Saturday, August 26, 1944

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The Headlines

RED ARMY RACES ON; Russians Attack Galati Gap and Encircle 12 German Divisions REACH DANUBE DELTA 205,000 Enemy Troops Killed or Taken in Six Days -- Tartu Seized RUSSIANS PRESS ROUT OF GERMANS IN RUMANIA Red Army Lunges to Galati Gap; Reaches Danube, Captures Tartu

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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: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Mother Teresa (1910)
• Antoine Lavoisier (1743)
• Guillaume Apollinaire (1880)
• Julio Cortázar (1914)
• Robert Walpole (1676)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)