Sunday, August 13, 1944

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The Headlines

BY JIMMINY, 3 TO 4, SCORES BY LENGTH IN $30,675 TRAVERS; Free Lance Runner-Up, While Bounding Home Is Third in Rousing Belmont Finish

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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

• World War II: German troops begin the pillage and razing of Anogeia in Crete that would continue until September 5.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Fidel Castro (1926)
• Alfred Hitchcock (1899)
• Frederick Sanger (1918)
• Karl Liebknecht (1871)
• John Logie Baird (1888)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)