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1948Randy Smith, American basketball player (died 2009)[†]
Randolph Smith was an American professional basketball player who set the NBA record for consecutive games played. From 1972 to 1982, Smith played in every regular season game, en route to a then-record of 906 straight games. In college, he was a Division II All-American basketball player, soccer player and track athlete. He was born in Bellport, New York.
1948Colin Todd, English football player and coach[†]
Colin Todd is an English football manager and former player. He was most recently the manager of Esbjerg fB. As a player, he made more than 600 appearances in the Football League, playing as a defender for Sunderland, Derby County, Everton, Birmingham City, Nottingham Forest, Oxford United and Luton Town, and also played in the North American Soccer League for the Vancouver Whitecaps. He won two Football League titles with Derby County during the 1970s, and won the PFA Players' Player of the Year award in 1975. He was capped by England on 27 occasions.
1948Marjory Stephenson, British biochemist (born 1885)[†]
Marjory Stephenson was a British biochemist. In 1945, she was one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the other being Kathleen Lonsdale.
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Sea-Cal-Frank Corp awaits SLA action on application
Prices of shares on the New York Stock Exchange ended the week on a firmer note yesterday after fluctuating irregularly during the day's abbreviated session. Activity in the final hour, when prices were at their best levels, expanded trading to the largest Saturday session in a month. Sales aggregated 550,000 shares, compared with 510,000 shares a week ago.
illus of memo identified as being in A Hiss handwriting
financial aid to athletes barred; 17 colls admitted to conf; W J Bingham elected exec council chmn and A S Bushnell sec-treas
mfrs protest Brit use of ECA funds to buy Canadian ingots for resale in US as scrap; '48 imports estimated
Reprs laud indus relations; note wage-divd and benefit programs
In Paris the first part of the third regular session of the United Nations General Assembly went through its final hours last night. The delegates of fifty-eight nations gathered in the Palais de Chaillot eighty-two days ago, at the beginning of autumn. The delegates have spoken around 17,000,000 words in more than 600 meetings.
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Invasion from Nicaragua begins; map; Provisional Pres Figueres says leader ex-Pres Calderon Guardia is aided by Nicaragua Natl Guard; revolt inside CR reptd as nation mobilizes; Figueres rise to power revd; Nicaraguan War Min Somoza denies his nation is involved; says Calderon forces landed on CR coast; CR Amb Esquivel invokes Rio de Janeiro pact; asks Organization of Amer States action; Council to meet; Guatemala affirms support of Figueres
For all practical purposes the technical knockout victory of Ezzard Charles over Joe Baksi on Friday night in Madison Square Garden complicated rather than clarified the heavyweight situation. It made uncertain, too, whether Joe Louis will undertake another defense of the crown he has been wearing for eleven years and through twenty-five title encounters.
DETROIT, Dec. 11 -- Pete Horeck's third-period goal cracked a 3-all tie as the Red Wings gained their sixth straight National Hockey League victory tonight, 5 -- 3, over the last-place Rangers before 13,337 fans at Olympia. Goalie Chuck Rayner was out and the New Yorkers had six skaters playing for a tie when Ted Lindsay hit an open net in the last nine seconds for the fifth Detroit goal.
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