Frances J. Pratt Letters on the U.S. Foreign Policy Association, 1962-1963

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January 6, 1962

work in the afternoon, bat., y

f+ernoon sped with decking the apartment

chases and the Christmas greeins. J took Aunt Uary her christmas present with a

and wrapping of gifts* AD

ai+>in,icrh she was in bed spent ten or

twig of balsam tucked under the r^n a _ " 'buttle snow, so the country was

fifteen minutes with her. Tha nigh ^

^ Caroline Church built in 1729

pretty as we went to Ston,r Brook Sunday

9oarols serVioe on Christ-

and in continupus use sinoe had a n

driven on a high wind. Enough snow

mas Eve to which we went in blizzrd .



had fallen on pine trees and laurel to ma

ag&inst the green and were Qn the ^ ourves of Thompson

lovely vhen caught in the headli^t. -

yard added their note to the appro-

Hay Path. The lovely o ox

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ach. It was a very nice

her

liked it better than going at 1130
51 n8:^: "n0 was not only well but like his or

2ft!* ^"/mlnds SMSTU- tremendously-at ens point Fred and

I retired to a good game of scrabble.

Martha and Cleve got home on Wednesday (ine'irJet*0"s^twrlwd'

a "choppy" flight) after

and Germany. They found the Karlsr,,

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TJ^^eT^telTl^Ze^dthbreoinngg'wanitdh &nd deoorated a Christmas tree

them over Christmas. Fran and her

it Sunday! afternoon when the little boys

as a welcome home to them. Saturday*

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were all there for tea, three of them pointed

, DraCtically the same ornaments as
as Senior Warden

being their additions to the tree's

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at Transfiguration's eleven o'clock service and for

I saw the new and and were briefly fas-

very beautiful reredos. We wen, to cinated by the people on TV from the Roosevilt Grill

trying so hard to be * ^eir fe#t hurt or

gayly dancing to Guy

; ^t dismayed us to see snow falling on Times Square

they were up long after bedtime. Itdismaye

strike began at midnight. Mon-

during the out of door shots, especially a

o'clock Communion and that

day being the Feast of the Circumsoion we

we took the train to

Y^rserverance we got a taxi at

Penn Station in less than ten minutes.

The four day bus strike restored the'

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I only had three days of struggling to a

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L at least having the alternate route of ^^^"tTecond Avenue, and 68th.

66th Street to Second Avenue and 46th by transferring^

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X won't say that the busses were

oome al

into which a few people

the wind mild as we waited endlessly tor a

the 3choois delay open-

could squeeze. Of course it helped office vor ^



would be

ing until ten o'clock, but that must ^ve bothered^both *op^ ^ ^ ^

shoppers. However tribute must e pai

their best to get oncoming passengers

remained operative. They wers pleasant and did .

"Please move to the back

to the back to make room for more,

,SVssume that when busses zoomed

I cant drive with two people on y P

they had no room. At least I leit

by 50 or more shivering people they did s

, f' e m normal time to arrival* With

the office promptly at five and got home *8#

transfers either given or sold

the end of the strike on Friday m0TM I TM so it now costs me 250 a day more g

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January 14, 1962

Last Saturday being Twelfth Night we burned the Christinas greens in the fireplace and were a little disappointed in the lack of anticipated fragrance from the balsam* First all the juniper berries were picked off for the two pair of iLvening Grosbeaks which suddenly appeared at Martha* s feeding station the weekend before* Sunday we stopped for a few minutes with Aunt Mary on the way to the Club, where we joined forces with Vera and her son for luncheon* (Too many other people had the same idea and the main dining room was packed*)

Tuesday the NBC panel performed well at the Waldorf and Chet Huntley was generous in his remarks about the FPA. The chart went to the Waldorf at 1501 places --47 of them on the triple tiered dais--so the ballroom looked very well with blue napery and yellow and white flowers* By its own strange legerdemain the Finance and Fund Raising people will count a "credit" of $13,000, but I am as pleased that 55 minutes of the program went on the NBC network and was also picked up by Armed .forces Radio Television Service, giving us global coverage for reports on problems around the world*
Wednesday a staff notice informed - thcugfc I had heard 24 hours earlier--that John Mason had resigned, would remain through June, announcemai t soon of his qew post but that this did not alter his Carnegie Foundation financed three month trip to Asia beginning January 19. (Vera has just telephoned me ihat the Times of today carries the Carleton College announcement that he will be its new President.) I have been too busy to indulge much in the general speculation this week, but firmly ruled out Carleton on the grounds that Elizabeth would not want to live in Northfield, Minnesota The talk in the office has been intensified by the announcement last week that Phil VanSlyk, who took over editing Headline Series from Vera last June in addition to the preparation of the Great Decisions materials, had been fired and would leave in June* I*ve a heart to heart luncheon with him coining up--delayed by my preoccupation with the Tuesday Waldorf and postponed by his need to go and "boil an egg" for an ill close friend of his. Everyone feels apprehensive and many insecure, so as the person with longest service I must exert a calming influence reminding them that I have served under five FPA presidents *

Wednesday nigiht Aunt Annie and I braved bitter cold to go to the Club to hear Hazel Collister Hutchison on "Poison Pens and Bifocals", billed as a discussion of her techniques of handwriting analysis in criminal cases, forgeries, anonymous letters, etc* A benign Helen Hockinson type, who failed to organize her material was only successful in making me feel it would be fun to spend several hoQrs in drawing her out* The next morning Aunt Annie left on the Empire at 8s45 and I was lucky in getting a cab at Grand Central quickly, arriving at the office at my usual 8s50.

Friday brought a letter from Larry telling that Governor Poletti had agreed

it would help him to see the site of the World* s Fair at Flushing Meadows and he

was to come here when there was a gap in his hectic schedule of appointments in

Paris, Bruxelles, The Hague, etc. Itcould be early in February that he might be

here for a week* He was so generous with time to me in Paris that I hope it can

be either before I get to the pressure point on the next Waldorf, March 8, or

after that has been cleaned up. Christmas cards contineu to drift in--yesterday

one by air mail postmarked Oxford December 21 1 Maybe soon I shall get to look

at some which arrived just before Christmas and also get my thank you letters

written.

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Now I must fly to the office to pick up some possessions of Judith Listowel wh^ch I stored for her and take them to her at the Middletown, where we are to have our first real talk since her arrival from Tanganyika on December 30. Macmillan has commissioned her to write a book on this newly independent country -where she has just spent ten weeks*

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January 21, 1552

The week started badly with my lovely early bus touching the car of an up stats worried little man, who had tried to pull into the curb in front of the bus, which was leaving the bus stop* We were all pushed out into the cold wind to wait, or another bus* My helper Bill did not show up and even worse never telephoned and a whole flock of extensions had "mechanical failure". Mine accepted incoming calls but declined to function on outgoing and as we were getting lots of calls from women who wanted to hear Vera Dean on Wednesday as well as those who had made reservations only to find they could not attend. A complicated business as we had a capacity house and had to balance new comers against the cancellations. It was confusion confounded. But it all worked out fine on Wednesday when Vera in brilliant form enchanted ihe ...aaies --even the 30 or so who could not squeeze into the room and had tolisten on the puolic address system in the buffet area. Immediately afterward I met with the Executive Committee, some of whom wanted to divide the group and have a triple series next year. The others who did pot agree were delighted when I pointed out that Nason s resignation had upset staff morale and until the views of his successor were known tne 01R might^ be on thin ice with an expansion program. That tipped the scale and to my great relief
we carry on as we are.
A few minutes after noon as John Matthews and I were talking, Jeanne Singer interrupted with a violent arm twist that I go to the Riverside Church for a three o'clock conference about a radio program. A letter from Boston to Dick Winslow dated December 27 raised the question of our providing eight speakers for weekly programs oi Great Decisions topics to converse with similar experts on a conference hock-up with Boston, Philadelphia and Washington. I had planned a very full afternoon, but oeing j.n a better position to know about speakers than anyone else on the staff* chewed a sand wich at"my desk and went off to recommend and avoid being hooked to supply. It an interesting technique--four men in the Boston studio, one in Washington, Ruth Miller ^nd a station manager in Philadelphia and the New York station program director and x talked backward and forward. Just at the point Milton Sachs of Branded in Boston was being disagreeably sticky about FPA recommending but not procuring my mike went deaa * Picking my way over a dozen cables and without my ear phones I stooped over the suspended cvlindracal mike of my partner to explain our position as best I could/ After that^we got down to brass tacks and made some real progress. They will carry on with & ^ similar netwrok conference on the 31st on the 31st when I have an OTR Governing Committee meeting. Too bad as being an educational network they all thought too much m terms of
academicians and I was trying to ginger them up with other types.

Friday Vera had me for a celebration luncheon at Toque Blanche as she was about to mail the mms. of a well paid rrticle to the new magazine COUNTRY BEAUTIFUL and had
that morning been commissioned to write a short pamphlet on the UN, vihich will be very easy for her to do before the March deadline. This also gave us a chance to go over some of the speaking invitations currently in various stages of arrangement, (I had
a busy moaning Saturday writing letters, which will surely bring me $110 moonlight in the next ten months end others which could lead to a similar sum, but cannot oe counted upon.) After lunch I had only a few minutes at the office before going over to the
UN to hear Ivan Smith on how things go in the Congo. He was with Brian urquhart when
both were kidnapped by the Congolese and were being beaten with rifle butts at une time
Seantor and Mrs. Dodd (Conn.) say them and intervened--Mrs. Smith saying to the Senator "Look, darling, there is our nice Mr. Smith". Thank goodness ".or her wandering glanse. He was very blunt about the machinations of the mining interests and. their 300 mercen aries and terrifying about the fabrications of UN misdeeds and manner ir^v/nich ones lies were fed to and accepted by the press of the world. The UN is issuing a siihite PAfEifc

Hank has gone to North Africa for several weeks and Maria went witu rue R ^oail

Away" the Noel Coward musical about a cruise ship on Saturday afternoon-- v/o.ideriul^

lines, fine dancing, beautiful sets and costumes but no memorable music. y ciante

Francis Deak offered me the tickets which he had bought beiore the opening

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to go to Y/ashington, The theatre could not exchange for others bextre Augus -

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ihe sun pours in after my vary late luncheon upon return from a morning at the

office. At 7j55 this morning Eustace Seligman telephoned from Washington to report John

J. AteCloy had agreed to introduce Fowler Hamilton at our luncheon of March 8. As we

are slightly behind my time table for promotion, it seemed a pious idea to go down and

PI!' lay

1ouUt !f*f heernteopoficthe

details in peace and quiet. The fact that Mr. Hamilton has not which he vdl1 s-peak in discussing foreign aid is of necessity

-Lett un.il Monday. (He was asked on December 8 to give it to us soon. Since his public

information officer will write the speach any way, my efforts to get him in the State

Department today were fruitless.) The other man I needed in connection with an OTR

meeting was away from his house this morning, but I did get him at three from here and

straightened out a date mix up with him. I'm building into a lovely pressure period, yet

disappointed that an exploration to get Prime Minister Macmillan in late A~ril came

to nothing this week. It is sad that we have had such a lovely sunny day when the

?lorida overcast washed out the Glenn orbit attempt this morning. Oor man after being

fastened into the capsule for three hours, it was awfully deflating to be hauled out

without ever having left the launching pad.

