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Sunday, January 2, 1949
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The Headlines
EAST BEATS WEST ON COAST, 14 TO 12; Placements by Dean Decisive -- Panelli, Rossides Score Over Muddy Gridiron EAST BEATS WEST ON COAST, 14 TO 12
Read in The New York Times →#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 Paleface
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
On This Day
Luis Muñoz Marín is inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Thérèse of Lisieux (1873)
- Rudolf Clausius (1822)
- Mehmed IV (1642)
- Osman III (1699)
- Mily Balakirev (1837)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
28,278 days ago
(77 years, 173 days)