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Saturday, June 11, 1949
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The Headlines
CZECH PRIESTS GET 'POLITICAL' TUTORS; Seminary Students Must Pass 'Social Progress' Courses by State Instructors CZECH PRIESTS GET 'POLITICAL' TUTORS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)
Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra
#1 at the box office
Home of the Brave
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Yasunari Kawabata (1899)
- Gene Wilder (1933)
- Jacques Cousteau (1910)
- Richard Strauss (1864)
- Ben Jonson (1572)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
28,118 days ago
(77 years, 13 days)