KANSAS STATE COLLEGE
OF AGRICULTURE AND APPLIED SCIENCE

MANHATTAN

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

January 16, 1941

Dr, Forrest C. Allien

Department of Physical Education
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear "Phog";

This is a tardy acknowledgment of your
kind letter of January 9 relative to some
newspaper comments which have been made,

You may rest assured that neither Michael
nor myself intend to do anything which would
affect you personally. We have worked too
many years with you to not understand that you
have the interests of all at heart, and I mean
in a broad sense too. Furthermore, I know how
difficult it is to get your ideas into a news-
paper with the inferences which you originally
meant to be attached to these ideas. When I
was commenting over the phone to our corres-
pondents I was not then aware the comments were
for publicity purposes and had not even read
in the paper your statements. They read these
statements to me over the phone and I made some
remarks that sounded somewhat like the comments
the correspondents finally put in the paper.
"Mike" and I both think very highly of your
knowledge of the national athletic setup and
certainly wouldn't want to do anything that
vould personally reflect upon you.

With best personal regards, I am

Very truly yours,

LOE
i. Hes King
Faculty Represéntative

Kansas State College

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