The Dandy Tony Morrow, the Desperate Dan statue, which also features his dog Dawg, is the most photographed of 120 pieces of public art in the city. In July 2001 the cover of "The Dandy" featured Dan visiting Dundee and encountering his statue. In December 2012 the University of Dundee held an exhibition in partnership with D C Thomson to mark the comic's 75th anniversary. The Dandy The Dandy was a British children's comic published by the Dundee based publisher DC Thomson. The first issue was printed in December 1937, making it the world's third-longest running comic, after "Il Giornalino" (cover dated
Population of Nanjing in December of 1937 International Committee, including George Ashmore Fitch and its leader John Rabe, estimated the city's civilian population at approximately 200,000. Rabe, however, revised his estimate upwards on January 14 to "250,000 to 300,000 civilians" in a letter to the Japanese embassy. Rabe stated that earlier figures had been "deliberately cautious guesses". However, when another committee member, Lewis Smythe, compiled a population survey of Nanking the same year, he reaffirmed that Nanking's civilian population at the time the city fell was between 200,000 and 250,000. By contrast, most Western journalists who were in Nanking in November and December 1937 put forward much