Monday, August 7, 1944

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The Headlines

FIGHT TO A FINISH PLEDGED BY HITLER; Nazi Party Leaders Informed at Meeting Germany Needs Man Who Won't Capitulate FIGHT TO A FINISH PLEDGED BY HITLER

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Swinging on a Star

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

The must-have

Slinky

On This Day

• IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).

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You Share a Birthday With

• Elinor Ostrom (1933)
• Mata Hari (1876)
• Constantius II (317)
• Ralph Bunche (1904)
• Abebe Bikila (1932)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)