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Saturday, July 16, 1949
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The Headlines
2 CZECH TENNIS ACES RENOUNCE COUNTRY; Drobny and Cernik Defy Order by Red Regime to Return -- Will Seek U. S. Refuge CZECH JUSTICE WITH ARCHBISHOP BERAN -- NET STARS CONFER 2 CZECH NET STARS RENOUNCE COUNTRY
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
Sorrowful JonesThe Girl from Jones Beach
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Roald Amundsen (1872)
- Barbara Stanwyck (1907)
- Ginger Rogers (1911)
- Yasuo Fukuda (1936)
- Trygve Lie (1896)
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
28,083 days ago
(76 years, 343 days)