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AND have been busy doing the same with television ever since TV broadcasting has been with us, I mean since WW2. Anyway, the song the woman in the show sang came over here and was all the rage, in fact, James Melton sang it for years during the time when radio was really big here. Melton sang it until he got sick of it and refused to sing it anymore.

  Once or twice Ed Sullivan (that great know-nothing entrepeneur) [sic] had the English comedian Charlie Drake on, also Tommy Cooper (he always wears a tarboush, or what used to be called a fez here).  Drake makes me think of Mickey Rooney, though Rooney was never funny to me, is also a low-intellect.  Tommy Cooper pretends to be a messed-up magician, cracks jokes that are far from old hat and usually original.  These are just a few we'd enjoy over here if we could see them.  American comedy has been sick and tiresome for years and years.  On BBC-TV one night (while living in Maidstone) I saw Jack Benny's contribution to one of those "command performances."  He should have been booed for his wretched monologue, which was mainly about himself, how he changed his name.  But I suppose no one boos while the Queen is present, and the British have no hesitation about booing bad performances, contrary to Americans, who are too polite and suffer ill-performing entertainers without open complaint.
  A few nice days now with promise of a few more, and I hope your weather is better now, with regards to you and family.

Mead P.S: Nixon keeps grabbing and clutching for better ratings. Most miserable was the much-publicized attempt to free prisoners. Canada has been doing well with trade to China, especially their grain-glut, so Nixon & Co. hope to better their economic record.