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to protect the government if that appears desirable or necessary. he will invite bids on a new locomotive. But it appears he will buy Tarzan Jr. And we will get about 60 days rent or $1500 from April 1st to June 1st for Tarzan Jr. which we can deduct from our bid. So it looks as though the Colonel is now playing ball with us 100% as I was sure he would when he realized fully what we have done for him.
  
The ball game was a honey. the Red Sox winning 8 to 5 to go back into first place. It was good to sit out in the hot spring sun and let it burn in. After the game, we  retired to a neat bar near the park and had a couple of Cutty Sarks and then started for town where we dropped Bacall at No. Sta. and Roy insisted on taking me home for dinner and a couple of "MG specials". He had to go to the Armory and dropped me at Sullivan Square where I caught the subway for town. After registering at the Parker House, I went to the movies - Raymond Massey in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois", Bob Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize play converted to the screen with the original cast. It was a wonderfully moving picture - an inspiring one - to see the man develop - all so human, so real, to see such a plain man gradually develop in such a perfectly human way from a lazy dreamer to the savior of his country. Massey's portrayal was perfectly marvellous! And when at the end, the train pulled away from the crowd and Abe had left for Washington and the Presidency. I doubt if there were many dry eyes left in the theater. His romance with Ann Rutledge, her death , and the way her spirit influenced him through the years, was beautifully done - so elusive, so subtle, so perfect - the whole thing was a masterpiece.