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Billboard Top 10 (or Top 14) for the Week of July 28, 1945

#1 - “On the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe” - Johnny Mercer, with the Pied Pipers
#2 – “Sentimental Journey” – Les Brown, with Doris Day
#3 - “Chopin’s Polonaise” - Carmen Cavallaro
#4 - “Gotta Be This Or That” - Benny Goodman
#5 – “There! I’ve Said It Again” – Vaughn Monroe
#6 – “If I Loved You” – Perry Como
#7 - “Bell Bottom Trousers” - Tony Pastor, with Ruth McCullough
#8 – “On the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe” – Bing Crosby
#9 - “Bell Bottom Trousers” - Jerry Colonna
#9 - “Sentimental Journey” - Hal McIntyre
#9 – “Sentimental Journey” – Merry Macs
#9 – “Tampico” – Stan Kenton, with June Christy
#10 - “Bell Bottom Trousers” - Kay Kyser, with Ferdy Slim Quartet
#10 – “You Belong to My Heart” – Bing Crosby, with Xavier Cugat Orchestra

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Halsey Busy Again (Jones, Lindsley) – 2
Japanese Cabinet Weighs Ultimatum – 2-3
Troops Returning Home – 3
LeMay Tells Japanese People Where ‘Superforts’ Will Hit – 4
Japanese Prisoners Swept Up by the ‘Cyclone’ (photos) – 5-6
M’Arthur Airmen Bag 13 More Ships – 6
Kamikaze Hits the California; Battleship Fights On; Losses 203 – 7
War News Summarized – 7
Chinese Win Back Another Airbase – 8
French Want Rule Widened in Reich (Schmidt) – 9
Use of U.S. Troops by League to Go to Congress Vote (Reston) – 9-10
Communists Vote to Re-Form Party – 10
Commander in Chief Reviews American Troops at Frankfort on the Main (photos) – 11
Democratic Vote of Negroes Upheld – 12
A Mustang with a Greater Kick to Face the Japanese (photo) – 12
Day’s Communiques – 13