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Saturday, October 7, 1944
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The Headlines
BROWNS WIN, 6 TO 2, FOR 2-1 SERIES LEAD; Kramer Fans 10 Cardinals -- 34,737 at St. Louis Cheer Four-Run Third Inning Speedy Work on the Base Paths for Both Sides as Browns Take Third Game BROWNS WIN, 6 TO 2, FOR 2-1 SERIES LEAD
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You Always Hurt the One You Love
The Mills Brothers
The must-have
Slinky
On This Day
World War II: The Sonderkommando Revolt in Auschwitz was an uprising of prisoners (especially the Sonderkommando) at the Auschwitz concentration camp, they burnt down Crematorium IV.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Niels Bohr (1885)
- Heinrich Himmler (1900)
- Desmond Tutu (1931)
- Henry A. Wallace (1888)
- Harry Kroto (1939)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
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Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Harvard Mark I Computer, Kidney Dialysis Machine & Synthesized Quinine.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
29,826 days ago
(81 years, 261 days)