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So I called King, told him to prepare the lease and Willie and I went down and signed it about 3 PM, making the first month's payment to boot. So that was settled and to my great surprise, at $65.00, under my maximum of $70.00.

2.) My worry about maybe having to pull up stakes and go to N.Y. dissolved, and also, my doubts about being turned down, disappeared also when "Cash" told me the job is that contact job with the Board of Transportation - 90% politics and 10% engineering, and certainly out of any line of equipment I've ever really dealt with besides. I'm not surprised they don't want me, and I wouldn't want the job if it were offered me.

So, with the Scarboroughs and Lamborns coming in this evening to see the famed "party pictures" and especially Barbara Reed doing the hip wriggling, and also some ping-pong, the day resolved itself into a very satisfactory affair. A bourbon highball made ping-pong hilarious.

The only thing to mar it was Roger's going on the sick list with "that feeling" again. So he stayed in bed all day, feeling rotten but no serious temperature. Bab simultaneously got off the sick list and goes back to school tomorrow, as well as dancing school. I did feel awfully sorry for "the man." He looked as if he felt so terribly, just lying inert, so utterly in contrast to him usually.