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Dateline Oxford 1952— St Valentine’s Day   Dublin Press reporter interviews Dreams in the Distance O. C. Ogilvie   Reporter – Sergeant Ogilvie, may I have a word? C. – Aye. Reporter – Do you know what day it is? C. – Believe ’tis Thursday. Reporter – I mean the holiday. C. – Och, dinna believe I do, sairy. Reporter – It’s St Valentine’s Day. Have you a sweetheart Sergeant. C. – Och, ye can go ahead an’ call me Ollie if ye wish. An’ naw, I dinna. Reporter – A fine handsome veteran like yourself, no sweetheart? With that… 

    Dublin Press reporter interviews Dreams in the Distance Phila Claiborne Reporter – How’s it looking for tonight Ms. Claiborne? Phila – As in a date? Surely you jest. As in young men knocking my father’s door down to court me? I’m plain, pudgy, and percipient, with insane frizzy red hair, a riot of freckles, no fashion sense, an intellect that petrifies the male sex, and a photographic mind that makes me a victor in any contest. What kind of chap will run barefoot over cut glass to date me? Reporter – It can’t be all that bad. You… 

      Dublin Press Reporter interviews Nan Rinella The first in this SKETCHES series   Whatever Happened to Susan?     Reporter – “Where do you get your ideas?” is a common question asked of authors. So, where did you get the idea for your series THE CHOICE and the first two books, Dreams in the Distance and Hopes on the Horizon? Author – “Whatever happened to Susan?” was the question left unanswered at the end of The Chronicles of Narnia. In The Last Battle, the seventh and final book of the series, all the leading characters perish in a…