Thursday, May 12, 1949

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The Headlines

Johnson Approves Air Force Plan To Distribute Negroes Among Units; JOHNSON ACCEPTS AIR FORCE'S PLANS

#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)

On This Day

• Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Florence Nightingale (1820)
• Katharine Hepburn (1907)
• Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895)
• Dorothy Hodgkin (1910)
• George Carlin (1937)

Slang

Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)