Saturday, December 4, 1948

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The Headlines

Frankenthaler Wins Appeals Test And Will Be Certified as Surrogate; APPEALS TEST WON BY FRANKENTHALER

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Buttons and Bows

Dinah Shore and her Happy Valley Boys

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Scrabble

On This Day

• Chinese Civil War: The SS Kiangya, carrying Nationalist refugees from Shanghai, explodes in the Huangpu River.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Francisco Franco (1892)
• Rainer Maria Rilke (1875)
• Thomas Carlyle (1795)
• Samuel Butler (novelist) (1835)
• Albert Bandura (1925)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)