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in pencil in top margin Hecht, Mike in red ink in left margin Jack Conroy IMAGE in lower right of page: drawing of a squatting dog with fangs protruding over its upper lip Dec. 28, 1987 Happy Holiday Sermon From The printed letterhead: curmudgeon of Deerfield printed letterhead: (ker muj'en) n. a churlish, cantankerous person

   This Christmas I spent in Synagogue praying for those poor misguided souls (called masochists by psychiatrists and bastids [sic] by citizens of Brooklyn) -- Oh Lord! Forgive them, for they know NOT WHAT THEY DO!! -- who were dreaming of a underlined: White Christmas, and who in the process brought:
  Those angry, devastating  blizzards of Dec 15 & 28 to Chicago & Denver.
  SNOWFALL -- 3 foot snow fall -- to Tucson, Phoenix, and other delicate cities of the Sun Belt.
   Freezing Nights to San Diego, Los Angeles, and other SUMMER-only sites in So. Cal., Texas, Luziana, 'Bama, 'Ole Miss, Jawja & Floryda.  May we be spared their dreams in 88!!

Mike Hecht