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1948Jesper Christensen, Danish actor, director, and producer[†]
Jesper Christensen is a Danish actor. A veteran of European cinema, he has made the transition to English language projects, including The Interpreter and Revelations. He has also appeared as the mysterious villain Mr. White in the James Bond films Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, and Spectre.
1948Judy Finnigan, English talk show host and author[†]
Judith Adele Finnigan is an English television presenter and writer. She co-presented ITV's This Morning and the Channel 4 chat show, Richard & Judy (2001–2008) alongside her husband Richard Madeley. Her debut novel Eloise, published in 2012, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Her second novel, I Do Not Sleep, was published in 2015.
1948Enrico Fumia, Italian automobile and product designer[†]
Enrico Fumia is an Italian automobile and product designer. He is widely known for his work with the car design firm Pininfarina, helping to design and package a new sports car version of the Alfa Romeo, which included front-wheel drive and traversely-mounted engines. Today he runs Fumia Design Studio.
1948Jimmy Hood, Scottish engineer and politician (died 2017)[†]
James Hood was a Scottish Labour Party politician, who served as a Member of Parliament from 1987 until being defeated in 2015. He represented the Clydesdale constituency until 2005, and the Lanark and Hamilton East constituency thereafter. Hood, a National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) trade union official during the miners' strike of 1984–85, remained a backbencher throughout his parliamentary career.
1948Emma Georgina Rothschild, English historian and academic[†]
Emma Georgina Rothschild is an English economic historian, a professor of history at Harvard University. She is director of the Joint Centre for History and Economics at Harvard, and an honorary Professor of History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. She formerly served as board member of United Nations Foundation and as a professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris.
1948Staf Van Roosbroeck, Belgian cyclist[†]
Gustaf Van Roosbroeck is a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer who competed in the 1970s.
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Saturday attendance record set, Yankee Stadium
The stock market was swamped again yesterday by an avalanche of buying orders reminiscent of public participation in the boiling sessions of 1929. The fresh increase in prices, which came on top of the rapid climb of Friday, proved more tempered, however, with gains limited to 1 to 2 points.
More collective bargaining seen as outgrowth of Inland Steel case
St Paul Union Stockyards Co lifts ban on shipments imposed at start of meat strike violence
Although plainly disappointed by the Treasury's refusal last week to advance the basic interest-rate pattern, bankers here continued to hope that some adjustment would be provided at the next opportunity. Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder, in making the announcement, it was pointed out, explained that "at an appropriate time" the Treasury might make a change, and, according to the bankers, this seems to indicate that "the door is still open."
Play's the Thing, by F Molnar: Molnar article on revival
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 15 -- By a fraction over a second Harvard's varsity eight got home ahead of Yale to prevent an Eli sweep in the championship regatta of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges on the Charles River Basin today.
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Ballet Ballads, by J Latouche and J Moross: comment
Not a Dodger reached third base yesterday at Ebbets Field as Warren Spahn pitched the Braves to a 1-0, 4-hit victory over the home club. So superb was the southpaw's mound work that none in the gathering of 14,569 could dispute his right to his second triumph of the campaign.
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