Living comic strip character Gil Wright recalls Dixie Dugan link
Gil Wright recalls being written into the Dixie Dugan continuity by McEvoy and drawn by Striebel at Miami University Ohio. He details campus chases, publicity tours, and fan reactions as a real person portrayed in the strip across colleges clubs and Hollywood visits.
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Gil Wright
Renny Mic-Evoy
Dixie Dugan
Cedar Rapids
McEvoy
Dixie
Gilson Wright
Tampa
Tampa Times
the Times
Martha
Middletown
Ohio
Oxchord
Los Angeles
Miami University
Indiana
Milt Caniff
Terry and the Pirates
Milt
Flip Corkin
Ohio State
Philip Cochran
al Capp
France Expects Record Tourist Year In 1949
Paris reports optimism for 1949 with over 1.2 million tourists last season and expectations to surpass it. Henry Ingland, general commissioner of the French tourist bureau, cites planned 360 000 airplane seats and ship banks and aims to boost hotel rooms by 200 000, plus nationwide car rentals to ease travel. He notes strong American and Swiss inquiries and calls for coordinated Western European publicity to attract free-spending travelers year round.
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France
Paris
Henry Ingrand
French Tourist Bureau
Ingland
United States
Switzerland
Western Europe
European Recovery‘ Program
Ingrand
London telephone exchanges get brighter decor to boost staff efficiency
London post offices test flu orescent lighting and more declarative interiors at some exchanges hoping to raise efficiency. If successful, other exchanges may be redecorated.
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London
Vatican May Announce Peter's Burial Place Discovery
Vatican circles expect Pope Pius IX to reveal whether the Apostle Peter is buried beneath St Peter's Basilica during the 1850 Holy Year. Excavations under the great church and the older Constantine Basilica have uncovered early Christian graveyards and pagan Christian tombs, fueling belief Peter may lie there.
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Mas
Peter
Pius
Vatican
Ponti
St Peter’s
Constantine
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