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The marriage is to take place by the end of the week. The bridegroom is Lieutenant Minnick, who attended the Loomis Institute and was graduated in 1937 from Amherst college, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and the Sphinx Club He formerly was with "Pan American Airways" and now is in the US Air corps, stationed at Boise Idaho.
February Saturday February 1942 Beautiful weather all day. Celine this evening went to play cards.
Fateful struggle for Java starts as Japanese Forces, seize nearby beautiful Island of Bali, which I visited several years ago and from where I brought home some
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admirable silk woven work, now in Yonkers.
[[strikethrough]] This ind [[/strikethrough]] Present conditions indicate that this will be a long war.
Washington's Birthday X 
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celebration. - The usual meeting of the members of the Biscayne Yacht Club. - Fine weather. The boats that took us to the Island, were all filled with gests . - As usually we arrived ahead of the other boats. Paul ran the ION in a masterly way. - The only extra man was our nigger Rowl who came in handy in handling the boat on arrival and return. Celine and I went out on long promenades among the roads of the Mathisons, thrugh well developed coconut palms,