Monday, June 28, 1948

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The Headlines

Cape Codders Say Boy Rode Whale And Dived Off Big 'Willie' at Sea; BOY RODE A WHALE, CAPE CODDERS SAY

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Woody Woodpecker

Kay Kyser and his Orchestra with Gloria Wood

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Scrabble

On This Day

• Cold War: The Tito–Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform.

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• Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712)
• Peter Paul Rubens (1577)
• Luigi Pirandello (1867)
• Muhammad Yunus (1940)
• Henry VIII (1491)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)