Northward Ho

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Well here we go again. Seems like two travel reports in 3 issues is kind of overdoing it but I hope at least some of you will be interested besides it saves me from having to dream up another topic.

The May trip was truly a public relations trip with a little personal interest thrown in, while this trip was the reverse - a vacation trip with some PR work thrown in. I flew to San Francisco on Sept. 4th, checked my bags at the downtown air terminal and walked over to KGO radio and did a 11⁄2 hour interview and call-in program with Alan Spann. It went very well and we got a number of interesting calls. After the show I went next door and called down to the lobby a fellow with whom I had gone to high school and later had roomed with for two years while in graduate school in Berkeley and San Francisco. I told him over the phone only that I was an old friend. He came down, looked around and saw only a lady that he didn't recognize and was sort of bewildered. I called out his name and he came over with a puzzled look and said "Do I know you?" I said yes and began to drop hints from our past and finally asked after his mother using a pet family name. From this he tumbled that Virginia was his old room-mate. I reminded him that he and I together had won a YMCA track meet when we were both members of the same boys club. It was a strange meeting. He is actually about 2 years younger than I am but he is now bald, paunchy, double chinned and in general more elderly looking than this girl. He was surprised to death at the revelation. I gave him a copy of the leaflet to digest and we parted still good friends. (I hope).

Next morning I had to get up at 5 AM to dress, eat and get

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