41.   Of beer bellies and Ben Bradlee, Adolf Hitler and the old Hoo Hoo, the readers write ...

42.   One reader recently wrote to me about her experience trying to locate lodging near the airport when her flight was canceled.

43.   One reader wrote that the NCAA was driven by TV gold, another that it was so big and unwieldy it had lost its sense of mission.

44.   One reader wrote that the miners used to put their pasties under their shirts to keep them warm before lunch.

45.   Readers have written that they believe more things aboard are for sale.

46.   Readers often write me, thinking I have some secret method of shielding them from the invasion that arrives daily in the mailbox when they log on.

47.   Readers write and I answer.

48.   Readers wrote us in disgust.

49.   Readers often wrote ill-tempered letters taking issue with such statements.

50.   Several years ago a reader wrote that her dog had freaked out when a string of firecrackers was fired off in the yard next door.