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A reason for pride
A record-breaking seaion is
ming to an end at the Jersey
.j'Shore and litffl"aUy hundreds of
; t thousands of visitors will go back to
,"^eir homes with a variety of
."fljemorablt moments of their
^vacations at the seashore,
,y ii-Ocean City has a lot to offer its
'W^idents and visitors throughout
, the year and should be proud of its
-'iBUity to accommodate both the
; summer tourist and the year round
jatizen
Sentinel-Ledger today in
? dudes the Third Annual Souvenir
t'IMition which, both in its content
fjmA its conception, attests to the
fl p"ide of Jersey Shore dwellers,
le first Souvenir Edition was
lished following a suggestion
one of Ocean City's residents
•and the response to all three editions
;*hfs been stunning.
•' Ocean City does indeed behave, if
& wUl, in the best tradition for a
community — it offers
a remarkable amount of
•Wrvices and free entertainment for
*pti dollar and its residents, for the
nftst part, treat tourists as friends
irtSbhave come to visit their homes.
f^Wvom the opening of the free
flatCf
summer concerts to the endless
array-of recreation activities
designed to suit the whims of the
youngest infant to the most elderly,
to the special events which appear
weekly on the Music Pier
throughout the spring, summer and
fall, visitors and residents in Ocean
City rarely if ever find themselves
with nothing to do.
The Third Annual Souvenir
Edition is designed to serve as an
album of some of the best summer
events to refer to throughout the
winter when discussions of the
summer of 1980 in Ocean City arise.
It should also serve to remind
residents of this resort of their city's
heritage as one of the Jersey Shore's
best hosts and the fact that it can
still Justifiably claim to be
"America's greatest family
resort."
Ocean City indeed has reason to
be proud of its heritage and The
Sentinel-Ledger takes pride in the
opportunity to highlight in the
Souvenir Edition and other special
publications some of the attributes
which have enabled this
municipality to continue its healthy
growth.
She issue of surf sailing should be examined again
An issue which has been dormant
for several years stirred ever so
slightly at a recent meeting of the
Ocean City Council when fourth
ward Representative Jack Jones
asked for discussion of a letter from
the U.S. Surf Board Association
asking the governing body to consider
issuing more of the licenses
which allow catamaran sailboats to
be parked on the beach and launched
into the surf,
Although several other members
of councU said they felt there was no
more room for additonal boats, the
letter was referred to Pbliee Chief
Dominick C. Longo for his consideration.
While the issue has indeed been
one of hushed tones in recent years,
it burned with passion during the
summer of 1974 when then Commissioner
of Public Safety Luther L,
Wallace III initiated the experiment
of allowing sailboats to be launched
from the beach only to have
residents claim that the craft were a
hazard to swimmers,
The complaints reached such a
crescendo that ultimately Wallace
banned the sailing craft from the
strand until a compromise was
reached which specified certain
street ends for the catamarans and
issued licenses which were limited
to 75,
Those who 1 received the licenses
were chosen through a lottery in
fhieji* property owners were given
first consideration and license
holders were required to maintain
Insurance and prove their
proficiency to the satisfaction of
Ocean City Beach Patrol Captain
George T. Lafferty.
Once the licenses were issued,
they became far more valuable than
letters /^readers react
their then $75 fee because of the
limit and there were subsequent
reports of boats being sold for prices
far above their tone market value
because they were licensed for
beach storage and use.
While it may very well be true
that there are no more beaches
which can safely and prudently be
designated for catamaran use, it
would seem that there should be
ways that can be found to increase
the utilization of existing ones.
For example,local realtor T. John
Carey suggested during the original
hearings that racks could be built to
'store additional craft with fees
levied for the licenses which
would cover the cost Of construction
and maintenance.
Then too, Capt, Lafferty should be
consulted to find out if beaches
currently used for the sailboats are
The Sentinel-Ledger
capable of accommodating more
craft.
And, finally, perhaps the full issue
deserves a new hearing to determine
if there aren't now new ways
to allow greater access to the beach
and surf for sailing enthusiasts.
Surf sailing is a rapidly powing
sport which is nearly as exciting for
those who watch as it is for the
participants.
