Friday, August 26, 1949

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The Headlines

HOUSE IN DEFIANCE VOTES FOR RECESS; SENATE CRITICIZED; Holiday of 26 Days Is Ordered but Lower Branch Will Stay 'Officially in Session' MORTGAGE BILL IS PASSED Upper Chamber Goes Into Spurt on Appropriations -- Power Measure Wins Out HOUSE IN DEFIANCE VOTES FOR REGESS

#1 on Your Hit Parade

You're Breaking My Heart

Vic Damone with Glenn Osser’s Orchestra

#1 at the box office

The must-have

LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)

You Share a Birthday With

• Mother Teresa (1910)
• Antoine Lavoisier (1743)
• Guillaume Apollinaire (1880)
• Julio Cortázar (1914)
• Robert Walpole (1676)

Slang

Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)