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Boston, Mass.
Friday, Jan. 13, 1939
Spent a couple of hours down watching the Yard 13 job working again this morning, and once more failed to see anything tough about the job so shall have to get Barrett to tell me next week just what there is about it that's too heavy. It was clear and sunny today, but cold and breezy and I was glad to get inside again although being out in it makes you feel good and gives you rosy cheeks all right.

Roy and I had lunch at the Parker House with "Larry" Richardson, Mechanical Asst. to the President. I met Larry years ago and have seen him a few times since. He is a mild looking, colorless little man - hair neatly parted on the side, a small bald spot developing on the back of his head, face colorless, clothes colorless and sloppy, shoes and hands likewise. He didn't know what I'd done on the small diesel study and for some reason. Roy didn't tell him, and we sort of talked around aimlessly on it. All Larry knew about was Biddeford and he kept harping on that and seemed interested in nothing else. Some of the time we were discussing the subject, he would be gazing off at some other part of the dining room. It was rather disappointing to me, as I thought as long as he had been asked to head up the small diesel study, he would show a bit of enthusiasm. The other people have shown a lot more, Sears in particular. But I guess that's the way Larry is. After lunch he called his chief clerk, Walker Brown, and told him that