February 15, 1945.

Mr. James Alan Coogan,
United Press Associations,
Caixa Postal 719,

Rio De Janeiro, S.A.

Dear Friend Alan:

It was most thoughtful and generous to do the thing you did and I assure
you I deeply appreciate it. Gertainly I would have kept your name out of
it had you not mentioned it, but you did a fine chore and I am grateful to
you fer it. : |

_ We have been hammering them right on the dome and I believe the blows are
having 4 telling effect. But the pity of it all is that the N.C.A.A., who
has the power to do something, does nothing but talk. That is all they have
ever done. 3 |

Congratulations on your fine family: and your good health.

Now, for the whereabouts of the Allen household. Eleanor married Gil
Williams, a Wharton School graduate and a Law graduate of Pennsylvania.
She is living at Lansdowne, out from Philadelphia about twenty miles. She
was married a year ago last August, and we are expecting her home for a
visit some time in April.

Jane married a Navy flyer, Lt. Elwood Mons, a Princeton graduate, who lived
in Chicago at the time she met him several years ago. They have a baby girl,
Jill, and while they are now at the Navy base at Glenview, Illinois, we are
expecting Jane home when her husband is apt to get his orders for the trans-
port base at Dallas. Seven months ago the wives were sent home and they
thought they were going to get an overseas mission, but it didn't material-
ize. These scuttlebutt rumors in the Navy keep them up in the air most of
the time.

Mit is color blind and has failed his test after being offered a commission
in both the Nary and the Marines. He went up a couple of weeks ago and
passed the color test, due to the fact, I think, that they have lowered the
requirement, but he hasn't received his commission as yet. He is hoping, be-
cause he says he gan't take it - practicing law here in Lawrence in civilian
garb. He is a very successful attorney and I will give him your address. I
hope he will drop you a line. They have a little red-haired girl, Judy, who
is a dandy. Mit bought a home at 2022 Vermont Street, and is very proud of
his place. He is doing well in the practice of law.

Bobby finished his medical work, obtaining the M. D, degree at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania last November. Since that time he has been stationed
at Bell Memorial Hospital as an interne. Bob and Mit both got down to see

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