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duplicate of preceding page except it contains the newspaper clipping

May 24 1968 note in upper right margin: Over with arrow pointing to corner of page

Dear Jack.

    I recall the time when Algren and Conroy didn't have $6,000 between them!  Now he's a Pub-lic figure -- and Conroy is a big land-owner like Tolstoy or Faulkner.
    O Tempora!  O Mores!

newspaper clipping Spirits pay almost as much as people

   In 1966 Uncle Sam collected over 2.8 billion dollars in taxes from the sale of liquor--at the rate of $10.50 per gallon.

arrow pointing to newspaper clipping I'm sober 25 years come 17 June. If I'd drank a gallon a week over that time (Tax $10.50 a gal.) I would have given the Federals $13,660.50. I figure 1301 weeks because I've had 7 leap years in 1943-1968 AA.

   Am I a underlined:  "7-up" subversive?

-- Anxious ? -- HOW'S Tillery? give him my best - and Margaret too. JCD (aa)