THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
STAR BUILDING
KANSAS CITY, MO.

SEPTEMBER 21, 1940

DRe te Ce ALLEN
BASKETBALL COACH
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS

DEAR DOCTOR:

AS SOON AS | READ OF YOUR RETIREMENT (7?) | WENT TO WORK ON TWO TANGEN

ONE, OF COURSE, WAS TO CONTACT YOU AND DISCOVER THE TRUTH OR FALSITY 0
THE STATEMENT, THE SECOND WAS TO ASCERTAIN THE RUMOR'S SfouRCE. I HA
BEEN STYMIED ON THE LATTER BUT HAVE DISCOVERED WHAT STARTED THE THING

MOVING.

|T SEEMS YOU ONCE MADE A SPEECH (AT LEAST YOU ARE BEING QUOTED AS HAVIN
DONE SO) IN WHICH YOU SAID "| HOPE TO COACH AT KANSAS AT LEAST UNTIL BO
HAS FINISHED HIS COURSE." AND BOB IS A SENIOR THIS YEAR.

DOESN'T THAT ANCIENT VERSE GO SOMETHING LIKE THIS (GREAT OAKS FROM 1
~ ACORNS grows”

HAROLD ULAASSEN