HERMIT LAND: Want to hear a cute yarn about a certain sweater (no pun intended)? A few months ago, TS received a letter from a girl who said she'd swiped a sweater from Peter (Herman) Noone and would like to return it if we could give her Pete's address.
      Tipsy Sullivan, our office Hermit rooter, mentioned the letter to Pete, who said to tell the girl to keep the sweater with his love.
Not long after that, the sweater in question arrived at TS. It turned out that the girl had bought the sweater for Pete with her own money and hadn't swiped it from him at all. So, she sent it to him in care of us, with this message . . . "imagine being so rich that you don't even know if a sweater has been stolen or not."
      Substitute the word confused for rich and you'd have a better chance of being correct. By the end of a tour, a travelling pop star is lucky to have one-fourth of the clothes he brought with him. Many of belongings have either "disappeared," been lost, or are hanging in fan-clawed shreds.
Fortunately, after he stops being confused and ceases to wonder whatever happened to that blue windbreaker, etc. - he can always take some of the money he made on tour to buy some new threads.
Anyway, it was nice of Herman to offer to let her keep the sweater she'd "swiped." He was a doll about the whole situation, as usual.
      By the way - Pete has bought a new home in Switzerland and was in the process of furnishing it just before the Hermits' stateside tour in December. He's also acquired a nanny for his sisters and the near future addition to the Noone family, which he is praying will be a boy.