Bob Loses His Temper

Wednesday, June 25

Dear Andrew and John,

I tore this out of yesterday's paper because I thought you might know one of the gals, the Cpl. having been at Lee for 19 months.

Also have some additional information on the Olympic Telethon. A couple of the kids in class sat up all night watching and said the best show was between 2 and 4 our time, which made it around midnight on the West Coast. Martin and Lewis, they said, tore things apart and got on Bing's nerves so much that he walked off the stage and wouldn't come back till they had left while they stood there taunting him. At one time, Jerry Lewis was running through the audience and calling back to Bob Hope on the stage. The camera switched to Bob just as he was shaking his fist at Jerry and shouting, "Don't you yell at me like that, you idiot!" And the kids said you could definitely see he wasn't taking it in the spirit of fun.

Another news item which you forecast just before you left Pusan was in the paper this morning; where the train from Pusan to Seoul was raided and 46 killed including an American soldier and 80 taken captive. As you said, it no doubt happens frequently but this was big enough to make the first page.

We're basking and baking in terrific heat since the week-end's cool spell; 103° in St. Louis, 102° in Memphis; only 97° here today but plenty humid.

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Editor's Notes:
John and Andrew were stationed at Ft. Lee in 1951.
Charles teaches business courses at the Baltimore Institute. His students gave him an update on the Telethon.

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