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128 many pretty places I never noticed before. Nice weather and very pleasant trip. Back by dark. then supper at home and took them both to van Cortlandt Park Station. Sent a wire to [[red underline]] George advising him of Hookers and Bancroft's [[/red underline]] telegrams. Oct. 4. Hurried dictation. Left Yonkers 11 A.M with car. met Celine at Penn. station train 1:08 for [[red underline]] Washington [[red underline]]. Received this morning a letter from [[red underline]] Bancroft [[/red underline]] advising to send [[red underline]] George to preparatory School Sturgis at Ithica and wired him to this effect. [[/red underline]] Arrived at Shoreham hotel just in time to take hurried supper then theatre. "My Lady's Garter" a detective story. Oct 5. Spent all morning at Townsend's [[red underline]] Urged him to stick to Hooker [[/red underline]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 129 and not lend his name to any enterprise which might harm [[?]] which was essentially based on his work. Then at 11 AM went to [[strikethough]] [[?]] [[strikethrough]] Board of [[red underline]] interferences [[/red underline]] to listen to arguments of [[red underline]] Frank L. Dyer and Townsend in Baekeland-Aylsworth interference case [[/red underline]] (napthalene). Townsend presented small brief. Dyer a much longer one. [[red underline]] Townsend [[/red underline]] had lost his temper when he started by saying: "Your honor, I regret to have to start by saying that in all my practice I have never met a case where such a systematic attempt was made to pervert the meaning of straightforward testimony." [[red underline]] Dyer [[/red underline]] smiled and said: "He does not mean it!" While [[red underline]] Townsend [[/red underline]] was pleading [[strikethrough]] Dyer asked [[strikethrough]] I asked [[red underline]] Dyer [[/red underline]] how Edison would make out as a chairman of the [[red underline]] Naval Advisory board: [[red underline]] He answered