So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got. So I just write back to her and says, Nothin', honey. Only she's got it here.

E. In his family biography Rare Birds: An American Family (University Press of Kentucky 2001) Dan Bessie notes that Alvah was related to some highly successful entrepreneurs: he was father-in-law of well-known 1960s poster artist Wes Wilson husband of Alvah's daughter Eva and a brother-in-law (through his first wife Mary) of famous advertising executive Leo Burnett.