Wednesday, February 3, 1943

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The Headlines

PRESIDENT IMPLIES 1943 INVASION PLAN; Reporters Get Impression Time and Place in Europe Were Set at Casablanca

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There Are Such Things

Unknown Artist

The must-have

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On This Day

• The SS Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survive.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Felix Mendelssohn (1809)
• Alvar Aalto (1898)
• Simone Weil (1909)
• Gertrude Stein (1874)
• Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830)

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Tech Check

Colossus Computer, Slinky & Aqualung (Scuba).

Cost of Living (1940)