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Jewish Agency aide claims de facto existence of Jewish State as successor Govt to Brit mandate; describes progress in Jews assumption of adm functions; Brit doubt Jewish State would preclude trusteeship
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., March 21 -- A pessimistic United Nations, its prestige badly shattered by a long record of futile attempts to restore tranquillity to the world, will face one of its most crucial tests here this week.
printers set walkout to protest employers refusal to restore 36 1/4-hr wk; charge lockout; ratify security formula; wage and hr talks fail
With the mercury in the high sixties, thousands of New Yorkers passed yesterday strolling in the park or down broad thoroughfares, until rain came in the late afternoon, driving them back into their homes. It was Palm Sunday as well as the first Sunday of spring.
BERLIN, March 21 -- Berlin was in a state of nervous tension today as the populace waited to see whether the Russians had walked out of the Allied Control Council for good yesterday or only for the week-end. The United States Military Police remained on the alert but the order affected no other troops and was presumably to forestall any possible minor clashes resulting from nerves.
1948Wolf Blitzer, American journalist[†]
Wolf Isaac Blitzer is an American journalist, television news anchor, and author who has been a CNN reporter since 1990, and who currently serves as one of the principal anchors at the network. He has been a host of The Situation Room, now formally known as The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown, since 2005. Since March 2025, Blitzer co-hosts the show with Pamela Brown; previously he served as the network's lead political anchor until 2021 and as the sole host of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer during the show's early evening run between 2005 and 2025.
1948Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer and director[†]
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 21 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass.