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some day soon because it seems to be a necessary thing to being someone in business but never yet has anyone told me what the real advantages are.

We expected [[underline]] Maybelle [[/underline]] to drop in but she didn't.  She's in town for a day or so on furlough from her duties as a student nurse in a Buffalo hospital - they say she has lost much weight and looks more attractive than ever. [[underline]] Never hear of Walter [[/underline]] any more but believe he is still in the Federal & Marine Dept. at Schenectady.

[[underline]] Mother came out at noon [[/underline]] and we had dinner and spent the afternoon at home. [[underline]] At 6PM [[/underline]] I caught [[underline]] the train for my last WPB [[/underline]] trip to Washington. Clarence Jones, on his way back, said, "Some people have all the luck" but he admitted later he didn't know if he really wanted to get out of WPB or not. I have few doubts about it any more; [[underline]] I want to get out. [[/underline]]

Washington, D.C.
Monday, Dec. 28, 1942.

There were no repercussions at the office about last Wednesday's afternoon affair of many Manhattans but there was much hashing it over by the various participants. I found that when I left the gang at the Carlton at 3 PM, the party was only in its infancy. The rest of the crowd went to the station where they had more drinks until Ed's train time came, when they escorted him to the train, short circuiting]] the crowd by telling the gateman Ed was vice-president of Baldwin's and had a weak heart! He got through a side gate as a result of this and they went into the Pullman with him, where they all had a couple of more snorts out of a bottle. After Ed left, they drank on in the station, went to the Del Rio to midnight and finally closed the Metronome Room at the Wardman

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