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Billboard Top Ten for the Week of December 9, 1944

#1 – “I’m Making Believe” – Ink Spots, with Ella Fitzgerald
#2 - “I’ll Walk Alone” – Dinah Shore
#3 - “Dance with a Dolly” – Russ Morgan, with Al Jennings
#4 – “The Trolley Song” – Pied Pipers
#5 - “You Always Hurt the One You Love” – Mills Brothers
#6 – “Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral” - Bing Crosby
#7 - “Don’t Fence Me In” – Bing Crosby, with the Andrews Sisters
#8 - “And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine” – Stan Kenton, with Anita O’Day
#9 – “I’ll Walk Alone” – Martha Tilton
#10 - “The Trolley Song” – Judy Garland

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Laborites Abstain (Daniell) – 2-3
Patton Lines Hold (Middleton) – 3-4
Americans’ Coastal Assault is within a Mile of Ormoc (Kluckhohn) – 5
Japanese Stunned by Ormoc Landing (by Spencer Davis, first-time contributor) – 6
Liberty Ship Sunk on Way to Leyte – 6
War News Summarized – 6
Big Force of B-29’s Hits Iwo Air Base (Trumbull) – 7
Chinese Offensive Hurls Enemy Back – 8
Gen. Patton Halted by ‘Gas’ Shortage – 9-10
Industry Pledges 3,000,000 Jobs for Veterans after the War Ends – 9
Outgoing NAM President and His Successor (photo) – 10
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 11-13
‘Jackknife Surgeon’ (photo) – 13