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anything that will be worth a damn. I even went over to the grove by the Laurens Park Golf Club to get some solitude and think but I found the view of the blue lake and the boats and the sky there were not conducive to thinking about regenerative braking so I returned to the office and dug in alone in the conference room where I made somewhat better progress.

This evening we went to Chautauqua as Mother's guests at "Butterfly," and it was the best performance of it I remember. Suzanne Fisher was perfect as Cho Cho San. She made her Metropolitan debut in the part and does a marvelous job of it.

I thought Mother looked very badly - pale and rather shaky. She said a bad earache had kept her awake almost all night and she had lain on the bed all day. Her health hasn't been at all good this summer and I am afraid she is losing ground. She can't sleep at all well and that in itself keeps her feeling poorly naturally. She will have to see Dr. Gage here when she comes back in early September.

Met the Goldthorpes at the "Greek's" in Westfield afterward for a sundae. They had the Staleys with them. She is "Whitey" Wilson's sister, a tiny, attractive little thing looking and talking very much like him. They are staying with the Wilson children while "Whitey" and Carol are out west.

Getting into our car parked outside the Greeks I glanced into the window of a small jewelry shop, and there looking at me was a gray haired Doc Higgins. I hadn't seen him since the abortion scandal in Erie a couple or three years ago that nearly landed