Friday, May 13, 1949

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The Headlines

Papers Are Found Burning As Hague Foes Visit City Hall; Guard is Posted to Protect All Documents -- 'Still in Politics,' Ex-Mayor Asserts as He Hands Out Appointments HAGUE DEFEATERS FIND PAPERS AFIRE

#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

• Aeroflot Flight 17 crashes on approach to Severny Airport in Novosibirsk, killing 25.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Pope Pius IX (1792)
• Alphonse Daudet (1840)
• Maria Theresa (1717)
• Ronald Ross (1857)
• Georges Braque (1882)

Slang

Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)