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FORT WORTH, Texas, April 3 -- The Dodgers won their seventeenth game today with Rex Barney going nine innings and striking out nine men, but it took them two hours and forty minutes to beat the Ft. Worth Cats, Brooklyn farm team, 5 -- 3.
Private utilities expected fight against TVA bldg steam-generating plant, Johnsonville, discussed
JUST what can be done about it this department isn't sure, but the way the Broadway talk was going last week it is becoming clear that the plethora of prizes infecting the theatre at this season of the year is becoming a bit of a bore -- putting it as euphemistically as a family newspaper will permit.
G N Nelson on cut effect on risk capital
1948Abdullah Öcalan, Turkish activist[†]
Abdullah Öcalan, also known as Apo, is a founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
1948Berry Oakley, American bass player (died 1972)[†]
Raymond Berry Oakley III was an American bassist and one of the founding members of the Allman Brothers Band. Known for his long, melodic bass runs, he was ranked number 46 on Bass Player magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Bass Players of All Time". He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Allman Brothers Band in 1995.
1948Richard Parsons, American lawyer and businessman (died 2024)[†]
Richard Dean Parsons was an American business executive, notably the chairman of Citigroup and the chairman and CEO of Time Warner. He had also been the interim CEO of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the interim chairman of the board for CBS.
1948Dan Simmons, American author[†]
Dan Simmons is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works that span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-intermingling Song of Kali (1985) won the World Fantasy Award. He also writes mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz.
1948Derek Thompson, Northern Irish actor[†]
Derek Thompson is a British actor and former singer. His credits include Gonks Go Beat (1965), Yanks (1979), Breaking Glass (1980), The Long Good Friday (1980), The Gentle Touch (1980–1982), Brookside (1983), Wild Geese II (1985), Resurrection Man (1998), Holby City (2012) and Blue Lights (2024).
1948Pick Withers, English drummer[†]
David "Pick" Withers is an English drummer. He was the original drummer of the rock band Dire Straits and played on their first four albums, which included hit singles such as "Sultans of Swing", "Romeo and Juliet" and "Private Investigations". Withers was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Dire Straits in 2018.