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                          Pie is swell food. I eat scads of it. I
                                have a good complexion and
                           marvelous digestion. I always tell
                              people who say pie gives them
                       indigestion to try eating pie first and
                                     the rest of the meal last.
                        —“PIE KING” MONROE BOSTON STRAUSE, JEFFERSON CITY POST-TRIBUNE, DECEMBER
                                                           16, 1937