Monday, February 16, 1953

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The Headlines

WRECKED AIRLINER IS LOCATED IN GULF; BODIES OF 17 FOUND; Coast Guard Says Some of 46 on Plane May Be Adrift -- Darkness Halts Search 3 EMPTY RAFTS PICKED UP Signals Heard, Then Fade Out -- Many Aboard Were Flying to Mardi Gras Fete BODIES RECOVERED IN AIRLINER WRECK

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Matchbox Cars

You Share a Birthday With

• Octave Mirbeau (1848)
• Kim Jong Il (1941)
• Ernst Haeckel (1834)
• Philip Melanchthon (1497)
• Francis Galton (1822)

Slang

Tech Check

Color TV Standards (NTSC), Black Box Flight Recorder & WD-40.

Cost of Living (1950)