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2/8/41

​Saturday evening

Dear Daddy and Aunt Eva,

I was very glad to get Aunt Eva’s nice newsy letter today.  I feel now as though I were up on the latest events from the home of Gone With the Wind, which, by the way, is back on Broadway again.

We started back to school on Wednesday and now we’re in the swing of things again.  On Wednesdays this semester I have a seminar which is given by Miss Carroll, the advisor to the women, and which all the girls take.  We are doing different things in that class according to our interests.  I plan to spend most of my time with interviewing, since that is my special interest.

Thursdays this semester we make up our one page paper.  It is called “The Front Page” and the class meets on Fridays to criticize the paper put out the day before.  We compare it with the same edition of the N.Y. afternoon papers etc.  The class is arranged like a newspaper office.  One person is City Editor, one Managing Editor, etc.  Then some of the students are reporters and are sent out about the cities on regular assignments.  We also have a copy desk to read copy and write headlines.  We have the AP, UP, and City News Service wires in the News Room so we can get the latest news for our edition.

On Thursday I worked on the Copy Desk writing headlines.  It’s really quite a job as you have to count out the right number units for each line.  I like it quite well, but not as much as reporting.

In three weeks we start having the paper printed.  I’ll send you a copy then.

I keep forgetting to tell you about the Monitor.  I had them discontinue the subscriptions except for sending the Monitor to me, since I thought Aunt Eva would already be getting them.  But if that’s not right, just let me know and I’ll write to the Monitor and fix things up.

I am sending a cartoon from the Saturday Evening Post which I thought was pretty good.  Maybe you’ve already seen it.  I imagine Billy would enjoy seeing it.

Friday afternoon I had my class in Radio.  The man who is giving it, Paul White, who is the head of news (I think) at C.B.S. is away and won’t be back for a couple of weeks.  So yesterday we had a lecture on the development of radio news and the fight between the newspapers and radio.  It’s hard to realize that radio news is such a recent development.

Thursday night we went to the speech class, we being Betty and I.  It wasn’t very interesting, but we’re hoping that it will improve after the introductory letter.

Please don’t forget to send me the check, as I imagine that International House will be wondering why I haven’t crashed through with a little cash.

I haven’t yet written up the Mark Twain meeting, because I’ve been rather rushed for time, but I hope to do so soon.  I’ll send you a copy when I do write it.

I hope you appreciate my new typewriter ribbon.  I got it to write up the minutes of the Press Club.  We are meeting on Monday evening and I decided to get all the minutes in order.

Well, I’ll write again soon.  Thank you again, Aunt Eva, for your very interesting letter.

Much love to you both,

Kathleen.

P.S. I think I forgot to tell you that the telegram about the radio arrived after I had written you - later that night - Fortunately I’d already seen about the currents.
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​1.
I feel now as though I were up on the latest events from the home of Gone With the Wind, which, by the way, is back on Broadway again.

I assume Kay is talking about the movie, not a show.  Once in the 1980s when Aunt Kay was visiting us in Cambridge, Gone With the Wind was playing at the local cinema, and she went to see it - not for the first time, of course.  When she came back, she commented on the opening prologue, which says: "There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called The Old South...Here in this pretty world Gallantry took its last bow...Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their ladies fair, of Master and of Slave...Look for it only in books for it is no more than a dream remembered. A Civilization gone with the wind.”  As Aunt Kay knew, it refers to the years before the Civil War, but she said that when looking back to a happy time - a dream remembered - she thought about when the movie came out in 1940 - which was a few months before her mother, Kathleen, died.  Kathleen died in December 1940, less than two months before this letter was written.

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I keep forgetting to tell you about the Monitor.  I had them discontinue the subscriptions except for sending the Monitor to me, since I thought Aunt Eva would already be getting them.  But if that’s not right, just let me know and I’ll write to the Monitor and fix things up.

This would be the Christian Science Monitor, to which Kathleen, Eva, and Kay would have all subscribed.

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Friday afternoon I had my class in Radio.  The man who is giving it, Paul White, who is the head of news (I think) at C.B.S. is away and won’t be back for a couple of weeks.

Paul White - Wikipedia says:

Paul Welrose White (June 6, 1902 – July 9, 1955) was an American journalist and news director who founded the Columbia Broadcasting System's news division in 1933 and directed it for 13 years. His leadership spanned World War II and earned a 1945 Peabody Award for CBS Radio. After his departure from CBS in 1946 he wrote a textbook on broadcast journalism, News on the Air (1947). Since 1956 the Radio Television Digital News Association has presented the Paul White Award for lifetime achievement as its highest honor.

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P.S. I think I forgot to tell you that the telegram about the radio arrived after I had written you - later that night - Fortunately I’d already seen about the currents.
The currents were apparently an insuperable problem for Kay where she was - see:​Eva wrote that she had sent her radio to you but that you could not use it on account of the difference in current.
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