Sunday, August 6, 1944

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The Headlines

THE BEARDS SUM UP OUR HISTORY; The Unique Strength of Our Pioneer Past Is Challenged by the Choices Just Ahead A BASIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. By Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard. 508 pp. New York: The New Home Library. 69c. The Beards Sum Up the Story of America

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Swinging on a Star

Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra and the Williams Brothers Quartet

The must-have

Slinky

You Share a Birthday With

• Andy Warhol (1928)
• Alexander Fleming (1881)
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809)
• Lucille Ball (1911)
• Robert Mitchum (1917)

Slang

Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)