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Nile Kinnick correspondence, March-October 1943

1943-03-27: Back

quaintances. How I do enjoy running into people from Iowa. After lunch we saw Mary Martin at the Shubert in her new musical, "Dancing in the Streets." It was just fair - barely good enough to write home about. Never before have I seen so many shoe shine boys as linger along the store fronts on Washington St. in Boston. They are an arrogant, undisciplined, impudent lot, these little street gamins, already wise in the ways of the world. It is almost impossible to get by them without stopping. They will use every means to get your foot up on their small portable shoe stand. Its funny how the taunts of small boys can put an older man ill at ease and leave him completely at a loss for suitable rejoinder. Enjoyed your letter, Gus, with the enclosed clippings about "politicking" in the F.L.B. appointments and Neil Naidens parachute jump to safety. Mother, I hope you can persuade Ben to delay buying a ring until he gets home. He'd get skinned a hundred different ways by those shysters around naval bases. I should think it wise to get Ellie's approval of the ring selected, or at least know her specific preference beforehand. However, I am in no position to advise. Here are some books I'd like to have you get for me: "Van Loon's Lives" and "This is My Best" edited by Burnett; also a volume on Jefferson, a good one, containing a lot of his writings. Keep an eye out for a good  book or two on Russia since the Revolution. A short letter from Tait says that his wife passed on March 19th. Hope you"ll drop up and see him, rather the next time you are over that way. He thinks very highly of you.   Love,  Nile
Happy birthday, Gus, on the 3rd - or is it mother?

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quaintances. How I do enjoy running into people from Iowa. After lunch we saw Mary Martin at the Shubert in her new musical, "Dancing in the Streets." It was just fair - barely good enough to write home about. Never before have I seen so many shoe shine boys as linger along the store fronts on Washington St. in Boston. They are an arrogant, undisciplined, impudent lot, these little street gamins, already wise in the ways of the world. It is almost impossible to get by them without stopping. They will use every means to get your foot up on their small portable shoe stand. Its funny how the taunts of small boys can put an older man ill at ease and leave him completely at a loss for suitable rejoinder. Enjoyed your letter, Gus, with the enclosed clippings about "politicking" in the F.L.B. appointments and Neil Naidens parachute jump to safety. Mother, I hope you can persuade Ben to delay buying a ring until he gets home. He'd get skinned a hundred different ways by those shysters around naval bases. I should think it wise to get Ellie's approval of the ring selected, or at least know her specific preference beforehand. However, I am in no position to advise. Here are some books I'd like to have you get for me: "Van Loon's Lives" and "This is My Best" edited by Burnett; also a volume on Jefferson, a good one, containing a lot of his writings. Keep an eye out for a good book or two on Russia since the Revolution. A short letter from Tait says that his wife passed on March 19th. Hope you"ll drop up and see him, rather the next time you are over that way. He thinks very highly of you. Love, Nile Happy birthday, Gus, on the 3rd - or is it mother?