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To the Editor of the Crimson:

I was amazed and overjoyed the other morning to read an autobiography entitle "The Last Republican at Harvard" printed right on the front page. It was the work of one of Harvard's great coming authors, Mr. Fred J. Sears '42. I speak with confidence, for I have been acquainted with Mr. Sears; type of genius for years. His description of a projected single-handed attack on "those (censored) truce-breaking truckdrivers" in Boston should convince the most skeptical of his virility. I congratulate you on your policy of giving young authors a chance to try their wings: I know of no other publication at Harvard which would have done as much for Fred.

There are a few points in Freddy's style, however, which have not reached the full bloom of maturity, and it is with these that I am concerned. I am sure he will no mind if I play the critic, but will take it all in the spirit of helpful cooperation in which it is intended.

First of all, that very sentence I praised above, namely "I'd like to show those (censored) truce-breaking truck strikers," lacks an object of any sort: show them what, Freddy? If you mean your new coat, or that cup you won at Camp Oolaloo in the rifle shoot, you should have put that in instead of leaving everybody to guess at it. The sentence, "labor is being babied too much here," is far-fetched and sounds like a description of a maternity ward. Finally, that terrific sentence where you wrote, "If I could get some support I won't stay out of anything," is a sheer unfounded exaggeration: promise me you didn't mean that.

I know you are a big enough man so that you won't be offended at what I have written, since as I said, I am only doing my best to help.

David Simboli '40.