Also, the charm of a day on the
beach has certainly been enhanced
by the sight of dozens of brigitlycolored
sailing craft running with
the wind just beyond the surf line.
The surf sailors in Ocean City
have demonstrated their
willingness to work with municipal
officials and have proven to be a
responsible group of people.
Requests for greater access
should be given a lair hearing.
Page Four, Section Two Friday, August 22,1080
Give residents and visitors chance to vote on issue
Editor, SentlneHjedger:
There's a lot of nuke being
blown by readers In their
letters directed toward the
blue laws. Even the coundl Is
considering a study, and softspoken
businessmen are
surfacing with their opinions,
II Long-time residents are
)|' tailing other summer
i opinionated visitors to go to
! WUdwMd or elsewhere. What
It aU boils down to Is a controversy
with opposite armies,
each claiming the other
Is right.
It's not doing anything for
the Image of Ocean City or Its
visitors.
A few yean ago I had also
written to the editor commenting
on the blue laws. At
that time, and now, I still feel
the same.
The main controversy is the
Sunday sales. These sales
would be made on the board*
walk or in the shopping
blocks, for the most part.
I did offer to Join anyone In
my past letter, but I'm
leaving In a few days, so
someone else may find my
idea worth their attention.
What Is the idea?
Give the people who can't
vote a chance to give their
opinion. People like me who
spend the thousands of dollars
here every summer abide by
fee rules voted In by year
round residents, who may or
may not set foot on the
boardwalk all summer.
All that is needed are two
tables in front of the Music
Her attended by repreientatlves
of each group, and.
another two tables in frontof
Stainton's.
Bach person attending fee
tables can allow any interested
person to list their
name and permanent address
on an opinion sheet according
to which side they support.
This i simple task would
allow a yes a* no vote; even if
it doesn't count officially, it
A more restrictive Sunday closing law is touted
as a means to help 'halt city's downhill slide'
Editor, Sentinel-Ledger: As
a 28-year resident and a
businessman who has observed
the many fights ever
W Sunday blue law that are
prompted by its many absurd
provisions, I also share the
sincere desire of former
commissioner, freeholder and
boardwalk businessman, Roy
GUUan, for a "final solution."
I personally favor the
dosing of all businesses on
Sunday including my own
which are not essential. But to
permit only the sale of food
and medicine would give rise
to considerable inconvenience
to our visitors upon whom our
economy depends If the
operation of-hotels, motels,
guest and apartment houses,
gas stations, are prohibited.
But once the exceptions are
started, feehole is In the dike.
Where do they stop?
I do not favor the alter*
native of allowing all business
to be open. While I believe it
would not significantly Increase
the "hustle and
bustle 1 * which the present taw
does not succeed In avoiding,
it would certainly destroy the
uniqueness of our community.
I am already seriously
concerned about the "tacky"
look of certain areas of Ocean
City and the type of people
who leave their refuse, such
Current ordinante is called 'discriminatory/
reader urges for 'all or nothing* election
Editor's note." Tfc* '
fallowing letter waamsntto
Miyor Cheater J. Winberg
and msmbart of
OceonOty Coundl with a
laquHt It be printed tart.
Dear B4ayor Wlmbarg Mid
of city oouDcu:
In Ocean
but
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down to a point what only a
few businesses are farced to
be dosed on Sunday.
I can clearly remember the
Ume when the basketball and
tennis courts were closed and
pkygoM,
should keep our Sunday
closing laws whereby
everything Is closed (with fee
exception of food and medical
supplies) or open everything
ifcwbustoeijei,tttei^(M
opened its recreattonal
At tfali point in time, I (acuities for a fee; whereas
honestly agree with Roy th« private Individual cannot
lli I hik hld te do the same. THi certainly
whinied iiutail to whimtr we me founders of Oeto aty
had In mind when they
Initiated the Sunday closing
laws.
. I personally would like to
see the town closed on Sunday
•lit was many jean ago, but
I think we should let the
people of Ocean City decide
one way or the other as to
whether Sundtys should be
completely (doled or completely
open.
Dr. Richard L.Rwb
••;. '•••'• OceanCtty
as beer bottles, on the
sidewalks and private
property whose numbers Increase
each year. Otter togtine
residents have expressed
the sane concern and
wonder if Ocean City is
becoming the kind of place
bey win not want to Uve in
some day soon.
