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joys of coming back to school.

Anyway, at Townsend Harris we began going to the theater, first, almost every Saturday, to the Alhambra. We'd sit up in the balcony. I think a ticket cost 25¢. We'd worm it out of our mothers and all of us went. There was a candy store right next to the theater called Simonette's--with caramels. We'd get a half a pound of Simonette caramels in a light blue box, and a whole bunch of kids would divide them up. That meant about three caramels for each of us. I can still remember this with pleasure. As I tell you this, the taste of those caramels is still there. There were chocolate and vanilla caramels. They were great.

Who did you go with? Did you go with any of these people you mentioned before?

Oh, sure. Then a love came into my life. There was a little girl who lived across the street whose books I used to carry to school. Sometimes, if I could worm an extra quarter out of my mother, I'd take her--about once a month. She was cute.

Do you remember any of the books you read or any of the courses--?

I told you--the Rover Boys. This was in public school. Now I went to high school. In high school you had to read