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Municipal bus operation at the base fare of 7 cents charged since July 1, 1948, resulted in a deficit of $4,574,883 for the nine months ended March 31, as compared with a loss of only $4,567,341 for the entire year ended June 30, 1948, when the fare was only a nickel.
C Fahy testifies for Hiss
bill signed; work to be held up pending renovation comm decision on rebldg or renovation
32 killed in crash of burning KLM Constellation in Bari Harbor, Italy, on Batavia-Amsterdam flight; map
Acheson revs conf
1949John Illsley, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer[†]
John Edward Illsley is an English musician, best known as bassist of the rock band Dire Straits, and he is one of the two members who stayed in the band for all its existence, along with the frontman Mark Knopfler. He has received multiple BRIT and Grammy Awards, and a Heritage Award.
1949Betty Jackson, English fashion designer[†]
Betty Jackson, RDI is an English fashion designer based in London, England. She was born in Lancashire. In 2007, her success in British fashion was recognised with first an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 1987 and later with a CBE for "services to the fashion industry." She is also known for designing many of the costumes worn by Edina and Patsy on the 1990s hit television comedy Absolutely Fabulous.
1949The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is aired on NBC.[†]
Television Westerns are programs with settings in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, Western Canada and Mexico during the period from about 1860 to the end of the so-called "Indian Wars". More recent entries in the Western genre have used the neo-Western subgenre, placing events in the modern day, or the space Western subgenre but still draw inspiration from the outlaw attitudes prevalent in traditional Western productions.