> >Oh and there's the overnight trip from New York to a city west of Columbus, Ohio. A five hundred mile trip, he claims. I guess he thought the US was about the same size as the UK.
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> According to the map check I just did online, the driving distance between NewYork City and Columbus, OH is 534 miles. Even if the city he mentions is a bit west of Columbus, his distance is not all that far off
The town was apparently in Illinois, considerably west of Columbus and 1950, before the Interstate system, cars didn't travel at 60 mph.
Jeff
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