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Thursday, April 20, 1944
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The Headlines
HITCHCOCK KILLED IN CRASH IN BRITAIN; Polo Star, Hero of Lafayette Escadrille, Was Head of Fighter Plane Group HITCHCOCK KILLED IN CRASH IN BRITAIN KILLED IN ENGLAND
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
It's Love-Love-Love
Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians with Skip Nelson and the Lombardo Trio
The must-have
Slinky
You Share a Birthday With
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Napoleon III (1808)
- Joan Miró (1893)
- Gro Harlem Brundtland (1939)
- George Takei (1937)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Harvard Mark I Computer, Kidney Dialysis Machine & Synthesized Quinine.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
29,996 days ago
(82 years, 66 days)