Before Hank left I promised to keep an eye on Maria and asked her to have dinner

with me at me Club on Wednesday--a class day leaves her limp and with another on Thurs

day this seemed a pious notion. Whereupon she turns it all around and leaves a message

r.or me that Judith and I are to have dinner with her at the 60th Street studio. I arrived

m a drizzle of rain to find that Judith was having her neice and a young English in for

a drink, and might bring the girl along for dinner. Maria and I were thinking seriously

oi oeginning dinner at eight by ourselves, when Judith came along alone. The young were

having dinner together, so we had a fine time conversing of things which interested us.

I missed a -ou of the afterdinner talk as Judith wanted me to read Chapter Two mms. of her

oocn or Tanganyika--slightly confusing as I had previously read only the Introduction and

had not the slightest notion of what had coeni between I Their peals of laughter were a

minor distraction.

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I am dealt neatly out of that four station radio net series of meetings on Great

Decisions, having unloaded the thing on Polly Rivers and briefed her on what we did

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and iv9n y6r my ideas for the session of planning on the 31st, when I have

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(.roverning Committee on my hand3. Last Wednesday Sir Hugh Foot spoke extremely

well on rial, the new nations behave as they do. The topic "Graduates from Colonialism"

was treated with a great many personal experiences of his own administrative work in

Palestine, Nigeria, and as the last Governor General of Jamaica and Cyprus. His warm

understanding and his wit enchanted the audience so much that I promptly invited him

to speak xo the other series, he accepted, then on Friday we discovered that the only

possible date fell after his departure for the Pacific. Now I really have to scrabble

to flind someone ior February 28. They want the "Common Market" and that is the very day

i i.n Haile get3 back f rom surveying the Common Market countries and it would be folly to

depend on an eight o'clcok landing at this season. The new chairman of the FPA Board,

Emile Soubrey ^ust retired as Chairman of the Board of Standard Oil of New Jersey) met

with, our administrative staff on Tuesday and uttered soothing ?;ords to ur. kkvi-ntr

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February 4, 1962
No, I did not work on the income tax last weekend, but I did see Aunt Vary and found her less well than on the previous visits# The Philharmonic concert on Sunday afternoon was delightful##Thomas Schippers conducted Verdi1s Overture for "La Forza del Destine", the Shostakovich Symphony ffl> Opus 10, the Strauss Tone Poem, "Death and Transfiguration" and Barber's Meadea1s Meditation and Dance of Vengenance- "What a program for the drums--all of them v/ere in evidence and seemed to compete with one another most of the time I It is extraordinary that Shostakcvitwh was only eighteen when he wrote that symphony, which was his graduation piece at the Leningrad Conservatory# The wintry wind we encountered on leaving Carnegie might well have cone direct by jet from the Russian Steppes#
The hours spent in the office Saturday morning paid off and the preliminaries for the March 8th meeting rolled all during the week at a better pace . I was exr haasted from the effort to keep from wringing Dick RowsonTs neck# First he was doing 2,500 letters to corporations, the next day only 1,5C0 and now he is not sure but may send 1,700 or 1,800. Through all this orders for return envelopes and reservation cards have to be juggled. Then he decided it would be good public relations to send the pointed announcement to all 2,500 individuals who contribute to oar budget, instead of only the 1,00.0 in the New York area originally agreed upon# This meant increasing the print run after paper had been bought and the press rolling. In between times we had a nice crowd for the QTR 'Wednesday luncheon and their Governing Committee, bless their little hearts, agreed with the Executive Committee recommendation not to increase dues or to attempt three series instead of the current two this coming year. The office was also in great excitement over the opportunity to present President Kennedy with a set of our Great Decision Fact Sheets. (All the time three of our Board members were with him Carolyn and two small boys were romping outside hi3 office window and once tapped on the glass and waved to "Daddy"#) Another internal excitement was the theft of our handy man's wallet containing $119, his rosary, lucky silver dollar and all his idtification papers, including the card from the Police Department qualifying him as a night club bouncer# The complication is that it was not his money, he was merely going to put it in the bank. Then on Tur3day there was a farewell party for one of the girls who had left to work for TILE-LIFE during the NBC pressure and the bye-bye gesture delayed. This party, which also served as housev/arming for the new penthouse apart ment of his ex-boss, who has meanwhile been fired, was filled with overtones. I left again as they were warming up for the Twist. I wonder what sort oi: impression this made on Phil's new neighbors \
Friday morning I woke up to snow, wee wee flakes, which continued intermittently through the night, but by late afternoon did not impede my trip to Freeport other than to take the taxis off the streets so I had to go by bus to Penn Station. Cleve showed the pictures of his trip, which he had had a lot of fun taking and turned out well* Th6 two children in Karlsruhe seem to have grown more than six months worth since I was there! Yesterday while Martha was picking up her old fur coat from being repaired I almost bought a broadtail jacket, resisted and may yet fall# This morning/Fifth Sunday after Epiphany, the rector explained the significance of the new reredos, memorial to the former recotr, which will be dedicated mxt Sunday. IT being warmer the snow was melting bjjt as the ground is solidly frozen there was a curious vaporwhich when we drove after the Cap Tree Bridge in the afternoon lent an eerie aspect to the landscape. The bay was flat calm, reflecting trees, builaings and even a large number of ducks just sitting in the water waiting no doubt li^e the Indians for the end of the world. It was a lovely dri^S and timed so well that I went up the escalator just as thetrain pulled into the station--,!ust like a cujlui-jp, ...Friday Claude Phillippe telephoned, when could he fietch me for lunch and uo ^see his new hotel the Americana, so long since he had seen me, etc. As I went to i-reeport I read in a column that he had dined with Rita Haywcrth at El Morrocco the nigh t be fore. Ha, ha# I

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For the second Friday.in a row we have had snow. Fortunately it has not lasted because of a finale of rain before deep cold set in. It is frigid today, again. All the fur hats, fake or otherwise , will be out in full force. They are fabulous and worn by men and women alike. The latter however offer lud/icrous variations-- trim mink, persian lambs to imitation things which largely resembl6 the coat of a long haired hairy ape and then moving until dyed sythetics we have
bright reds, violent tourquoise, emerald or whatever matches or contrasts with the wool coat being worn. For shapes you can see things resembling bee-hives, pixie bonnets going into a little peak, and the ever popular imitation of the
buskin worn by the Queen's Own something or other regiment. They have pro vided me with a sourcs of never ending wonderment.

The re being no Y/ednesday luncheon this week I managed to get to Gerry 7/ilmot and confirmed my suspicion that I gained four pounds after the KBC luncheon, Vihen things were so rough I allowed myself mince pie and the like for the cafeteria lunch or with the-sandwich-at-the-desk on the theory that I was burring up a
considerable amount of energy. It was stupid to keep on afterward and that wa s my undoing. Now I have a raw apple for desert and hope to reverse the trend.
Tuesday I looked in on Aunt Mary on the way home from the office and found her better. Wednesday I had dinner and a lovely "girl to Girl" talk with Maria. Al
though I had bought the McDonald*s opera tickets for Thursday, I had let Bill have them on the assumption I would be too tired to go and then at the last minute went to Vera1 s for dinner in the fond hope that we might catch up on matters of mutual interest including what I should do about some of her speaking invitations. (Result I have spent much of this morning writing letters on my moohlight job.)

The Thursday binge vdth Vera was really a celebration of her having heard that

the newish magazine "Garden Beautiful" would publish a piece they had asked her

in the May issue and send the $400 check in mid March, It sounds silly for her

to appear in such a publication, which aims to fill the gap left when "Country

Gentleman" expired. I think she dealt with food and farming in Red China about

which she claims no expertnes3. Fortunately I had clipped an article on the sub

ject, which may have been useful. e went on to see "A Passage to India"--Santha

Rama Raus dramatization of the E.M.Forster1 s classic novel of 40 years ago. It

had a good run in both Oxford and London and opened hero on January 31. I was

surprised to see Santha in an eye catching American Beauty sari in the lobby a3

we entered, and calling Vera's attention to her we greeted her with appropriate

phrases. We went out to smoke in the second intermission and found h9r still there

and are still puzzling about why. The author is expected to be about the first night

but surely not after that 1 Eric Portman was excellent as Fielding, Gladys Cooper's

Mrs. Moore superb. Dr.

Aziz was done by Zia Mohyeddin, the first Pakistani

actor to be starred on Broadway. I liked him better than the Indian Saeed Jaffrey

cast as Professor Godbole. Poor Anne Meacham was Adela Quested, she was good in

what is to me a most unsympathetic character. While I enjoyed the play very much

I still do not understand why Santha undertook the dramatization at this juncture

of world history. It is supposed to show the inability of Europeans to understand

and be friends with Asians, certainly a timely problem but since this was made

clear in the first act, the climax only succeeded in putting three underscoring to

the premise. It is only an ironic yet partial axflaination to know that Santha

has long wanted to do a drama, that Graham Greene offered to finance the production

anticipating that it would be a tax loss to show on his accounts and the London

success gave him a profit instead of the red inkI

Returns begin to come in for the Fowler Hamilton luncheon, but too early to guess how it will go, Happy Lincoln*s Birthday to you, vhile meanwhile I brave the cold toget some Valentines for the young and some putty to apply to my sink* Monday the plumber comes to fix a small leak in its waste pipe and Tuesday my day begins by having my teeth scaled, which usually leaves me in a nasty mood*

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February 17, 15o2

u*n r,p maA& ft;ain snow on the third Friday in a row and nothing to speak of

on t4 street this morning. Yet it 31 owed yesterday from noon on and by three in

the afternoon I heard there was 14 inci.es in Stamfcrd. God is being kind to our

i hudc-at Several times the si ov has stuck right down to the city line

iSrtw havf even bSTgood bit on Long Island. We also had snow on Tuesday and

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?or0M8pfes! ^co^ess'sdTe wL 15 minutes late at the White House because the driver had gotten lost in Baltimore and still refused even expenses. To f " " " he feels he added that if we would have him again he would oe gfad to 3=.* -a
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she had seen two big men in the hall -- probably through a wee peep hole she -as drilled at ye level* Really*

Without the plumber on Monday I had a wonderful time with rubber P^tio cement purchased on Saturday filling in the cracks between the board. I so seldom look critically at the place that I fail to register the degree of shabby disrepair. Today I bought webbing and raayoe next week I can repair three occasional chairs before all the hair seat stuffing falls out.

