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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1950
Page
4
The excerpt promotes Puck The Comic Weekly as a color magazine with two big sections and Sunday content featuring America's favorite comic stars, promising laughs and thrills. It frames the issue as an entertaining ad venture aimed at readers seeking light humor and notable cartoonists.
Hollywood report notes Spenser Tracy will star in When in Rome under Clarence Brown who produces and directs. The project adapts a Robert Buckner script about a thief who masquerades as a priest, with reform coming through good deeds while in disguise.
A fire at Highway 181 and Loop 13 destroyed a residence, causing about $5000 in damage. Owner S. W. Jackson was away when the blaze started. Firefighters from stations 13 and 21 and a Brooks APB truck responded to the scene. cause undetermined.
Eduardo Prado, newly added to the Mexican consulate staff in San Antonio, is house hunting with wife and two children, a son 7 and stepdaughter 12, while his career spans Germany during Pearl Harbor and internment in the Ruhr camp. He later served in St. Louis and Havana.
A mother, Mrs. Guerra, excitedly spoke with her son, Cpl. Felix Garza, 24, stationed in Stuttgart, Germany. They had not seen each other for four years since his reenlistment after a three-year hitch. The idea came from a story in The Light prompting the trans Atlantic call.
Shapely fan dancer Sally Rand wed manager Harry Finkelstein yesterday in New York, with Rand listing age 46 and Finkelstein 40. The couple honeymooned today at Mate au, Aug. 22, while Finkelstein noted ownership of three York nightlife venues including the 21 Club, Mardi Gras, and Ringside Club.
Eighty three candidates will receive degrees from Trinity University at 8 p m Friday at First Presbyterian Church. Dr Bruce Thomas acting president will confer the degrees and address the class. L D Haskew dean UT College of Education will speak to the graduates.
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