Thursday, August 31, 1950

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The Headlines

KOREAN REDS GAIN MILE NEAR POHANG, PRESS ASSAULT DESPITE BIG LOSSES; ACHESON, JOHNSON ASK SWIFT ARMS AID; PORT CITY PERILED Foe Is Said to Have Sent Three More Divisions Into Eastern Area POHANG TRAP IS BROKEN U.S. Forces Advance Lines in Center and South-- Sobuk Hill Recaptured

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On This Day

• TWA Flight 903 crashes near Itay El Barud, Egypt, killing all 55 aboard.

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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

Credit Cards, Pager & Otis Elevators (Self-Service).

Style of 1950

Silhouette: Hourglass and tailored

Material: Cotton and poodle cloth

• Poodle skirts
• Twinsets
• Cat-eye glasses

Cost of Living (1950)