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told me I was crazy to assume such a thing, but this jittery sensitiveness of mine gave me no peace – I worried and worried until finally I simply had to crush it out of my mind or make a complete fool of myself to myself. This proclivity to worry about minor things is what I must get rid of. Frequently before, when undertaking a new job with new people, I have done it, only to learn later how silly it was. It must stop. All one has to do to see the folly of it, is to look around at others, see the errors they make and see your own reaction to them.

Felix Korn has officially changed his name to Felix Felix. No one seems to know just why.

Erie, Pa.
Thursday, November 16, 1939.
A day devoted to getting educated on the Ordinance program. Looked over the drawings on the 8" Railway Gun Mount, and the 3" anti-aircraft gun mount as well as the 5" naval gun mount. Spent the afternoon at Bldg. 60 matching the final tests on the Searchlight Power Plant for the Army, conducted under the searching eye of Mr. Fallowfield, Chief Inspector for the U. S. Engineers. Also met Clark, and IGE man here on the French search-light power plant job, who has been all over the world and has plenty to talk about.

This evening met Fallowfield, Clark, Jim McKenzie and Gouldthorpe at the Lawrence where we had a few drinks and dinner and spent the evening on the mezzanine in a remote corner hearing Clark give a promised discourse on the subject of sex in foreign lands amply illustrated by a full