If there has to be a choice, I
would opt for a more
restrictive Sunday law in an
effort to halt our downhill
slide. With wide open Sundays,
it can only get worse
very quickly, and be a signal
to those whose principal aim
b profit
Perhaps It would be helpful
for The' Serthwl-Ledger to
conduct a poll In the form of a
coupon for readers to Indicate
their choice for an "open"
Sunday or a "closed" one with
fee exceptions they feel are
absolutely necessary Sunday.
Maybe in this way the
people and our leaders
faring their wisdom can find
a "final solution."
DanCFarreU
OceanCtty
will settle mis controversy of
who wants what, ,
I'm tired of people writing
in and speaking for the rest,
so ttey mink. Give the rest a
chance to speak for themselves.
If there Is a sincere
desire to give mis opportunity
to everyone who Is effected by
fee blue laws someone should
to It, now,
Idohopethe majority of the
permanent residents
recognize the summer and
tourist people who make Us
fee "world's greatest family
resort" and don't want mem
and their opinions on the next
bus out of town,
I sure wouldn't say "Hey,
you should know this la a
• tourist town and If you don't
want hustle and bustle go
retire someplace else."
No one should ask permanent
residents who don't
Uke tourists to leave from
Memorial Day to Labor Day.
For sure, we don't want
Identification cards for
everyone who stays here.
Tourists would not be
allowed before Memorial Day
and after Labor Day, and only
permitted weekends if they
complain three times in a
row. The fourth time they get -
thrown out completely and
bused to another resort
Permanent residents are
allowed during the summer',
only if they stay off feeboards
and Indoors writing letters
telling nuts like me to go to
WiMwood.
Let's hope we never reach
•this state In Ocean City. But
who knows, nothing U sacred
if the blue laws change, so
I've beard!
Charles Furimaky
chief urges
bond approval
By JERRY F. ENGLISH
Commissioner
Department of
Environmental Protection
In 1923 visionary American
post HartCrane was moved to
write these words describing
Ms panoramic view of New
York Harbor; "The ships, fee
harbor, and the skyline
of Manhattan, midnight,
morning or evening — rain,
snow or sun. It la everything
from mountains to the walls of
Jerusalem and Nineveh."
Inspired by this spectacular
view, Crane went on to write
an epic American poem, The
Britfec.
More recent environmental,
architectural, and landscape
visionaries were equally
inspired by mis view as they
went on to create another
"epic"; Liberty State Park.
First opened on Flag
Day (June 14), 1976, Liberty
Park has gone on to"become
New Jersey's most popular
state park, It is easy to see
why.
The park fully exploits fee
unparallelled beauty of New
York Harbor. The Statue of
liberty stands just offshore,
as does Ellis Island, The New
York skyline rises
majestically across the
harbor, and the Verrazano
Bridge can be seen in fee
distance.
Yet to fully appreciate the
impresslveness of Liberty
State Park, one must first
consider the condition of fee
park before Its development
Much of fee park was a
landfill. Sea grass abounded
and fee shore was littered
wife beer cans, old tins, and
driftwood. Rows of rotted
pilings formed a natural
graveyard, a silent
monument to a once-busy
waterfront
Today,. fee pilings have
been removed, and a
promenade (lined with flap
of fee50 states) has been buflt
which brings visitors into fee
very presence of the Statue of
liberty.
However, we cannot be
satisfied to rest on feelaurels
we have earned for feesuccess
of Liberty State Park.
