Good evening Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea - Let's go to press!

Regarding Air Ace memories - One afternoon somewhere during the second Nixon administration - I came upon "Help Me Rhonda" on my car radio while I was driving to my ARA vending job downriver. Now I think the jock was Mark Perrento [[sp), and at the end of the tune, on the very last note that could be heard, Mark let's out a guffaw and then repeated the opening lyrics of the song as if revealing these words for the first time. Slowly and distinctly he uttered:

Since she put me down now I do it in my hand...

He paused for a sublime moment of dead air [[I could just imagine his Cheshire cat smile - ear-to-ear), and said: "Wow" before moving on...