TAFF - pg 49 trained and I think that is the reason. Anyway, what I want to say is that the three Shorrock children are that exception to the rule. The more I saw of them the better I liked them. Those who know me well can take 15 minutes out for the shock to wear off. I picked up mail for me. Ted Carnell had forwarded mail from home. Eddie Jones, the artist, came over and after supper we were up until 3 am. John Roles stayed over too. Eddie, I'd seen in the M.A.D. movies and in person was quite nice to talk to. He has an infectious enthusiasm and is full of ideas and has a sense of humor. He's also interested in photography and we exchanged photographic data. I was sorry I'd mailed my slides back to the U..S. already as several of the Liverpool group hadn't been to the con. John Roles has a rich pleasant voice and a luxuriant mustache. As a fellow OMPAn, we could share many odd bits of news and conversation- al twists. On paper John sounds a bit serious perhaps. In person he isn't that way at all. He also has a nice sense of humor. I find that the fans who do have a sense of humor, especially the ones who can laugh at themselves or who can take a joke are really all right. Those who take everything serious and those who can't take a joke are almost invariably clods. John Roles writes: What I thought of Don Ford That's a helluva thing. Ah well! Are you "A Typical Englishman"'s conception of "A Typical American"? I can't say - I'm no typical Englishman, and anyone who comes to this country as a TAFF rep. is not likely too typical of Over There cither. Fumbling around this point, I'm trying to put over the idea that you do create in my mind the impression of being typical of something which is not seen in England. Glimpses are caught in U.S. films, and seen frequently in visiting USers, of a quality which is novel to us - that of certain dynamic relaxation. This is what I have found really earmarks U.S. men (not the women). I have often pondered in that past on what it was that made the US tourist in England so obvious as such. I found it wasn't the camera, it wasn't the dress style (tho' most can be identified on this alone) (the difference in cut, and textiles, and use of light-weight suitings) it wasn't always the physiognomy (very frequently a pointer), because I have identified the trans-Atlantic visitor devoid of any of these characteristics. Prolonged observa- tion has produced the simple fact that they simply walk and stand differently. There is a superb slackness which is yet potentially dynamic about him (this is you! - recognize yourself?) Not all USers have it of course, Dave Kyle hasn't, (and to even things up, George Nims Raybin hasn't certainly), but you have, Fred Prophet has, JWCjr has, etc. I wonder if you follow me...... Following this at a tangent I noted with interest your outlook on Alan Rispin. You said you liked him straight away, because he struck you as being just like a young American boy. This impression was assisted by Alan's mode of dress - jeans, wind-cheater, scrubby hair- do, etc. This get-up in England is the uniform of the "teddy-boys",