KENT ROCKWELL Letter Signed to the Columbia University Footb

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AT COLUMBIA GAME: "TORTURED BY THE SYRACUSANS' RAUCOUS CHEERS" KENT, ROCKWELL. Letter Signed, to the Columbia University Football Manager ("Dear Sir"), explaining that he was unable to use a pair of tickets to a football game and inquiring about exchanging them for the Navy game the following month. The recipient has written, "Refund on these & write him a 'come hither' letter. --RB," in pencil, at upper right. 1 page, 4to, "Ausable Forks" stationery; some toning at edges, ink received stamp at lower left, folds. New York, 31 October 1940

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"When a man, in these days of slim living, for the love of his Alma Mater scrapes together $5.90 for two tickets to a football game, travels 700 miles around trip by car to see the game, and then, when he gets to Baker Field gate, find that he's left his tickets in his baggage at the Grand Central Station, he deserves sympathy. When, nothing daunted, he then forks out six dollars and something for two more tickets . . . sitting in the enemy stands to be tortured by the Syracusans raucous cheers for victory . . . he deserves perhaps a little more than sympathy. Does he deserve, perhaps, two tickets? . . ."