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1948Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (died 2022)[†]
Kenneth Murray Brown was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He played one game in the National Hockey League with the Chicago Black Hawks in 1971, and 52 games in the World Hockey Association with the Alberta/Edmonton Oilers between 1972 and 1975. The rest of his career lasted from 1968 to 1975 and was spent in the minor leagues.
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Sayre, due in NY, assures Justice Dept of cooperation; House com to seek him as witness; A B Newcomb, his sec, also en route to NY from Eur; other State Dept documents made pub; Govt source repts Justice Dept not in possession of typewriter allegedly used to retype stolen documents; FBI testimony that this machine is same as was used for Hiss personal correspondence noted; comment on Hewitt
SEC repts regis of $984 million worth of new offerings, Aug-Oct
CORAL GABLES, Fla., Dec. 18 -- Marchons II, belonging to F. Hammer and imported from Argentina, remained undefeated on this side of the Equator when he won the Governor Caldwell Handicap by a length before 9,159 fans at Tropical Park who bet $492,148 on the eight races today.
The Arab League, formed in Cairo in 1945, is a tenuous union of the seven Arab states of the Middle East -- Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Trans-Jordan. Of these states Trans-Jordan has always been a sort of black sheep.
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Pub issues business survey
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 18 -- A wet, slippery gridiron is in prospect for tomorrow's National Football League championship play-off between the defending Chicago Cardinals and the Philadelphia Eagles at Shibe Park. Rain or snow has been forecast and if either develops, both sides agree that the breaks will determine the outcome.
VIENNA, Dec. 18 -- M.A. Koptelow, Soviet political representative, told the Austrian Government this afternoon that Moscow would not oppose the resumption of Austrian treaty negotiations. At the same time Tass, the Soviet news agency, issued a Russian statement on the message given to the Austrian Minister to Moscow, Norbert Bischof.
Dewey to recommend raised ceiling for subsidy contracts to keep pub housing rents low
4 cos joint bid to build Secretariat bldg accepted; cos to form corp for job
Piperno, G: charged with grand larceny; allegedly unable to acct for $150-250,000 worth of customer stocks; por