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THE METEOR
P ARAMOUNT - December 12-14 -
Barbara Stanwyck Burt Lancaster
in
"Sorry, Wrong Number"
WOOD'S
I003 Main Street YOUNG MEN'S CLOTHING HEAD TO FOOT
STEAK CELLAR
Underneath Carroll Hotel
FAMOUS FOR ITS HAMBURGERS AND FRENCH FRIED ONIONS
HENRY ROSS MEN'S STORE
Everything for Men
WILLS-CAMP COMPANY 819 Main Street STORE FOR SMART MEN
P A TTERSON'S SAFE SERVICE DRUG STORES
627 MAIN STREET and I020 MAIN STREET
TEXAS TAVERN
YOURS AS ALWAYS 611 Main Street
See PAUL TAYLOR, Agent
PHILLIP'S BROS.
Incorporated
906 Main Street
IN LYNCHBURG-IT'S
for
YOUNG MEN'S FASHIONS
Reynolds Drug Co.,
Incorporated
Prescription Work Our Specialty
LETTERS
Dear Mr. Follett:
As one old magazine man to onother, I
wont to tell you thot I think you hove guided your boys into doing o superb job with The Meteor. Your stories ore crisp, well-written, ond interesting. No reader can ask more.
And os on aging olumnus, I especially ap- preciote your efforts to report on Old Grods. This, I know, is difficult. It hos been my ex- perience that most V. E. S. men immediotely become illiterote, totolly incapoble of writ- ing o letter, upon greduetion. Possibly this is beceuse my generetion wes teught English
so enterteiningly by thet good mon, Henry W. Mettfield, thet efter leoving V. E. S. they found all other literary ventures sterile and unchallenging. (Keep this in mind, Mr. Fol- lett. Make your English clesses as dull as possible.)
Still, I suggest that if some fundomental method of communicotion could be devised, such as smoke signals or Besic English, the illiterate olumni would enjoy getting in touch with eoch other for purposes of brogging
-end reminiscing. Possibly they could bodger their grendchildren into writing letters for them-if they knew where to oddress them. There is the nub! I might myself try to write o letter to "Smokey'' Cuthbert, Class of '21, if I knew where to lind Smokey. This Smokey solemnly promised me 27 yeors ago that when he become President he would oppoint me ambossedor to the Court of St. James. I might have amounted to something in life had I not wasted all this time woiting for Smokey.
So here is a suggestion; possibly you could induce next year's editors to set aside o corner of The Meteor in which alumni could insert ads (for free, mind you) seying some- thing like this:
"Crabby Doaques, '21, would like to hear from Stinky Trollope, '21. Address: County Poor Form, Beor Wollow, N. C."
For my port, I wont to know not only whot become ot Mr. Cuthbert, who betroyed me, but of Jerry Brown, " Dinwiddie" Atkins, Croik Speed, Blackburn W. Johnson, a red· head named Rendolph who helped me run the school store (run it in debt), on ortist named Scotty, Wekley Johnson, o desperado nomed Smoth who illicitly owned a three- dollar pistol, Debney Langhorne, and Spenc- er McCullough. What become of these giants of my youth 7
If ony of these aged gents should hoppen to communicate with me, I shall be aston- ished. But it would be fun.
Sincerely,
Cameron Shipp, '21.
Editor's note: Mr. Shipp now writes stories for mony of our current mogozines such os l'rue ond The Saturday Evening Post.
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