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letterhead HOURS BY APPOINTMENT TELEPHONE SA -2-3436 DR. MAX SHURE CHIROPODIST FOOT SPECIALIST 1187 S. Independence Blvd. CHICAGO ILLINOIS

Aug. 18, 1950 Dear "Longshot": -

    Keep away from the horses, unless they're the female human kind and have a nice buttock.  They're the only kind I ever play with; and if I lose my pants, it's for a good cause and it only costs me a couple bucks.
  I assume you are out at the Mansion to work on your new book.  You should be due with a best seller; as one of your most fervent fans I'd like to see you give Algren a little competition.  Everyone but my wife and I seem too enthusiastic about that - "Golden Arm" of his.  I was thinking of writing a novel about a guy with a coming pecker, but seems it's not news; everyone I know has a coming pecker.  That's why this world is so damned overpopulated.
    I don't think that girl ever did get Nelson to lecture for her club.  The last time I saw her, she wouldn't talk to me.  Maybe it was because I was looking too closely at her milk-bottles that she calls breasts.  My wife doesn't