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Billboard Top Ten for the Week of October 21, 1944

#1 - “You Always Hurt the One You Love” – Mills Brothers
#2 – “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t (Ma’ Baby)” – Bing Crosby, with the Andrews Sisters
#3 - “I’ll Walk Alone” – Dinah Shore
#4 - “Swinging on a Star” – Bing Crosby
#5 – “I’ll Walk Alone” – Martha Tilton
#6 - “I’ll Walk Alone” – Mary Martin
#7 - “Together” – Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest
#8 – “And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine” – Stan Kenton, with Anita O’Day
#9– “It Had to Be You” - Dick Haymes/Helen Forrest
#10 - “The Trolley Song” – Pied Pipers

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Drives Under Way – 2-3
Leyte Invasion Opens Way to Cut Life Lines of Japan (Kluckhohn) – 3
45 U.S. Writers See Philippine Landing – 3
Two Ghost Ships of Pearl Harbor Come Back to Haunt the Japanese (Wilson, Schedler) – 4
Terauchi is Identified as MacArthur’s Foe; War Lord Has Reputation for Ruthlessness – 4
Diseases Menace Philippine Force – 4
We Return to the Philippines: Invasion Armada, Its Objective and Commanders (photos) – 5-8
War News Summarized – 8
Hodges Takes City (Middleton) – 9-10
Canadians Strike North of Antwerp – 10
Soviet Gains Grow – 11-12
1,750 Big Bombers Rip Reich Cities (by Richard J.H. Johnston) – 12
De Gaulle Divides France into Zones (by Harold Callender) – 13
At the Funeral of Field Marshal Gen. Erwin Rommel (photo) – 14
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 15-17