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Sen Halpern urges more facilities for Kew Gardens, Estimate Bd hearing
PARIS, Nov. 15 -- Canada, France and Belgium introduced a joint resolution in the United Nations Security Council today calling for an armistice throughout Palestine.
YIRKA, Palestine, Nov. 15 -- Ash if the new state of Israel did not have enough troubles about its frontiers, the Druses have popped up with the proposition that their 4,000 square miles in southern Syria should be joined to the new state when peace is made.
Assurances that there would be no interference with the movement of food and fuel by tug and barge from New Jersey to New York were given yesterday to Mayor O'Dwyer by the International Longshoremen's Association. AFL.
NYS Sup Ct Justice Elsworth upholds NYS ps released-time system, J Lewis suit; contrasts ruling with US Sup Ct decision in McCollum case; Lewis to appeal; A G Hays scores, C H Tuttle lauds ruling
1948Horst Bertram, German footballer and manager (died 2023)[†]
Horst Bertram was a retired German football manager and former player.
1948Chi Coltrane, American singer-songwriter and pianist[†]
Chi Coltrane is an American rock/gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist.
1948Bonnie Greer, American-English playwright and critic[†]
Bonnie Greer, OBE FRSL is an American and British playwright, novelist, critic and broadcaster, who has lived in the UK since 1986. She has appeared as a panellist on television programmes such as Newsnight Review and Question Time and has served on the boards of several leading arts organisations, including the British Museum, the Royal Opera House and the London Film School. She is Vice President of the Shaw Society. She is former Chancellor of Kingston University in Kingston upon Thames, London. In July 2022 she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
1948Ken James, Australian actor[†]
Ken James is an Australian former actor and celebrity chef. He is most widely known for his role in children's TV show Skippy the Bush Kangaroo as Mark Hammond to which be became known locally and to international audiences After his debut in Skippy, James continued to work in film, television and theatre for another 36 years. In December 2009, James was diagnosed with stage three non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which escalated to stage four by 2011. James started chemotherapy, and as of November 2020 the cancer is in remission. James was also actively involved in the Victorian Police Force as an unsworn member from 1993 to 2013.