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Friday, July 22, 1949
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The Headlines
DESAPIO TO DEMAND ROGERS QUIT RACE FOR BOROUGH HEAD; Incumbent Is Still in It but Is Expected to Announce Withdrawal Today MANCUSO RESIGNS POST New Tammany Leader Pledges All-Out Efforts to Elect O'Dwyer and Ticket FIGURE IN TAMMANY SHAKE-UP DESAPIO TO DEMAND ROGERS QUIT RACE
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
Any Number Can Play
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887)
- Janusz Korczak (1878)
- Selman Waksman (1888)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784)
- Louise Fletcher (1934)
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
28,077 days ago
(76 years, 337 days)