Tuesday, November 21, 1944

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The Headlines

FRENCH GUNS POUND THE SIEGFRIED LINE; Rhine Duel Broken Off in '40 Resumes as Tricolor Flies in Freed Alsatian Villages FRENCH GUNS POUND THE SIEGFRIED LINE

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You Always Hurt the One You Love

The Mills Brothers

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On This Day

• World War II: American submarine USS Sealion sinks the Japanese battleship Kongō and Japanese destroyer Urakaze in the Formosa Strait.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Voltaire (1694)
• Pope Benedict XV (1854)
• Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903)
• René Magritte (1898)
• Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)