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Wednesday, February 6, 1952

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The Headlines

3d Coplon Trial in Capital Planned; Wiretap Evidence to Be Excluded; U. S. PLANS 3D TRIAL FOR JUDITH COPLON

Read in The New York Times →

#1 at the box office

Quo Vadis

The must-have

Mr. Potato Head

On This Day

  • Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.

    Wikipedia →

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

blastflickkiboshshades

Greaser

cruisin'daddy-odibsknuckle sandwichpad

Beatnik

cooldigfar outhipsquare

Catchphrases of 1952

  • The buck stops here

Tech Check

Barcode (Patent), Passenger Jet (Comet) & Hydrogen Bomb.

Cost of Living (1950)

Loaf of Bread

$0.14

Gallon of Gas

$0.27

Average Home

$7,354

New Car

$1,510

Time Elapsed

27,148 days ago

(74 years, 138 days)