Monday, December 20, 1948

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The Headlines

19.6-INCH SNOWFALL IN CITY; TRAFFIC ARTERIES KEPT OPEN; BUSES AND TRAINS DELAYED; FIVE DEATHS LISTED

#1 on Your Hit Parade

All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)

Spike Jones and his City Slickers with George Rock

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Scrabble

On This Day

• Indonesian National Revolution: The Dutch military captures Yogyakarta, the temporary capital of the newly formed Republic of Indonesia.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Kim Young-sam (1927)
• Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890)
• John III of Sweden (1537)
• Ferdinand Buisson (1841)
• David Bohm (1917)

Slang

Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)