Monday, May 16, 1949

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The Headlines

52% IN SOVIET AREA VOTE ON FIRST DAY FOR 'GERMAN UNITY'; People of Zone and the Berlin Sector Turn Out Heavily for Russian-Conducted Poll COMMUNISTS HAIL RESULT In Some Places All Electors Cast Ballots -- Unification Move Is Held Gaining 52% IN SOVIET AREA VOTE ON FIRST DAY

#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

• Henry Fonda (1905)
• Pope Innocent XI (1611)
• Celâl Bayar (1883)
• Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718)
• William H. Seward (1801)

Slang

Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)