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On the date
Sunday, March 13, 1949
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The Headlines
DODGER HOME RUNS DEFEAT BRAVES, 5-2; Circuit Blows by Robinson, Campanella, Brown Decide Exhibition at Miami
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Cruising Down the River
Blue Barron and his Orchestra
#1 at the box office
A Letter to Three Wives
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Giorgos Seferis (1900)
- Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1741)
- Pope Innocent XII (1615)
- Mahmoud Darwish (1942)
- John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899)
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
28,208 days ago
(77 years, 103 days)