Date (happened)
February 1941
"Back in 1941, it was the month of February", told in The Potter's House (nid 1752)
Told / reported
1957(refuted)The Potter's House (nid 1752), telling 1752-2, told 19571957(refuted)The Potter's House (nid 1752), telling 1752-2, told 1957- 25 October 1971 (probable)nid 1752 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1957-??-?? refuted; 1971-10-25 probable (preferred)
In February 1941, when a snowstorm cut his usual New York audience of a thousand down to a hundred on the night his book Your Faith Is Your Fortune came out, he went to sleep assuming he was in his mother's home in Barbados; seven months later a cable came saying his mother was dying, and he and his wife sailed for Barbados instead of taking their planned Maine vacation.