We are all very happy that Fred has passed his physical for the NROTCS. Jfow

his interview must be reported on and. then the greau business of seeing m Br^iaLL

rtnr-+ Mm nn the Navv. I think he has already sent a personal aPFl-^aiio- ^er etrtneth of his College Boards, -he Draft Board sent Jay to Governors Island, where

his blood pressure was unsatisfactory and they kept him overnight. eir ver 10

has not been reported*

Or Thursday the Hamilton reservations surged forward and 1 moved the luncheon

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February 24, 1962

On Glen Orbit day I had a dental appointment and was lucky to catch the actual launching on the radio from the lobby of the dentist's building on the v/ay to the office Communications were poor and I never knew Carnegie Endowment provided TV coverage on the second floor where much of our staff evidently spent most of the day I did catch the bit over Australia when Glen sent the message to the Commandant of Marines that he had completed four hours flying and qualified for flight pay. Later I went down again just after the splash down and stayed until he was safely or. the Noa. The logistics of world wide coverage which made it possible for millions cf Americans to vicariously make the *15rK with him was in itself a great achievement , The broadcast may have cost the companies two million dollars, but worth it. The family behaved as superbly in their roles as he did in his and we should be as proud of them as the professionals in NASA. It was a great day for us and mankind. I was amused to hear that Glens Falls, New York had officially changed its name for 48 hours or so to Glen's Orbit i The town is not far from Fort Miller and Aunt Arnie has taken me to it many times.

Last Saturday night Judith Listcwel telephoned to beg off from Sunday luncheon

so she could spend the day out of town with an old beau of pre-marriage days, nis

brother looking

and sister-in-law. Although he had person, she was glad as a r9su.lt of

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attractive had not married

him....completely self centered he admitted that when times were thin his wife had

docilely carried his breakfast to his bedl We rearranged our appointment for dinner

Tuesday. ?/hen I reached the Cos Club the place hummed with chatter --a Club Night

and not a place left in the dining room. I should have checked the calendar, but

vhen I looked could only put my hand on January events. So we went to the French

retaurant I lik9 on 61st Street and had a fine time. She is coining along on the

Tanganyika book, though Lady Chesham now here to raise money for the Developement Trust

Fund fails to comply with their agreement to supply documents, etc.

Washington's Birthday (also that of Chopin) Vera gave a small luncheon at the Club for the very attractive wife of the Indian Delegation's Public Affairs Officer. The Vahalis are Sikhs. He is so handsome with a silvered beard and a pale blue turban that I asked who he was first time I noticed him in the Delegate's lounge. She is charming and wore an unusual imperial yellow sari -with an allover geometric design. Julie Herzog revealed that hsr grandfather was a Presbyterian missionary in south Indua#. Her father had gone back to the same mission as a physician, where JULIE was born and lived until nine years old# during which time her father built a hospital . She was enchanted when she returned v/ithin the last ten years to find the Indians had added a wing and dedicated it to her grandfather. Josephine Schain told of a Sikh Temple she had visited by travelling 24 hours and found it worth every scrap of effort. Vera made me tell ray how I interviewed Gandhi story, which left Mildrerf. Kenyon to talk about South America where the Vahalis have just spent seven years. It was a charming jarty. At 6j30 Vera met me again at Longchamps for dinner before an ei$it o'clock "Salome" at the Metropolitan across the street. Meanwhile she had met her T'eachers College class ard I had called on Aunt Mary. The Paris born and trained Jane Rhodes sang and danced Salome, Blanche Thebom was Kerodias, Ramon Vinay Herod but Morley!eredith (John the Baptist) had the best voic9 of all. Rhodes made
the most of her lovely figure in the dance of the seven veils but her style was pecu liar. Always before Salome has been double bulled with Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, I have even seen it with La Serva Padrona, but this season it is being presented ai#ne. wre were on the street before quarter of ten, which we enjoyed but still do not see why we were rushed in at eightespec5.ally when the double bills began at 8:15. That Rudolf Bing i (The James McDonalds are in Florida and as usual send me their tickets * knowing that if I do not want them I can sell the subscription to other FPAers.)

The Fowier Hamilton luncheon continues to build well, and I would be supremely happy if only I cculd get a few answers from him or his helptrs. I may yet get trapped in a lot of last minute work and I want to go to Stony Brook Friday

7VC Ao-Vu^ 7lA'i/stony

Brook March 3, 1962

Tomorr' ow 4isa t+>hifei hbiieg ddaayv--jayy will be 22 811i4s1ceo*vePreectd Jwlistihwislo1mes6naoinw, be 39. Contrary to Bow Y^>r#ant several inches. For the third

Bot day

deep but a the sky is

pretty all very blue

aonvd<e*o;l,ouedlleessss^aan^ d the

wind eold and fQr Gienn,a

biting.
atay in

We N,y.

were all so Please4

,, monies Qn the cernegie TV and a quick glim? se

Iofstehwebmiottsorocfatdheeaosffiitcwieanlt0down the lEaasstt mRivveerr Durriive..

Just across the Of tbe

pa rk from us a fire boat shot five

lovely 3ight. 5n mday i

strong wind quickly turned to w

p Washington and eould not g0 over to

was waiting for a telephone cal

xmblie entrance, through the

the UN as planned. However he left

terrace and down steps where we

silver doors given by Canada,acorss

children before

St SE fa"''.2?">Hi.

.ho >!, is

redder in the sunlight than any of us had realized.

On Thursday X worked in the off^QE^rlise^in^y letter of Jan-

Fowler Hamilton's staff in answer 1 telephone calls and letters. Sev-

uary 30 and reraised from timetetime

P

whethef 45 minutes is

eral points are at stake such as radio clearance ana^ MoCloy Cen talk ard

lmoynwghoelneoutgihm.e Otnabtlheefloartttehre Pch*ai*ra*an.penGo|sahh, lx aamS^aannn^oyye^d as I h^ ad plaagnaniend

twoailteeadveuntthiel osfifxi--creeseualrtlyIana r6rived at ten oo'CclXoOcCkK,, in ti^ me ttoheseoeffTiwoieliognit Zone on TV I There had een an unusual num^ ln seeing Glenn. But

Ftrhiidsawye,ewkhihcahs asleemnc>t8h^e^'M_araohh 8 8 i1^heon continufethitstshlroewe lbuuntcshteeoandsyIinm-

iSSIT"

1... -T 11.

The Draft Bos ri sft.r "UyilKSS/Jj'S.2it2.P?21Stof"l";Sr-

svrsr&'sJES^

"

cated him on such points as what he tho g

presentation of "Our

building his own hi-fi and about to be^progreSs with the dentist,

Th^new^upp^is^a^ost^appealing beagle bitch^with ^special^ondness^ox-

tS! not found them digestible and upchuched -am.

Monday night I went ^r dinner^with Maria and Hank.^

that^ari. a

tirely the happy reunion afterHank

invited, Hank rolled to

hbaadlfplaannhnoeudr. lIataerrr,i^veidnagt$awnned. fit a andntTM hinn^ er thaangrbeeaftordeeaithoeftrwoirpl,c

but plainly tired ** between two skiing

Marla swallowed some

for the Fair since hisreturnplainlye^-^ ithout apeaking quietly wait

of her after dinner coffee thewrongway

ls sald ln Hungary to

into have

tdhieedkiotfchsetnrarneg"ul,a^tio^nn|frro^maasuucchh

i misadventure. a^^ floor

Hearing hto ohoktog of the dining room.

IA sdteaerptegdasthoihnehre,roonhliynibflre,d rp0rfoufsueselyy, but she^qouuitok0lfy trheespobnldaecdk tooutm,y&

forcibly

^horrid few minutes, though we had no^ troubie

caught her breath.lt was aher handa ahe applied an antibiotic

in stopping bleeding. Clevbandalds. Poor dear, she was so apolo-

^ the disturbance she made that Hank ## promised to make her go to bed at once and I got home by eleven. Later I learned she had insisted oi getting the dinner dishes into the dishwasher# What stubbornessl-

\ toJL $ju*t SuL\Tie,

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March 10, 1962

Soma one should take in hand and have my head examined. Last night Judith
Listowel just b_,ck from a lecture in Detroit telephoned to warn me she was living a week from todav and when could she see me? I offered her lunch toda.v, she dead seediness from her flu of five weeks ago and we settled I'd turn UP about 1230 'with a cooked chicken from the A &P and some SOUD. (This was fine as I have not been able to shop this week, needed to renew the meat, grapefruit and a~rls or grapes. The al ternate route bus service would take me near enough the A & P from whence I'd tote the stuff to her residential hotel and get a cab to take me home.) BUT I arrived soon after the appointed hour to find her in bed entertaining Mrs. Hervey and her young niece. Inside an hour the other two left and about two Judith and I ate and after tidying UP she went back to bed apd we continued our conversation. All of which meant I left later than I had olsnned and hit the street just when most taxis were going off duty. Everv apartment and hotel doorman was out searching for non existent taxis and then I ran into
impatient men tired of shopping with their wives and detennind to get them out of tempta tion and home bu cab. I must sav as I plodded home with my tote heavy with groceries I saw only waving hsnds and no one having better luck than mv alert eve ever roving for nn empty vehicle without the "off duty" sign down. Happily it was a lovely sunny after
noon, practically windless as I dawdled along looking in shop windows along Madison Avenue.
I don't think I have walked as much as a mile since I got back from Eurooel

Tuesdav night I had just gotten my nice hot dinner on a hot plate, when Charles

Cremeans, due to speak for the OTR luncheon the next day telephoned. He announced he

was at home in Fairfax, Virginia, with ten inches of snow and had just spend three hours

getting fifteen miles from his office, and wondered about our weather. Fortunately, it

had cleared here and airports were functioning with uhe snow havng veered off into the

Atlantic. We parted on the uncheerful note that he would do his best to get either a

train or Diane to New York, though he would have considerable trouble getting into Wash

ington.

