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April 3, 1942

Dr. F. CG. Alien
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Doc:

I was happy to receive your letter but I knew what you were
going to say about Tucker and Jap Haskell as well as the

O. U. Basket ball score against the Aggies. The Sooners
were badly out of condition and they lost out late in the
last half of the brawl which always takes place when these
teams meet.

I hold no brief for Bruce Drake but I don't approve of the
way Henry Iba beat him the other night. I think Tucker play-
ed a fine game, is a fine team player and I like his spirit.
Under all of the pressure and publicity he has had this
winter, he maintained a high scholastic standing and he is a

fine "cocky" American kid. As for the scum on théfthletic
staff, you may have them. They are all a bunch of second
raters like Guinn Henry. The game was really a great dis-
appointment to a fine crowd as both teams had lost their edge
completely.

It was good to have your fine letter and I am in a mood to |
wonder what we would do without the fine friendships we hold
in Life. I am about to enlist in the U. S. Navy again. I
have passed my interview and physical examination and the
papers go to New Orleans for approval, so I may not be here
to weleome you next year. This step may change the entire
course of my life but everything is different each day sol
am putting my destiny on the platter and the little woman
by will go along with me.

  

yl Sincerely yours,

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QO. Burnside