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Jack Vaughn saw recent correspondence regarding Sometimes a Great Notion, based on the Ken Kesey novel, and sent in a DVD copy of the eccentric 1970 comedy starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda, plus a disc of Where the Buffalo Roam, which has yet to be claimed by its unknown seeker. A small surrey without a fringe but drawn by a team of miniature gazelles and lashed into a flared-nostril frenzy by a sadistic stoat with a whip has conveyed the Kesey disc to George Barnes of Mayfield East in record time.

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