Tuesday, July 25, 1961

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The Headlines

Levitt Denounces Wagner As Failing in Leadership; Says Mayor, a 'Bitter, Rejected Suitor' of Party, Uses Ghost Writers to Try to Create 'Image of a Strong Man' LEVITT RIDICULES WAGNER AS WEAK

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Tossin' and Turnin'

Bobby Lewis

#1 at the box office

Fanny was still grossing $200,000 at Radio City Music Hall

The must-have

Slip 'N Slide

On This Day

• Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Elias Canetti (1905)
• Rosalind Franklin (1920)
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1922)
• Gavrilo Princip (1894)
• Arthur Balfour (1848)

Slang

Tech Check

Space Capsule (Vostok/Mercury), Electric Toothbrush & Industrial Robots (Unimate).

Cost of Living (1960)