Friday, December 17, 1948

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The Headlines

Flood Brings Death To 200 in Brazil

#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

• The Finnish Security Police is established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Pope Francis (1936)
• Humphry Davy (1778)
• Muhammadu Buhari (1942)
• Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (1948)
• Willard Libby (1908)

Slang

Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)