Reverse of photograph reads: Wrote Poem Heard Round the World - Miss Frances Angermayer, above, receptionist in a Kansas City physician's office, wrote a poem which she titled "Conversation" June 3, 1943. The poem, which tells of a solder in a foxhole under fire, first was published in "Our Sunday Visitor," a Catholic publication. Not long afterward, a copy was found on the body of a dead American soldier in Italy. From then on "Conversation" has spread to every corner of the Earth. Tabulation of Miss Angermayer's correspondence indicates that at least six million copies have been printed and distributed. 4/5/45.
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