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Nile Kinnick correspondence, September-November 1942
1942-09-25: Page 14
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He started off by calling me lieutenant, and ended by proclaiming he had been with Stillwell in Burma. In between he had spouted enough tall tales full of inconsistencies and contradictions to convince me that he was mostly wind - a veritable Major Hoople. When he got started on Burma I returned to the coffee convention. After awhile I struck up a conversation with the only sober man in the pullman who turned out to be the Chicago representative of a Costa Rican coffee firm. He had been in charge of the Costa Rican exhibit at the Worlds Fair in 1933 and hadn't been back since. We had a thoroughly enjoyable talk the gist of which I would set down were not my pen hand tiring so rapidly. Suffice it to say that Costa Rica has been a Republic for a couple of hundred
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He started off by calling me lieutenant, and ended by proclaiming he had been with Stillwell in Burma. In between he had spouted enough tall tales full of inconsistencies and contradictions to convince me that he was mostly wind - a veritable Major Hoople. When he got started on Burma I returned to the coffee convention. After awhile I struck up a conversation with the only sober man in the pullman who turned out to be the Chicago representative of a Costa Rican coffee firm. He had been in charge of the Costa Rican exhibit at the Worlds Fair in 1933 and hadn't been back since. We had a thoroughly enjoyable talk the gist of which I would set down were not my pen hand tiring so rapidly. Suffice it to say that Costa Rica has been a Republic for a couple of hundred
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