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Norwegian Min Lange to seek Parliament authority for Norwegian role; special coms meet, Oslo; US bids to Norway and Denmark seen
Scenes in blizzard areas described; more Army equipment put in use
Comr Wallander to retire; W P O'Brien slated successor; careers
US Sup Ct upholds NYC regulation barring ad from vehicles when ad is other than owner's; rejects Ry Express Agency attack
US House tables Repr Javits motion asking State Dept for data on RAF planes incident; dept says pub of data would peril Rhodes talks
1949Lex Marinos, Australian actor (died 2024)[†]
Alexander Francis Marinos was an Australian actor and television director, radio personality and voice artist. He was most notable for his role as Bruno, in the 1980s television series Kingswood Country.
1949Nicolae Dumitru Cocea, Romanian journalist, author, and activist (born 1880)[†]
N. D. Cocea was a Romanian journalist, novelist, critic and left-wing political activist, known as a major but controversial figure in the field of political satire. The founder of many newspapers and magazines, including Viața Socială, Rampa, Facla and Chemarea, collaborating with writer friends such as Tudor Arghezi, Gala Galaction and Ion Vinea, he fostered and directed the development of early modernist literature in Romania. Cocea later made his name as a republican and anticlerical agitator, was arrested as an instigator during the 1907 peasant revolt, and played a leading role in regrouping the scattered socialist clubs. His allegiances however switched between parties: during World War I, he supported the Entente Powers and, as a personal witness of the October Revolution, the government of Soviet Russia, before returning home as a communist.
1949Herbert Stothart, American conductor and composer (born 1885)[†]
Herbert Pope Stothart was an American songwriter, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and won Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz. Stothart was widely acknowledged as a prominent member of the top tier of Hollywood composers during the 1930s and 1940s.