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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>Here is a contest for all of us looking at the board on a nice Sunday morning. If these questions get answered too quickly (today), I will have another contest this coming week which will be "guess the final price", so even more folks can play. The winner will get this neat Ruth Stereoscope below....btw, there is a bonus question with this quiz. IF the winner guesses the bonus question right too, then they get $50 extra. You can decide if you want to wait and try to get the bonus or stick with the stereoscope. IF you try for the bonus and someone else answers all 3 questions before you then you lose both prizes. If they only answer the 1st 2 questions, then you still win as you were first. I will be the final decision on the contest in case of any issues. regards<br /><br />The questions are:<br /><br />1. Who published the pamphlet "Directory of the J.R Burdick Collection"<br /><br />2. Who wrote the introduction in this pamphlet?<br /><br />bonus question*3. What association do I have with the publisher?<br /><br />Good luck !!!!<br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1197821174.JPG"> <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1197821190.JPG"> <br /><br /><br />edited questions to be exact....and changed the bonus from author to publisher
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>1. A. Hyatt Mayor<br />2. Mayor William O'Dwyer of NYC<br />3. The relationship I'm sure was "just friends"<br /><br />Max
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>Very close but not quite.....email me privately if you have info I don't, or to discuss. (I won't give you the EXACT answer).... I have the Directory in hand.....
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>1. What person published the pamphlet?
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>1) Jefferson Burdick<br />2) A. Hyatt Mayor<br />3) secret love affair
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Gah! it's that double use of "mayor". I should learn how to read, or use google better.<br /><br />
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>Keep going....I will show you the answers when someone gets it. Ya'll are close. On the bonus question you will need to be a little more specific. When I tell the answers you will understand. SO, who was publisher on the 1st question...and on the 2nd who did the "Introduction"? ....it's in black and white when I show you....thanks for thinking. Also, what better way to do a question than snooping around info related to the grandfather of collecting? regards<br /><br />edited to add....I have edited the initial questions to be exact....I had to do this imo....I needed to make this a tad difficult...
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Leon<br />1. Metropolitan Museum of Art<br />2. A. Hyatt Mayor<br />3. Mr. Mayor is your second cousin, twice removed., or perhaps you have Burdick's personal copy of the Directory
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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>The introduction was definitely Mayor; I don't see a publisher listed on my copy unless you consider it the Metropolitan Museum, however Burdick is credited with writing the Directory.<br /><br />And was I actually close on #3? It was a pure guess, of course. I have no idea.
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>I almost want to give it to you for making me sit here and laugh...... Again, I do have the pamphlet so I think I know what the answers are....please do re-read the questions as I rephrased them to be more precise.
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>1) Burdick and Mayor<br />2) Mayor
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>The publisher of my pamphlet, the original Directory, is not the Met...
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>The only thing I can guess for #1 is<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lulu.com" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.lulu.com</a> and your copy was published in 2007?
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>I bought my copy from the Museum many years ago but I guess it is a reprint. There is no publisher listed.
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>1. Yale University Press, then, which sometimes published Metropolitan books<br /><br />(or alternatively, Uncle Sal, from Gutenberg Street in the Bronx...<br /><br /><img src="http://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/bigtenimages/gutenbergpress.jpg"> )
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1197823110.JPG">
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>My final guess<br /><br />1. From the Harlequin Press<br /><br /><img src="http://images.darkhorse.com/covers/300/10/10957.jpg">
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>My copy has the identical cover. But I'm sure it's been reprinted. Is yours an original?
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>I don't see a date on mine but from the feel of it and the look of it I would say it's 40'ish years old.....so it might be the original...
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Leon<br /><br />The publisher is "New York?"... attached is definitive proof from the Museum's on-line catalogue <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1197834270.JPG"> <br /><br /><br />edited scan size
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>I said <br /><br />"I will be the final decision on the contest in case of any issues. regards"<br /><br /><br />and as much as I want you to win it I don't think the city of New York published it....I see what you are saying but that is not the answer I am looking for....You can see my copy above. On the very 1st page, at the bottom, it has who published it.....regards<br /><br />
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>the LOC also says New York, but methinks that's not who leon is looking for...
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>(I think I'm going to have to work on finding the "sardonic" emoticon to insert in my emails)<br /><br />How many publishers can I think of?<br /><br />Simon & Schuster
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>The publisher is a person....very well known but only in certain circles....
