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first class shape and [[underlined]] Art worked on some of the others. [[/underlined]]  He is a hard, willing worker and I am very favorably impressed - believe he will be OK as a successor.  I think he is one of those individuals who rarely makes an error in any [[?critical]] thing he does.  I don't know how he will be on big things but he seems extremely alert and well informed.  We wound up the day having a session with Major McLeod and Capt. Kirk, Transportation Corps priority expert, trying to decide what jobs can have a AA1 rating to keep the pot boiling.

Ever since I ate a toasted club sandwich a week ago tonight at the poker game, my upper gum in the center behind my front teeth has been awfully sore. I have expected it to clear up from day to day but it is still bad as ever.  Finally I went to the nurse today, who put on some collodium, but it was useless. I am getting just mildly alarmed over it now and wonder if I should see a dentist here or wait until I get home. I have been largely free of my bladder ailment for a couple of months now, which has been a joy but [[underlined]] I can't seem to be 100% well all the time; [[/underlined]] it must be getting old that's doing it but at the party Saturday night I still could [[underlined]] have passed for 30. [[/underlined]] When I told Bobby I have a 14 year old daughter, she was absolutely incredulous.

Got to the [[underlined]] Graces cocktail party [[/underlined]] about 7 PM when it was in full swing and John himself in a very jovial mood.  Their new apartment, very lovely and with butlers and lackeys hovering about, was filled with army and navy officers and their ladies, as well as many civilians including Pat and Patsy Murphy.  I got my greatest kick out of a little WAVE ensign who was there with her admiral father; to my surprise she was drinking along with the best of them and doing very well.  Frances Grace was charming and gracious

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