I told myself no need to start worrying and what I needed most was a good

night's sleep--not the easiest thing in the world with the wind still howling madly. As

soop as T got to the office the next morning I alerted a eubstitute speaker that I might

ned him, but in due course Cremeans telephoned neigvbo-f s brother was driving into

"i town , had given him a lift and he had had a fine night's 3*1$p on the train. He a

nice man, I liked him end he mda a good speech, which, -v-n the von* ""*.7 c

c wife 01

Stevenson's dfutv erne nl~eed with it / He pointed out that while we hnd made manv

up stakes in handling the Arabs* the Kussins had not been successful in turning thera into

Commun* 3is. In answer to a ustion about the United Arb Republic he sold that it now

-mounted to the Union of Northern and Southern Egy^t,

Thursdov is listed pr n success, though I was disappointed that Fowler Hsmilton did

not really talk to either topic his staff ^ad toTd to uea. It was never+.hel at- 0. to

f-rc* -- beginning v/ith lend leaae h- traced foreign aid brilliantly in what it had

accompli* ~d, h: v ? t ?/ ' be R n

-.a* v t it had coat- He sneers very well ond

seemingly witv the humility of a public servant re^ontlv taking ajob in which he had

aome past experience but for which he has tremendous nthuim. I am sure the audiece

felt th-t foreign aid is a fine thing and h8 is going to make i+ even better, Alas, 1

felt he could h-ve done a b-tter job and hope he is not th- hrd boiled politician I FEAr

Flu, transcription difficulties aod nd of the season fa Vrt kert almost 10Q people

awv, but the ballroom looked awfullv well and Hemilt-n aia d to the FP chairman 0? board

"Mv, you have a big crowd, it looks like over a thousand." Soubrv v/ith complete candor

confessed we ex^eci^d ?50, T hove written all the "thank yotis" and crafted my sumr.t,ry

revort rnd cm reedy to lern back on ry laurels...they should be caafrtaV e as we --de

a lot of ncv friedfc and about $8,500.

< \

-.v . .. fi Mondav I went UP th the Knickerbocker Club to lunch v/ith Ruth and John Nheeler-Bennett

also the Patrick De^ns and ""hp B-^hoo of Lincoln (or is it Durham) and his -n\fe, The vV-B g

both looked ""uch better +han in November aod hoys had 0 fine time in the south &West.

Ruth left Tuesday to go b-ck and get a new cook for her mother, the last one is in jail for having murdered her b<r* friend in a Saturday nierht fracas.

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>' * ftt t*sy,"tiarch l^th , 1962 4s30 p.m.

mf+h Avenue. For me it started last night when Bob

Patrick still holds sway on infth Avenue

t twriter and a carton of liouor

lwood's chauffeur and voung audit



winter end the oolice fussed at the

me to store until Lady Listowel1's retun next

in the street

' is stooping in the street. oime a .snow had been forcast for two ^ys..but when rest had been thoroughly watered. Early this

looked out it was just that 64th -- R nock of what used to be called
^last evening police Darners

Aits wings" manicured the guxters. . ^

oouple 0f men to admit necessary vehicles,

ere up at both ends of the stre^a^3"!*ne/wi+h ,, fine variety of long shinv cars with

,y 11 o'clock the street was at

reviewing stand Parking area" and people

interesting license elates backed

and gr8en hats, may carrying oiankets,

drifted through for the stand...^

hu+ton holes . It was not until 12i40 that

men with green carnations in heard the first band. Since then I have h.ard

We3ri,,g of the Green" and "Irish Eyes

6.^ ^

y#ry windy when x

are Smiling" more than X care to :remember. It

!

revlewing stand-only recognized

went out to do errands about 2.30 and^to

of the hats i had seen before noon

Jim Farley (Grand Marshal) a,.,d ya. . Aj- kids from the various parocnial schools who

were still there. They had gotten WoU

d how they got a man with camexa in

did not interest me as much ns tne tele.xs

^ ^

^ onoomxr.g contin-

t, bucket out almost to the middle ox Fifth Ave ue

^ ^typewriter ribbon and a

gent. Madison Avenue was jammed, so J.

onan i,, the office has just had r brain

few cards-poor Pair^c-io Dewar bas shingles

^ &t the corrasr woo removed for ^ return.

tumor operation. Bv &T>t* the
This hs been denarii: e ---th toeeler ^en .

sailtfetdPoorri.th1e.",vhelr-Bnats FQrueiednovE,lihseabteothco,n-

s ; * * * B s e t t i e i f o r 1 9 6 3 , ^nu^to'tSM: vnativ orofsrred ^Kar"*

^ ^y^ogtssse^of^last^ummer^xpr^sed sor--w

+v,er. o,,rh ps w had Mondav--two inches

The bus strike c-ntinues end

^

j to give UP the luxury of taxis

0f roin slashing down on almost frl. winds X . J ^^13th,,iirst times since

both -ye. It was actually achieved

lunok with Aunt Mary last Sunday X am

^ -- -- * o u t h e r - 1st. Since drinning in the nose me.de me de^ ^
going there tomorrow and am glad to report that unti1

realizidfour neighborhood would ^ errRnd about aer

r sr. Modesty no doubt retire*ned me from ^raggin in tne

-s Relation for the UN.

oS the national staff, that judges were only

again". The week before the HamM-

a cualm but ooneented. R."nd '* m# f ^in five days-- me provided rearing

ton luncheon ten capers were delivered to

8tet,

on March 1" -hen 18 esse

the croon to Stony Bro-k that weekend.

_

3ohool" akl over the countrv, six

,,rp,,ord to be graded bv the 19th. Theyloocy writing causing man" nouses

*er. typed but 12 -re handwritten, and almost

9ffuBion woo rages,the

or guesses ..a to what the word wee. The

"m too mnv write oeneor when thev mean

"h"rt'"t flofferencel

More often than not the frontier^

ZS"'c -r-h^er". On the whole thev know

**--

C "

ideas. I was shocked about how little several cue toerio

on the other .

one' described the Congo as facing furore andAsm onpoculd be fun. We shall at least

h^ss.' Cn Thursday afternoon I meet wit<. mv iell J g

__

r--f of the kids gave a clue

,,the school.

-rt'-* Patrick'e Day-the World

favorite radio listening?

T1 3 arrival of spring brought a few words in the press abbut Writer-- Hew Ycr,,-

being credited with IB inches instead of last year's 54--a nice saving for our uneasy

budget-. It did not seem like IB inches to me, but just as reported the colder than

last year I had steadily told myslaf was only because of the high/winds mostly very

so very damp. Long Island is declared a disaster area from the double barrelled high

tide and gale storms with 96 houses destrayed (value $3,000,000).

vxw inlet in

the barrier beach is 20 feet deer end 600 feet v/ide. Beyond th. t 72 new rliuc**evs

ncross the barrier be^ch were del^le^-d. Since Vidya Chandr* in the th office ana

her Danish husband fell in love with *nd bought an island in a New Jersev lake, thev

have interceded to sell their Westbampton Beach dunes cottage, liVhen he went to chock up

--it nd Eight other house just did not exist. Unfortunately they had also being mean

ing to ee^l/a telescope so large that it could hot be transported at more than 30 miles

ail hour*--it was in the missing cottage. Nothing ws insured against ^ter damage. I

believe that onlv LLovds of London will issue insurance covering extrajjinary tide and

one -p the 96 so lost were covered I

the change of season has also brought on -

severe rase of spring fever, so nice *3 T had gotten a little bored with explaining my^

laxiness as "winter fatigue", I'm seeing the doctor -on Tuesday, tnpu&L, as I ju?t plain

cut cocktsil parties on both Thursday and Frids.v for which I hd accented. Today was

another lovely clear sunny dav, but I did not undertake the massive buying s-ree I had

*>lsnned in the direction of spring wardrobe.

Notwithstanding the depleting effects of the onslaught of sprint?, this week has not
been without its nwn achievements. Greatest,personally,was finding the Chase Manhattan. , Bank apd I differed bv 9^ in mv statement for two weeks (The" have just begun to give me the monthly statement at the middle of the month inste d of the en^ to mv gre^t indignat inr) Vi/hen I waited upon them with mv own calculations supported by adding machine tapes and a plaintive plea that automation confounded me nd perhaps them-, it was morosely admitted that the machine hd erred 9d in its favor. Mv pleasure was increased when thev spei&t 4f* to give me written confirmed that my balance wg 9^ more than thev credited me with I... Qur bus strike w*s settled in prt (it mav be a long time before the i;ifth Avenue routes ,re returned to service under citv management a the Company has a franchise in perpetaetv) With partial se^ice on Friday I managed to get. to the office on my preferred double lare route. Thurdday 1 met with my fellow judges on the UN Ess*v contest a mad session under a well meaning "DoGood" lady chairman, who let everyone talk at once. No wonder I was too tired to go to celebrate Pakistan's Independence Da" with the Consul General that afternoon. The best news of the week wan the snnouncement o** the Algerian cese fire >nd the developing lovaltv of the French Arm - to de ~ "1 le. It will not be nil smooth ^oiling, but the referrendu*1" on April 8 when the French peori should snPDort " Charley"
in agreeing to on independent Algeria not because thev gladlv lose the last oi their amriirfl, but b-caus* they have been fighting ever since 1939 and will oe glad enough to ond casy.nv lists, If the French had only been as clear minded as the British ar.dseen tht the age of col onia^iaia had ended they might hva snared themselves o^er seven years of fighting in Indo China end over striven more in Algeria. Of course, T m sorry for the "poor white*'" who bv reason of color alone have lorded it over the Moslems for several generation'1. Without a change of attitude there will be no place for them in a free Algeria, nor will thev be happy in Franc, Those who have real talent and are willing to
wp~k under Moslems will be kept and used but they ore only a minority.

Another achievement of spring was the final meeting of the OTR Series "a" on Wed
nesday when the ladies sat like mice while Andre Philip groke. They loved him both for his Gllio wit and ebullience but the interesting slant he gave them on political develop ments in Franca. Th political parties era d-^iding within themselves. For example, the
new gricultural cooperativeshave lend, to a, YOUNGFABMEiBS organization, who want a democra tic rl-n for France within the Common Market and are working toward that with a shift to the left of a traditionally extreme right political posiii on of their fathers. Student organisations are eoually active and want a revision of curriculum, which Philip, who has taught for man" yrs in addition to being a member of the French Cabinet, the Chamoer of DeudtTes tc., etc, ngraas greatly needed. A leader of the opposition to deGaulle 3 policy of strenthailing the Richelieu established tradition of a highlv centralized governhe will vote for de Gulle on April 8 Algerian referrendum.

