress[†]
Kate Linder is an American actress, best known for her role as Esther Valentine on The Young and the Restless, which she has played since 1982. After appearing in the soap opera for more than 40 years, she is one of the longest serving actors on an American soap opera. Linder received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2008, and was honored at The Hollywood Museum in 2022.
1947In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built until Scaled Composites rolled out their Stratolaunch in May 2017.[†]
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, and investor. He was one of the richest and most influential people in the world during his lifetime. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an important figure in the aviation industry. Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by his worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from a near-fatal plane crash, and increasing deafness.
THIS is Bernard Devoto at his best, and when you have said that, you have said a lot. In fact, you have come pretty near to using the adjective magnificent. As he has proven repeatedly, this author has a passion as strong as a Chinook wind -- as just, and as lucid, as the mountain-clearness of the original American idea.
A period of stabilization of prices, inventories and production volume looms in industry for the next quarter as a result of assurances last week by Irving S. Olds, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, that no consideration had been given to an advance in steel prices, distributors and industrial executives revealed here yesterday.
Dem and Repub leaders predict repeal; pr supporters hopeful of proposition defeat; AVC group to combat Amer Legion action at polls; Mrs F H LaGuardia and Rabbi S S Wise urge repeal, proposition defeat
Assembly session
PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 1 -- Penn's formidable football team would not allow anything resembling last year's upset by Princeton and swept the Tigers before it today with a hard-running gams to win by 26 -- 7.
Green Shirt Shop: hold-up; suspect, R Diaz, captured in Times Sq bus; 2d suspect escapes
Econ Advisers' Council rept to Pres Truman discusses inflation in key industries; cites living costs
Phila loses appeal; near-riot results as meeting is held; 1 arrested; illus; Hollywood group, including 6 recommended for Cong contempt citations, arrives, Phila; statement
Govt expels A M Brandel of NY Times and wife, UP, for allegedly slanderous repts; US intervenes; only 4 Western newsmen reptd left
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Nov. 1 -- Thirty minutes of the most bruising, vicious football witnessed all season, relentless give-and-take pounding that left both sides close to exhaustion, produced two touchdowns for Michigan and one for Illinois today. Thereafter, it appeared, neither possessed the energy for a sustained advance.