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June 27, 1948

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Reds' Four Runs in First Frame Blank Giants at Polo Grounds, 4-0; Losers Get Only One Runner as Far as Third as Kennedy Fails on the Mound -- Vander Meer Gives Seven Hits REDS' FOUR IN FIRST BLANK GIANTS, 4-0

By Louis Effrat

Helpless, hapless and hopeless were the Giants against Johnny Vander Meer and the Reds at the Polo Grounds yesterday. Twenty-four hours brought quite a difference as the team, that had blanked the Cincinnati outfit the day before, itself was subjected to a whitewashing that drew jeers from 13,750 fans.

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THE WORLD

By Unknown Author

There are 3,500,000 persons in Berlin -- 2,250,000 in the sectors occupied by the Western powers, the rest in the Russian sector. Last week, in their war-wrecked city that was once the Continent's largest capital, Berliners were caught squarely in the middle of the most critical phase in the struggle between Russia and the West for control of all Germany.

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CITY GETS MACHINES TO SELL TRANSFERS; Devices Will Dispense 2-Cent Slips in Subway Stations for Change to Surface Lines CITY GETS MACHINES TO SELL TRANSFERS TRANSFER MACHINE

By Paul Crowell

transfer and change-making plans

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NEWS AND GOSSIP GATHERED ON THE RIALTO

By Lewis Funke

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PARIS FAVORS TALK ON GERMAN ISSUES; Would Consider Russian Views -- Bidault Disputes Clay on Berlin and 3-Zone Tie-Up PARIS FAVORS TALK ON GERMAN ISSUES

By Harold Callenderspecial To the New York Times

Tells Foreign Affairs Com of willingness to join Big 4 talks on Ger; implies rebuke to Gen Clay

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Notable Births

1948Camile Baudoin, American guitarist^[†]

The Radiators, also known as The New Orleans Radiators, are an American swamp rock band from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The band's musical style, which draws from blues, rock, rhythm and blues, funk and soul music, has attracted a dedicated fanbase who the band calls "fish heads". Described by OffBeat magazine as "New Orleans' longest-running and most successful rock band", The Radiators had only limited commercial success, with only a handful of chart appearances, but, as a party band from a party town, their enthusiastic live performances, danceable beats and relentless touring earned the band a dedicated following and the admiration of many of their peers.

Notable Deaths

1948Dorothea Bleek, South African anthropologist and philologist (born 1873)^[†]

Dorothea Frances Bleek was a South African-born German anthropologist and philologist known for her research on the Bushmen of Southern Africa.