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Tuesday, March 15, 1949
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The Headlines
WIRETAP JURY GETS C. J. RYAN WAIVER; INDICTS OTHER RYAN; Lawyer for Fusionist Refuses to Testify, Says His Evidence Might Cost Lives of Aides COSTELLO ISSUES A DENIAL Former City Detective Calls Attorney, Then Surrenders -- Enters Not-Guilty Plea ON WAY TO ANSWER HIS SUBPOENA WIRETAP JURY GETS C. J. RYAN WAIVER
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
- Andrew Jackson (1767)
- Paul Heyse (1830)
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933)
- Emil von Behring (1854)
- Zhores Alferov (1930)
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
28,206 days ago
(77 years, 101 days)