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Whitey told me he was going to slap Emmet down plenty about it but I wonder - I've heard that talk before. My guess is that the Colonel was plenty sore and I wouldn't blame him. Time will tell whether Whitey or I was right.

Got a wire from Neil Donovan saying Tarzan Jr. was "signed, sealed and delivered". We were the only bidder. So it looks like that campaign is drawing to a successful close. Whitey thought that was a "good job." 

School is out today for the summer. Bab had a cold all week and missed all her exams but can take them in the fall - is supposed to have passed anyhow so I don't quite see why she should have to take exams later. Perhaps she will be excused from them when the time comes.

Tonight we went to the Griswold Club dinner dance at Hunter's Lodge - a very pleasant affair but somehow out of place on a day when Paris fell to the Nazis and things abroad look about as black as they could.

Erie, Pa.,
Saturday, June 15, 1940.

This has been one of those dark, unhappy days that come occasionally when everything seems to go wrong. I woke up with my ears completely dead - plugged up on the inside because yesterday I had the Works Hospital blow out my left ear which was plugged with wax and my right was clear. It made me feel rotten but later on I managed to open by ears up, when I blew my nose. Then I was worried lest I had