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Hal Boyle’s Mail: Nuggets and Notables From Letters
Hal Boyle surveys mailbag curiosities from albino buffalo sacred by plains tribes to trends in dating and sex norms among women readers. He notes ductile steel wire, polar bear swimming, and literary quips while recalling Mona Lisa’s high value and a Merry Christmas telephone joke.
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New York
Great Plains
G.__ B. Shaw
West Virginia
Sacramento
Merry Christmas
England
Henry
John
Robert
William
Richard
Leonardo da Vinci
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