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PSFS News, v. 5, issue 6, July 1945

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July, 1945
PSFS NEWS
Page 6
he was one of the top S.F. writers in my opinion.
It has been rumored that President Truman will be in Frankfort on Main Sunday and we will have the job of escorting him on his tour of the city. Also among the top rumors is that the whole squadron will be heading for the U.S. in Sept. or Oct. How true this is I don't know.
About all we do is run road patrols, checking civilian cars and seeing that the curfew is obeyed. We have three eight hour patrols each day. As a whole the people have been very co-operative with us. Well, I see space is short so I will close for now.
Yours truly
Jack O'Day
Hope that rumor your will be getting back proves to be true.
Then there is a nice long letter from Milty. We see that he has been shifted around again. Last time he was in Paris, and now he is in Naples, Italy.
Dear Ossie: As I quaff my nightly bottle of warm beer, I set me down to thank you for the film. They arrived a couple of weeks ago, but this is the first opportunity I've had to write. 
As you see, I've moved. I seem to be taking a tour of the garden spots of Europe. Naples isn't much of a place compared to Paris. It's beat up by the war, and the people are poor, but the view of the city from the drive along the bay is the kind of thing you put on picture postcards. Your film will be put to good use when I take tours to Mount Vesuvius, Capri, Pompeii, and such places.
The climate here is very hot, and unless there's a good show at the movies the only thing to do is to strip and sit in my room, reading or writing, after working hours. Which is much more relaxing than life was in Paris.
My job here promises to be much better than in Paris. It promises to be, I say, because I'm still waiting for it to develop. I'm supposed to be a radio engineer, finally, and make plans for radio installations at air fields. Of course, it's not as technical as it seems, because all the equipment is standard, and all you do is look in a book and see how many of this and how many of that go into a certain type of installation. But it means survey trips to various interesting places, and so if everything pans out and my Lt. ever stays in the office for more than one day at a time, I should have a good deal. All I've been doing so far is sitting in the office and reading a book on antennas.
The trip down here was very interesting. I flew down, and stopped in Marseilles long enough for me to meet Georges Gallet, the French s-f fan. That was quite an event. And a couple of weeks ago I met Jacques Spitz in Paris. He has written several science fiction books in French. One of them, "Sever the Earth," was translated into English, and you may have heard of it. It's a satire on what happened when the earth split in half.
My last day in Paris I spent seeing two operas: La Boheme and La Traviata. That's because I had expected to leave that day, it was postponed, and I had the whole day to kill. So I went down to the Opera Comique and bought two tickets.

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July, 1945 PSFS NEWS Page 6 he was one of the top S.F. writers in my opinion. It has been rumored that President Truman will be in Frankfort on Main Sunday and we will have the job of escorting him on his tour of the city. Also among the top rumors is that the whole squadron will be heading for the U.S. in Sept. or Oct. How true this is I don't know. About all we do is run road patrols, checking civilian cars and seeing that the curfew is obeyed. We have three eight hour patrols each day. As a whole the people have been very co-operative with us. Well, I see space is short so I will close for now. Yours truly Jack O'Day Hope that rumor your will be getting back proves to be true. Then there is a nice long letter from Milty. We see that he has been shifted around again. Last time he was in Paris, and now he is in Naples, Italy. Dear Ossie: As I quaff my nightly bottle of warm beer, I set me down to thank you for the film. They arrived a couple of weeks ago, but this is the first opportunity I've had to write. As you see, I've moved. I seem to be taking a tour of the garden spots of Europe. Naples isn't much of a place compared to Paris. It's beat up by the war, and the people are poor, but the view of the city from the drive along the bay is the kind of thing you put on picture postcards. Your film will be put to good use when I take tours to Mount Vesuvius, Capri, Pompeii, and such places. The climate here is very hot, and unless there's a good show at the movies the only thing to do is to strip and sit in my room, reading or writing, after working hours. Which is much more relaxing than life was in Paris. My job here promises to be much better than in Paris. It promises to be, I say, because I'm still waiting for it to develop. I'm supposed to be a radio engineer, finally, and make plans for radio installations at air fields. Of course, it's not as technical as it seems, because all the equipment is standard, and all you do is look in a book and see how many of this and how many of that go into a certain type of installation. But it means survey trips to various interesting places, and so if everything pans out and my Lt. ever stays in the office for more than one day at a time, I should have a good deal. All I've been doing so far is sitting in the office and reading a book on antennas. The trip down here was very interesting. I flew down, and stopped in Marseilles long enough for me to meet Georges Gallet, the French s-f fan. That was quite an event. And a couple of weeks ago I met Jacques Spitz in Paris. He has written several science fiction books in French. One of them, "Sever the Earth," was translated into English, and you may have heard of it. It's a satire on what happened when the earth split in half. My last day in Paris I spent seeing two operas: La Boheme and La Traviata. That's because I had expected to leave that day, it was postponed, and I had the whole day to kill. So I went down to the Opera Comique and bought two tickets.