Tuesday, January 23, 1945

From the day

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The Headlines

Dealers' Coal Cut Ordered for Feb. 1

#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 (Gimbels Demo)

On This Day

• World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal, the evacuation of areas along the eastern Baltic coast.

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You Share a Birthday With

• David Hilbert (1862)
• Stendhal (1783)
• Édouard Manet (1832)
• Derek Walcott (1930)
• Hideki Yukawa (1907)

Slang

Tech Check

Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.

Cost of Living (1940)