The first time one of us (G.P.) encountered Earle was in Summer 1966, when she was directed to study Earles papers on radiative corrections to quasi-elastic electron scattering. The suggestion had come from Bruno Touschek, at the time head of the theoretical physics group at the Frascati National Laboratories near Rome. About the same time, Earle came from MIT to visit University of Rome and Frascati. G.P. was a young post-graduate, who had studied Earles papers and was awed by his already impressive scientific figure. After almost 40 years had passed, Earle visited Italy with his wife Ruth, making Frascati their base for an extended visit of almost a month. They were housed in what was then the laboratory hostel for foreign visitors, a small villa higher up above the hill, toward the town of Frascati. Since then, we became close friends, a friendship which included both his family and ours, and which has been very important for us. In memory of that first visit and in gratitude for the many years of friendship, we will tell here a story of infrared radiative corrections to charged particle scattering, to which Earles papers gave an important contribution.
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