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Nile Kinnick correspondence, December 1942-March 1943

1943-02-24: Page 03

Round-Robin' letter to Don Fish Bob Stacy & King Clarke) Wednesday Feb. 24, 1943 Dear Gents, 
Today I received your letters forwarded from Omaha. Much appreciate your including me in your round robin correspondence, but fear the next swing of the circuit may find me out at sea. Supposedly, we are due to board our carrier the latter part of March. Have been in training for over a year now, and the prospect of action sounds good. Don, it sure has been a long time since I have seen you; don't know whether it was two or three children ago? The family picture you enclosed is a dandy, and as you say, "brings me up to date." I am entitling it "A Proclamation of Virility" or "Malthus Defied" and sending it along to King and Bob as a challenge. All joking aside, it is good to see you and yours looking so well and happy, and to learn that things are going along for the better. Can't refrain from noting how pretty and charming Mrs. Fish appears - and what lovely legs, tsk, tsk. Don, do you remember the time you and Nig Garroutte took me along in your model T Ford to watch a football game at Guthrie Center? And how R. Mortimer and I used to cycle out to your grandad's farm and play  tennis on that old dirt court? You were quite a big shot to me in those days - and still are, now that I have been "brought up to date." We almost parted friendship, however, the night in grandma's yard when you showed me the punishing qualities of the figure four scissors. You doggone near killed me; my innards still hurt when I think of it. Thought I would bust laughing the time we were playing water tag in the Winterset pool, and you became so tired you could hardly

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Round-Robin' letter to Don Fish Bob Stacy & King Clarke) Wednesday Feb. 24, 1943 Dear Gents, Today I received your letters forwarded from Omaha. Much appreciate your including me in your round robin correspondence, but fear the next swing of the circuit may find me out at sea. Supposedly, we are due to board our carrier the latter part of March. Have been in training for over a year now, and the prospect of action sounds good. Don, it sure has been a long time since I have seen you; don't know whether it was two or three children ago? The family picture you enclosed is a dandy, and as you say, "brings me up to date." I am entitling it "A Proclamation of Virility" or "Malthus Defied" and sending it along to King and Bob as a challenge. All joking aside, it is good to see you and yours looking so well and happy, and to learn that things are going along for the better. Can't refrain from noting how pretty and charming Mrs. Fish appears - and what lovely legs, tsk, tsk. Don, do you remember the time you and Nig Garroutte took me along in your model T Ford to watch a football game at Guthrie Center? And how R. Mortimer and I used to cycle out to your grandad's farm and play tennis on that old dirt court? You were quite a big shot to me in those days - and still are, now that I have been "brought up to date." We almost parted friendship, however, the night in grandma's yard when you showed me the punishing qualities of the figure four scissors. You doggone near killed me; my innards still hurt when I think of it. Thought I would bust laughing the time we were playing water tag in the Winterset pool, and you became so tired you could hardly