From: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:02 PM Subject: Lesley Zlabinger is out of the office.
To: Gabe Menezes I will be out of the office starting 10/14/2009 and will not return until 10/20/2009. If you need quicker assistance, please call the Louis Armstrong House Museum at 718-478-8274. Thank you. Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:05:09 +0100 From: Gabe Menezes <[email protected]> Anyone can make up an email and purport that it was as written. It is too uncanny that the man would reply to inform us that it was indeed Air India that flew the man from Singapore! I could easily have written below that there was no truth in the email posted here on Goanet from Lesley.zlabinger.... Mario observes: What is uncanny is the lengths that Gabe Menezes will go to slander me and embarrass himself by repeating the falsehood that Air India did not fly from Singapore to Mumbai in the mid-60s and therefore could not have transported the Louis Armstrong Band from Singapore to Mumbai as I had written in a post last year. Talk about a smelly bottom feeder, a term that describes Mr. Menezes' actions perfectly as we can see from the following sequence of events. He has not cited a single source to support his slander - he wants us to believe his obviously failing memory. In the meantime I have cited several credible sources from the history of Air India on Wikipedia, to excerpts of travel reports in the Singapore Straits Times, to an email from the archivist at the Louis Armstrong Museum at Queens College, City University of New York, Lesley Zlabinger, in which she confirmed from their records that the band had flown to Mumbai from Singapore on Air India. After seeing the copy of Ms. Zlabinger's email that I posted, Gabe has tried to contact her directly. He apparently received an automated response that she was out of the office until 10/20/09. The contents of the automated message are shown above. Gabe could have contacted the Singapore Straits Times regarding the numerous excerpts I posted of people traveling from and to Singapore and Mumbai on Air India throughout the 60s. No guts to do that. Gabe could have called the phone number for the Louis Armstrong House mentioned in the email he received, but that would have cost him some money for the long distance international call. Money must be tight in old Blioghty. He could have asked his buddy, Eric Pinto, who lives in New York City, to verify who Ms. Zlabinger is and the contents of the email she sent me. Instead he is now reduced to slandering Ms. Zlabinger too, trying to suggest that her identity and emails are made up. Are there no depths this bottom feeder will not sink to? I expect Gabe to follow up after Ms. Zlabinger returns to work and verify what her records show about Mr. Armstrong and his band's trip to Mumbai in 1964 from Singapore to Mumbai on Air India. After that, a real man would apologize, but in this case, I'm not holding my breath.