There aremany more miles of
waterfront wasteland
rpfnnlnlng in New Jersey
awaiting rejuvenation,
A Joint state and federal
harbor cleanup program has
already been Initiated to
address mis problem. In 1977
New Jersey voters approved
fee Beaches and Harbors
Bond Act allocating $10
million for fee state's Initial
share In fee program. Bach
state dollar spent for harbor
cleanup in Norm Jersey is
matched by two federal
dollars from fee New York
Harbor ' Collection and
Removal of Drift Project,
This Joint appropriation
financed cleanups along the
Hudson River and Newark
Bay,
The $10 million approved
from fee 1977 bond Issue was
never intended to fund the
entire New Jersey cleanupp
program, however. An additional
$12 million is needed
to complete the program,
including $2 million for work
in South Jersey, With cost
sharing from fee federal
government, this will
generate a $66 million
waterfront Improvement
program,
The additional funding for
fee harbor cleanup program
Is included in fee1980 Natural
Resources Bond Issue which
will be on the November
ballot. If approved, this bond
issue will finance cleanups
along fee Passalc, Hafkensick
and Hudson Riverac fee
New York, Newark (and
Rarltan Bays, and along fee
Arthur Kill. In addition, a new
cleanup program will be
instituted for fee Camden
waterfront
Harbor cleanup will benefit
New Jersey through the
Improvement of waterfront
property values, reduction of
damage to vessels, reduction
of fire hazards, improvements
in fee quality of
air and water in fee harbor
areas, elimination of hazards
to life and health, and improvement
hi fee aesthetic
qualities and general appearance
of New Jersey's
waterfront
The primary beneficiaries
of these projects are New
Jersey's urban areas, but all
New Jersey residents can
enjoy and take pride In an
attractive, prosperous
waterfront
The 1880 Natural Resources
Bond Issue will provide fee
funds necessary to complete
fee harbor cleanup program
and revitalize. our waterfronts,
, Let's help to keep Hart
Crane's vision alive by voting
and tot's continue to protect
our earth. .
Letter policy 1
Hie Sentinel-Ledger
encourages its readers
to express their views
on this page. Letters
should be brief, signed
and accompanied by an
address and, when
possible, a telephone
number. Requests for
the name of the writer to
be withheld will be
. honored at the editor's
discretion. The editor
retains the right to edit
letters for length
without changing
meaning. To insure that
'your views make It in
time for publication in
the current week, letters
should be In our office*
no later than
Tuesday noon.
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One stop documentation
By DAVID M. MAXFIELD
SmlHuonlan News Service
American families trying to
track down their ancestral
nob know fee frustration:
vital records scattered across
fee country In county courthouses
or obscure government
offices, stashed In fee
attics of distant relatives, or
worse, inadvertently
distroved.
Art historians and
biographers, many of them
burdened also by limited
reasearch funds, used to
share similar frustrations.
Bit today it's easy for fee
scholar or simply fee curious
art lover to locate millions of
valuable documents In one
stop, at fee Smithsonian Institution's
Archives of
American Art based in
Washington, D.C.
Here can be-found a letter
from London written in 1783
by one of fee en's notable
portrait painters, Benjamin
West, an American expatriate.
In a cheerful tone
feat now seems odd — West
had become George Ill's
court painter and a member
of his inner circle — feeartist
offered congratulations to his
former pupil, Charles
Willson Peale, "and my
countrymen In general, on the
event of peace and fortitude
they have shown during fee
unhappy war,"
West continued, "You have
given me great delight In
saying you would by feenext
opportunity, send me a whole
portrait of feat greatest of aU
characters, , George
Washington."
"When we see thla nearly
200 year-old letter — the
'Con man alive and well 1
frayed paper, the firm hand,
the quaint spelling, ths
elegant expression," says
Garnett deputy director of fee
archives, "both West and the
18th centmy take on a reality
not found in books about fee
period."
Over the oast 26 years, fee
archives has collected and
codified 7 million
irreplaceable documents and
photographs gathered from
the nation's artists,
museums, dealers and
galleries. Deeded or temporarily
loaned to fee archives,
these papers are
available on microfilm not
only In Washington, but in
other regional centers —
Detroit, Boston, New York
and San Francisco.
This collection of personal
diaries, correspondence,
sketchbooks and business
papers, spanning nearly three
centuries, forms the building
blocks of art history.
Among fee letters in 0M
archives' flies i» a blunt note
by Wuulow Homer about Ms
painting "The Gulf Stream"
(1899).
"I regret very much feat I
have painted a picture that
requires any description,"
Homer complained to one art
dealer. "Hie subject of fee
picture is comprised in fee
title. I have crossed the Gulf
Stream 10 times and I should
know something about it."
