Monday, July 18, 1927

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The Headlines

BYRD TO LAND TODAY WITH FELLOW FLIERS FOR GREAT WELCOME; Noville, Acosta and Balchen and Chamberlin Due Aboard Leviathan This Morning. SHIPS TO PARADE UP BAY Governors Island Will Fire Salute for Heroes of Two Transatlantic Flights. WALKER TO AWARD MEDALS Triumphal Procession to Madison Square Planned -- Lindbergh to Greet Comrades of the Air. BYRD TO LAND TODAY FOR GREAT WELCOME

Best-selling Sheet Music

My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

You Share a Birthday With

• Nelson Mandela (1918)
• Hendrik Lorentz (1853)
• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811)
• John Glenn (1921)
• Thomas Kuhn (1922)

Slang

Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1920)