Sunday, June 11, 1944

From the day

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The Headlines

BYRD'S 202 KEEPS LEAD IN OPEN GOLF; He Cards 69 at Philadelphia for Third Straight Sub-Par Round in $17,500 Event TEEING OFF IN WAR BOND GOLF TOURNAMENT BYRD'S 202 KEEPS LEAD IN OPEN GOLF

#1 on Your Hit Parade

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

• USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Yasunari Kawabata (1899)
• Gene Wilder (1933)
• Jacques Cousteau (1910)
• Richard Strauss (1864)
• Ben Jonson (1572)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)