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Billboard Top Ten for the Week of December 25, 1943

#1 – “Paper Doll” - Mills Brothers
#2 – “Pistol Packin’ Mama” - Bing Crosby, with the Andrews Sisters
#3 – “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” - Bing Crosby
#4 - “People Will Say We’re in Love” - Bing Crosby, with Trudy Erwin
#5 - “Oh What a Beautiful Mornin’” – Bing Crosby, with Trudy Erwin
#6 – “Shoo Shoo Baby” - Ella Mae Morse, with orchestra
#7 - “My Heart Tells Me” - Glen Gray, with Eugenie Baird
#8 - “They’re Either Too Young or Too Old” - Jimmy Dorsey, with Kitty Kallen
#9 - “Pistol Packin’ Mama” - Al Dexter
#10 - “Sunday Monday or Always” - Bing Crosby, with the Ken Darby Singers

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General is Shifted – 2-3
New Invasion Commander in Chief (page 1 photo) – 2
Invasion Leader Pleases British (Reston) – 3-4
New Leaders Named by the Allies (photos) – 3
Congressmen Hail Eisenhower in Job – 4
War News Summarized – 4
Eisenhower Shift Expected in Africa – 5
Eisenhower Aides Regard Him as Tireless, Extol His Capacity for Grasping Details – 5
Record Air Blow (Anderson) – 6
Pope Prays for Just Peace Kept by Wise Use of Force – 7
Red Army Takes Key to Vitebsk – 8
8th Army Wins Town Near Ortona; Americans Take a Hill, Lose One (Bracker) – 9
On the Fifth Army Front (photo) – 9
Latest War Casualties – 10
The Grayling Lost to Undersea Fleet – 10
American Marines Slosh through Mud to Bougainville Front Line (photo) – 11
The Text of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 12-13