Still later, in 1913, Airing
ttie New York Armory Sum,
which was to alter the
American art world by Introducing
modern European
painting and sculpture to this
country, Watt Kuhn, one of fee
organizers, wrote a friend-
"You haven't any idea how
Us confounded thing has
developed. Every afternoon
Lexington Avenue and fee
side streets are Jammed with
private automobiles, old
fashioned borse equipages
and tad cabs. The (New
past. You just, can't compare
today's letters to the level and
style of fee life and early Safe
century writing,"
Three or four times a year,
an archives truck travels to
fee regional centers,
bringing toWashington 200 or
York) Globe described fee so cartons of newly-acquired
crush on the outside as material. Besides
resembling opening night at correspondence, there are
fee opera, wife a uniformed old invitations, invoices for
attendant using • megaphone supplies, catalogs, cancelled
to call the chauffered checks and mountains of
automobiles,"
press clippings — useful
Though strongest In its 20th dues to feepast.
century records, fee archives Found among fee sculptor
Is concerned about feedecline Joseph Cornell's papers were
in the qualify of correspondence
in recent years. have Intended for one of hia
a number of things he may
Communications now are creations: Ping pong balls,
largely by phone, curator day pipes, cheap marbles,
Arthur Brrtm notes, and wine glasses and a bird's nest
"we're getting material with Acquiring all thla la an art
less information than in fee in itself.
Chain letter schemes continue in spite of warnings
By ADAMS, LEVIN
Director
New Jersey Division
of Consumer Affairs
feat when your name
reaches the top of a list of
names, thousands of other
people who are similarly
drawn into feescheme wUl be
He has probably changed sending you money and fee
Us appearance and approach dollars will just magically roll
recently. You may not to.
recognize him at first. But if These schemes are
you listen to what he Is really inherently fraudulent because
saying, you'll know him: feeit is mathematically impossible
for them to continue.
They all assume that fee
con man.
He's alive and well and
doing his best to lighten your
wallet.
For example, fee latest In
what seems to be a recent
number of people who participate
In fee scheme will
expand geometrically.
After just a small number of
rounds, however, the number
wave of get-rlch-qulck seams
made headlines as it swept of new people who must add
through New York earlier this their names to feeUst would
summer. We have received have to equal fee entire
Inquires In our office about population of the planet In
less-pubUcted chain letter
schemes which pop up
periodically.
These schemes are all
variations of feeold technique
in which a promoter promises
quick and easy riches in a
solicitation letter, convincing
people to add their names to a
Ust and, of course, to said
money. Die promoter claims
order, for the scheme to
continue.
No matter now feescheme
U described and despite all
fee usual claims thai "it is
perfectly legal," the
promoters cannot change fee
basic law of mathematics.
Some Of the solicitations for
chain letters claim feat they
are merely "marketing"
plans because you are buying
a "product." The "product"
is usually a photocopied piece
of paper containing a
"report" on how to get rich
quickly which you are Instructed
to "re-sell" to others
along with a copy of feechain
totter solicitation,
Of Course, fee "product
marketing" Is just a thin veil
disguising fee real purpose of
fee activities; to send fee
solicitation letter to
prospective participants.
To the con man, fee beauty
of fee old chain letter scheme
is that his "marks" do all fee
work, The slickest con man Is
someone who just gets feeball
rolling, site back, lets Ms
marks con themselves, and
then counts his money,
The chain letter, no
matter how it Is disguised, is
such a scam.
This helps explain why
chain letter schemes continue
to thrive despite being exposed
Ume and again as
fraudulent — and Illegal.
The lure of big riches for a
relatively small amount of
money is dangerously attractive
to many people, The
con man Is betting that
enough people will say: "I
might as well risk $10 or |2Q
when I have a chance to make
thousands."
In the peat majority of
cases, those who part wife $10
or |U in order to "buy into"
fee scheme'simply end up $10
or $20 poorer. The only people
who ever make any money in
these schemes are the Initial
promoters who pull in a lot of
money before fee scheme
collapses under the wielght of
ttie laws of mathematics,
"Financial success Is not
reserved for just a few smart
people," trumpeted one such
chain letter promotion which
we received in our office
nseenfly, ,,
' The' hitter continued as fee 1
con man baited fee hook to
snare his mark: "Take a look
around your neighborhood.
