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Through King Features, the same syndicate that sold us Guadalcanal Diary.

Were you at this time doing a column for King Features?

They were using Try and Stop Me.

It helps. I'm trying to show that all of your things...

It all interlocks, yes.

King Features gave me first crack at Thirty Seconds over Tokyo. The same thing had happened with Guadalcanal Diary, although in that case they submitted at the same time to several other publishers. I told you that I bought it before any of the others had even opened the package.

Well, with Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, this was top secret stuff--the story of how we bombed Tokyo with planes that had taken off from a carrier.

Oh, you did tell about this...this time that you went to Roosevelt to persuade him to let you release it.

That's right.

You didn't go into Bob Considine at all.

As I say, Bob Considine was the man who wrote the book