ROBERT CONSIDINE - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 12/22/1954 - HFSID 31746

ROBERT CONSIDINE. TLS: "Bob Considine", ¾p, 6x9½½. Cleveland, Ohio, no date but circa December 1954, Sunday. On stationery of the Hotel Cleveland to Lou [columnist Louis Sobol]. In full: "Just a quick note (tho I don't know why it has to be quick) to tell you I thought you wrote a simply wonderful piece about your mother and father. As you'll note, we get other news out here except grief. Your piece had a wonderful, loving flair. God bless them. And you and Peggy -". Receipt stamp ("Dec 22 1954") at upper margin. ROBERT "BOB" CONSIDINE (1906-1975) was a reporter, syndicated columnist and talk show host. In 1951, three years before this letter was written, Considine had written an 11-part series for the Washington "Times Herald" relating to the theft of atomic secrets by the Soviets. His series was noted in his F.B.I. file, but Considine was one of F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover's favorite reporters. Considine, who wrote the screenplay for the 1948 film, The Babe Ruth Story, based on his book, also appeared as a panelist on Who Said That? in 1948, and he hosted his own talk show, Tonight! America After Dark, in 1957. Journalist LOUIS SOBOL (1896-1986), who had been born in the Ukraine but brought to the U.S. as an infant, was a New-York based Broadway columnist for decades. Sobol, who had appeared in three films in 1932-1933, later appeared as himself in Copacabana (1947) and College Confidential (1960). Lightly creased. Fine condition.