November @, 1941.

Mr. Dan Partner,
Sports Desk,

The Eansas City Star,
Kensas City, Missouri.

Dear Dan:

I just returned from Cape Girardeau today and have
your letter dated Monday. No, I am not planning to take a shot at
Missouri athletics, although somebody could easily take them apart.
The statement I made about big time subsidized fpotbell carries —
plenty without mentioning names. 7

Shaten ef Jim Reuseh’ Just think of it ~ back in
1830, when it happened in Columbia, Missouri, and Jim Pausch was
getting $75.00 a month for selling insurance, and he sold it, Dans
And to think of what is going on down there with the same outfit
and the same men, only someone else is doing it. And Missouri is
out their chest end parading like a striped tiger wder
the effeots of cocaine. But I can't be bothered about those guys
down theres I will see what I ean do about my basketball team.

- How answering your question about a staff member.
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When people talk to me about any angle of our local situation I re-
fuse to be drawn in a ae ce I can frankly say to you I
know not one thing about it. There are so many rumors going around

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Sens Mine T will enjoy © chiniing bee with you. i,
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but it ie not about this football situation here. 1, too, am sorry.
that I did not get to see you Priday night. But I will have an
opportunity to prolong our visit. I always enjoy visiting with
youe I will be in Kansas City on December 6th. I will not be there
wee ee eee eh een pa ee
the oldest women’s club in Kansas, and since she is in the cast
visiting with Eleanor and Bob, I am going to take a couple of the
members to the Friends in Council dinner which is the 70th anniver-
sary of the club, - Mrs. Be H. Lindley and Mre. R. %. 0 "Leary,
Ted's mother. ;

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