October 8, 1945.

Ensign Howard G. Engleman, USHR,
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your dayhawk Rebounds. Me have been sending them to you at the latest
address we had - 1055 Euclid Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida. This is the
fourth one. We get them out about once a month. Won't you tell me if
you have failed to get any of the four? I do not see how it could
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Certainly your name has not been stricken from the list, nor will
it be. When do you expeat to be transferred to Frisco? I hope that it
may be your good fortune to go through Kansas and to have the liberty
of stopping off in Lawrence for a little while. We would be delighted
to see youre

Regarding the Hebrew race being predominant in Miami, do you know
of any big city where they are not predominant? Bob writes that the .
little fellows with big noses are very prominent in Philadelphia. In
fact, he says it is the exception to find a white man ruming loose.

I know you and Red Dugen must have covered a lot of territory when
you and he got together. Red is sure a swell fellow. I am very fond
of him indeed. | os

Thank you for your overstatement regarding my reputation. There
are two types of reputation, Rope. You will alin in my baseball
class you used to say, "There are two schools of thought on this subject.”
Would this not apply to the reputation of your former basketball coach?
When people tell me the things you say I always remind them that there
was a fellow who lived just across the border over in Missouri, and his
name was “esse James. He was quite a famous character and they ran his
picture in quite a mumber of papers. Well, Jesse is gone, and I am the
only guy left on this side of the old order.

But seriously, Howard, I thank you for the compliment, but don't
put me in the class of the big boys. Just keep me down with the muscle
morons and that will be fine.

We were to play Great Lakes and had the date of February Sth, but
Tony Hinkle wrote and stated that the orders from higher up had prohibited
the Great Lakes team from playing in any district but their own, the fourth
H.C.AA. district. Therefore it was necessary for him to cancel games
with Kensas in Kansas City, and with Kentucky in Louisville. In the