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1948Steve Turre, American trombonist and educator[†]
Stephen Johnson Turre is an American jazz trombonist and a pioneer of using seashells as instruments, a composer, arranger, and educator at the collegiate-conservatory level. For sixty-two years, Turre has been active in jazz, rock, and Latin jazz – in live venues, recording studios, television, and cinema production.
1948Max Walker, Australian footballer, cricketer, sportscaster, and architect (died 2016)[†]
Maxwell Henry Norman Walker was an Australian sportsman who played both cricket and Australian rules football at high levels. After six years of balancing first-class cricket in summer, professional football in winter and study for a degree in architecture, Walker earned a place in the Australian cricket team in 1972 and represented his country in the sport until injury ended his career in 1981. Following his retirement, he worked as an architect and also commenced a career in radio and television media. He wrote 14 books over a period of thirty years and became a successful public speaker. His unorthodox cricket bowling action earned him the nickname "Tangles", and his larrikin character made him a much-loved figure with the Australian public. Walker died of multiple myeloma on 28 September 2016 after being diagnosed with the disease three years earlier. He was a part of the Australian squad which finished as runners-up at the 1975 Cricket World Cup.
Cumulative concern over the tension in Berlin and the successive steps taken by the Government to tighten credit had a depressing effect on financial markets last week. After one day of rising prices, stocks began sinking to their lowest levels since mid-August and then closed with the widest losses for any week in a month.
Amer Accountants Inst survey shows change in co repts to indicate relation of increased costs to profits is favored
BOSTON, Sept. 11 -- Boston's Red Sox moved three games ahead of the rest of the field in the American League flag chase tonight by shading the Philadelphia Athletics, 2 -- 1, behind the slick pitching of Lefty Mel Parnell.
Wall Street is standing today at the threshold of another season carrying the prospect of substantial new-money financing, but what the effect will be on interest rates, on industrial initiative, and on the function of the public securities markets, nobody knows. Even after a year of adjustment to the reappearance of a nearly forgotten economic force -- a buyers' market for bonds -- financiers confess to perplexity at the questions popping up all over.
Named Sec of State for Finance
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Well removed from their arch tormentors in Boston, the Yankees found far more congenial surroundings as they opened a two-game series with the Senators today.
Hundreds of birds killed after striking bldg in fog
DONCASTER, England, Sept. 11 -- American-bred Black Tarquin staged a storming stretch drive today to capture Britain's richest racing prize, the classic St. Leger Stakes, for owner William Woodward of New York.
PORT WASHINGTON, L.I., Sept. 11 -- For the combined Yacht Racing Association championship event and another of the regattas of the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club fall series, there was a white-tufted cloud breeze today that obligingly settled in just before the start from west-southwest at twelve knots.
FAIR HILL, Md., Sept. 11 -- In a grueling test, said to be the toughest in America for racing thoroughbreds, Replica II, a post-and-rail jumper with plenty of heart and lots of stamina, captured the ninth running of the Foxcatcher National Cup Steeplechase today.
SINCE last season opened with a fine case of dementia praecox entitled "The Magic Touch," it is encouraging to note that the current-season opened with Bessie Breuer's "Sundown Beach." It was a scrambled and elusive drama that closed last night with full public approval.