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1 Sunday 28 Jan 1968 Dear Jack - Thanks for your letter and good news of The Tillerys. Give them both a smootch [sic] from me!

   I found this in [[underlined:  "Time"] 19 Jan. 1968: 

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What living man do Americans admire most in all the world? Dwight Eisenhower, 77, according to Pollster Georg Gallup's annual popularity survey. The top ten: Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Billy Graham, Bobby Kennedy, Pope Paul VI, Everett Dirksen, Richard Nixon, George Wallace, Ronald Reagan and Harry Truman.

Aren't you happy to see dear old mushmouth on the list! Here is my own list: 1 Red Grange 2 Charles de Gaulle 3 Muhammed Ali 4 F. J. Walsh 5 Joe Diggles (me). 6 Jack Conroy 7 Gloria Swanson 8 Nathan Leopold. 9 Martin Luther King 10 Cardinal Cody.

   Thanks to Gloria I think my list has more sex appeal than Gallup's