Monday, May 9, 1949

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The Headlines

LEOPOLD PINS HOPE ON BELGIAN VOTING; King Is Counting on the Next Parliament to Enable Him to Return to Throne LEOPOLD EXPECTING RETURN TO THRONE MONARCH ASKS THRONE

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)

Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra

#1 at the box office

The must-have

LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)

You Share a Birthday With

• J. M. Barrie (1860)
• Howard Carter (1874)
• José Ortega y Gasset (1883)
• Glenda Jackson (1936)
• Sophie Scholl (1921)

Slang

Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)