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//IEWS by VIRGINIA

MAGELLAN WAS RIGHT – PART I

Hello everybody! It's nice to be writing to and for you again. You see #85 and #86 were put together before I left on my long trip last June as I had left instructions with the printer to have #85 ready for shipment Aug. 1 and #86 on Oct. 1. Result he didn't do a damn thing until I got home in September and then delayed and made ex- cuses for still another six weeks. So, as most of you know, you didn't get #85 till late in November and #86 in January. But we have a new printer now started with 86 and I hope we can keep things under control from here on. So you want to know what I did with myself last summer? You don't? You don't give a -? Well YOU go and read the funny paper while I tell the others all about it and I'll see YOU in #88.

Way back in June I took off on the big adventure. Sat night with the Chi chapter people in Chicago for an interesting evening with 12 or 15 of the girls and a few wives. Next day to Detroit for a get-together with a few of the girls trying to put the Beta chapter back together again after one of the former members had blown it apart. Monday into New York for a week while I tried to find an agent to handle a book I have written (not about TV) and visits in person and by phone with friends in the area. On Friday, Nancy, who had kindly put me up all week drove me out to JFK to board the big bird and we were off for Ireland. Since I was on an around-the-world fare it didn't cost any more to stop in various places before and after the tour proper, so I went to Ireland first.

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Took a three-day tour around southern Ireland to all those places I've heard about and never seen Cork, Kilarney, Shannon, Limerick, etc. Had a marvelous evening at an Irish singing bar in Kilarney. We sang every song I've ever heard and a few new ones. Then a flight