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Intermediate morkdowns hove been token The way thoy wcro SEPT. 6, 1943. From the office of the commander in chief at Allied Force Headquarters in Algiers, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower writes a letter to Miss Margaret "Peg" Chase of the American Red Cross Military Welfare Service: "Dear Peg: I have found, to my horror, that I have not acknowledged receipt of the fine brushes you sent for our family of dogs.

Please overlook this seeming negligence because I assure you that I deeply appreciate them. I am sure that Telek and Caaci will appreciate them even more. Many, many thanks. Cordially, Ike." Margaret Chase smiles at the memory. Forty years have brought her perspective.

She knows that' World War II so enormous, so overwhelming at the time had room for humanity, too; that the supreme commander, a bridge-playing social friend of hers, could find a moment away from global strife to say thanks to someone who was nice to his pets. And it wasnt a one time-only gesture. "He was always a very thoughtful man," Chase says. Chase built a friendship with the general because of her close relationship with Major Ernest 'Tex" Lee, Eisenhower's chief military aide, and came in contact with everyone from George Patton to Kay Summersby to Randolph Churchill. It was heady stuff for a young Lowell High School art and history teacher who always had been "mad to travel." And it's well-detailed in a leisurely paced autobiography, "Never Too Late" ($1495 cover price)," which Chase recently self -published through Auson-ia Press, 1997 Eddy San Francisco 94115.

The title comes not from the fact her wartime reminiscences are being offered four decades later, but from her marriage for the first time, at 60, to teacher-musician Giovanni Camajani in 1966. "He was precisely the man I dreamed about and never seemed to meet," she says. BUT SHE WAS directly prompted to write the book after the posthumous publication of Sum-mersby's book, which chronicled an alleged love affair with Eisenhower. "It wasn't true at all," Chase says. "Kay was no more than Ike's good companion, a competent bridge player, a fearless horsewoman and a much-needed office assistant.

She was part of Ike's as were all of us surrounding the "No matter how circumspect a man and a woman in love may be, there are always gestures and looks exchanged that give away the whole game. There was never the slightest suggestion of impropriety between the general and Kay Summersby. "Kay lived with five WAC officers I knew in Algiers and I still see them occasionally. I asked one if she agreed with me and she said 'Definitely. There was no Chase was spurred by the Summersby book into asking the Eisenhower Library for copies of her wartime diary, and letters and notes from Ike, which make up a fascinating section of "Never Too Late." The book also has sharp recollections of Patton and Randolph Churchill, Sir Winston's son.

Of Patton she writes: "I was left alone with him for a short time while the other (dinner) guests played a hot game of progressive Ping-Pong. I found him not half as fierce as Time magazine claimed that he was. He read some of his poetry and told fascinating bits of history of Hannibal's invasion of Europe. "He complimented the Red Cross for their work, admitting that he had not wanted the Red Cross clubs in his command until he found that the soldiers would go to the clubs Instead of bars and brothels, and this reduced the VD rate enormously. "I found him vital, erudite, stimulating, quite a contrast to the average, dull, conforming general.

However, these same qualities got him into constant trouble, much to Ike's dismay." HER DIARY ENTRY on Randolph Churchill noted: "Randolph is as vain as an actor, but I believe he has a touch of genius." Later, she found he had "touch," period. During a discussion on how the Allies should deal with the French, Chase says, "Randolph attempted to demonstrate his ability as a lover. I escaped abruptly to the refuge of the Red Cross Club." When a friend asked her, "Did Randolph pounce?" she says, "I answered in the affirmative." But Margaret Chase always could handle herself. Bold, independent, she carved her own way when that wasnt a popular path for women. "I wasnt a feminist in the sense that I belonged to organizations," she says, "but you dont have to make a fuss about it to achieve your freedom and your 1 inO aii Ji 1 i Witt i'M Slid i(U 't hm i 'h n.n fj1 a tt'f i "AC 3 Ik 1 1 sty 1 4 -m A-1 I i 14 'Am 'k i -rif 'MSBs-H fell yj 4 lifer A 4 I ttX si'? i VDeal her diamonds this year.

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