I recently learned from St. Louis Daily Photo that Bob Cassily, founder of the City Museum, was one of the people who helped capture the man who attacked the Pieta.
The man who attacked the Pieta was named Lazlo Toth.
That name was later adopted by Don Novello, aka Father Guido Sarducci, aka Lazlo Toth, American, credited with writing The Lazlo Letters, one of the very few things that made my Dad laugh.
The Lazlo Letters inspired me to write my own hoax letter to the M&M/Mars company, in 1981, under the name Ginger Deak, suggesting they package just the green M&Ms in a bag. They did write back that they heard that suggestion before, and the urban legend that the green ones were an aphrodisiac, and they thanked me for my letter.
I would have mentioned it before on this blog, but I had somehow misplaced those letters. I thought they were in one of my two copies of The Lazlo Letters, vol 1, but they were not.
I evidently forgot that Mom must have loaned my original copy to "an acquaintance in Chesterfield." She seems to be pretty mad that it never came back, based on her annotations to Volume 2, my 1992 Christmas present.
Mom is bitter that our copy did not come back.
The Momster makes threats.
Mysterious Chesterfield acquaintance is fingered.
I have no idea who the Chesterfield acquaintance is. But, it is nice to have that mystery solved, and to get a smile from the long-dead Momster.
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