Monday, April 14, 1947

From the day

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The Headlines

Records Set to Cairo

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Heartaches

Unknown Artist

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Tonka Trucks

You Share a Birthday With

• B. R. Ambedkar (1891)
• Averroes (1126)
• Christiaan Huygens (1629)
• Arnold J. Toynbee (1889)
• Faisal of Saudi Arabia (1906)

Slang

Tech Check

Transistor, Polaroid Land Camera & Defibrillator.

Style of 1947

Silhouette: Cinched waist and full skirt (The New Look)

Material: Taffeta and tulle

• Gloves
• Structured hips
• Matching sets

Cost of Living (1940)