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his girlfriend, and Oklahoma Indian girl, who was tall and slender and very attractive - worked for the Navy in the part that awards the "E's." She was ^[[red line running down the left margin to the end of the text]] much taken with Ab's GE won Army-Navy E button. Mat tried to make me dance with her and I turned it down on the grounds you couldn't dance in the horrible crush on the floor. Mat gave dollar bills to all waiters and bus boys in our vicinity and we got prompt service - another "ball" and dinner. Richard Himber (resembling a thug) and his orchestra supplied good music, a dark girl looking like Mrs. Lindberg good crooning, and a blond with no intelligence stamped on her map terrible crooning; Richard must like the blond - she could be there for no other purpose. But the Del Rio was far below the standard established the night Mat says I palmed the accordian player off on Marshall while he and I made hay with the Phillipine ambassador. We emerged at midnight into a wet snow storm, walked with Ab to the Carlton through deserted streets, and then hopped a cab to the Wardman.

But the prize anecdote of the evening came from Major McLeod at the Carlton. He told about the night he and Col. Seybold, then McLeod's boss, attended a heavy party at the Washington Roof. When things got running pretty high someone made a remark that caused McLeod to promptly make a flying tackle on the Colonel and they both went down sprawling, "with the leaves and the eagles all tangled up." The next day Seybold called McLeod into his office. Mac went in with cold sweat standing on him - and Seybold simply gave him a couple of tough jobs to do and sent him on his way, never mentioning the affair.

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