Calculated Coincidence.  Fifty years ago (count 'em) and more, a com-
pany named Media Research Bureau, 111O F St., Washington, D.C. was en-
gaged in soliciting in the mails.  They contacted families of the same 
surname with the offer of a "manuscript" study of the family from 
earliest times.  It was not unlike the current Halberts scam, but we 
have seen one of the manuscripts and it is scholarly.  Besides, all 
they wanted for it was $2.00.
    The coincidence is that your editor has had three of these mani-
la post office printed postcards (Jefferson left profile green 1�) for 
the whole of the time since they arrived.  The first was postmarked 
Jul 22 at 12-M, 1938, the next, Apr 6, 10-PM 1939 and the final one 
Nov 13, 1-PM, 1939.  The Apr 6th card offers a coat of arms for $1.00! 
But after our correspondence in genealogy began in the 1960s, Cousin 
Evalyssa (Evalyn Malissa) of Lexington, Nebraska (granddaughter of 
Edward T. Hollingsworth of Cincinnati, our Frederick's nephew), sent 
us the card she had received.  Lo and behold, it was also dated Jul 22 
at 12-M 1939 at Washington, D.C. and the second 2 in 22 is crooked 
as exactly on our card, showing they were both in the same pile 
when running through the machine (or were they individually hand 
stamped in those days?).  And here I sit looking at them now!
    Seeing these cards as I did as a kid, may have worked on my sub-
conscious and got my genealogical juices flowing.

    Your editor obtained a xerox of a full double page out of the 
New York Dramatic Mirror (a long defunct theatrical newspaper), issue 
of Oct 16, 1915, which shows his father, Harry Hollingsworth's por-
trait (same as a very large one - 2 feet by 2� feet - we own which 
used to hang on Grandma Hollingsworth's living room wall from 1915 to 
1948) and a short notice of his great success at Poli's Hartford 
(Conn.) Theatre.  The notice concludes with "It is largely due to his 
ability and personal magnetism that the present company is enjoying 
the most prosperous season of any stock (company) which has ever ap-
peared in the Connecticut capital."  We got this xerox in about 1970. 
It is 8�Xl4 inches and has other notices on two pages which we simp-
ly never bothered to read.  The bound volume from which we took the 
photocopy apparently was destroyed in the L.A. Library's horrendous 
fire of 1986 when the periodical collection was largely devastated.
    On Saturday, April 7, 1990, we finally sat down and read the oth-
er notices!  There under BIRMINGHAM DEBUTANTES on the next page is a 
notice of the Grayce Scott Stock Company, then playing at the Bijou 
in Birmingham, Alabama.  "...the work of Miss Scott, MISS NAN CRAW-
FORD, ... and several others is of the highest order."  There was 
Harry's wife-to-be mentioned 4 inches below left of her own husband-
to-be's picture and notice, a full 2 years before they ever met!  And 
had your myopic, neanderthalic editor not missed her notice, he could 
have showed it to her and seen her no doubt expression of total awe, 
and heard her speak of the "omen" there presented.
    Nan often told of how she had a dream she would meet the man she 
was to marry with his throat wrapped up on a ship.  In the summer of 
1917 she boarded the ferry out of New York City with a new company of 
actors.  As she was led over to meet the leading man, Harry Hollings-
worth, she saw his throat bandaged (from a tonsillectomy) and the rest 
is history.  What think you of these matters?