Thursday, January 31, 1946

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The Headlines

UNO IN FIRST TEST AGREES ON DIRECT SOVIET-IRAN TALK, WITH COUNCIL KEEPING REINS; RUSSIA WINS POINT Her Plan to Negotiate With Small Country Is Not Turned Down BLUNT TALK IS A NEW NOTE Bevin Accuses Soviet of 'War of Nerves'--Vishinsky Speaks of 'Hotheadedness'

#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

• Cold War: Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).

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• The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Franz Schubert (1797)
• Kenzaburō Ōe (1935)
• Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938)
• Norman Mailer (1923)
• Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)

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Tech Check

Mobile Car Phones, Tupperware & Bikini.

Cost of Living (1940)