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[[strikethrough]] THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
352nd Day    14 Days to come

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Oct 7th

Babs & John sail tomorrow. They were delightful guests combining the contribution of real personality with physical & mental adaptability. Usually a guest is easy & negative or [[strikethrough]] positive [[/strikethrough]] difficult & positive. Their Strauss friends lunched here & I was furious to miss them as she is the English sculptress I had liked in England - & she was kind to me there. I had wanted to take her to the Whitney Museum opening, & Warneke had specially gotten two tickets for us, but I couldn't get her in time, & went in alone to meet Henry. The [[strikethrough]] pla [[/strikethrough]] museum was jammed, & the show interesting. Every artist was there - & I had swell fun with Henry. His Stamford thing looks uninteresting, but his [[strikethrough]] Bronx B [[/strikethrough]] Bronx P.O. statue looked very nice - though I liked Rudy's crude one better. All the things there were the final ones to be used in Wash. & consequently were mostly the prize winners of competitions. Warneke's negress & child were swell in parts - the drapery fussy & weak, the picaninny not negroid enough. His bears were swell, & his postman too, & [[strikethrough]] all [[/strikethrough]] they [[strikethrough]] illuminum [[/strikethrough]] all looked nice in illuminium. The Schmidts, Krauss's, Zoracs [[Zorachs]], Rudy's, Thom La Farge, Ezra Winter (whom

[[strikethrough]] FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
353rd Day  Ember Day  13 Days to come

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I missed alas) - even Eleanor Roosevelt was there - & Barbarossa, & all the Warnekes - lots of people I knew & lots I'd like to know - the faces looking more interesting than arty - instead of the faces looking more interesting than the art, which is usually the case. Henry had asked Campbell, & was furious when I found I could have come instead, & begged me to come to the cocktail party in spite of her. I longed to but dared not. I have bad sinus, & still don't feel well enough to want to eat anything but hot ice cream. Work will be the only cure from Jay & Sinus now - so here goes tomorrow. I still haven't heard from him, & have been good about not thinking of him. He needs a dumb elephant-eared girl, who will listen & flatter & live for him. [[strikethrough]] He agrees [[/strikethrough]] I'm sure he'd agree with Balzac that "To be famous & to be loved, ah, that is to be happy!" It would be very simple to get in good with him, by saying everything he does & thinks is perfect, which would also prove to him how very wise & valuable the speaker is! He is like Noel Coward in his last movie (name?) - so cold & clever that he freezes himself to death in the end. Henry was angelic today

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William Zorach