Tuesday, January 22, 1946

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The Headlines

Mayor Offers a Referendum On City Power Plant Sale; Quill Cancels Walkout, Set for 8 A.M. Today, and Accepts O'Dwyer Advice to Discuss Pay Rise With Board

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra with Vaughn Monroe and the Norton Sisters

The must-have

Tonka Trucks

On This Day

• In Iran, Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chahar Cheragh Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad; he becomes the new president and Haji Baba Sheikh becomes the prime minister.

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• Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Lord Byron (1788)
• Francis Bacon (1561)
• Sergei Eisenstein (1898)
• Antonio Gramsci (1891)
• August Strindberg (1849)

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Tech Check

Mobile Car Phones, Tupperware & Bikini.

Cost of Living (1940)