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NY PE Diocese comm bulletin attacks Educ Bd policies and practices; charges RC Ch pressure in some issues; specific complaints summarized
Expediter Woods issues new rules easing curbs; rises permitted for new services and improvements; conflict with Pres Truman stand noted
strikers accept proposal; normal traffic expected in 1 wk
H C Hoover favors aid to backward states only, lr to Repr McConnell; fears Fed controls urges aid be based on educ rather than econ standards; cites some
unofficial returns; Premier Spaak conf with Socialist leaders
1949Vera Wang, American fashion designer[†]
Vera Ellen Wang is an American fashion designer. Wang initially pursued a career in figure skating before transitioning to fashion. She got her start working for Walmart then worked for Vogue and Ralph Lauren before launching her own bridal gown boutique in 1990.
1949Frank Smythe, English botanist and mountaineer (born 1900)[†]
Francis Sydney Smythe, better known as Frank Smythe or F. S. Smythe, was an English mountaineer, author, photographer and botanist. He is best remembered for his mountaineering in the Alps as well as in the Himalayas, where he identified a region that he named the "Valley of Flowers", now a protected park. His ascents include two new routes on the Brenva Face of Mont Blanc, Kamet, and attempts on Kangchenjunga and Mount Everest in the 1930s. It was said that he had a tendency for irascibility, something some of his mountaineering contemporaries said "decreased with altitude".