Saturday, May 21, 1949

From the day

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The Headlines

RAIL MEN STRIKE IN WESTERN BERLIN OVER MONEY RIFT; Quit After Soviet Operators Refuse to Pay Their Wages in Western Deutsche Marks AUTOBAHN OPENED AGAIN Airlift to Continue at Present Pace Until Threat of Train Stoppage Disappears RAIL MEN STRIKE IN WESTERN BERLIN

#1 on Your Hit Parade

Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)

Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra

#1 at the box office

Flamingo Road

The must-have

LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)

You Share a Birthday With

• Albrecht Dürer (1471)
• Andrei Sakharov (1921)
• Philip II of Spain (1527)
• Mary Robinson (1944)
• Willem Einthoven (1860)

Slang

Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)