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Sunday, August 28, 1949
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The Headlines
PONDER CLIPS MARK IN AMERICAN DERBY; Goes 1 1/4 Miles in 2:00 2/5 to Win From Ky. Colonel in $88,450 Chicago Race PONDER CLIPS MARK IN AMERICAN DERBY
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
It's a Great Feeling
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
- Paul Martin (1938)
- Jack Kirby (1917)
- Godfrey Hounsfield (1919)
- C. Wright Mills (1916)
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
28,040 days ago
(76 years, 300 days)