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Thursday, February 1, 1945
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The Headlines
ROCKEFELLER ASKS A 'REBORN CHURCH'; A Life, Not a Creed, Should Be Test, He Says as Protestant Council Seeks $800,000 ROCKFELLER ASKS A 'RE-BORN CHURCH' Tuttle Tells of Call to Serve
Read in The New York Times →#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)
You Share a Birthday With
- Boris Yeltsin (1931)
- Clark Gable (1901)
- John Ford (1894)
- Langston Hughes (1902)
- Emilio Segrè (1905)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
29,709 days ago
(81 years, 144 days)