Tuesday, February 15, 1949

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The Headlines

153 NEW SCHOOLS PROPOSED TO MEET 'GRAVE' CITY CRISIS; Educators Report That Rise in Enrollment Forces Action on Five-Year Program COST SET AT $272,622,000 ' Staggering' Birth Rate Held Likely to Continue for Next Decade or More ENROLLMENT CRISIS FACES CITY SCHOOLS

#1 on Your Hit Parade

A Little Bird Told Me

Evelyn Knight and the Stardusters

#1 at the box office

The must-have

LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)

On This Day

• Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Galileo Galilei (1564)
• Louis XV (1710)
• Jeremy Bentham (1748)
• Alfred North Whitehead (1861)
• Susan B. Anthony (1820)

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Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)