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October 18, 1949

Dear folks,

I thought you had to take part in the "great hearing", Dad? How can you escape?

No, I never knew Ben before. I have broken one date so far, may break others, as I have no time to waste. Run into another Western boy in Comp Lit: Mike Keck, also a senior: slender blonde, (in English?) [[strikethrough]] who [[/strikethrough]] with whom I discussed old people [[strikethrough]] Sat [[/strikethrough]] Thurs.

The weather was overcast for most of the game Sat, but when [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] the sun came out for a few minutes the helmets of army shone burnished gold. Pretty bad game (57-14, we haven't won a game this year) until we got into one of our flashes, the stadium woke up, & we made 2 touchdowns: we are not sluggers, [[strikethrough]] but w [[/strikethrough]] we [[strikethrough]] fal [[/strikethrough]] seem to 

Transcription Notes:
Western is high school Doris attended so capitalized