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This has been a week of magnificent weather, cloudless brilliant blue skv, temperature

in the 60"s with a couple of afternoons up to 75 but proper droos at night* A funny week for

me for with no OTR I laid on three luncheon dtaes away from the office* Three new faces turned

ut> in the office and one girl left, while another returned from a brief but early vacation*

T"*adav afternoon Fred Nunes and I took one of the newcomers, Jack Schwartz and his wife Katie

for drinks at the Beekman*s "Top of the ^ower", where there is a lovlv view nf the citv and

particular!v pleasing in the Vie afternoon* We knw Schwartz severe1 * ? otrn on the tele

phone when he ws fund raising for John B-de-u and the Near Sa*t Foundation n^ thought it a

nice idea to ?/eleome him as our new fundraiser, Thev ore both attractive reorle in their

late 30*s and we enjoyed them* I went home for a simrle meal and back to the

to serve

a "warm body" at a dismal meeting my colle ague John Matthews had become involved in --

Cantiv* F"porern Nations of -odiich I had taken a dim view* It 4r dad that these refugete

continue to dream *f the past and foment dwrractical pl^ns for an ir^rcba"-* "Te firt w. Th

*he think that they can be important in their old countries in the event of a liberation will-

never be accepted* Most of t* e n however take out loyalty in talk and would never give uo the

good life thev had achieved here* The dreary prospect was confounded shen the third member of

the oanel failed to arpear* (He, Robert Strausz-Huoe, held* the distinction of being the first

person to telephone me from eea

shin to shore service w*z firet inaugurated*)

I went to Gerry Vttaet this weev filled i+h eo^-laintz *f n* anergv* Whan ah* t*ok mv blood pressure the comment was "You must be dead", a second attempt did register a lower than usual so now I am on a fine tonic* Wednesday luncheon a consolation session with Isa Guiles-- the economy ordered by London has stripped her of all staff in the Sjb akers Section of British Inforsiztion Services leaving her in a position I can all too well understand* The one plus is that she is to move into Bill Gmer9df8 office since he has resigned to enjoy Mrs* Martineau*s bequest to him of the life time income from a million dollar^! Thursday I took Don Dennis with me to luncheon with Claudius (formerly Claude) C*Fhillippe ex-Waldorf in the Gaucho Room of the Summit Hotel* This was amusing as I had never been into the Summit before and Fhillippe spent a lot of time running down the Waldorf and building up the facilities of
the new Americana, that ie when the headwaittr was not delivering messages to him, or he was not correcting the manner of a bus boy who brought lemon for our fish* (Incidently had I not
been a guest I would have sent my serod back to have superfluous water drained from the plate*) Then we went to the Americana in his station wagon in horrid traffic through which he drove
like a Freenh taxi and climbed about over rough basic cement floors, through puddles of water
and dodged great dirty canvas curtains* One spread over the route we took and although I was watching every step unfortunately put my foot on some sort of covered up bit of debris and landed on my left knee and right hand* Poor Don, who followed me, was terrified* Phillippe as nonchalant as I tried to be* My wonderful Canadian ointment and an aee bandage have helped but I shall have to go and get my back put baek in line and I suspect my wrist manipulated-- it is still pins-and-needley. The object of our inspection is the Ballroom which will seat 2,000 people without a pillar, though I had the feeling that those seated at the back
should be warned to tarry binoculars*

Friday afternoon I planned to get an ounce of flssh from all the hours I had spent in reading those UN essays by going to a reception over at the UN to meet the winners* However
efforts all day to reach a mem at Racine, Wisconsin were still fruitless though promising* I was making an appearance at tie farewell party for the secretary going baek to San Francisco when called to talk to Pittsburgh and before that consultation was over the Wisconsin call came through* At quarter after five Andre Philip eame in as I had encouraged him to do when
I was going to the UN from four to five* We had a lovely talk until 6i30 during whieh he told me things deGaulle had said to him in Ladon after Philip had been pulled out of the French underground to be a member of Government in Exile cabinet* On deGaulle* s plans for the futurehe probably will not step down after Algeria is settled, but feel that the Berlin Situation and Disarmament are ripe for settlement as everyone else will be exhausted from the intermnable negotiations will happily accept his proposals* Then he can retire and write his history of modem France* Everyone knows he will write this and carefully avoid crossing the old boy
lert they be put down for future generations to read about as a "bad boy", meanwhile hoping that by compliance they may even get a line as a person who helped France to greater glory* Philip calls this "the dictatorship of the pen*"

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April 8, 1962

Mtr^^ff0Th^day B!ttLDay Went^me t# hdar wOrfu* and Eurydicc" at the

t mediocre,

the

mU
ehoru#

excelfl,enctourb9uetitshle0Tcdolsytumbui*ngaganadinliIehftoiunnod-

*the*Itwa*d,inLg!elingen

me a sense of India rather than Greece. On.H^eU

^2LF*

Longchanps and not hare to worry about taxi* just before eurtain tine.

6'

<n*err!?B^Mtodr ^

eamS ?ek for the TM * B and I indulged in a lit+le *m^er' of the FPA adniniatratire etaff to have lun^

ees.fj io ns tmha is week ffofrrnaenx.tSsMe"ason's prGogrTa<rmainagd tchisitateeeeme,d (aWegoogdo wianrtotostmaafkfe"S soUmeng

new and more wide characters acmewhat nore tolerant of ny ladies ) He made +h

private!/ I

p,labnUtt+ePd^a

t0geth8r diff'ntly d a. few question* in the audience

a result of^hiij he and he made wen more

had t^d of e hit

mf

' V,f vrtre t, th

JTM8*1*8^ afterward we had the Gorerning Committee meeting

"s h!^r,?e"iEht

found thMBselree very eolrent --roted $12,000 to pay thfir

bills plus $3,500 a. an outright gift to FPA. As ,oon as ths minutes are approved

pen broadeaet these items whieh insluds $4,000 for staff service* Tf Pw +h

president turn, put to be eome one in whom I can lwmlnS rneS7

ought to be viable within the ne.es.isarily s.re^y fSSTJt% Career!' ^

After over a year's total disappearance dinky Moore has reappeared- At i-t <+

ru".,88 thftt h ha'Sotten over the dream world in whieh he has lived for so lone in Mien he was always enfeussd about some undertaking whieh was going to pa" him I fabulous return and as one after another failed the meeting of basic living Lets

m J*six -onthe h: h *>rt8d 8 typist and dictaphone optor
J outfit with the perb name of Tycoon Typimsts. Ibis has enabled him to +

EufUSET^0tttinri u" of hi rtgbt ,,ha. provided sr.i.s f^r ttfre-

,

hys bad motsr accident and mismanaged badly by a deeotr

While hi. report filled me with admiration, it was p.thetiV^n he poLtod out ^

"Mr.PuMrSoo'~r'et","while he usedbfaiarns"tafnaambeasinteod tbhyemhi.s fellow workers always sailin6g hlimm

One afternoon I broke away from the offiee promptly rniough to sail on Aunt v n1nly."y h8* f*r ontinaed improvement is laid to some malt mixture, whieh has helped her digestion and aetually put on some weight on her poor bones. A year ego she wondered if she should plan on Uonhonk for the summer, now she has aonfiE made her reservation - *i<h I ...um. indud.s th. ^tlnirften^" SlL sha has bscoae rather dependent upon as well as the ftiend, who for years hai been her guest for the first month of her stay. X eouldn't be more encWed.

J

?" Wriff Fafr t0 888 * 1 "fghb y "Welcome home" to

\ y J a that h * flying that day to Africa instead of to New York!

IrTMV^r9!ary 1!rroneou8ly Scbhered that Maria had gone on writh him and was delighted Tuesday to have her call telling she had just arrived by jet that afternoon

X saw ,.sr .n i<.e evening and began to hear of her Paris adventures where after Hank's"

departure for Poland she moved from the Meuriee to the home of an impoverished S.

and Comtesee as a paying guest to improve her French, she had a most unusual experh nee

which .he greatly treasure--though it was not without incident too involv^Tto^eUte

Saturday I arranged for Andre Philip to lunch, with Vera and me at tkeclub and a*

hePhMf"hour l8t8r

3C had expected and

> *ured in

"e him. Having both condemned the O.A.S. leader iho Trfien*

captured in Algiers was wearing a false beard, I asked how Philip had disguised himself

his heavs h-ach eyebrows.lefLadtrer^MarTOir-a gave mSe1aPn1e8'arlyh8dinner anbdistheonu.wteaSwe.nattiovc' nioofy

"European Rendet-vous" in which two Swiss Voli Geil.r and Walter Morath entertainer, gave

6 !"r'u .^f rente mines and sketches in English, Freneh, German and Italian most skillfully

and with hilarious result. Too bad their New York stay is so short.

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Last Sunday, like today, was cloudy with diowers and I would much rather have taken a nap than gone to the Seligmane eoektail jarty* Deciding it was my duty to gay it up with my new pink petal hat I went and had a fine time* It was less crowded than usual and 1 was able to hare several complete sentences with people I like* A nice chat with the Indian General Ricky (the spelling is much more complicated than that) who has been loaned to the UN for work in the Congo, he is just back and feels that the situation is leveling off and will straighten out* There were several FPA Board members there, but Vera was the only other person from the staff level. Our hosts had just returned from a holiday in Egypt which they found most interesting, but Eustace is
clearly failing*

Domestically it has been a silly week--the sink drain did not respond to my Drano treatments and it was necessary to go through the complicated hocus-pocus of getting Eddy, the plumber, here to make a dreadful mess of unclogging* He used both my plastic basins, my silver mug and the bathroom rug as a kneeling pad* The latter got wet and had to go to the laundry, the former all had to be carefully cleaned The radio started to fade in the midst of news reports* It would return briefly after a rest, but it had to be lugged out to the repair shop. The reign of silence ended Saturday when I got it baek after paying $9*50 for new tubes* The office has been dreary with three long admin istrative staff sessions stretched to four because Roger Mast rude has such a tortuous mind, if any, that his answers to quest!ohs only confused us the more* The presence of two new members of the staff lead to long applanations for their benefit. Next week my area of operation will be up for review of the past and blue sky dreaming for the future. I shall be interested to see what brain storms will turn up to implement the working paper I drafted yesterday! In Gerry Wilmot^s absence in the Greek Islands I went to Penny Dunning about my right arm and suspeet I may have to go back to get the wrist strapped* At any rats my blood pressure has pulled up from the tonic* Maria brighten ed my life by asking me for dinner Friday to talk about a project she has dreamed up in Hank's continued absence in Africa* It is amazing how the three cats have tamed down as a result of human companionship* They no longer chase either other madly across the table with the paint brushes, under the easel with the portrait of the appealing little girl (almost completed), over the desk, under the piano and into the diningroom in their attempt to get attention. Just as well as these mad dashes had caused some
breakage*
The announcement that 13 months of tireless effort on the part of Cardinal Spellman had led to the Pope's agreement that Michelangelo's "Pieta* would constitute part of the Holy Sec exhibition at the NY World's Fair reminded me of my London and Paris reading of "The Agony and the Ecstasy" I so regretted that Irving Stone had not written the book before my last trip to Italy that I was moved in London to buy Cellini* s Memoirs* In turn the "Pieta" announcement reminde<^fme of the unopened volume, ihich last night became my bedtime reading* From the first 40 pages I commend it as good supplementary reading to Stone's tale of Michelangelo*

