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first choice for such a work - I hope to get a favorable answer from him.
Corinna's soldier friend John - was yesterday made a Legion of Honor - the highest France can honor him.  So he is now pretty well fitted out with bric a brac for his left breast - when he must needs be bedecked for great functions - Hard it would be for Corinna to call him Sir John hereafter.
Foch - was made Marshall of France - he and Joffre. being the two great Marshalls. These are great days. and he and she are lucky ones, who are privileged to have a part to play in the great drama . . even as call boys - who never come before the audience and the footlights.
Thursday. 8th
Worked with costumes this morning and got trunks packed for Abbeville - Gondrecourt - and Langres. 
Our department will soon be entirely moved over and established in the pleasant quarters at 10. Rue de l'Elysee. Worked with Tom about a training of coaches for "over seas work" at Carnegie Tech. as soon as he goes home - the idea is his - and it's a good one.
Winthrop Ames. at length is heard from. by cable. and promises 39. Entertainers - all of whom will be very very welcome -  and most of them will be shot out into the field before they know they've arrived.
After a particularly long morning. lunched with Tom and went 'round to see where the bomb. Bertha shot up Paris [[?]] yesterday P.M - hit the Hotel de Calais - an ugly hole in the facade but of course if one knows the front it seems a