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catching up [[strikethrough]] WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1936 [[/strikethrough]] S.S. Wash. 106th Day 260 Days to come last day St Anton were both so incensed, as the Waldschingel is about a 16th the undertaking of Mattoon [[Mathun]], & I had been sick, & that would have been just right. Oh well - what the hell, but it was amazing never to have skiid with him. Now I must describe my last day in St Anton before leaving for England. Its [[strikethrough]] was the [[/strikethrough]] events were most varied & satisfactory & extraordinary, starting with the day before when Alice gave me a big farewell bowle. It was a lovely party which made me feel I had a lot of friends there whom I hated to leave, & after it Alice & Dudley [[strikethrough]] & [[/strikethrough]] gave Dot & Karl Schönberg & Dennis Fox & me [[strikethrough]] all dined together [[/strikethrough]] a dinner in the hotel - & table at the bar, where Kathie & Dennis & a stranger Englishman & I sat up & danced till 5 A.M. Dennis got rather tight & told me his life story & we bade a fond farewell at 5:30 A.M. wondering how he'd get up at 6 to drive to Garmisch with the others to watch the jumping. I was catching up S.S. Wash [[strikethrough]] THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1936 [[/strikethrough]] S.S. Wash. 107th Day 259 Days to come last day St Anton secretly praying that it would snow the next day so I could escape the Galzigg Adler & sleep & pack - but lo & behold I awoke at 7 after 2 hours sleep to find the sun blazing. I got up & decided to race, feeling all the time I would disgrace myself - especially as Grace & Marion & Dudley were trying out for it too - & I had slept so little. I sweated up the damn mountain with dreadful "start fever" - & meeting Mary Sitwell - John's old girl - half way up, which was an amusing coincidence. Anton Tscholl offered to wax my skis like an angel, as I hadn't even done that, & I barely got to the top in time. I was scared about the schusse from so far up - as I'd never raced it from there - & the others went before me with feet together & complete confidance. My heart stood still or pounded as he said "los" & I schussed it just right - hit everything right - & fairly sang down the Tobl. The snow
