Sunday, September 17, 1944

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GIANTS BOW TWICE TO PHILS BY 5-2, 2-1; NOW IN 5TH PLACE; Single by Stewart in Tenth Wins Second as Gerheauser Defeats Pyle in Duel OTT IS INJURED IN OPENER Crashes Against Fence Chasing Lupien Triple -- Barrett Is Victor -- Losers Strand 14 GIANTS BOW TWICE TO PHILS BY 5-2, 2-1

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Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra and the Williams Brothers Quartet

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On This Day

• World War II: Allied airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden and British XXX Corps advances into the Netherlands as the "Garden" half of the Operation.

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• World War II: German forces are attacked by the Allies in the Battle of San Marino.

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• World War II: Soviet troops launch the Tallinn Offensive against Germany and pro-independence Estonian units.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Bernhard Riemann (1826)
• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857)
• Pope Paul V (1550)
• Anne Bancroft (1931)
• Marquis de Condorcet (1743)

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Tech Check

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

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