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After four months of secret negotiations, Lever Brothers Company has completed plans to erect a twenty-story headquarters building of striking design in the block-front on the west side of Park Avenue between Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Streets, it became known last night.
subcom votes unanimously to reject Olds; gets Truman lr charging powerful corps seek to block nomination; lr defends Olds FPC record and loyalty; read to Sen with Sen E C Johnson reply attacking Olds
Pres Truman hopes 'Navy and Air Force get all their troubles settled'
Controller Joseph opens campaign
Dulles s, Allegheny, Wyo and Orleans Counties; bids for labor support; statement
1949Peter Ackroyd, English biographer, novelist and critic[โ ]
Peter Ackroyd is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Charlie Chaplin and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices, and the depth of his research.
1949Michael Gaughan, Irish Republican died on hunger strike (died 1974)[โ ]
Michael Gaughan was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger striker who died in 1974 in Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, England. Gaughan was one of 22 Irish republicans to die while on hunger strike in the 20th century.
1949Ralph Goodale, Canadian lawyer and politician, 36th Canadian Minister of Finance[โ ]
Ralph Edward Goodale is a Canadian diplomat and retired politician who has served as the Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom since April 19, 2021.
1949Bill James, American historian and author[โ ]
George William James is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books about baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he named sabermetrics after the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), scientifically analyzes and studies baseball, often through the use of statistical data, in an attempt to determine why teams win and lose.
1949Yashiki Takajin, Japanese singer and television host (died 2014)[โ ]
Takajin Yashiki , often referred to as simply Takajin (ใใใใ), was a Japanese singer and television personality.