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Thanks for the Memory Dear Bob…Bob Hope’s Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of World War II, Martha Bolton and Linda Hope. University Press of Mississippi. Hardcover ISBN : 9781496832658, 328 pages, 278 black and white illustrations, March 2021 Dear Bob…offers a collection of letters sent to Bob as well has many pictures. Hope saved the letters he received from servicemen and women and kept them in black and white speckled boxes with orange spines. Also included in these boxes were carbon copies of his responses to the letters. This book gives great insight into the caring person Bob Hope was. “Thanks for the Memory”….Carol ....
Bob Hope performs for American soldiers during World War II. (Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation) No entertainer is more synonymous with support for U.S. troops than actor and stage performer Bob Hope. For nearly 50 years, his work with the United Service Organizations took him to the front lines of nearly every American conflict, from World War II to Desert Storm. “Stealth bomber, that’s a big deal,” he said at a 1990 USO show in Bahrain. “Flies in undetected, bombs and then flies away. Hell, I’ve been doing that all my life.” They called him the “one-man morale machine,” but a new book details the personal correspondence between the legendary comedian and some of the thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who wrote to him over the years. ....
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The late Bob Hope had a lifelong commitment to our servicemen and women. No one entertained our troops like he did. Hope s daughter, Linda, and his first female staff writer, Martha Bolton, are helping to share personal stories with letters from long ago in the new book Dear Bob: Bob Hope s Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of World War II. During World War II, Hope was often in dangerous territory, bringing laughter to the brave troops protecting our country. The servicemen wrote him all the time and his secretary carefully looked after those letters. As a child, Hope s daughter Linda once asked his secretary: What s in those boxes? ....
Blue Gate Musicals was founded in 2010 by longtime Christian music producer and executive Dan Posthuma and Mel Riegsecker, who turned his hobby for making miniature horse-drawn vehicles into a business that includes the 750-seat Blue Gate Restaurant, the 350-seat Blue Gate Theatre, a 154-room inn, three retail stores and a horse and carriage business in Shipshewana, Indiana. Their company expanded its productions to the Ohio Star Theater in Sugarcreek, Ohio and the Bird-in-Hand Stage in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, before adding the new Sarasota venue. All four theaters are located in Amish tourist areas and present original musicals, mostly created by director and composer Wally Nason and writer Martha Bolton, a former comedy writer for Bob Hope. ....