Friday, March 3, 1944

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The Headlines

LONDON PARLEY SET ON POLICIES OF U.S.; Stettinius Mentioned by British Editor as Possible Spokesman on Non-War Questions

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Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)

Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra with Bob Eberly and Kitty Kallen

The must-have

Slinky

On This Day

• The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.

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• A freight train carrying stowaway passengers stalls in a tunnel shortly after departing from Balvano, Basilicata, Italy just after midnight, with 517 dying from carbon monoxide poisoning.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Alexander Graham Bell (1847)
• Georg Cantor (1845)
• William Godwin (1756)
• Ragnar Frisch (1895)
• Ion Iliescu (1930)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)