Vera is trying to get me to take on another client for my "moonlight" operation,

but although I have my doubts about the practicality

it is olear that Mary Kohler

has jumped to the conclusion that I will do it and bail her out of what seems to be a

great mess* She has been doing so much that her doctor ordered her to bed for a week,

the afternoon I was supposed to go and talk with her the staff meeting went overtime

and the next day Mrs* Kohler left for a recuperative country weekend* It will be a

miracle if I can see her before Aunt Annie ccanes on Wednesday and even if I agree to

accept her some time before I can learn enough about her and prepare materials to do the

job.' Friday Aunt Annie and I go to Martha and CI eve forth Easter weekend, so no

chitchat next week* Have a happy Easter*

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April 29", 1962

This morning I was to have taken my fur coat to storage and buy a spring coat but have shiekened out--sins# Wednesday daytime temperatures have been in the upper 80*s and as the city is still jammed with Easter hoilday visitors 1*11 get in some time at my desk* This afternoon I have a second conference with Mary Kohler on her speaking dates and then go on to dinner with Vera, ihom I have not seen for weeks*

Just as I was leaving the office to meet Aunt Annie*s train Wednesday* Molly telephoned * She had Bill were in town for his spring vacation treat, so we all met at Grand Central and went across the street for dinner at the new Horn and Hardart waitress service Murray Hill where they have tried to recapture the gas light elegance of the 90*s with tut velvet in a rich red and elaborate chandeliers* Very pleasant and good food with excellent service* Thursday night Aunt Annie and I went to hear "Elsctra* at the Metropolitan with a most en thusiastic audience* I cannot remember when I have seen the house lights go on only to be dimmed for another curtain call* Friday afternoon to Freeport and in the evening to Trans figuration for Part II of the Handel Messiah with -the combined boy*s, girl*s and adult choirs* Saturday we set out for St# Ann*# by way of Jones Beach and the Gapetree Bridge* A brilliant day making the ocean and the bay sparkling blue# I was glad to see little damage from the higi tide and gale winds which had created havoc along the barrier beach* Thousands of gulls were nesting or merely sitting enjoying the sun, especially near the Gapetree fishing pier# After Cleve planted the deep rose geraniums, which seemed a nice change, with a tire iron we discussed whether it would be better to have the yew trees taken out to merely to trim off the lower baanshes* The church has filled in some of the cross roads and turned them into plots enabling Martha and Gleve $$$ to buy immediately to the East of the family plot* We were happy that Aunt Annie accepted Martha"1s invitation to ultimate join us in St# Annvs# It is a nice secluded cemetery removed from traffic#

After a late luncheon at what used to be the Northern Warren residence on the edge of Great South Bay, we proi&ed up and down Bayport side roads to note the ever increasing construction# Gleve took some pictures of the old oaks which had been bent to keep the cattle off the road to add to his collection of fences# Then he cut across the island at Patchogue to Stony Brook to see Molly, Jim and Bill# Unfortunately Jay and Fred were off at work, but that is a hard family to catch all at .once$ The hour and a half drive back to Freeport was partly along the old privately owt^Motor Parkway, now a country road. It was amusing to see what 50 years ago was considered a wonderful road to speed and worth the toll--now it seams full of ups and downs and curves no longer tolerated by motorists# All the buds were swelling--oaks and swamp maples red, Norway maples green and few of the willows were still in the yellow stage# A most satisfying day# Easter we went to the 7 o*clock service and did not see Cleve again until well after one, by which time Fran and the boys had arrived and found all their Easter presents, which had been "hidden" in plain sight# It was so hot after our delicious luncheon that we repaired to the back lawn to sit in the sun and alternately watch the tulips and daffodils pop open and the four little boys play# Aunt Annie and I took the 5*21 to tov/n and a Fifth Avenue bus home to see -the dregs of the Easter parade# By this time it was 86 and every ledge was filled with the exhausted# We decided anything went--skirts ti^it or full, hats large or small--we really could not tee the Rockefeller Center flowers for the crowd# Delman*s window had tnree toot rabbits, wnoss ears were sharply pointed pumps--soles forward# Very original#

Tuesday morning we went to the Empire State departing at 8*45, so I could see Aunt Annie aboard --she was home at 11*30 and I was on time for the office# Nason is back from Asia but promptly lost his voice so we have yet to hear about Asia# The three vice-presidents did an arm twist on me to take over the handling of delegates to a national conference to be held on May 31 and June 1# Two of them are loud in gratitude and soon I discovered on of the sloppy operations I inherited was an underestimate of one segment of the budget of $500. Awkward for me to have to report, but better to find now $ Bank is still in black Africa so Maria and I had a good dinner and talk together last night. She is con vinced that the present trend in Paris art is back to the impressionist school and that soon this country will move away from the "modern*.

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May 6, 1962

Almost nothing to report this week and I feel at a loss as to how to begin* Perhaps the last bit of intelligence can serve as a spring board* Vera has just told me on the telephone that she has decided to let Funk A Wagnall*s publish her autobiography, which has been simmering in her mind for over a year- Vfcen I initially questioned the wisdom of such a book, it was clear that it had already become such an idee fixe as to be essential- Then I hooted at Funk A Wagnall only to find that a very sympathetic woman who had edited the last book published by Harcourt Brace had moved to F & W Today I learn that having made pots of money on the dictionary they are prepared to spend a great deal of money in launching the new line and are thrilled at the prospect of having Vera begin the writing this summer-
Yesterday afternoon at long last I had the young Meadea at the elub for a tea time drink- They were married at Christmas and this is my first meeting with the sweet little Swiss Sandra- Theirs is a very involved situation- She came on a six month visitorfs permit married Gardiner and is now in the toils of the Immigration Service red tapeshe and he have both filed petitions for a change of her status- These are supported by a minute history of her most recent si years including all sorts of refsrrences as to her good character from citizens of any country in which she spent more than six months- Having been in England for $$ two years in a Kent school she was some what startled to have the report come back that the British do not undertake to testi fy to -the character of non-nationals within their borders- Thy have been warned that the petitions will take five to six months to be cleared and should they be denied all the papers would be destroyed if the took employment during the waiting period- A job would be so helpful in orienting her to American life, too- After waiting one day in the Immigration office for her turn she fell into conversation with a young man who had sat beside her for three hours. After agreeing that it was a dreary, slow motion business, the young man said wSee that old fellow near the elevator? He hae been here three days I M After ha^ng worked on the design for the interior of President Kennedy*s personal plane, and a bathroom for him, then the Science Build ing interior at the Seattle Fair Gardiner is now deep in plans for assembly line fibre glass houses- Raymond Loewy, his industrial design employer, thinks in terms of tens of thousands of these houses all being poured from the came molds -- identical inside and out. But since they expsct to sell them for $5,000, the houses could be a boon to the individual thougi a blot of uniformity on the landscape.
Then to Maria and Hank for an early dinner before they joined friends at the circus. Immediately after his return from Africa via Paris, where he was last Saturday and Sunday he whipped off to Washington where in two days he saw sixteen Ambassadors and Counsellors of Embassy. Of course, we distracted ourselves with a mixture of future and past and had little time for any of revealing details of his trip. But it was a joy to see him agAin and get a little of the flavor of his six weeks trip.
Nason been back for 12 office days and I have had two corridor encounters with him --true I was not there on Good Friday and he has been out with laryngitis. Tomorrow those who care to give their luncheon period to chewing a sandwich in the presence can hear about the trip. No hot prospect for his replacement* Tuesday afternoon Fred Nunes took me to see a new sooperative apartment building up on 96th Street near Second Avenue. The inside looked possible, the down payment manageable though the maintenance scale seemed high- Afterward we had a good look at the general neighborhood and had to agree it was not for me* Aside from divinely brilliant weather on Friday and Saturday, the week has been so foul that we all spend most of our energy making ourselves w<rk. Result I have little bounce at night to wnonlight*' yet there are jobs to do on Mary Kohler, whose articles in SatEvePost I have yet to finish. As soon as I can catch her I need to try out my version of her biography.

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13> 1962

Martha was rigkt this was THE weekend for bloom in Freeport. The weather i orecast had been very tentative even on Friday morning, but we had two wonderful bri^it

blue sky days, almost too cool but comfortable and eyefilling* Dogwood, both whit e and

staple^ pink, copper beech and redJapanese^all very effective when caught against the sapphire

sky. At the next level white rhododendron, azaleas of all hues, lilacs and carria Japonica

splashed all acress the place in various combinations of shade and color* At the lower

strata Tulips were in their prime, candy tuft, lily of the valley, coral bells, primroses,

Blue flax and forgetmenots, the first iris in sheltered spots and star of Bethlehem. Apple

:...OSSHS were casting a drift of petals across the lawn every time the wind blew* The white

mountain ash blossoms made me think of elderberry bloom* It was a lovely weekend, but the

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fLd n0t follo7r the pa^61TM of ffiy good luck in quickly finding a cab at 46th and Second,

hi

ihe Long Island conoourse was packed with would be travellers when I arrived about *i20

for the 5*45 train. Spotting the 5*19^### gate still open I snaked my way diagnally

across tlr ougi the almost solidly packed humanity* En route the loud speaker announced

There will be a twenty minute delay on all trains due to a mechanical failure* Trains

are leaving on time from Hunters Point and Brooklyn," Impossible to retreat and hope to

catch CI eve's train -in Brooklyn, I continued and stood two by two downstairs on the

plaiofrm with the rest of the Noah's Ark animals* The 5*19 eventually pulled in and we

left only a couple ef minutes before the *45 should have* ClevefiS train due in Freeport

a couple of minutes after my usual train may have left on time, but it was late and the

whole episode^turned out all right. Later we learned that about five a train became

uncouple in on of the two LIRR tunnels under the East River and had fouled up the

thousands of commit era for two hours. Later as we returned from seeing a spectacular

tulip display in Rockviil Center and passed an attractive apartment house in

Freeport Martha innocently asked if I would not consider living in one of these buildiigg

which are springing up like mushrooms. I had to admit it was the wrong night to suggest euch a move to we

Wednesday my day was made when I found the silver earrings purchased in Copen hagen, loved so dearly and mourned sadly when they disappeared two years ago* They had slipped down below the cushion of the green leather club chair and certainly needed polishing. On the way home I stopped to see Aunt Mary and although she was weary from an expedition to the bank and to do another errand, she is so much better basicly that I walked home on air* She credits what sounds like Boachard*^ Malt Soupex with the im provement, but has asked her doctor if she migit not have a glass of beer at bedtime instead* The answer was "No".

