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January 14th, 1943

Dre Fe Ce Allen
University of Kansas Athletic Dept.
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Doc:

Needless to say;I am one of the many who were quite pleased with the
way your ball club has snapped out of it after a rather hectic
session at the beginning of the yeare

It seems as though our Psi brothers have been a problem here of late,
but speaking strictly as an outsider it would appear from the sur=
face that things have been patched up -= at least the scores indicate
thate .

I guess I am just a hometown boy at heart but I still follow with
great enthusiasm the basketball team at the State "U".

Sorry I wasn't there the other night for the Missouri game -= last
time I saw them play was when I went with you on the bus to Columbia
in the spring of '39 and they gathered fifty some points, but I
don't know why I should remind you of those unpleasant thingse

I am on my third year of contract at 20th Century-Foxe At the end
of my second year they gave me a one hundred dollar a week raise,
but the war has put an end to all young men working in pictures
except a few who have families. I am getting ready to go in the
service like everyone else.

I am submitting an application for Officers' Training at the Coast
Guard Academye It requires three letters of recommendation and I
thought perhaps one from you, who,I hope,remembers a little some=
thing about me at school,would be greatly appreciated. Coming from
you I know it would carry a great deal of weight.

As I look back,I was in a lot of activities, but the only rabble-
rousing I ever did was to start a fire under (our old friend) Ad
Lindsay. Will you ever forget the time that Friend called you and
wanted the Phi Psi's to cease heckling his son-in-law?

Be sure and remember me to Mrs. Allen and the family, and Bob and
Mite

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