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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)