You'll see a lot of people who
are less intelligent than you
are and who don't work any
harder than you do, but for
FHets by Charl
A fisherman is silhouetted in slumber as he awaits a bite to signal iti way up his line which is
hanging from the walkway of the 50th* Street fishing pier.
Senators seek N.J. VHF license
In a move to secure a VHP* must allocate fee available
television station for Newlicense to a state without a
Jersey, U.S. Senators station, if It is technically
Harrison A Williams Jr. (D-feasible to do so.
NJ) and BUI Bradley (D-NJ)
will introduce a measure this
week which would provide for
at least one VHF station in
each state,
The Williams-Bradley
measure, announced this
week, will be submitted as an
amendment to S. 2827, fee
Communications Act
Amendments of mo, which is
currently pending before fee
Committee on Commerce,
Science and Transportation.
The amendment would
require that if a VHF station
becomes available in a state
that .already has other VHF
stations, the Federal Communications
Commission
mmm
, New Jersey and Delaware
are the only states now
without commercial VHF
stations,
"As has been well
documented, people in our
state must depend on news
from major television stations
based in and therefore biased
towards New York and
Pennsylvania," Williams
nid, "To date, unfortunately, licensee for three major
fee actions taken by feeFCCtelevision stations, including
to rectify this problem have Channel 9 in New York.
been something short of "win Channel 9 available
satisfying."
for relicensing, the FCC has a
Williams, co-chairman of perfect opportunity to resolve
fee New Jersey Coalition for New Jersey's longstanding
Fair Broadcasting, has
worked for the past decade to
secure a VHF station for fee
state.
"In the past, fee FCC has
refused to give our state a
VHF station because, In order
to do so, it would have had to
take a frequency away from
an otherwise qualified out-ofstate
licensee, Thla obstacle,
however, was recently
removed," Bradley said,
Williams referred to a
commission decision in
January to deny license
renewal for RKO General,
problem," Bradley said. "Our
amendment would direct fee
FCC to seize this auspicious
opportunity and finally
provide a major outlet for
news and public Information
for our state's 8 million
residents."
In the House, U.S. Rep,
Andrew Maguire (D-7th
District), and a number of
other New Jersey
congressmen have Introduced
a similar bill which is before
fee Committee on Interstate
and Foreign Commerce,
Earlier this year, Williams
and Bradley joined in
petitioning the FCC to
reallocate Channel 9 from
New York to New Jersey, A
commission decision on
whether to begin proceedings
on fee petition is expected
within ttie next few weeks.
some reason, they art earning
a tot more money."
If your neighbor la earning
more money than you, It isn't
because he respond! to chain
letters or wild get-rich-quick
promotions. And if you don't
believe feat, you're probably
just fee kind of mark feeeon
man Is seeking.
Page Five, SecHon Two
Friday, August 22, 1980
Ann
Persistence Is probably fee
most Important quality
needed in this work," says
June Halfley, area coltoctcr
for fee Washington office. "A
sense of timing la alao Important."
Sometimes, an artist's heir,
usually a widow, win offer all
fee papers the archives would
Uke, but others need gentle
prodding as well as help In
sorting and boxing the
material. "One told me later
she could never have done this
by herself," Haifley
remembers.
Luck also seems to play a
rather large role In the
acquisition work. McCoy
recalls that, shortly sftar
painter Rockwell Kent made
arrangements to donate nil
files to the archives, a fire
devastated hU New York
home.
"We wish fee whole houae
wife Its now Irreplaceable
contents had been lent to fee
archives," Kent later taJd.
And then there are fee
surprises. Called to Vermont
after fee death of Robert G.
Mclntyre, fee last owner of
fee influential New York City
Macbeth Gallery, McCoy and
other archives representatives
found "great mounds
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catalogs, stacks ,- ? of
photograph albums, aD
scattered through the
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confusion. One Inconspieama
little bundle
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artUts, those who haw* loBpt
detailed diaries and carried
on rich correspondence wljfc
more prominent figuref of
their day.
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Green Shaw, a relatively
unknown abstract paUHMf
fee lttoa and *M, contain
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from Cole Porter and
Mencken, notes from Aa|t«
Loot and F.SccttFUinrrtl
and a small, while card from
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