sonal financial matters as well. I'm sure all of her pleasure in seeing me wasn't just personal. We all owe her a big thanks for keeping things going all by her little lone self.

So that ended what has been termed sometimes kindly and by others unkindly, "Virginia's World Tour." But its statistics are rather im- pressive.

I was gone 90 days, traveled about 24,000 miles, visited 37 cities in 8 countries by means of 25 plane flights on 17 different airlines plus 8 trains and 1 ship. I gave 14 television shows, 9 radio shows, 6 news- paper interviews, 3 magazine interviews, and took part in 3 seminars, read 1 professional paper, met with 17 different TV groups and saw 180 different individual TVs.

Anyone else want to join the public relations effort?

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FINANCIAL REPORT

As I always do when money has been donated toward some purpose below is an accounting of moneys received. I have not listed the contributors by name as contributions ranged from $1 to $50 and per- haps the first was as important to its giver as the latter was to its. In any case my thanks to all who helped me in this effort. Naturally I saw a lot and had a lot of interesting experiences personally as anyone would. But I think that the statistics on the previous page indicate that I also worked pretty hard for the cause. For example 15 of the total of 23 radio and TV shows were done in a 30 day period on the way back covering Boston to New Orleans and Baltimore to Dallas. Although radio and TV interviews sound and look easy they are nevertheless very emotionally exhausting since you must be constantly on your toes that some one doesn't pull a catch question or that you let your guard down and give weak or indecisive answers that can be misinterpreted and cancel all your efforts. TV parties are always fun but they never end early and the late

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