Sorry for a delayed comment on last week's discussion of John Dillinger's naughty bits which the NMNH folks will probably stone me for bringing up again. My understanding of the rumor about his parts being in the Smithsonian is that the Walter Reed Medical Museum used to be located nearer the Mall in Washington DC and tourists used to wander in there thinking it was a Smithsonia museum and come back years later wanting to know where the building was with all the dismembered organs, etc. Any truth to this explanation? Coincidental to this brief discussion, I just visited Crown Hill Cemetery here in Indianapolis and saw John Dillinger's grave on Saturday. And the Sunday Indianapolis Star ran a story that the man the G-men gunned down outside the movie theater was not really Dillinger and so the identity of the man buried at Crown Hill is in question.....(which would put the identity of the body part's original owner into question too, if it really is floating out there in some Washington museum) Completely changing the subject to something much more tasteful and respectable. To fans of the Avengers who surfaced on the list last week: Two must-have books for your library: The Complete Avengers_, by Dave Rogers (New York: St. Martins Press, 1989) includes episode guides to ALL the shows including the early ones before Mrs Peel and Mrs Gale joined John Steed. _The Avengers: Too Many Targets_ by John Peel (no relation) and Dave Rogers (New York: St Martins Press, 1990) Feel free to contact me for Avengers discussion! (Nick at Nite does not show them. Arts&Entertainment used to show edited episodes) Carolyn Brady ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [log in to unmask] | "Real solemn history, I cannot be MA program in Public History | interested in....The quarrels of popes Indiana University- | and kings, with wars or pestilences Purdue University at ü in every page; the men all so good for Indianapolis | nothing, and hardly any women at all." (out of town July 26-29) ü --JANE AUSTEN _____________________________ ü_________________________________________