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said, "He's the kind that beat Roosevelt in Vermont." The only reason Walter didn't compete in the diving contest at Lake Morey at the Fairlee Fair was that he lent his trunks to his brother. Apparently Walter is married for when I gave him $2.00 when we left, he said, "The wife and I can go places with that." But I never saw his wife - should like to sometime. Well, so much for Walter. I trust I shall see him again sometime for if there ever was a picturesque character, he is it - a real guy.

Bill and George Brown:
We met Bill the first night at Shanty Shane at bridge when Rose Oliver put him at our table. My outstanding impression of Bill was that under it all, he was unhappy. He used to be a counsellor at Shanty Shane, but had now just graduated from Brown, majoring in economics. Unable to get a job, he probably felt a bit embittered at things in general. A tall, blond boy, he seemed rather quiet and serious, but extremely pleasant and sociable when thrown with people. And yet he seemed to be forcing himself to do it. He seemed very well bred. Home - Yonkers.

George, Bill's younger brother, had just finished at Horace Mann and was a counsellor or more specifically, someone who runs the store at the office, acts as lifeguard, and makes himself generally useful and sociable with the guests. George was tall and dark and jovial, in direct contrast to Bill. Have seldom seen a pleasanter, more likeable boy. He wore hornrimmed glasses and the younger

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