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108 and stayed at University Club [[underlined]] Jan 20. [[/underlined]] Second letter of [[underlined]] Schleussner. [[/underlined]] which I discussed with [[underlined]] Rossi and Redman [[/underlined]] and to which I sent [[underlined]] my second answer. [[/underlined]] All agree with me. Slept at University Club [[underlined]] Jan 21 [[/underlined]] Wrote letter Siohara announcing arrival of [[underlined]] Celine in Japan and news of European partnership [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] Jan 22. [[/underlined]] Busy morning. Afternoon to theatre. Evening at University Club. [[underlined]] ^[[Sunday]] Jan 23. [[/underlined]] Left early for Yonkers. Busy all day. Alone. [[underlined]] Jan 24. [[/underlined]] Went to [[underlined]] Boat Show [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] in [[/strikethrough]] Considerably larger than former years. Ground floor entirely occupied by [[underlined]] power yachts [[/underlined]] and a few small sail cruisers. A German power cruising Yacht Maybach? exhibits a [[underlined]] stupidly [[end page]] [[start page]] 109 designed [[/underlined]] and poorly constructed power cruising boat. Show is in Grand central Palace building, and occupies 3 floors. [[underlined]] Jan 25. Mcharg has to file rapidly a patent for new catalysts for making formaldehyde. [[/underlined]] Townsend is away and will not be back before end of first week of February. So phoned to Brickenstein to send one of their men ^[[men]]. One of their young men, [[underlined]] Lamkowitz [[/underlined]] comes to morrow. [[underlined]] Urged once more Rossi to send Lowe and Oaks around. Schlesinger [[/underlined]] came to visit me, is just back from cruise in the Alice to [[underlined]] Haiti & Cuba. [[/underlined]] Spent another day with [[underlined]] Mcharg [[/underlined]] and Lamkowitz correcting their specifications of [[underlined]] patent application It is high time that we should have a man constantly at hand for our patent matters, and who could initiate and carry out current work and then submit it to Townsend, [[/underline]] [[double underline]] instead of being [[/double underlined]] [[vertical annotation in left margin]] Very cold weather - last night -7°F. Upstate -30° and -35° [[/vertical annotation]]