Sunday, July 8, 1945

From the day

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The Headlines

A JAPANESE IS SMOKED OUT OF HIS HIDEOUT; AIR BLOWS WRECK 9 JAPANESE SHIPS IN ENEMY WATERS Nimitz Announces Punishing Strikes in the Yellow Sea and Off Homeland B-29 ATTACK SETS MARK None of 600 Bombers Firing Honshu Cities Lost--P-51's Bag Foe Over Kyushu Smoke Rose 20,000 Feet Navy's Bombers Take Big Toll Weather Aided B-29 Attack AIR BLOWS WRECK 9 JAPANESE SHIPS Mt. Fuji Reflects Vast Fires P-51's From Okinawa Score

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Sentimental Journey

Les Brown and His Orchestra with Doris Day

The must-have

Slinky (Gimbels Demo)

You Share a Birthday With

• Jean de La Fontaine (1621)
• John D. Rockefeller (1839)
• Pyotr Kapitsa (1894)
• Igor Tamm (1895)
• Nelson Rockefeller (1908)

Slang

Tech Check

Atomic Bomb, ENIAC Computer & Microwave Oven Principle.

Cost of Living (1940)