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THE READER'S DIGEST
PLEASANTVILLE NEW YORK

PARIS

May 2, 1958

Mme. Yvonne Panitza
Selections du Reader ’s Digest
216 Boulevard Saint-Germain
Paris 7e , France
Dear Mme. Panitza:

In an interview with Mr. Ryan, Colonel Sidney Bingham ( on D-day
he was a major commanding 2nd Battalion, 116th Regimental Combat Team,
29th U. S. Infantry Division ) said that Lt. Colonel Charles R. Cawthorn,
now EUCOM PIO in Paris at Allied Forces Center Europe ( telephone number
9F1-3102, ext. 12 ) was "shot through the face on D-day, but it turned out
to be a superficial wound , the bullet passing through both cheeks and
only upsetting his bridgework." Mr. Ryan was not able to catch Colonel
Cawthorn in Paris while he was there, and so asked me to write and ask
you if you would please interview him.

I am enclosing , as a matter of possible interest, some samples
of the letters which we are sending out in this country, as initial re-
quests for information or in reply to letters which we receive in answer
to our ads. Here is also a letter received from Germany whose meaning—
as you can imagine — is only piecework to us; we think that M. Panitza
will probably want to handle it from there. And finally, here is a
letter received from Honolulu, which is self -explanatory. We haven't
done anything at all with it, since Mrs. Arnold seems to fall into your
sphere and would probably, in any case, be more comfortable corresponding
in French.

I hope that this will be of some help and interest, and that
all goes well with you. Mrs. Arundel sends her best regards, and so
I.

Sincerely yours,
Frances Ward
Research

The Reader's Digest Research Department
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New York 17
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