Friday, November 18, 1949

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The Headlines

Barkley and Mrs. Hadley Rehearse For Wedding Today in St. Louis; BARKLEY WEDDING HAS A REHEARSAL THE VICE PRESIDENT WITH HIS FIANCEE

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Slipping Around

Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely

#1 at the box office

The must-have

LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)

On This Day

• The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Margaret Atwood (1939)
• Louis Daguerre (1787)
• Carl Maria von Weber (1786)
• Patrick Blackett (1897)
• Mahinda Rajapaksa (1945)

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Tech Check

45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.

Cost of Living (1940)