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If you're doing any faculty recruitment of folks from the Midwest or Northeast, strike now while the iron is hot here, and cold there. Use yours truly's formula: Put them up at a beachfront hotel in Santa Monica with an ocean view. Drive them to UCLA on San Vicente Boulevard (coral trees) to Sunset Boulevard (views of Bel Air). But do NOT under any circumstances talk about house prices anywhere near these locations! 

And at the link below is another winter's radio tale from Jean Shepherd, circa early 1930s, about the weather elsewhere - in this case Hammond, Indiana. This one, unlike the posting yesterday, does not appear in the movie, A Christmas Story. You'll hear it here, first.

Or direct to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdZeMgTkRVI.

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To hear the text above (but not the radio story), click on the link below:

https://ia601402.us.archive.org/25/items/big-ten/weather.mp3.