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me Church wanted G.E. to buy Busch-Sulzer. Andy seemed to be irked by the whole Church affair and didn't want to do any more than absolutely necessary for him. Andy still is for the steam-electric 100% as a competitor of Electro-Motive, and Church doesn't interest him. So I have some bearings on the Church situation. Shreve also was at our table and there's a man I like to see and hear - force, character, good looks, likeable, friendly, inspiring. What a man!

After the afternoon session we "Chi Psi Boys" staying out at the Chi Psi House at Union College were taken out there to clean up before the "Swiss Festival" in the evening at the Golf Club again. I am in a big room with Doc Ferguson and Prout from Dallas, an Industrial man. The place is okay but rather inconvenient when one is without a car. At the Festival, an outdoor dinner with beer flowing freely I sat at a table with Alvord of San Francisco, who tried to be pleasant but was still a bit stiff I thought. Met many more men during the evening - Spencer, now in Chicago Publicity, Adams, an IGE comer, Umansky, who told me the Nikiforoffs are in Mexico, Nina married and Tania about to be, the girls being in the States. The beer was not too good and as a result the party was a bit slow - nothing like some potent cocktails to promote unlimited mixing of men at such an affair but the beer didn't quite accomplish it.

About 9 PM, Gordon McDonald, Joe Hoffman, Chicago Industrial Dept. salesman to Carnegie-Illinois, and I returned to the hotel and thence over to see Mac's sister-in-law, Helen Schairer, a school teacher living in Apt. #8 next to the Mohawk Club. While not pretty, she has a certain very charming

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