Word: thank-you
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...than 100,000 Friendship Boxes had already been shipped overseas. Many a U.S. schoolkid, wrestling with his first letter to a new, unknown friend, discovered that much of what he took for granted in his life looked wonderful written down ("We have mountains . . . fertile valleys . . . beautiful gardens"). When the thank-you notes arrived, he felt even luckier. Sample: "I am not writing so fine, because I have been 31 years in a camp. Well, let us not talk about that...
...Hawaiian Warriors, who made him a High Chief of Hawaii (first since Franklin Roosevelt, in 1934) and gave him the robe of royalty-a cape of yellow, red, and green mamo, oo, and iiwi feathers. In return for his chief's rating, the Admiral bravely chugged through a thank-you paragraph of Hawaiian...
Private Norton G. Addison was so pleased with a four-day vacation at a Third Army rest camp in France that he sat right down and wrote his general a thank-you note. His general wrote right back...
...meeting in Manhattan last week the society reviewed one of its busiest years ever. Spurred by war needs, it turned out over 8,000,000 books. They went not only to far-flung civilians, to members of the U.S. armed forces, but also to war prisoners in Germany, Italy. Thank-you letters indicate that 95% got through...
Lady Louis Mountbatten Clippered from New York for Lisbon to join husband Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten in London after four months of "thank-you" work here for the Red Cross. Daughter...