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Interdepartmental com on reserve components named by Sec Forrestal; directed to study Natl Guard-Organized Reserve merger feasibility; to study ending State rule over Guard; Maj Gen Vaughan article on merger recalled
Truman stresses link with domestic prices
USSR reptd to have ordered liquidation of all opposition by Dec 1
com meets
O'Dwyer urges transit fare rise
1947Bob Anderson, English darts player[†]
Robert Charles Anderson is an English former professional darts player who won the 1988 BDO World Darts Championship. Nicknamed The Limestone Cowboy, He was the World No. 1 player for over three years in the late 1980s.
1947Rebecca Eaton, American television producer[†]
Rebecca Eaton is an American television producer and film producer best known for introducing American audiences to British costume and countryside dramas as executive producer of the PBS Masterpiece series.
1947Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese baseball player and coach[†]
Yutaka Fukumoto is a retired Japanese professional baseball player in Nippon Professional Baseball. An aggressive lead-off man and superior defensive centerfielder, he holds the Japanese career records in triples and stolen bases. He also hit more lead-off home runs than anyone in Japanese history, with 43. In 2002, Fukumoto was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.
1947Ron Leavitt, American screenwriter and producer (died 2008)[†]
Ronald Leavitt was an American television writer and producer. He was the co-creator of the American television show Married... with Children. The show's 259 episodes over 11 seasons made it the second-longest lasting sitcom on the Fox network.
1947Sondhi Limthongkul, Thai journalist and politician[†]
Sondhi Limthongkul is a Thai media proprietor, conspiracy theorist, pro-Beijing anti-democracy reactionary activist, demagogue, and leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD). In 2009, he was elected leader of the New Politics Party (NPP).
1947K. Natesa Iyer, Indian-Sri Lankan journalist and politician (born 1887)[†]
Kothandarama Natesa Iyer or S. K. Natesa Iyer was a Sri Lankan journalist, trade union leader and politician of Indian Tamil origin, had pioneered the labour movement in the plantations in the early 1930s.