Nason's report to the staff on his Asian trip was very disappointing. Unless he pitched it to the office boy, I am not quite sure how much he got from the experience* I am not even sure that the office boy was there--a good many people at all echelons plain stayed away including my secretary* When I queried Bill about his absence he merely said "X don't like Mr. Nason."

During her last weeks at Rochester Vera is quieting the blow of departure jj#

by accepting unpaid ingagments in the communi/ty. SJb night after ene such act of grace

a parcel whs delivered at the friend's where she stays, guesses were made as to whether

from the It was a

bsairzoemeoftetrheI

box and the wrappings For the rigit couple

it was an I thought

oversize orchid or a box of candy* she might use it as a wedding

present*

CC.E 5.)

C.BAS. has taken a freah potshot at various persons connected with the NY

Worlds Fair 1964 in one of its editorials. In trying to find out why the skating rink

which has been enjoyed for years by the Flushing Meadows neighbors will not be available

during the construction period of the Fari and during the winter months of cloa ng, they

got different relies from various officials consulted* It makes a poor jr ess, which

saddens me* Further I am in great doubt as to the wisdom of a privately owned radio

station broadcasting opinion editorials* True they offer equal time for qualified

responders, who not infrequently take advantage of the offer* With each spray of lily

of the valley costing one franc on May Day in Paris, I fear many householders were unahle to have a bunch of muguet in the home to keep the witches out for a year I

WCY, ABB, R*CIJALR

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May 20, 1962

After several nights of overlong periods of wakefulness I took a sleep

ing pill Friday with the result my Saturday morning start to buy the long de

ferred purchase of suit and coat was late* So late that the official tepmer-

ture in Central Park was already 90 o/o* A fine day to take my fur coat for

storage* Then I discovered that the United Parcel was still on strike and no

delivery service* One coat was discovered but no suit and I decided it was too

hot to carry bulky parcels and settled on a pleasant mixture of blue and green

in a simmer drees and some writing paper* The shops are giving large shopping

bags and one readily tells on the street who has patronized which store* I am

fascinated by menrs summer hata--fedoras with extremely narrow brims ina variety

straws--a well turned out q&favjfcjeh. on the bus had a fine woven beige with black

ribbon binding the brta and f&rfbrnd, a young black on Fifth Avenue sported

a coarser straw of ora*Sj|green with plaid trim* Black straws are pop

ular* By the timfej^jj^cwid^he Armed Forces parade was in full swing down

Fifth

of tired to go over in the blazing sun to have a look*

time to change my dress for dinner at Vera's, the obliging

told me it was 99 o/o so I was glad enough to find a cab at the

jjflF*.

Ta&e me to 96th Street* Elinor and Charlie had brought the children

the station wagon from Fairfield, Connecticut and I had my first e*-

^pRwure'to Vera's two little grandchildren--Michael and Stephen, both blue eyed

1ondes and fascinating* Their parents had been to see the Picasso paintings

while Vera had taken Michael to the park, tii ile Mattie kept and eye on the babe*

We all relaxed over gin and tonics while I had a chance to make friends with the

the little boys and catch up with their parents. After dinner over eoffee we all

repaired to Bill's bedroom to watch a spectacular thuder stoma over the Lower/

Bay before the Wilder*s started home* Poor Bill was slaving in the Columbia Law

Library preparing for his final exams beginning tomorrow*

As it had turned hot on Friday Maria invited me for the official opening of their terrace* However a cool wind made it inadviseable to do more than admire the flowers in the boxes over a drink. The 30 year old rubber tree has been trun dled out from its winter home in the dining room, which is the official physical sign of the smaner season* Hank and I had a great discussion of Africans as he walked me home*

Last weekend Cleve gave me a lot of honeysuckle plants, which I distribated

to two men in the office who are trying to cover walls of their terraces* By mid

summer we expect the scent of honeysuckle will pervade the East Side* V/hsn

it was announced US Marines had been flown to Thailand and inquiring report asked

New Yorkers where Thailand is. Needless to say he got some weid answers* I liked

best the man who frowned and said MI think it is on Lexington Avenue*M Now

that Admiral Kirk has been tapped as our Ambassador to Taiwan, the OTR will lose

its chairman of the Speakers Committee* Unless his asthma turns out to be too

bad for them to live on Formosa* . Now that many schools have completed the

required teaching hundreds of kids stream into the UN every day* On April 24

8,273 persons took the guided tour, conducted by 100 guides from 28 countries

and sje aking 26 languages* This is 1,000 more than on any other previous day>

Many of them arrive in their own buses, but quantities arrive by the 50th *

cross town and squeal outside my office windows* One day I rode with * otreet

of Alabama high school students and talked with their Greyhound to^' * group

He feels the 12 days they spend (three in New York and three

leader*

these expeditions awe the most valuable days of their

''^shingtwi} on

seemed to thoroughly enjoy the two trips he make? each "month coi Yars*

get at writing my own biography for the office record. It TOuid'Es^W+? T**

administration is not sure just who the administrative staff is *or sfes-t ,the

t-y do I

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This is the period of meetings-- Tuesday and Wednesday mornings I heard too many

speakers at the UN, though some interesting things. Tuesday I went to the office

during the luncheon break and one thing after another happened to keep me frdrn going-

back to the afternoon session* It was funny when I went in the delegates* entrance

as usual to have to Bhow my pass. The pink petal hat so transformed me the guard

had to mumble " Yes, I thought you looked familiar!" It was clear in the sessions

that the Secretariat is concerned about the effect throughout the world of the

vicious anti-UN propaganda being spread by the foreign mining interests in Katanga.

They call it "vitrol", v/eil organized and heavily financed. We are all urged to

combat

Fallacy with Fact.

Y/ednesday afternoon th State. Department called up to register plea that I go to Washington for their Monday and Tuesday Conference. I had thought I would be- too busy with our one of May 31 and June 1 to absent myself, but my past of the arrange ments are in good order and X dare to be away* It took conversation with Nason and all three vicepresidents %tfore I telephone m;y acceptance for the conference and the dinnerparty Sophy and Temple Yvanamaker are giving on Monday. I'll fly down tomorrow afternoon wfth Polly Rivers, hope to have appointments with two men in State along the line and get back for a late afternoon "briefing" about our Conference Tuesday. (It would not surprise me if I rushed my roturn and then Nason did not want the late Tuesday session.) The ways of the FPA become more and wor& wonderou*r *

Wednesday at 6i30 viien I got up to the Terrace Lounge for the cocktails before the dinner at which staff are permitted to join Board members and their wives, I found a gale whipping over the terrace to such an extent that it was impossible to ha ve cocktails there. I got two staff men to help the bartender move everything in side, while another helped me shove some furniture around in the top of the stairs foyer to make place for the bar. It all tirned out pretty well, the Board seems to like his report on Asia--the same, which seemed so superficial when he gave it to idie staff. John and Elizabeth beamed at the nice things said about them and to be highly pleased with the large Revere sterling bowl the Board had inscribed with gracious words under the FPA insignia which for a pe4riod we stopped using at least with John's approval.

On June 1 I go to Stony Brook, even if after dinner, for the graduation pre liminaries of Fred's graduation from Stony Brook School and also I hope to applaud Bill in a leading role in his school play. Possibly no time for^ chitchat next week* end, which is followed by our luncheon for His Highness the Maharaja of Mysore and the Mayor's recption for His Beatitude jichbishop Markios, President of Cyprus at Gracie Mansion on Thursday and another on Friday at the Waldorf Grand Ballroom tendered by my old pali Ambassador and Mrs. Rossides Incidentally, the recent strike of waiters and their sympathizers at the Waldorf, when guests on a couple of occasions served themselves cr were taken care of as when the French Minister of Culture was tl guest of honor by secretaries and others ir&d me most grateful I la d nothing scheduled there then. Actually the organization which sparked the thing in the first place had done a very stupid thing in not having tips for waiters added to their bill, in an attempted false economy for themselves they all but ruined their party for their guests. I am counting on picking up a few tidbits for the speech I make at Freeport on the 14th from His Beatitude or His Highness the week before. My topic is "Potentates are People, Too I "

I have been interested in reading Anya Seion's "Devil Water" about attempted Stuart Restoration he cause of referrence to Ditchley, where I was last summer and residenc e of Tracy's step-father, and of Westover on the James River, the home of Martha's ancestress Evelyn Byrd, where I oalled some years ago when it was owned by the Cranes. ... The Empire State Building is now being cleaned to rival the already glistening Chrysler Building. The Metropolitan Life Tower is still as shell in the vast rebuilding there.

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get moat of Scott

thouSh 1 l^ed him better in

n/fl nervous *n his state-

missed his trip I was glad tr>

h-? % J. p 10^-# Having completely

dtate Department did very well by u/on^in^ Wlt^ the ^ss on TV, The

dated, repetitous and bumbling. (I hear'theap^I^Jri^n wa3 totaIly unpre-

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brilliant in a very off the

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the lovely diplomatic suite exchanging ^ipo;?aneus speech at luncheon in

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as I had an appointment with a mL ftmAlliedWer

a mixed baS> bt

new deputy chief of Protocol Tonesk ?ho h

courtesy all on the

gei1 the trip was most worthwhile 't ror v+. 4.? ?

Sod pal Clem Con-

a hamburger there and got to" the offie? ?

30 plane to Newark, had

a final discussion with Kasonlfd t?i v P tlme t0 see the E!ail ^d get to

I stayed in the office until seven dieIIH1D Ur ^^sday-Priday meetings,

one or two of my thank yous and went home 'n ?vera1-} meD10 on Washington,

the two day accumulation of mail.

' 0llapse in bed sifter reading

winter6suito"and^ a t s a t *Put away

four or five of which were weeded out

?g ??

summe:i:' dresses-

Cos Club to meet Mr. & Mrs. Hursh^berl L *

f to dinner at fche

and Dr. & Mrs. Paul Leonard, tore brIef?v'f^m T *

f Asia Society,

a huge new educational institute traifin? t

faa' where he is heading up

of education. Lots of good talk ?W^n^dian- teachers at various levels

X should have been in view of the

-dia, which made me later to bed tha

the FPA National Meeting --0^ !ro^Honol^ regisbPati^ People for

world affairs content speakers on Thur^ri?? ?

