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he didn't know whether or not he could make it today. We finally got a date at 1:30 PM when we told Bacall I had to get a plane home this afternoon and wanted to take the story back with me (This morning I asked Mrs. Knowles to get me lined up on the 5:15 PM flight.)

So after our usual lunch at Harvard Square, this time with Andy Johnson, we went back  to the Arsenal and into the Colonel's office. He looked so much like F.E. Case, I wondered if he might be a younger brother but he had such a gang in his office there was no chance to inquire - Mororhead, Newcomb, Humphreys, Mather, Roy, Bacall and I. I could see at once he is one swell gent as Roy had claimed. The major wrinkle Colonel Case injected into the picture to help us out was that the invitation would call for an alternative on a "demonstrator" locomotive which "has not been in service for over four months." Presumably with a whopping equalization of bid penalty, we can quote high and still get the business -- unless somebody has a stock job that will meet the bill - I'll have to try to find that out. Also, on the alternative, we can take minor exceptions to the Specs. without criticism. So I guess we got all we could expect short of an outright purchase on an emergency basis. The Colonel agreed also to tighten up the Picatinny specs some but not enough to do us all the good we wanted. So we left fairly well satisfied and hoping Tarzan Jr. is now in a permanent home. I really have got to feel an almost personal affection for Tarzan Jr. & am happy to think he won't be kicked