Wednesday, April 20, 1949

From the day

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The Headlines

10-Foot Wood Fence 'Protects' Shanghai

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Cruising Down the River

Russ Morgan and His Orchestra with The Skylarks

#1 at the box office

The must-have

LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)

On This Day

• Amethyst incident: The People's Liberation Army attacks HMS Amethyst (F116) travelling to the British embassy in Nanjing during the Chinese Civil War.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Adolf Hitler (1889)
• Napoleon III (1808)
• Joan Miró (1893)
• Gro Harlem Brundtland (1939)
• Jessica Lange (1949)

Slang

Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)