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I only check ARSClist every week or so - so I just found this thread. I wanted to share my "ironic moment" with RR. I started subscribing in the 1970s when I first got into collecting old records. Lenny wasx always advertising the "Once in a lifetime" offer of run of back issues from about #50 (at that time, it was a "rolling number" as time went on. So I bought them. Then in late 1990s I was at a paper collectibles show and saw a pile of RR's. The guy wanted to sell it as a lot. I looked to see what #s were there and they were complete from #5 through # 49. (exactly the ones I needed except the first four issues). So I bought them. Then 2 months later Kurt Nauck's auction catalog came. He had issues #1-70 or so. They were available individually or as a lot bid. I wrote Kurt and said that if they sold as a lot, would he xerox the first four issues for me. They did and he did (for a very reasonable price.) I planned to go back and read them, but - of course - we never have time for that. Anyway, I thought it ironic how my run all came together. Steve