Sunday, November 2, 1947

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The Headlines

OVERTURE TO MANIFEST DESTINY; " Across the Wide Missouri" Illumines The Forces That Secured Our Far West ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI. By Bernard DeVoto. Illustrated with paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller, Charles Bodmer and George Catlin. With an Account of the Discovery of the Miller Collection by Mrs. Clyde Porter. 384 pp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $10. Overture to Manifest Destiny

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Near You

Francis Craig and His Orchestra with Bob Lamm

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Tonka Trucks

On This Day

• In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built until Scaled Composites rolled out their Stratolaunch in May 2017.

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You Share a Birthday With

• James K. Polk (1795)
• Warren G. Harding (1865)
• Marie Antoinette (1755)
• George Boole (1815)
• Odysseas Elytis (1911)

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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)