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New York, N.Y.
Saturday, Dec. 10, 1938.
Woke up this morning thoroughly cleaned out but as the day went on, I must admit I had to kid myself that I felt much better.  Did a little shopping this morning, and caught the 1:05PM Erie train from Jersey City to go out to Tom's at Hobokens for the afternoon and evening.  He has a lovely place out there with a brook running through the front yard, and a nice family.  His wife was Ruth Ennis, daughter of C.T. Ennis, Alco, V.P. in charge of engineering.  I found her not very pretty, but extremely pleasant and attractive and she has given Tom two cute daughters, Helen (Holly) 2 years old, and Joan, 4 months.  Mr. & Mrs. Ennis dropped in in the afternoon for a few minutes and Mr. Sawyer came to dinner.  The last time I met him, I definitely didn't care for him, but I tried this time to like him and found the experiment worked quite well.  We played 6-7-8-9-10 rummy in the evening, his favorite game, and really had a very pleasant time.  Mr. Sawyer looks like a cross between Uncle Robert Durham and Earl Baldwin, and when he loosened up in the rummy game, he was quite all right.  Tom has a nice place there, and lives very well with a little brown maid, an old Cadillac car, and a very attractive house.  I couldn't help reflecting how here was a case  where a man's connections very definitely affected his status.  Tom is okay, but I doubt whether he