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[[underlined]] Page 4 March 4/'50 [[/underlined]]

Re Third.  Little to record for yesterday.  Cloudy most of day, dark forbidding looking sea, with considerable ship motion.  Thought Fenner would notice it but with Dramamine, he appeared to be better off than I felt.  Al and I sat around with a Tom Collins or two till near midnight and next morning I was pretty loggy (how spell this?)  Fenner turned in early, was therefore better off.  Yes we have free wine at meals (except breakfast), its cheap (grade or price) but good. - White or red Burgundy, and white or red claret.  We have had none of the claret yet.  The meals are lavish & quite good, but French poached or scrambled eggs are a bit different from what we are accustomed to.  I'm going to try the fried to see what they will be like.  Most foods have rich sauces over them, but I can scrape most of them off.  Vegetable are mostly two or three plus potatoes fixed 6 ways, but not including French fried.  I order fish 2x each day, Fenner usually eats meat, Linda chicken & mashed potatoes.

In the morning (of 3d) & got lot of odds and ends of papers in my brief case in order, wrote a couple of letters, Bob Yost & Frank Weaver while Al Smith attended French class (very elementary he says).  We got up at 7:30 about and took a swim in indoor tiled pool with