Saturday was mostly confined to the hotel recovering from the 3 AM show on Thursday, the meeting on Friday night, packing etc. I did find a little restaurant just down the street from the Parker House called, I believe, the "Coach Grill" where I had two of the nicest, most complete dinners I've ever had for the amazing price of $3.50. They even served crackers and dip before you got your dinner. I never saw that in even the swankiest places. This is frankly a plug because I feel good places should be complimented as well as bad ones condemned. That evening I flew to New York. As I arrived earlier than the friend I was to stay with returned to town I got off of the airport bus at the Commodore to check my bags and kill a couple of hours. When the bellboy had unloaded my bags at the check room he turned to me and said, "Say didn't I see you on the Allen Burke show a couple of months ago?" Again I was caught dead to rights.

Sunday afternoon my friend Lola (see ad on page 68 of TVia 50) went down to the Manhattan hotel where I had reserved a room for meeting with the N.Y. people. No N.Y. subscribers. showed up between 4 and 7 though 2 of our New Jersey girls did. It was a considerable disappointment (and also a waste since I'd paid $25 for the room). So we adjourned to Susanna's for a visit with her which was very enjoyable.

Monday evening I did the Barry Farber show on WOR which turned out pretty well. Not as well as I would have liked because Barry used up a good deal of time on irrelevant matters and there is never enough time anyway. I did learn that his show is syndicated to about 15 other cities too so we got some extra coverage that way.

Tuesday noon I was to be taken to lunch by one of our FPE members at one of the special clubs in N.Y. and as I was early I was standing on the sidewalk in front of it awaiting his arrival. A couple of men walked by and looked a little more than usual at me as they passed, got about 10 feet beyond me and one spoke to

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