Friday, June 24, 1949

From the day

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The Headlines

$4,574,883 DEFICIT FOR CITY BUS LINES; Loss Greater With 7-Cent Fare Than With 5 -- 5th Ave. Rate Goes to 12 Cents Tomorrow $4,574,833 DEFICIT FOR CITY BUS LINER

#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

• The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is aired on NBC.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Ambrose Bierce (1842)
• Victor Hess (1883)
• Juan Manuel Fangio (1911)
• Martin Lewis Perl (1927)
• Julia Kristeva (1941)

Slang

Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)