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1949Christopher Durang, American playwright and screenwriter (died 2024)[â ]
Christopher Ferdinand Durang was an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s, though his career seemed to get a second wind in the late 1990s.
1949Iris Marion Young, American political scientist and academic (died 2006)[â ]
Iris Marion Young was an American political theorist and socialist feminist who focused on the nature of justice and social difference. She served as Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and was affiliated with the Center for Gender Studies and the Human Rights program there. Her research covered contemporary political theory, feminist social theory, and normative analysis of public policy. She believed in the importance of political activism and encouraged her students to involve themselves in their communities.
1949Luis Muñoz MarĂn is inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.[â ]
JosĂ© Luis Alberto Muñoz MarĂn, most commonly known as Luis Muñoz MarĂn, was a Puerto Rican journalist, politician, and statesman who served as the first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico from 1949 to 1965. He previously served as the fourth president of the Senate of Puerto Rico from 1941 to 1948.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1 -- Led by Fullback John Panelli of Notre Dame, the East squeezed out a 14-12 victory over the West today in the twenty-fourth annual Shrine charity football game.
G N Nelson blames tax policies for risk capital dearth
MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 1 -- Texas put aside defense and went touchdown crazy in the Orange Bowl today to defeat favored Georgia, 41 -- 28.
India and Pakistan order cease-fire; text; state to be divided intto 2 zones with seperate interim govts; UN India and Pakistan Comm conf on proposals to supplement plebiscite reptd; UN adm to set up basis for plebiscite; full rept on settlement to go to UN
BOSTON, Jan. 1 -- The Boston Bruins, driving hard for the National Hockey League lead, tonight outskated the fleet New York Rangers for a 4-1 victory before an overflow crowd of 13,900 at the Boston Garden.
Communist radio denounces Kuomintang-Amer 'peace trick'; repts Communists seek 'liberation of all China'; Chiang and Premier Sun Fo back peace on solid basis
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 1 -- The Baylor Bears grabbed a big first-half lead and held on grimly in the final periods today to defeat Wake Forest, 20 to 7, in the Dixie Bowl football game.
floods recede; 5 die; Natl Guard and Red Cross aid homeless; many rd and rr lines blocked; Manville, NJ, reptd hardest hit
Premier Tito New Yr message scores Cominform tactics; urges internal unity to oppose pressure; text excerpts
exporters opposition to Adm efforts to extend Export Controls Act noted
THE six titles listed above have not been seen in the publishers' catalogues. They have not been announced, more's the pity, for 1949 publication. Yet all of them, with one possible exception, will be published eventually -- if not in 1949 -- although they may carry different names, be signed by different authors and brought out by different publishers at different prices.
Annual repts seen likely to show 6% earnings; factors discussed