Monday, August 28, 1944

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The Headlines

SUMATRA BOMBED BY CARRIER PLANES; Allied Fliers Smash Cement Plant at Padang and Ships in Port of Emmahaven SUMATRA BOMBED BY CARRIER PLANES

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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: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
• Paul Martin (1938)
• Jack Kirby (1917)
• Godfrey Hounsfield (1919)
• C. Wright Mills (1916)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)