Sunday, July 25, 1943

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The Headlines

ANTICHRIST, BORN OF MACHINES; A German Novelist's Allegory of an Evil Messiah and His Cosmos THE CONSPIRACY OF THE CARPENTERS. Historical Accounting of a Ruling Class. By Hermann Borchardt. Translated by Barrows Mussey. Foreword by Franz Werfel. 634 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $2.75.

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On This Day

• World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the King (encouraged by the Grand Council of Fascism) and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.

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• World War II: 136 Greek civilians are murdered by soldiers of the German 1st Mountain Division in the village of Mousiotitsa, Greece.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Elias Canetti (1905)
• Rosalind Franklin (1920)
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1922)
• Gavrilo Princip (1894)
• Arthur Balfour (1848)

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Tech Check

Colossus Computer, Slinky & Aqualung (Scuba).

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