THE TWENTIETH CENTURY FUND
330 West Forty-Second Street
New York 18, N.Y.

December 26, 1950

Mayor Dan Roenigk
Morganville
Kansas

Dear Dan:

I appreciate so much your card and message. I thought a great deal about my friends in Morganville over the Christmas season, and my wife and I listened with breathless interest to the program which had been recorded in advance. On the whole, the public response has been very encouraging. We are deeply grateful to all of you for having given us such a magnificent Christmas story. It was wonderfully authentic. Of course I was heartbroken when for reasons of time the director finally had to take out of the script such important bits as: Homer Christensen�s story, the story of the picture coming from France and the whole segment about the Utleys. I still hope that I may find a later use for some of this material, even possibly as a portion of a television program.

Life is full of compromises, and I feel that we all must rejoice in the net effect of the program in this moment of world history.

Don�t you think your voices sounded well? You and Velma are really old hands at radio apparently. The little recording machine in the corner did pretty well too.

I will be writing again. Happy New Year to you all.

Sincerely,

(signed)

Elmore McKee
Associate for Radio