Thursday, May 5, 1949

From the day

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The Headlines

Military View Black; Pentagon Lights Fail

#1 on Your Hit Parade

"A"—You're Adorable

Perry Como with the Fontane Sisters and Orchestra conducted by Mitchell Ayres

#1 at the box office

The must-have

LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)

You Share a Birthday With

• Karl Marx (1818)
• Søren Kierkegaard (1813)
• Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846)
• Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921)
• Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (1747)

Slang

Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)