Tuesday, August 22, 1944

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The Headlines

PORT ALMOST OURS; French Seize 2 Towns on Main Escape Road Toward Marseille THAT CITY IMPERILED Allies Only 9 Miles Away--Americans Free Town 50 Miles Inland NEW STRIDES ARE MADE BY THE ALLIES IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE FRENCH IN TOULON; PORT ALMOST OURS

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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

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On This Day

• World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Deng Xiaoping (1904)
• Claude Debussy (1862)
• Ray Bradbury (1920)
• Pope Leo XII (1760)
• Leni Riefenstahl (1902)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)