Word: grampa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...QSOing ham acquaintances everywhere-Claude Hannibal, on a freighter in the Pacific; the Gunther boys in Buenos Aires; cronies from Chile to Midway Island. A boy, it was, almost nine pounds, named Roy Bernard Rubeli after his dad and granddad. The other hams nicknamed W 9 FFB, Foxy Grampa...
...month, for two months, it was tough going. The child got pneumonia, had three bladder operations, was kept alive with sulfanilamide derivatives, 19 blood transfusions. The father, forced to return to Puerto Rico, hovered over Jennie Ramirez' receiver. Foxy Grampa wirelessed what encouragement he could, while the vast ham party line listened in sympathetically. One great day last month, W 9 FFB, came on with wonderful news...
From Puerto Rico to Chile, from Ecuador to Hawaii, to the Gunther boys in Buenos Aires, to Claude Hannibal out at sea the word went: "Foxy Grampa says Roy Bernard's gonna be O.K. . . . Fine . . . fine...