truce extended to Sept 25 as USWA agrees; White House reaction; Murray hails bd on pensions; USWA offers to drop strike threat if cos will base talks on rept; Repub backs contributory pensions; indus unofficial reaction to rept; US Steel reaction awaited; Repub ready for talks on pension issue

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1949Jim Cleamons, American basketball player and coach^[†]

James Mitchell Cleamons is an American former professional basketball player and was a coach in the NBA and at the college and high school levels. He was an assistant coach on nine National Basketball Association (NBA) championship teams.

1949John W. Henry, American businessman^[†]

John William Henry II is an American businessman and the founder of John W. Henry & Company, an investment management firm. He is the principal owner of Liverpool Football Club, the Boston Red Sox, the Pittsburgh Penguins, The Boston Globe, and co-owner of RFK Racing. As of October 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth to be US$6 billion.

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1949August Krogh, Danish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)^[†]

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are awarded "to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind". Nobel Prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Medicine or Physiology, Chemistry, Literature, and Peace.

Headlines from September 13, 1949

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Yonkers Gets First Woman Mayor; Grandmother, 61, Wins PR Recount; Yonkers Gets First Woman Mayor; Grandmother, 61, Wins PR Recount

U. S., BRITAIN, CANADA AGREE ON STEPS TO MAKE STERLING AREA PAY WAY BY '52; CRIPPS SAYS DOLLAR DRAIN WILL CEASE; ECA FUNDS FREED

Wallace Refuses to Run for Senate; Blow to ALP, Help to Lehman Seen; REPUBLICAN SENATOR REGISTERING FOR PRIMARIES

STRIKE POSTPONED; STEEL UNION BACKS FINDINGS OF PANEL; Workers Offer to End Threat of Stoppage if Companies Base Talks on Report

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