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Show REAL "BOOTS" LEARNS TO FLY IN RACINE: SAYS IT'S EASY Artist Edgar Martin's Boots of "Boots and Her Buddies" has found hfr real prototype in Miss Charlotte Johnson, 20, jvho's pictured above in a closeup and in her flying togs. Yes, the original Boots inspired her to learn to pilot a pinne. I By NEA Service RACINE, W,s., Jan. 8. There's more than one Boots of "Boots and Her Buddies" fame in Racine and both can fly an airplane. One exists in the comic strip of Edgar Martin, NEA Service artist which is published daily in the Racine Times-Call. The other is Miss Charlotte Johnson, 20. blond winner of several beauty contests who found in the pen-and-ink Boots her inspiration to be an aviator j or should we say "aviatrix?" i When Boots of the comic strip bc'-5a bc'-5a a learning to fly recently, Charlotte Char-lotte decided that she would do the same thing. She had driven an autp since she was 11 years old, but she had never been in an airplane be fore. - Now, according to Ed Hedeen, who runs the aviation school here, j Charlotte-is one of his most ac-1 complished student-flyers. . I "I decided that if Boots could learn to fly a plane I could learn to fly ont', too," explains Miaa Johnson. "Really, it isn't nearly as difficult as I thought it would be.'' j Some day she may quit her job ad telephone operator and take up1 aviation as a profession (aviation i helps those who want to rise in the world, you know) but just now Miss Johnson flies for the' fun of it. But nobody calls her Miss Johnson, John-son, nor even Charlotte, any more. To everybody now she's "Boots"-nothing, "Boots"-nothing, else hut. ( |