A few days ago I found myself ill the erstwhile Northwestern Station in Chicago without anything to read other than the passing parade and a chunk of time on my hands before my train. I stopped at a magazine stand and was almost immediately flooded with nostalgia when I spotted a copy of the Post and with it a vivid memory that Curtis Publishing and the Post were the economic lifeblood of my family as I was growing up in Indianapolis.

My father Ray Millholland's sale of the Blue Chip Haggerty series and other short stories and articles to the Post were the sole source of our income in those years. There were seven of us in the house at 5157 Winthrop Avenue. I know what thin soup is!

Another Hoosier author, Booth Tarkington, shared some issues with Pop, and the story goes that when Booth was looking for a name for the main character of a novel, he came across Pop's name. Raymond Millholland, somewhere, so he called the novel Ramsey Milholland. It's a great story, too--pre WWI.

So my wait in the station was considerably shortened in effect, as well as my 24-stop ride back to Wisconsin.

Thank you, and peace!

Arthur M. Millholland
Pleasant Prarie, Wisconsin

Editor's note: Ray Millholland published some 22 short stories and one feature article in the SEP between 1937 to 1950. He died in 1956.