Monday, January 17, 1944

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The Headlines

OUSTER OF KENNEDY AS TAMMANY HEAD SET FOR THIS WEEK; Foes of Leader Say They Now Have Necessary Votes in Executive Committee

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Shoo-Shoo Baby

The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra

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On This Day

• World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Benjamin Franklin (1706)
• Muhammad Ali (1942)
• David Lloyd George (1863)
• Anne Brontë (1820)
• Al Capone (1899)

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Tech Check

Harvard Mark I Computer, Kidney Dialysis Machine & Synthesized Quinine.

Cost of Living (1940)