Thursday, February 3, 1944

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The Headlines

ATOLL ISLETS FALL; Army Force Drives Foe Back on Kwajalein -- No Naval Losses SHELLING IS KEPT UP Other Marshall Points Are Blasted -- Air Field Yielded by Japanese ATOLL ISLETS FALL TO AMERICAN UNITS

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My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)

Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra with Eugenie Baird

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On This Day

• World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.

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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

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

Cost of Living (1940)