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July 31, 1949

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1949Mike Jackson, American basketball player[โ€ ]

Michael Jackson is an American former professional basketball player. After a collegiate career at the Cal State University Los Angeles where he was an All-Pacific Coast Athletic Association second-team selection in 1972, Jackson was selected in both the 1972 ABA draft and 1972 NBA draft.

1949Alan Meale, English journalist and politician[โ€ ]

Sir Joseph Alan Meale is a former British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mansfield from 1987 to 2017.

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Headlines from July 31, 1949

Notes From a Critic On a Novelist's Work; Position of Hemingway

By Maxwelll Geismar

THE literary event of the season -- whatever coming season it is -- should be Ernest Hemingway's new novel. It will be published about ten years after "For Whom the Bell Tolls." During this period, Hemingway has consolidated his position as a literary spokesman for the United States and a sort of roving Ambassador of Letters -- perhaps the first native novelist to fill this role so well since the death of Mark Twain.

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THE NATION

By Unknown Author

Last week any or all of these phrases could have been applied to the weather in much of the United States. Throughout the East and Midwest this month, average high temperatures have ranged from three to six degrees above the average high over the years.

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