Wednesday, August 31, 1949

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The Headlines

CONGRESS PRESSES PLANS FOR WINDUP; Lucas Will Ask Truman to Aid Aims by Deferring Issue of Trade Pacts to 1950 CONGRESS PUSHES PLANS FOR WINDUP

#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)

On This Day

• The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece into Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Maria Montessori (1870)
• Théophile Gautier (1811)
• Richard Gere (1949)
• Hermann von Helmholtz (1821)
• Commodus (161)

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Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)