Monday, October 9, 1944

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The Headlines

MEMEL IS MENACED; Red Army 30 Miles From Port -- East Prussia in Danger of Invasion ARC CLOSING ON RIGA 2,000 Villages Seized in 4-Day Thrust -- Push in Hungary Unchecked RED ARMY SWEEPS AHEAD IN THE NORTH MEMEL MENACED BY RUSSIAN DRIVE

#1 on Your Hit Parade

I'll Walk Alone

Dinah Shore

The must-have

Slinky

You Share a Birthday With

• John Lennon (1940)
• Ivo Andrić (1892)
• Max von Laue (1879)
• Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906)
• Emil Fischer (1852)

Slang

Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)