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always refer to Frys as "Buster", then little boy, although he's older than either of them, and refer to themselves as relates to Frys-Jay as "Poppa" and Wolf as "Momma." Frys used to be a great amateur radio set builder - now his wife says he builds "motors" in the cellar but Frys never explained what the "motors" are for. I gathered it is something he's trying to develop on the q.t.

When we got to the plant at 10:30 PM we found the New York Central had gone to Bldg. 60 and been run. I had to get Dick Miller to call Cain to learn it was okay! I wouldn't call Basil because I was afraid he was in bed and I think he was! But it was smooth and everyone had gone home. Also I learned at the gate Western Union had been trying to get me all evening - I called them and it was a wire for Bill Hamilton!

One interesting thing I learned from Wolf Larson is that Dick Lottridge has been managing a tungsten mine for the G.E. Co. up in Washington and when the mine closed last year, he came to San Francisco looking for a job - was sent to Los Angeles by Alvord and that was the last Wolf heard of him. Wolf said Dick claimed he had his wife and two children with him - we decided he must have married again. According to Jay Dick was living incognito for years so Ethel couldn't locate him. Now evidently they were divorced and he came back among the living. Jay says he got playing around with a physical education instructress before Ethel left him - I wonder if he actually married her after the divorce. They were the first of our crowd to break up. I think he and Ethel were simply mismated to start with. Dick was an outdoor man and full of fun - she was an