Saturday, February 19, 1949

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The Headlines

PACT COMPROMISE AIDED AS ACHESON INFORMS SENATORS; Foreign Relations Body Holds Atlantic Alliance Need Not Omit Armed-Aid Reference BARS 'AUTOMATIC' ACTION Some Members Declare That U. S. Should Avoid Making Empty Gesture to Europe PACT COMPROMISE AIDED BY ACHESON

#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

• Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Nicolaus Copernicus (1473)
• Svante Arrhenius (1859)
• André Breton (1896)
• Saparmurat Niyazov (1940)
• David Gross (1941)

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Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)