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and altogether lovely story of an old music professor and his four talented girls, their loves, their hopes, their tragedies. The scenes in the attractive old house, in the pleasant country at the picnic; in the simple every day surroundings we all know, caught at the heart in a way that a movie seldom does – the four, lovely, clean, happy, innocent youngsters in their utterly natural reactions to life, their intimacies with each other, their comradeship, their love, certainly made one want to cry. I found tears in my eyes more than once.

Willie and I stopped in Pulako's for a sundae and saw Martha Nelson in there with her rather homely, red headed, partially bald "boy friend." I don't think Martha is particularly happy when with him from remark's she has made. She has been spoiled at the G.E. I think – Rudy, myself and others always jollying her there. I understand that at last we are to have a stenographer again but not Martha. Mrs. Walrath wants to keep her away from Rudy. Guess she's considered safe with Brandy and Don Mache.

Saw little, wizened up Tommy Schweickert with his wife and daughter in Pulakos too. His wife might be his daughter and his daughter his granddaughter. Tommy is a G.E. tragedy – graduate of the University of Virginia, affable but minus push or personality, who let himself into a job as sort of chief clerk for F.E. Case and gradually slid down the ladder until now, he's just a clerk in the material list section under Young who, I don't think, is even a college grad.

War seems to be no longer a possibility. The momentous meeting at Munich [[strikethrough]] yes [[/strikethrough]] today decided that Hitler would be satisfied without it and the Czechs were more or less "sold out" by France and England. In the long run, will it prove a wise decision? I wonder.

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