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Washington, D.C.
[[underline]] Monday, Dec. 14, 1942 [[/underline]]  

It is always hard for me to get back in harness again when I return from Erie - I seem to be out of the mood these days. I coasted today by cleaning up a tremendous amount of dictation and getting acquainted with and starting the education of [[underline]] Art Schock (pronouned Shock)[[/underline]] of Westinghouse, my successor as the small locomotive schedule man. Art bears promise of being OK - a big, dark, heavy featured, good dispositioned man about 45, with apparently a good head on him and a good locomotive background, he shows signs of catching on and being all right.

I was [[underline]] fortunate to be able to avoid Andrew today [[/underline]] so I had no stalling to do on my decision except to Charlie. Tomorrow [[underline]] Whitey will be here to tell me what the Company wants. [[/underline]]

[[red arrow leading from previous paragraph]] Tonight we had a [[underline]] poker game [[/underline]] in the Harley-Rennix quarters to [[underline]] get acquainted with Art Schock [[/underline]] and it was a good gathering. [[underline]] Art is a corking good poker player, winning well, and drinking well but with judgment. [[/underline]] My luck was at a new low; my cards were terrible most of the time and whenever I did seem to be getting a break, something happened to kill it. Once I drew to an inside straight and Vic flipped the card across to me it - it turned over, was the right card, and I couldn't take it! I would have won that pot. Another time I connected on an inside straight but Art drew three to a pair and got a full house! The worst incident was another game Vic dealt. He named the "Bedallion King" wild but I didn't hear him. As luck would have it, he dealt the first card up to everyone and I got the wild king. Everyone said, "That's wild! That's wild." I thought they meant that everyone's first card was wild. My last card in the five card stud game was      

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