1949 cartoonist Randy Harrison: Wilton Nelson
- May. 02, 2017
I was a married vet, lived at Badger Village without much time for the partying. Going through some old stuff found this cartoon book dated 1949 (cartoons by Randy Harrison, published in the Daily Cardinal or Wisconsin Octopus) with a page I thought was probably 180° from the campus today.
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