Friday, September 1, 1944

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The Headlines

120 ROBOT STATIONS CUT OFF IN FRANCE; British Seal Off 100-Mile Area on Coast -- 2,000 Sites Reported in Country

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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: Launch of Operation Ratweek, complicating German retreat.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Annie Ernaux (1940)
• Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875)
• A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896)
• Francis William Aston (1877)
• Lily Tomlin (1939)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)