Wednesday, February 23, 1944

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The Headlines

Barge Losses Hobble Japan; Roosevelt Lists 1,000 Sunk; BARGE LOSES SEEN AS HOBBLING JAPAN

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

Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra with Eugenie Baird

The must-have

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On This Day

• The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.

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You Share a Birthday With

• George Frideric Handel (1685)
• Karl Jaspers (1883)
• Kazimir Malevich (1878)
• Pope Paul II (1417)
• Peter Fonda (1940)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)