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the old guards to write, also anyone and everyone who knows the present whereabouts of asy of the old guards. They sit back and wonder what will happen.
Part III — The time is just one week later. The scene and characters are the same as in Part II. Three hundred and nineteen of the old guards have been located. Their letters come from thirty-six states of the Union. One lives in Alberta. Canada, another in Alaska. One letter has been kept aside. It came from one of the old timers who wanted the help of the Century of Progress officials. He wants them to try to help him locate a long lost pal, a friend from forty years before when both were guards at the 1893 fair. Yes, you've guessed it . . . the letter came from Smith. It was signed John Smith and it came from Fostoria, Ohio. John is old now, his eyesight has dimmed, his thinning hair has grayed. He lives pretty much in the past as is the wont of old people. And among his most treasured memories are those of the good old days with Noble at the 1893 fair when both were young and full of life. Will the Century of Progress officials help him locate his old pal?
Well, they don't know if they can but they are willing to try. That letter has been kept aside on the bare chance, the one in a million gamble, that Noble might also respond to the call for old guards. A day later it comes. It's Captain Noble, now, retired from the army. For twenty-five years he was commandant of Culver Military Academy. Now, in the evening of life, he lives in Shreveport, Louisiana. Noble writes to find if they can help him locate a long lost pal from the 1893 world's fair. You couldn't write this as fiction. It is too far-fetched for anything but a true story. The Century of Progress could and did — reunite the long lost pals.
FRANK BUCK, CHICAGOAN
Frank Buck, whose "Bring Them Back Alive" jungle adventures are now on the air, and Frank Bering, who is head man at the Sherman hotel in Chicago are pals of long standing.
In fact — although you may not have known it— Buck claims Chicago as his home despite Texas being his birthplace.
"There'd probably be an argument about that home thing," Buck explains. "Probably Chicago would say it was Texas and Texas would blame it on Chicago."
As a young boy he ran away from his Texas home and came to Chicago. That was in 1901. He started as a check-room boy at the old Morrison hotel . . . back in the days before quarters and dimes were placed on the counter as sacrifices to the blonde beauty of the Venuses who shame us into rebuying our chapeaux. {Continued on page 81)
Peggy Davis, young dramatic star of the Princess Pat Players is descended from another Peggy Davis who appeared in London stage productions 200 years ago
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