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• Aunt Ilse from Oelwein wonders why no one thinks Mr.
  Mondale has a chance to beat Mr. Reagan. "Any country that can choose old," she writes, "can just as easily choose boring....
• Aunt Ilse from Oelwein calls to say she hopes everyone in Dallas had fun at the Jackson concerts and to ask if we know of any plans for a Julliard String Quartet Victory Tour.
• Gerry Ferraro says she wants to debate George Bush.
  It'll give both a chance to get an edge in wordwise....
• Man and wife make one fool. A fate worse than death
  o be married alive. Don't marry for money. You can always borrow it cheaper....
• How about that footage on the news yesterday of our new Commander-in- Chief on the deck of the aircraft carrier (Teddy Roosevelt?
  ).. After throwing one of his snappy salutes (he's *almost* got that down), I half expected him to give the order, "Let's turn this thang around....
• George Burns is a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah
  George, you're around 90 years old, and you still have women hanging all over you....
• I Love Her, But... (a collection of men's thoughts on their women) .
  ..she has an uncanny way of standing between me and the television screen....
• I'm a conservative," says George Bush, "but I'm not a nut about it.
  Unfortunately, that is also the way lots of Americans feel about being voters....
• George Bush would run on his record but it skips.