To "Q": I'm enjoying your comments a great deal. By things you've mentioned, I'm guessing that I'm about a dozen years your junior. The time frame of your experiences was pivitol in our country in so many, many ways. Jim Lehrer, the T.V. news journalist, wrote a wonderful biography titled "A Bus Of My Own." In it, he mentions something that I certainly saw when I was in the Army. That was the forced intergration of the races. The barriers between the races started to dimminish within my first 24 hours in the service.

Going back to "The Weavers," so many of their early popular songs were of African origin. By the time I went into the Army, 1955, I think, I knew many of these songs. We had great singing sessions in the barracks.

And yes, I well remember "mum." (it stung!) Bob