OT: archy

[Ann Burlingham]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 9/1/2011 05:11 PM, Ann Burlingham wrote:
>>my mother read us archy and mehitabel when i was a kid,
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> But were you read "Barnaby" over the radio by Fiorello La Guardia?

Nope, but my mother enjoyed Jean Sheperd's readings from The Bobbsey
Twins on his radio show. She's a close contemporary of Sheperd.

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