{"id":1782,"date":"2012-04-13T15:06:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T19:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2013-10-26T13:54:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T17:54:06","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-november-12-1980-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-november-12-1980-2\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: November 12, 1980 (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background: white; float: left;\"><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, November 12, 1980, Page 1.  Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall19801112-001a-unh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"McNair-to-Hall-11-12-1980\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall19801112-001a-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, November 12, 1980, Page 1.  Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall19801112-002a-unh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"McNair-to-Hall-11-12-1980\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall19801112-002a-unh.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">[Click image to view]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"background: white; padding-left: 30px;\">November 12, 1980<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>Here I am with another of my famous<br \/>\nsecond thoughts. If you have no violent<br \/>\nobjections, I would prefer this version, with<br \/>\n\u201cmini pads\u201d, rather than the other, with \u201cmaxi pads.\u201d<br \/>\nA small change, I know, but important<br \/>\nenough to make this the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">final<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">definitive<\/span><br \/>\nrevision.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/p>\n<p>HAIR ON TELEVISION<\/p>\n<p>On the soap opera the doctor<br \/>\nexplains to the young woman with cancer<br \/>\nthat each day is beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Hair lifts from their heads<br \/>\nlike clouds, like something to eat.<\/p>\n<p>It is the hair of the married couple<br \/>\ngetting in touch with their real feelings for the first time<br \/>\non the talk show,<\/p>\n<p>the hair of young people on the beach<br \/>\ndrinking Cokes and falling in love.<\/p>\n<p>And the man who took the laxative and waters his garden<br \/>\nnext day with the hose wears the hair<\/p>\n<p>so dark and wavy even his grandchildren are amazed,<br \/>\nand the woman who never dreamed mini pads<br \/>\ncould be so convenient wears it.<\/p>\n<p>For the hair is changing people\u2019s lives.<br \/>\nIt is growing like wheat above the faces<\/p>\n<p>of game show contestants opening the doors<br \/>\nof new convertibles, of prominent businessmen opening<br \/>\ntheir hearts to Christ, and it is growing<\/p>\n<p>straight back from the foreheads of vitamin experts,<br \/>\ndetergent and dog food experts helping ordinary housewives discover<\/p>\n<p>how to be healthier, get the clothes cleaner and serve<br \/>\ndogs meals they love in the hair.<\/p>\n<p>And over and over on television the housewives,<br \/>\nthe news teams bringing all the news faster<br \/>\nand faster, and the new breed of cops winning the fight<br \/>\nagainst crime, are smiling, pleased to be at their best,<\/p>\n<p>proud to be among the literally millions of Americans everywhere<br \/>\nwho have tried the hair, compared the hair and will never go back<br \/>\nto life before the active, the caring, the successful, the incredible hair.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1782\" data-postid=\"1782\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1782 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] November 12, 1980 Dear Don, Here I am with another of my famous second thoughts. If you have no violent objections, I would prefer this version, with \u201cmini pads\u201d, rather than the other, with \u201cmaxi pads.\u201d A small change, I know, but important enough to make this the final and definitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35324,35504,42976,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9621,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/9621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}