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CHICAGO, Aug. 23--Round Table galloped home two and a quarter lengths in front today in the $85,200 Arlington Handicap to remain unbeaten on grass.
WASHINGTON, Sunday, Aug. 24 -- The Eighty-fifth Congress adjourned into history at 4:11 A. M. today.
THE British critic, V. S. Pritchett, once remarked to me that whenever he visited Dublin he was haunted by the statue of Goldsmith and the bust of Swift, and was aware that every Irishman seemed to take after one or other of them. That Joyce took after Swift he would probably be the first to admit.
CAIRO, Aug. 23 -- Beleaguered young King Hussein of Jordan was reported today to have asked Saudi Arabia to intercede with President Gamal Abdel Nasser in a desperate effort to end their blood feud.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23 -Don Drysdale of the Dodgers hit a pair of home runs as he whipped the Milwaukee Braves, 10 -- 1, today on a four-hitter before 20,731 Memorial Coliseum fans.
1958Steve Guttenberg, American actor and producer[†]
Steven Robert Guttenberg is an American actor, author, businessman, producer, and director. He is known for playing Carey Mahoney in the Police Academy films from 1984 to 1987. He also acted in Three Men and a Baby (1987) and its 1990 sequel as well as the films Diner (1982), Cocoon (1985), Short Circuit (1986), The Bedroom Window (1987), The Big Green (1995) and A Novel Romance (2011).
1958Paul Henry, Irish painter and educator (born 1876)[†]
Paul Henry was an Irish artist noted for depicting the West of Ireland landscape in a spare Post-Impressionist style.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]