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WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 -- Secretary of State Marshall will leave by plane about noon tomorrow for Paris. He will return to the United Nations meeting with renewed assurance that President Truman is fully backing the program respecting United States-Russian relations that he has been following there.
Chiang apologizes for failure to drive Communists from strategic areas south of Yellow River as predicted before Natl Assembly, last April; links mil failures to Govt failure to coordinate Army and pub in anti-Communist campaign
State Dept Voice of Amer program says Truman lags behind Dewey; program tries to equalize space given all candidates, but Wallace and Thurmond are barely mentioned
Jessup, Cadogan and Parodi weigh small nations compromise plan after conf with Bramuglia
1948David Rendall, English tenor and actor[†]
David Montague Rendall was an English operatic tenor who developed an international career performing regularly at the Royal Opera House in London and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. His roles included Ferrando in Mozart's Così fan tutte and other Mozart roles, Almaviva in Rossini's The Barber of Seville and Matteo in R. Strauss's Arabella. He appeared at leading opera houses in Europe, the United States and Japan, growing into heavier roles such as Verdi's Otello and Wagner's Lohengrin.
1948Peter Turkson, Ghanaian cardinal[†]
Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson is a Ghanaian Catholic prelate who has been a cardinal since 2003 and has served as chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences since 2022.