Friday, April 9, 1948

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The Headlines

20 Czechs Seize Plane in Midair And Force It to Land in U.S. Zone; CZECHS LAND PLANE IN U.S. GERMAN ZONE

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)

Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour and the Brazilians

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Scrabble

On This Day

• Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist terror groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100 Palestinians.

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• Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Charles Baudelaire (1821)
• Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933)
• Leopold II of Belgium (1835)
• Hugh Hefner (1926)
• Elias Lönnrot (1802)

Slang

Tech Check

Long-Playing Record (LP), Velcro & Holography Theory.

Cost of Living (1940)