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MAMARONECK, N. Y., Aug. 20 -- The United States team retained the Walker Cup by beating the golfers from the British Isles, 10 to 2, after an impressive exhibition in the singles that closed the two-day series at the Winged Foot Golf Club today.
Renewed confidence spurs ad spending, agencies rept
BOSTON, Aug. 20 -- With Warren Spahn swinging the whitewash brush most artistically, the Dodgers subsided before the Braves tonight by a 4-0 score and dropped a full game behind the first-place Cardinals in the National League race. The Braves, incidentally, moved into a third-place tie with the Phillies while the Giants were dropping to the fifth slot.
NYC Housing Authority rept, '46-49; 80,000 more apts planned; slum clearance discussed
imports issue link with US markets abroad discussed
1949Loretta Devine, American actress and singer[†]
Loretta Devine is an American actress. She is known for numerous roles across stage and screen. Her most high profile roles include Lorrell Robinson in the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls (1981), Gloria Matthews in the film Waiting to Exhale (1995), and her recurring role as Adele Webber on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. Devine also played Juanita Sims in the film adaptation of For Colored Girls (2010).
1949Daniel Sivan, Israeli scholar and academic[†]
Daniel Sivan is an Israeli Emeritus professor in the Department of Hebrew Language at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.