Does anyone know whether Mr. [[Earl) Ruby is still living? Last I heard from him was he gave an interview to Jack Lessenberry, and that was a good many years back.

It was President Reagan who, while breaking the curse of the 20s, got off my favorite line from his, ever, as he was being wheeled toward an operating room after he had been shot. He told the men who were accompanying his gurney, "I sure hope you fellows are Republicans".

"Curse of the 20s", of course, is that every President elected in a year divisible by 20, from Wm. H. Harrison in 1840 through JFK in 1960, died while in office.