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material. Evidently it appeared on July 16 - Nobile said it was to run in 80 papers, led by (of all places) the Chicago Tribuneunderlined No papers in this region are among the magic 80, but a reader in Richmond, Va., wrote me about seeing it.

  We made the trip west, to visit Midge's folks, in

late May/early June. But New Ross, Indiana, was our westernmost point. (Crawfordsville is the nearest emporium to New Ross, which is as lost in cornfields as Canterbury NH is in forest.) So we had no chance this time to get to Moberly, or Iowa, or Kansas either.

                Thanks very much for the copy of the Post Dispatchunderlined story.

We were delighted that that newspaper had the good sense to do a feature on you. Got a big laugh out of the quote of you telling how not to miss any "immortal words." And the four photos of you are a fine present. Especially nice to see one of you in the 30. In return we are sending you a photo that our daughter Teresa took of us on our trip back East just after writing you last year. It's the same spot where we had a grand spat, Chicken & I, the year before we were married (ie, in 1949). We were hitchhiking & got left at Charlottesville, Ind., & of course I had to