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Saturday, February 5, 1949
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The Headlines
CARDINAL RETRACTS PRE-TRIAL LETTER AND DENIES DURESS; Mindszenty Says He Did Not See Certain Things Then as He Sees Them Now U.S. PROTESTS TO HUNGARY Contests Bar on Observers -- Vienna Circles Assert the Prelate Is Under Drugs CARDINAL RESCINDS PRE-TRIAL DENIAL
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
A Little Bird Told Me
Evelyn Knight and the Stardusters
#1 at the box office
Joan of Arc
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Charlotte Rampling (1946)
- William S. Burroughs (1914)
- Robert Peel (1788)
- Robert Hofstadter (1915)
- Adlai Stevenson II (1900)
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
28,244 days ago
(77 years, 139 days)