.MTYyMw.MTQzMDMw

in pencil in top margin C.R. Midwest Humor letterhead ON TIMES SQUARE AT RADIO CITY ALFRED LEWIS, MANAGER HOTEL TAFT 7th Ave. at 50th St. NEW YORK 19 BING & BING INC. MANAGEMENT

Feb 20, 1947 Dear Jack -

    Permission herewith granted to use a section of BBWC in your monumental work, The Wisdom of Israel.
    I am up to my ass in chorus girls, and when all this is over I will  have many a tale to tell you, with which to speed a long winter night.  For the present, be assured that I am 

Yrs. Max