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but I worked hard and my marks were well above average, while at the same time I participated in various extra- curricular activities, such as being editor of the college рарег. The velvet dress was apparently forgotten.

After going to the University, I met the girl who was to become my wife and romance filled every moment not taken up with my studies. We both graduated and went back to my home town. Now the problem was how to eat. There was a thing called the depression, but I found a job and about a year later the first of our six children (boys and girls, what else?) arrived. What with buying diapers and life insurance and making a living, there wasn't a spare moment except one.

One halloween, another couple invited us to a cos- tume party at their home, and I remembered the velvet dress. Only this time there wasn't any velvet dress. It was the day of the knitted suit (even as now) with skirts half way between the knee and the ankle, and Greta Garbo was at her zenith. I laughingly suggested to my wife that I go as "Gritty Garbage", and she thought it very funny thank goodness.

So I wore her knitted suit. The skirt was red and above it a beige knitted shell. The jacket was red, it might have been "Chanel" except for being two long. This time I wore a long Blond Wig - cornsilk, I guess and had a wonderful time. We took another couple home from the party and I'll always remember the husband say- ing: "Gosh it sure dosen't seem like George was with us tonight. Gritty Garbage really took over".

I don't think my wife relished the remark and no- thing more waş said.

Time moved along and we were busy with our family But, in the early forties things rared up a little and I began to think again of the velvet dress and Gritty Gar- bage. Occasionally my wife would "mislay" some article of apparel and it would find a resting place in a carton hidden in the basement. I bought some slabs of sponge rubber (no foam rubber yet) and in the evening, while she was out playing bridge, I'd be in the basement making breast pads. However; when spring came and she announced