What a surprise! The daughter of my (late) mother's (late) longtime friend sent me this mixed bag of clippings and photos from the Thirties and Forties.
Many of these are familiar to me--my grandmother was an assiduous scrapbooker--but at this remove in time I am struck by their youth. I think my father was 25 and my mother 24 when they married.
Frances, John's mother, was even younger.
I knew (from my grandmother's scrapbooks) of my grandfather's work for war bonds and his encounter with film star Veronica Lake. I've seen pictures of him on stage with the blonde bombshell and he doesn't look nearly so stern. In fact, he appears to be enjoying himself right much.
