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On the date
Tuesday, August 23, 1949
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The Headlines
YUGOSLAVS ACCUSE RUSSIA OF PLOTTING TO 'OUTLAW' THEM; Declare Aim of Moscow Is to Impose 'Unequal Relations on Other Countries' SOVIET REGIME IS TAUNTED U.S.S.R. Is Dared to Emulate Belgrade by Making Reply Available to People Yugoslavia Accuses Soviet Union Of Plotting to 'Outlaw' Tito Regime
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
You're Breaking My Heart
Vic Damone with Glenn Osser’s Orchestra
#1 at the box office
Black Magic
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Louis XVI (1754)
- Edgar de Wahl (1867)
- Georges Cuvier (1769)
- Gene Kelly (1912)
- Kenneth Arrow (1921)
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
28,045 days ago
(76 years, 305 days)