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Max- I think Leon is saying the answers to his three questions are anything he wants them to be...I think he is running this contest like a police state! <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Sir Edward Wharton Tigar
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Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>1) Nostalgia Press<br />2) Mayor<br />3) They published your first article
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Rob Dewolf</b><p>1. Stephen King<br />2. Lee Behrens<br />3. A relation to both you and Peter C.<br /><br />Maybe this is what Leon is "looking for."
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>Actually, I am "looking" for the answers. As I said, I will "show and tell" when/if someone gets them correct. If this was easy it would have been over immediately. It's tough on purpose....
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Rob<br /><br />Here is Stephen King's first baseball writing from the IO magazine , and I think it's one of his first published works<br /><br />(sorry for the small scan)<br /><br /><img src="http://www.stephen-king.de/zeitschriften/bilder/io70.jpeg"><br /><br />I couldn't find reference to Leon anywhere in there <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>There are no answers to this contest...it is a riddle wrapped in an enigma.
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Leon<br /><br />With all options exhausted, we are left with the inexorable conclusion that the publisher was the Trucker Boy of the Trucker Boy Find.
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Rob Dewolf</b><p>Max,<br /><br />Do you have a link you could share with more info on that? The scan is kind of small. <i>Tom Gordon</i> I'm guessing is his most mainstream baseball-related work, but I'd be interested in reading more.<br /><br />Thanks.
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>It's going to be Seymour somebody since leon is "looking" and I'm guessing that this person taught Leon at some point (perhaps a college professor) and hence the reference to "show and tell."<br />I hope that helps somebody - I've reached the end of the internet...
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Rob<br /><br />Will do. I have a copy somewhere here that I will scan and send. If I recall correctly, King's story is only a few pages.<br /><br />Max
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>For those that have been on the board at least a few years it will all come back to you when you hear more.....
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>John DeFlores
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Preston Orem?
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>Isn't Sir Edward Wharton Tigar Bertie Wooster's funny uncle, you know the one with a thing for waitresses, in the P. G. Wodehouse stories? Did Wodehouse create the Bruces as well? It's all starting to make sense.
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Walter Corson!!!
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>Great guess....but not correct....
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>I'm out of guesses. I thought I got it right last time. You win! <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p><br />Rob<br /><br />Here's a larger scan<br /><br /><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2249/2115734362_b51a65051b.jpg"><br /><br />One page poem by Stephen King called Brooklyn August
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Dave Hornish</b><p>1) Metropolitan Museum of Darwaings & Prints<br />2) Mayor & Burdick<br />3) Leon did some programming for the Met
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Frank Nagy.<br /><br />Sold Leon some cards when Leon was 15
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>Ya'll old timers (of the board) will smile when you eventually here the answer...
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Bill Heitman.<br /><br />(Max's philosophy in guessing: one million monkeys typing for one million years will eventually produce Shakespeare)
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Randy Trierweiler</b><p>Its not my old buddy Buck Barker is it? <br /><br />Randy
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>all good guesses....but not yet...this one is not impossible as the one from a long time ago was....If no one gets it another hour or so then I might give a hint....
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Charles Bray
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>boxingcardman</b><p>The intro was written by A. Hyatt Mayor. Burdick himself wrote the explanation of the directory. <br /><br />Publisher: Hobby Publications...I think<br><br>Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>Should I say when someone gets at least one answer correct? The only thing is, then that spoils it for anyone else wanting to guess, as they would know the first answer?
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>boxingcardman</b><p>No one published it. <br><br>Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc
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Posted By: <b>J Levine</b><p>Mayor and Burdick both wrote an introduction for the pamphlet.<br />I am fairly certain that it was published by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art but since the city owns the museum I think Adam may be right and it was published by New York. <br />I think that Burdick had asked Lionel Carter for advice on how to mount the cards in the collection, I think Leon asked Lionel Carter how to unmount cards in his collection.<br /><br />Joshua
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>Like I said above.....There is a name (large) on the first page, at the bottom, of who I think published it. It's where publishers are normally made known, I believe. At any rate it's a large name of who put this darn pamphlet out that I have. Hope this helps, regards<br /><br /><a href="http://plugin.smileycentral.com/http%253A%252F%252Fwww.smileycentral.com%252F%253F partner%253DZSzeb008%255FZN%2526i%253D23%252F23%25 5F33%255F10%2526feat%253Dprof/page.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/23/23_33_10.gif" alt="SmileyCentral.com" border="0"><img border="0" src="http://plugin.smileycentral.com/http%253A%252F%252Fimgfarm%252Ecom%252Fimages%252F nocache%252Ftr%252Ffw%252Fsmiley%252Fsocial%252Egi f%253Fi%253D23%252F23_33_10/image.gif"></a>......
