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with the aid of a little aspergum.  I stayed all day.

I was so enthused I had a light rye highball with the Colonel before dinner and it bothered me none at all.  At dinner things were going fine too when I tried a piece of raw tomato and wow! - it was like a knife going through my neck.  It certainly subdued me in a hurry - I struggled through the rest of the meal on about one cylinder and could t even finish the ice cream, which usually slides down very nicely.

Took the usual ride this evening, stopping to see Marion and Dick, and the new baby - James Douglas - a little red headed fellow two weeks old today.  Marion was sitting up and seems to be coming along well.  She, the frailest looking one of the crowd, has three children now.
Learned from Marion that Walt Scarorough was operated on for hernia at Hamot the same day I was operated on, and that Maybelle had visited him some three times that day - but now and for several days she has been in Huntingdon with Barbara.

My B&M job is "dormant" per Donovan until the ICC approves the B & M refinancing plan, which the RFC already has okayed.  I have been wondering if Perry Egbert was right about their not buying anything.  Now they are planning to use RFC money which they can get cheaper than from the First National Bank of Boston, and so are going to issue a spec & ask for bids, this being necessary when using RFC money - more formality but not sealed bids or a Clayton Act job.  Boy, I want that job about as much as any I've ever worked on!

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