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Annual Complaint To All Retailers

I’m tired of calendars depicting
Barnyards, bridges, babies,
Horses, trains. and mountain lakes,
Dogs with fleas or rabies;
Barefoot boys with fishing poles,
Cottages with flowers,
Ruins, ships, kid-teacher scenes,
Cats resembling ours.
But since my kind– the cheesecake ones–
Always boomerang,
I’ll find one of the arid type
My wife will let me hang.

by Ray Romine Wednesday, September 13, 1950

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Submissions / Sales

Media name: Better Homes & Gardens

Date Submitted: 09/17/1950


Media name: Holland's

Date Submitted: 10/08/1950


Media name: Wall Street Journal

Date Submitted: 11/05/1950


Media name: Christian Science Monitor

Date Submitted: 11/15/1950


Media name: Better Homes & Gardens

Date Submitted: 08/07/1951


Media name: New Yorker

Date Submitted: 09/15/1951


Media name: Saturday Evening Post

Date Submitted: 10/01/1965


Media name: Collier's

Date Submitted: 10/21/1951


Media name: Maclean's

Date Submitted: 11/07/1951

Date Sold: 11/17/1951

Amount: 10.00