Thursday, December 23, 1948

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The Headlines

PEYROUTON FREED BY FRENCH COURT; His Arrest of Laval and Help to Allies Bring Acquittal of Treason as Vichy Aide PEYROUTON FREED BY FRENCH C0URT

#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

• Seven Japanese military and political leaders convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed by Allied occupation authorities at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Akihito (1933)
• Helmut Schmidt (1918)
• Alexander I of Russia (1777)
• Joseph Smith (1805)
• Jean-François Champollion (1790)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1940)