Wednesday, December 22, 1948

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The Headlines

U.S. WILL DEMAND DUTCH END ATTACK IN JAVA FORTHWITH; Suspension of Marshall Plan Aid to Netherlands Weighed Unless Hague Complies

#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

• Sjafruddin Prawiranegara established the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia (Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia, PDRI) in West Sumatra.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Giacomo Puccini (1858)
• Jean Racine (1639)
• Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887)
• Diocletian (244)
• Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)