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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>I had my wife, the English major who reads 3 novels a week, look at this. She said the name I am wanting, as publisher, is in fact who published this pamphlet....
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>So if the museum is owned by the city, maybe the mayor's name at that time? <br /><br />Robert F. Wagner Jr. January 1, 1954 – December 31, 1965 <br />John V. Lindsay January 1, 1966 –
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Dave Haas</b><p>Lionel Carter<br />a. Hyatt Mayor
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Posted By: <b>Al Simeone</b><p>Lionel Carter?
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>Not Mr.Carter but that's a good guess....
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>1) Robert Wagner<br />2) Hyatt Mayor
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>Buck Barker?<br />John Wagner?
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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Ringo Starr?<br /><br />Okay, we're not going to guess, so why don't you just tell us.
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Ham Hyatt<br />Bart Starr
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Frank Wakefield</b><p>1 J. R. Burdick<br /><br />2 A. Hyatt Mayor<br /><br />3 T231 Fan
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>1880nonsports</b><p>Woodrow "Woody" Gelman?<br />Perhaps it's someone whose name appears in one of leon's threads about the golden age hobby icons and card collecting that he (and I/others) enjoy reading about?
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Posted By: <b>Paul</b><p>Technically Max wins. He was the "first one to answer in this post".
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Didn't Woody Gelman write "This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land?"
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>1880nonsports</b><p>off the bow. Woody was Richard Gelman's father and hobbiest in the early 60's. Richard published reprints of the ACC by way of Nostalgia Press. It was weak I know. Brey, Tiger, Gileeny, and others came to mind but it had to be a publisher. I figured Burdick would have published the guide himself but it appears not. If the guide was published in 1963 - I wonder his condition and ability to do so as he died in that year a sick man. Barry, as for your question - a quick google or "Ask" will reveal all. Or you might ask a gypsy....
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Henry- it was Woody Guthrie.<br /><br />It was a joke. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Al Simeone</b><p>Leon,<br />I think I have the bonus question. What association do you have with the publisher. Isnt he the guy standing with you in your Barmitzvah photo? Peter would add a smiley!!!!!!!!
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>OK, so here's the twist.....Since no one has answered it correctly, both questions and bonus, I am going to leave the bonus question and give hints but take away the bonus prize money.....I am not sure anyone would get this .....So, now it's all 3 questions answered first, for the neat Ruth piece, but the $50 is off the table....<br /><br /><br />1. hint for publisher - "Bill Mastro" ........(no, it's not about the PSA8 Wagner and he's not who published it, himself)<br /><br /><br />I will give more hints as we go....good luck....
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Paul S</b><p>I think I'll just wait for the "Guess the final price" auction contest. It won't be as entertaining as this, but it'll make more sense to me!
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>Here's another guess so we can go in the right direction.....<br /><br />2. Had an association with who Mastro wrote a story about, though a little bit removed.......
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>JT Burtchaell</b><p>2.. Keith Olberman
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>Frank Nagy<br />Walter Corson
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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Rob Lifson and Bill Mastro co-published the book "Enter the Sideshow" about circus freaks.
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>Preston Orem<br />Bob Jasperson <br />Charles Bray
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>1880nonsports</b><p>I wuz gonna guess Mastro as you spoke about your association with him in the Carter collection musings you posted at some point - but he was so young on the scene.... Nagy good guess and previous posted mentioned the card connection... I guess I'll tune in at the end as I'm not fortunate to actually own one (although I'd like to) and have no new guesses.<br />Barry, when I went away to high school I stayed in what was Arlo's room the year before. He had written his name and a doodle of a guitar on the side of a clothes chest. It would have been a neat momento. I also went to the flower show each year (BEST fresh pressed apple cider in Mass.) and met the officer (whomever it was) mentioned in the song. At the time it was just a day in real life - as the song Alice's Restaurant hadn't even been a germ of an idea. It was his father who was notable at the time.
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Net54 December contest....we have a WINNER
Posted By: <b>Paul S</b><p><br />2. Eddie Golden
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