Friday, April 30, 1943

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The Headlines

ENDS CAMPS TOUR; President Thinks Youth Would Profit by Year's Service in Peacetime REPORTS ARMY GAINS He Tells Press Second Tour Shows It to Be Over Growing Pains PRESIDENT FAVORS POST-WAR TRAINING

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I've Heard That Song Before

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The must-have

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On This Day

• World War II: The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777)
• Jaroslav Hašek (1883)
• Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893)
• Mary II (1662)
• Claude Shannon (1916)

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Tech Check

Colossus Computer, Slinky & Aqualung (Scuba).

Cost of Living (1940)