Mice

(1980 memoirs)
Eleanor Coreth and I lived in one part of the town and Irma Warns and a girl they long knew, Margaret Brewster, lived in another end.  So when we met to go to see Mary Pickford or Mary Miles Minter or Rudolph Valentino in The Shiek we had someone to walk home with.  One day one of us, probably Irma, was struck with a brilliant Idea.  Writing down our names -- Margaret, Irma, Carolyn, Eleanor -- she found, as you can plainly see yourself, they spelled MICE.  So until this day we often sign our Xmas cards by the one letter.