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Friday, November 5, 1948
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The Headlines
U.S. Comment Deferred; ARMING OF FRENCH BY U.S. REPORTED
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Buttons and Bows
Dinah Shore and her Happy Valley Boys
#1 at the box office
A Song Is Born
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Vivien Leigh (1913)
- William Daniel Phillips (1948)
- Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948)
- Sam Shepard (1943)
- Joe Dassin (1938)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Long-Playing Record (LP), Velcro & Holography Theory.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
28,337 days ago
(77 years, 232 days)