In response to Mr. Whiting's request to reproduce the picture offered here (see Lot 166), Weegee wrote on September 13, 1946 in a letter which accompanies the lot: Thanx for your kind letters. & excuse the delay in answering them...As I am having my teeth fixed and a new set of STORE TEETH ordered from my favorite MAIL ORDER house...You might be intested (sic) that I have changed my act once more...NOW I am doing the photos for the SCRIPPS HOWARD newspapers full page ads in papers and magazines all over the country....$$400.00 yes I said four hundred bucks for a nights work.