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PARK LANE APARTMENTS
202 CHESTNUT STREET
ROCHESTER N.Y. 14607.
OCTOBER 13 1964.

DEAR GEORGE:

SORRY, BUT THIS IS GOING TO BE A RATHER LONG LETTER.  HAVEN'T TIME TO WRITE A SHORTER ONE, BUT I DO HAVE A BRAIN STORM AND WANT YOU TO THINK IT OVER.

AS I UNDERSTAND IT YOUR PROJECT NEEDS MONEY.  MONEY WITH A CAPITAL M.  I HONESTLY THINK THAT PERHAPS I COULD RAISE A LOT OF IT FOR YOU.

INCLOSED YOU WILL FIND A BUNCH OF VERY LATE PUBLICITY I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOU LOOK OVER AND RETURN TO ME, IF YOU WILL PLEASE.  IN SOME CASES THEY ARE THE ONLY COPIES I'VE BEEN ABLE TO LAY MY HANDS ON.

WHILE I WAS IN NEW YORK I WAS INTERVIEWED BY BOTH A.P. AND UPI.  HAVEN'T CAUGHT UP WITH THE AP, BUT AM INCLOSING THE ONLY COPY I HAVE OF THE [[strikethrough]] [[AP]] [[/strikethrough]] UPI STORY BY GALE PAULEY.

NOW THIS IS WHAT I HAVE IN MIND - TO [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] FOLLOW THE ROUGH OUTLINE THAT I USED WHEN I WAS " CONSULTANT AND P.R. FOR THE AIR FORCE MUSEUM AT DAYTON, OHIO AND TRAVELED ALMOST THE INTIRE COUNTRY.  THAT IS, RADIO .... I SPENT 12 YEARS A COMMENTATOR .ON RADIO.  HAVE BEEN ON NEARLY ALL THE NATIONAL TV SHOWS AND WAS TRAINED BY AN EXPERT IN HANDLING INTERVIEWS BY NEWSPAPER MEN.  HE TAUGHT ME " COLOR" AND THE TRICK OF ALWAYS WRITING A " BY LINER" A NOTE OF THANKS AFTER PUBLICATION, WHICH MAKES IT EASY TO GO BACK AGAIN WHEN YOU WANT SOMETHING. AND I CAN BE THE GRAND DAME WHEN I WANT TO BE.  HAVE JUST FINISHED A FAIRLY BIG PUBLICITY THING ON THE GLENN CURTIS MUSEUM WHICH WAS DEDICATED EARLY [[strikethrough]][[?]][[/strikethrough]]THIS SUMMER  AT HAMMONDSPORT N.Y. AS YOU WILL SEE BY SOME OF THE INCLOSED MATERIAL AND THE BEST HELP I GOT WAS FROM THE A.F. HERE IN ROCHESTER, WHOM I DIDN'T KNOW, BUT WHEN I CALLED ON THEM FOR HELP THE DOLLS THEY WERE COULDN'T GET THE TRUCKS IN WANTED TO BORROW FROM THEM SO THEY WHEN [[sic]] OUT AND BORROWED ARMY TRUCKS FOR ME.  COULD ONE ASK FOR MORE?  THIS JOB ALSO INCLUDED A FULL HOURS INTERVIEW ON WROC... NBC... AN INTERVIEW ALSO ON THE POPULAR WOMAN'S SHOW.  IN ADDITION LOST MY SPONSOR FOR THE MUSEUM SHOW WHICH WAS TO BE SET UP IN OUR FAMOUS MIDTOWN PLAZA, WHEN ALL THE OTHER PUBLICITY HAD BEEN SET UP.  AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW!  GOT ANOTHER WITHIN 12 HOURSE.[[sic]]

AT NO TIME WAS I IN TEXAS FOR THE A.F. MUSEM [[sic]] SO IT IS PRACTICALLY, IF YOU WILL PARDON THE EXPRESSION " VIRGIN" TERRITORY, I MEAN TEXAS NOT ME. AND I THINK WITH ALL THE MONEY THEY SAY THEY HAVE DOWN THERE PLUS THE FACT THAT TEXAS IS VERY PROUD OF TEXAS IT WOULD NOT BE TOO DIFFICULT TO RAISE ALL YOU NEED WITH A WELL PLANNED PUBLICITY SET UP PLUS A NAME, PERHAPS LIKE MINE TO CARRY IT.  THE A.F. MUSEUM CALLED ME THE " CHAMP CHISELER" OF THE WORLD AND I SEE NO REASON TO THINK IT CAN'T BE DONE DOWN