Sunday, June 4, 1944

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The Headlines

MARX SLOOP FIRST IN SOUND YACHTING; Alberta Defeats Susan Over 11 1/2 Miles -- Close Race Annexed by Ariel Toy MARX SLOOP FIRST IN SOUND YACHTING

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I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)

Harry James and His Orchestra with Dick Haymes

The must-have

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On This Day

• World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German Kriegsmarine submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.

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• World War II: The United States Fifth Army captures Rome, although much of the German Fourteenth Army is able to withdraw to the north.

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You Share a Birthday With

• George III (1738)
• Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867)
• Karolos Papoulias (1929)
• François Quesnay (1694)
• Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)