Tuesday, January 11, 1949

From the day

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The Headlines

2 SUCHOW ARMIES NOW 'LIQUIDATED,' CHINA REDS CLAIM; Body of Picked Troops, Trapped for More Than a Month, Said to Be Put Out of Action NANKING IS UNDER THREAT Force Left North of Yangtze Is of Unknown Size and Uncertain Caliber REDS CLAIM VICTORY 2 SUCHOW ARMIES FINISHED, REDS SAY

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Buttons and Bows

Dinah Shore and her Happy Valley Boys

#1 at the box office

The must-have

LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)

On This Day

• The first "networked" television broadcasts took place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.

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You Share a Birthday With

• William James (1842)
• Alexander Hamilton (1755)
• Theodosius I (347)
• Albert Hofmann (1906)
• Jean Chrétien (1934)

Slang

Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)