FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY

Exactly today, November 19, it is 50 years since Bob Cox and I took up contact for the first time. Bob was then the editor of the Buenos Aires Herald and I was living at Gaspar Campos 1051, Vicente López. The reason why I phoned him that day was a consequence of what happened 48 hours before.

Roughly at lunch time on the 17th our new, rather well-known, next-door neighbour arrived with his wife and a large committee to take possession of the house located at number 1065. As of that moment pandemonium struck the neighbourhood, with tens of thousands invading the streets and the premises closest to that address. For reasons they knew best, the military authorities which were ruling the country at that time fully ignored the plight the neighbours were going through, and left these to their fate. Of the entire Argentine press the Buenos Aires Herald was the only newspaper that came out in their defence, demanding the government help them.

So my call to Bob was to thank him, and a few weeks later we met for lunch and our very close friendship was born. Incidentally, on this occasion I got to learn that his wife is Maud Daverio, a school companion of mine in the 1940s whom I had not seen since then!

This letter is scandalously self-referential, I know, but on this day I want to publicly thank God for having determined the circumstances which permitted, and still permit, my wonderful relationship with this heroic couple. Harry Ingham,

City

P.S. – For more on those days, visit Google and search for “Peron en Gaspar Campos por Harry Ingham video completo,” filmed very primitively on Kodak Super 8.