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Band Greets Dorothy—Home Town The Out to Welcome Miss Universe

New Orleans, Aug. 9. (AP)—The music of tile local American Legion Post's drum and bugle corps, the screeching of police sirens and the sustained cheers of a throng of people tonight greeted Miss Dorothy Dell Goff as she returned home from the international pageant of pulchritude at Galveston, where she was crowned "Miss Universe."

A delegation headed by Mayor Semmes Walmsey welcomed the 17-year-old high school girl.—Memphis Commercial Appeal.

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