I was a fan of Shep from the days he appeared in the daytime on WOR. Many a weekend day was spent sitting in traffic on the Bronx River Parkway [recently completed at that time] listening to him at that time. I really enjoyed his stories when they they were printed in Playboy [of course I only read the magazine for its literary value] and later as books [which I still have somewhere]. I never did get to run my cars in the Greenwich Village Sports Car Rallyes when he ran them as an event sponsored by the Village Voice during the '60's.

I met him once at Rutgers during one of his appearances at The Ledge, our then student center. I asked him why I had never received the Bronze Figligigy with Oak Leaf Clusters I had won for answering one of his trivia questions. He explained that it was actually the White Whale of awards, often won but never received.

Lady Hillary told me last night that she was also one of his "under cover" fans.