Saturday, June 10, 1944

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The Headlines

1,000 Refugees Will Enter, To Be Housed at Fort Ontario; President Tells of Orders to Ambassador Murphy at Algiers and Agencies Here--Says Group Is All That Is Coming LETS 1,000 REFUGEES COME TO AMERICA

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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

Slinky

On This Day

• In baseball, 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.

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• World War II: Six hundred forty-three men, women and children massacred at Oradour-sur-Glane, France.

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• World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece, 228 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Judy Garland (1922)
• Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921)
• Saul Bellow (1915)
• Gustave Courbet (1819)
• E. O. Wilson (1929)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)