Thursday, June 23, 1927

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The Headlines

FOG BARRIER HOLDS BYRD TILL SATURDAY; HE CHAFES AT DELAY; Bad Weather Over Most of His Course Held Too Perilous to Permit Venture. FLIER BADLY DISAPPOINTED But Views Scientific Aims as Too Important to Take Great Risk in Unsettled Area. START AT NIGHT GIVEN UP Commander Talks of Hop at 4 A.M. Tomorrow, but Doubts He Can Do It -- Versatile Crew Anxious to Go. FOG BARRIER HOLDS BYRD TILL SATURDAY

Best-selling Sheet Music

My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

You Share a Birthday With

• Alan Turing (1912)
• Anna Akhmatova (1889)
• Edward VIII (1894)
• Oda Nobunaga (1534)
• Giambattista Vico (1668)

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Tech Check

Electronic TV (Philo Farnsworth), Jukebox (Automatic) & Iron Lung.

Cost of Living (1920)