Saturday, December 23, 1944

From the day

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The Headlines

GERMANS SWEEP WEST THROUGH LUXEMBOURG; REPORT PATTON ATTACKING ON SOUTH FLANK; EISENHOWER URGES GREATEST ALLIED EFFORT; RAIL HUB ISOLATED Panzers Smash 15 Miles Past Bastogne -- Enemy Slowed on Flanks NEAR FRENCH BORDER Americans Recapture 2 Towns -- Reports Still 48 Hours Late AMERICAN TROOPS SMASH THE GERMANS ON THE MAGINOT LINE IN FRANCE RAIL HUB ISOLATED BY GERMANS' SWEEP GERMAN SPEARHEADS STILL UNCHECKED IN CENTER OF DRIVE

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Don't Fence Me In

Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra

The must-have

Slinky

You Share a Birthday With

• Akihito (1933)
• Helmut Schmidt (1918)
• Alexander I of Russia (1777)
• Joseph Smith (1805)
• Jean-François Champollion (1790)

Slang

Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)