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Canada as seen through the Eyes of New Brunswick Editorial Cartoonists:
The Insight and Humour of Josh Beutel and Bill Hogan

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Trueman - 6 ft. Bill
Josh Beutel, Telegraph Journal, 1980-4-5 Reference number: MC2806-291

Scope and Content
This illustration showing Stuart Trueman putting a stethoscope to his heart while Evan Hicks unfurls his medical bill for bypass surgery, accompanied a Trueman column about a case in Florida which he used to examine American health insurance followed an earlier article he wrote on Canadians having medical insurnace when in the United States.

Title
Trueman - 6 ft. Bill

Persons
Stuart Trueman
- Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, November 6, 1911
- Died April 23, 1995
- Worked for the Telegraph Journal and Evening Times Globe, first as an office clerk, then as a cartoonist and sports writer
- Editor-in-chief, 1951 to 1971
- Continued to write weekly columns for the newspaper until 1993
- Wrote numerous books and published articles in magazines.

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