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say she has had a total of ten transfusions so far since having the baby. I'd give a lot to see her well. What a horrible shame.

Went to the buffet supper at the Reeds, and as the chances of getting a ticket looked like 1 in 1000, I agreed to go up to Scarboroughs with "Brother John" and play ping-pong while the rest went to the show. John, although 3 years Walt's junior, looks considerably older and evidently feels older, as he says he regards Walt as his "kid brother." John has been married and divorced twice, drinks like a fish, and at present is what he describes himself as "an old batchelor." He says, "Walt tells me I should marry. I don't see no percentage in it. Why now I can have a different duck every night if I want to." John resembles Walt but has a hard, dissipated look and lacks Walt's color. He is smaller and sharper faced, but built similarly. Used to be #2 man on the varsity tennis team - Wilmer Allison was #1 man. John says he still chums with Wilmer, who is in a rival brokerage office - John gets $200 a month at Bache's in Austin, and used to be a chemistry teacher. He owns a small house, rents the lower part and has the attic fixed up for his "bachelor" quarters. At present, he is having an amateur "copiest" do some nude murals directly on the walls in oils - $25.00 - but next summer the guy is scheduled to go to study under de Rivera according to John, who talked almost continuously all evening, and the more he had to