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To: Sam who wrote (2934)	4/6/1998 6:07:00 PM
From: Worswick	Respond to of 9980

No. You are much more clear thinking than I am Sam. Now, with the new glasses you can look across the empty spaces and see all the way to the Ginza! Never fear for the Japanese. In my research once on Tokyo for a book I was doing I counted calamaties that had befallen the city. Between 1864 and 1924 various large sections of Tokyo burnt,or were destroyed by earthquake seven times. The Japanese are particularly adept (except this generation) of learning to slide through things. After all is said and done I think the Japanese collective consciousness still lives in paper cities. On another more interesting subject still.... My god. Joe Granville is alive? I thought I saw him standing next to the Coke machine in the old Photo League building in New York, next to 1946 Coke machine behind the cobwebs. Stuffed. He seemed to be holding a yellowed copy of Baron's. He had one arm raised pointing into the distance. What is this man thinking I asked myself? Maybe it was just a statue of Joe they moved from uptown at Bache & Co. Between times Alan Abelson doesn't exist. Another of his pen names was Robert Prechter. Now, he's called Abbie Cohen. Same guy. I swear this.

To: Sam who wrote (2934)	4/6/1998 8:43:00 PM
From: B Tate	Respond to of 9980

Sam and Worswick I enjoy both of your postings a great deal. I am reminded of a book I read several years ago about the coming boom for the US economy. I don't have the book handy, it's in my library in New Hampshire, but I do believe it was called The Coming Boom. I don't recall the author's name either ;-(. I will get the info and post it here soon. The gist of the book was why and how the US economy would surge through about the year 2005. The basics involved the slow, but sure, demise of the Japanese economy. This was due to the inflated real estate market and the "paper savings" accumulated by the common folk that supported this facade. He also layed out a good case for the US economy's race in productivity swamping all the other Big 7 economies. Made for good reading at the time, I think I will have my son mail it to me and review it against today's situation. Keep up the fine work. bt