Tuesday, August 31, 1943

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The Headlines

Rescue at Once of Europe's Jews Demanded at Conference Here; IMMEDIATE RESCUE OF JEWS DEMANDED

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In the Blue of Evening

Unknown Artist

The must-have

Slinky

On This Day

• USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Maria Montessori (1870)
• Théophile Gautier (1811)
• Commodus (161)
• Hermann von Helmholtz (1821)
• Jahangir (1569)

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Tech Check

Colossus Computer, Slinky & Aqualung (Scuba).

Cost of Living (1940)