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Six weeks after his arrest for gauging payments of $2,000 to $4,000 each from eleven war-veteran doctors seeking professional apartments in Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, Meyer Greenwald, former tenant selector, started yesterday to serve a City Prison term up to three years.
USSR seen closing Elbe bridge at Magdeburg, Ger, for repairs without providing detour
Comr Mustard warns Mayor O'Dwyer on need for disposal plants; O'Dwyer expected to seek funds
again denounces power interests, Seattle s
Sec Symington repts rocket-propelled Bell XS-1 tops sonic speed in several tests at Muroc base; Capt Yeager pilot; plane described; illus; rept confirms Dec rept by Aviation Wk (pub)
1948Dave Cash, American baseball player and coach[†]
David Cash Jr. is an American former professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as a second baseman from 1969 to 1980, most prominently as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates where, he was a member of the 1971 World Series winning team and, with the Philadelphia Phillies where he became a three-time All-Star player. He also played for the Montreal Expos and the San Diego Padres. After his playing career, Cash spent several years as a minor league hitting coach and manager for several major league organizations.
1948Lalu Prasad Yadav, Indian politician, 20th Chief Minister of Bihar[†]
Lalu Prasad Yadav is an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Bihar from 1990 to 1997 and as the union minister for Railways from 2004 to 2009. He is the founder and president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) a prominent political party in Bihar. He is also a former member of Parliament (MP) of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
1948Lynsey de Paul, English singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, cartoonist and actress (died 2014)[†]
Lynsey de Paul was an English singer-songwriter and record producer. After initially writing hits for others, she had her own chart hits in the UK and Europe in the 1970s, starting with UK top 10 single "Sugar Me", and became the first British female artist to achieve a number one with a self-written song. She represented the UK in the 1977 Eurovision Song Contest, finishing in second place and scoring another chart-topping hit in Switzerland, and had a successful career as a songwriter, record producer, actress and television celebrity.