Saturday, August 20, 1949

From the day

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The Headlines

Ship Steward Held in Cocaine Ring; Linked to Abortive Coup in Peru; STEWARD IS SEIZED IN NARCOTICS RING

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Some Enchanted Evening

Perry Como with Orchestra conducted by Mitchell Ayres

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The must-have

LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)

On This Day

• Hungary adopts the Hungarian Constitution of 1949 and becomes a People's Republic.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Benjamin Harrison (1833)
• H. P. Lovecraft (1890)
• Rajiv Gandhi (1944)
• Slobodan Milošević (1941)
• Salvatore Quasimodo (1901)

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Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)