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Sunday Dear Sherwood: "God!" you said once "How life makes one pay and pay when one begins to compromise!"

"Well -- not to wait, but to laugh -- you were right. You're dam right, you're right! It is as the Life said You took that trouncing -- eh! Lets see how much more you will stand.

All of which is my main reflection after crawling out of the damdest grilling I ever had.

The agency can pile it on a-plenty as you know -- but that's nothing. The girl that runs Marco's Household magazine collapsed and threw the job of summarizing a big market survey onto me. Can you imagine it. Statistics on soap, oil stores breakfast foods and the like that kept me grinding past midnight -- nights on end.

That's why I haven't answered your good letters more promptly. Dog tired -- not a thought worth setting down