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Yale Univ gets W R Coe collection of Western Americana
LLANDUDNO, Wales, Oct. 9 -- In the strongest speech he has made since the end of World War II Winston Churchill today urged the United States not to destroy its atom bomb stocks and warned the Western World that only those bombs stood between freedom and Communist domination.
Contrary to several recent reports, neither the United States Steel Corporation nor most of the nation's other large steel companies will abandon their hopes and efforts for eventual return of the industry's basing-point system of pricing, several steel spokesmen asserted last week.
1948Sue Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Loughborough, English academic and businesswoman[â ]
Susan Catherine Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Loughborough is a British sports administrator who was chair of UK Sport between 2003 and 2013.
1948Cyril Neville, American R&B percussionist and singer[â ]
Cyril Garrett Neville is an American percussionist and vocalist who first came to prominence as a member of his brother Art Neville's funky New Orleansâbased band, The Meters. He joined Art in the Neville Brothers band upon the dissolution of the Meters.
1948SĂ©verine, French singer and actress[â ]
Séverine is a French singer.
1948Ted Horn, American race car driver (born 1910)[â ]
Eylard Theodore Horn was an American racing driver. Widely considered one of the greatest racers of his era, he was the first person in history to win the AAA National Championship three times consecutively, doing so in 1946, 1947 and 1948.