Boston. We gave them

Max Freedman, who wa3 my contribution of L everyone was enchanted with

down to "how to educate the community" fd ftif?P\

Prld*y we got

there would be institutional troubi/^^ V ^

where Mastrude thought

Result: Nason said in e??ect I Sve^ai^ed TL*people

I was embarrassed that his compulsive guilt ^de him L? so Sillfr' bUt

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''Alas, Fred's fine typewriter was not adjusted to good carbons last weekend

had a wonderful time there in the spring beauty and managed to do quite a job on the

rock garden being grateful for a much needed rain on Tuesday to cheer the whole coun

tryside* I saw several lawns of houses presumably only occupied over weekends, which

resembled cocoa matting carpets* Saturday night I went to see Bill star in MOur Hearts

Were Young and Gay" at the Setauket School, while Molly and Jim went with Fred to the

Moving Up and prize giving at the Stony Brook School. Sunday Martha and CIeve joined

us for the Baccalaureat Sermon, followed by a reception on the Headmaster's lawn and

a buffet at home for all of us and some friends of the family. Without my watch I

failed to organize my transport to the station for the 8f23 train soon enough. Jay

his current girl and I chatted at the station for almost ten minutes before we realized

the train had come and gone* I pushed them along to the movies and when Cleve came

drove with them to Freeport in heavy traffic. I did not want him to feel under strain

and only mentioned the 10*23 train from there when we were a couple of miles from

that station, but we missed that too* They refused to let me wait alone until lltCS

so I spent the night there--not at the station, but with Martha and Cleve.

Tuesday we had the luncheon down at India House on Hanover Square for His Highness the Maharaja of Mysore. The old club has a membership primarily of people concerned with shipping and has soms very interesting trophies, prints and painting of old ships, globes, ship's bells and many lovely objet d'art from Asia. In the entrance is a large wooden Buddha, whose tummy is rubbed for luck by incoming members* The manager told me that in days of erratic behavior on the part of Wall Street, the Buddha was especially well polished* It was such fun to communicate with His Highness that all the cables and letters had been sent by Nason and Seligman* Most of the "information copies" coming to me made me shudder and I was uneasy both when they agreed to let him talk about the "Philosophy of Nonalignment" and to get to India House with his personal physician, his aide and the secretary. The guests started drifting into the Marine Room for a drink at 12*15, at 12*25 Nason went down to the front door to greet Hie Higinesa. About 12*35 I telephoned his Waldorf suite and somewhat relaxed to get no answer, surely they were en route. Ten minutes later I called the FPA office and asls d them to make further checks. The report came back they had not made the mistake of going to New India House on 64th Street and had been seen 3s aving the hotel for a taxi when their rented Cadillac failed to function* At one o'clock Seligman could no longer stand it and persomally rang tte gong for going into the dining room. At 1*10 the M of M and entourage arrived* They had been vir tual prisoners of the mob surrounding the Waldorf to see Scott Carpenter $ His speech was quite without interest for John J. HcCloy, Thomas Lamont and men of that ilk and read in an unattractive monotone. His response to questions were not answers and I fera we did ourselves no good *

Wednesday afternoon there was an OTR Executive Committee meeting up at Mildred Kenyan9Bf which tte y all loved because my proposal that members be given the chance to enroll thiB spring for next winter's series has met with a fine response and there is $5,000 in the bank drawing interest, Although I got home by 4*30 a sudden humid heat took all the starch out of me and I failed to accomplish much more than talk to a pro gram chairman in Binghamton (N.Y*) who had called the office in my absence.

Thursday afternoon I went to Gracie Mansion at the invitation of Mayor Wagner to meet His Beatitude Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus* I wore my huge black Italian horse hair hat and the new black, blue and white arnel jrint* Despite a motor cycle escort His Beatitude me a good ten minutes late in arriving* His Honor the Mayor was so late that at least half of the guests had passed through the receiving line before he got into it* Makarios is a lamb and smiles with his eyes as well as his lips and an impressive figure in his Greek Orthodox garb and flecked with white beard* A fireboat came along in the river at the foot of the lawn and made a nice rainbow in the spray from the jets of water it shot into the air* His poor Beatitude was too busy having his hand kissed by the faithful to enjoy it. I met hi* again Friday at the Waldorf when my friend the Cyprlot Ambassador and Mrs* Rossides entertained for him in

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June 17, 1962

satisfied with quality of paper now in use and test this grade

FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION

INCOHPOHATED
145 East 46th Street, New York 17, N;1. Area t lode 212 -OX 7-2432

For several weeks we have been blessed tith clear, hot Saturdays and Sundays naturally followed by all too many people with horrid painful sunburns on Monday* Also in both last week and the week before we had one day of good steady rain, so badly needed* ihis week it was Wednesday when I had an appointment with Gerry on the way to this office and then going to Penn Station at five* Gerry was satisfied with me and I lad great fortune in getting cabs quite quickly* **.though two of the three cabbies were strange, rather disquieting types. The women of the Church of the Transfiguration were most kind, turning out in a gratifying number and giving me not only a Flag Day corsage of white carnations with a cockcade of red, white and blue but some beige and pink orchids to take home with me, too# "Potentates are People, Too I" turned out to be rather different than planned. Barbara Elmer, just back from years in Cairo, was there and made me think of a silly story about John Badeau, our Ambassador to Cairo and X stuck that in as my "immediate laugh" in the beginning. Somehow, I distracted myself with something else and in checking my word for a paragraph notes overlooked the G. Mennen Williams collar story, which Martha had especially aske d me to tell. Too bad after she not only made a very generous introduction but earlier ha d to announce the fund raid ng device of the "talent dollar" advanced by the church as capital for individuals to work with during the summer and return in September with the profits. I made a bad mistake in the beginning about the microphone -- it reminded me of my office dictaphone and I spoke too confidentially until told to speak louder. Anyway I finished on time and people said they liked itf in fact they rose to applaud, but that may be their custom $ I*m going the weekend of the 24th with Martha and CI eve.

Tuesday afternoon we had a hilarious Bys-Bye Party for Phil Van Slyk, Dick Rowson (both leaving FPA) and Darlene Moulson, who departs on maternity leave any day now. Half a dozen people did a tape recording the day before, which was hilar ious in its ribbing. "My" Bill imitated Phil's voice and intonation so well that all sorts of possibility of strange orders over the telephoned seem to loom. The Turtle Bay Recorders performed reading their notes held by two obliging humans, whose stance was almost as funny as the words on the "Program Notes". Nason gave out the parting gifts and a fine time was had by all*

Friday afternoon I donned my orchids and happy day picked up my now repaired watch before going to the Sert Room at the Waldorf for the annual commenoration of the abortive East German Uprising on June 17, 1953. Arriving shortly before the announced 2i30 I greeted several people and started in when O'Reilly, the Waldorf banquet manager, said "Mam, you had better come with me." Leading me away from the Central door to the west entrance he put me into a front row seat in the reserved section # Otherwise I probably would have had to stand or be cramped on a chai# shoved into a corner* After the preliminaries General Lucius Clay spoke for 15 minutes without the trace of a note with considerable emphasis on the commitments we had made to West Berlin and the need for us to uphold the right of the whole German people for a freely determind form of government. The German Defense Minister, Franz Josef Straus, whose porcine appearance put me off 3poke or rather read a manu script lauding the Americans who had turned out to do honor to the martyrs of East Germany. Senator Javits appeared early, had his picture taken a dozen times and fled* X overheard him explain "They don't need me for 45 minutes --time I can well use. " to our former Ambassador to Germany Conant, who sat second on my right. He was on hand for his speech and interpolated comments on what the others had said very skillfully. There were texts available of the Defense Minister and he must have talked to Clay, or heard him elsewhere. It was a masterly job.

People are unkind to fishl I have just learned that a positive charge of electric ity lures whole shoals of herring to boats to siphon them aboard by suction pumps U

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June 26 1962 Back too late Sunday

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Great fun over the weekend with Martha and Cleve. We had a happy time Friday evening fussy with "the ancestor?". WE always knew that our Revolutionary ancestor was a twin, and the two brothers subsequently had their portraits painted and gave them to each other# and thought it pretty silly that we were stuck with brother #ohn. A month ago Clave was in Hartford and discovered that the Frick Museum had some records and the artist was Ralph Earle. Within 24 hoirs he went to the Frick and I telephoned them and suspect we stirred up a great stir in the archives, and expect to have a lot more fun. James T. Pratt IV owns and has hanging in the office of James T. Pratt Company in Hartford what purports to be the original Earl of John, though it is in poor condition# We believe this to be of James, and the portrait we have is in good condition# The situation is further confounded by the exisiance of a copy by a contemporary artist (the Earle is 1792) in the possessidn of the Connec ticut Historical Society# Cleve saw a photograph of the picture owned by James IV# seemingly same uniform# same order of the Cincinnatus but that boy sports a watch fob dangling a seal# the one we have does not--both figures stand with sword and dog and have a similar house in background. We must check the canvas maker* b mark on the back of ours as it may Bhow it to be a much later copy. (Martha and I both see signs of the Earl signature over the dog*s la ck, but it has been daubed over 4 Speculation is rife and plans for pursuit hot#

Saturday we went to Gamp Grant for "less privelegsd boys" at Baiting Hollow on the Sound almost to Riverhead. Through the Brooklyn Rotary Cleve is mixed up in this outfit & it is traditional for the Rotarians to go out and "inspect'1 before the boys arrive. It was a cloudy day# but some swam, others played base ball and everyone had a fine di ore dinner. Crops are fine out there# potatoes blooming madly# good stands of grain and strawberries "pick your own at 150 a quart" or neatly in boxes --three for a dollar. It did not start to rain until we were half an hour from Freeport. Sunday afternoon at three the heavens opened with thunder and lightening accompaniment. I let a couple of trains pass rather than have Cleve take me to the station in such sheets of rain.

Last week we had a very amusing party for two men in the office, one going to another job, the other being severednanfl a woman who leaves any minute for maternity leave. Also last week I had the first exploratory pass mads by a man who leaves in October to go to another organization.He feels they di ould have a s} akers bureau and I am the person to create it. The inducements are many including 17f0 of the salary (not yet discussed) to be paid by them into my pension plan and should I cars to contribute myself they would further match this sum. Heedless to say I am having a lot of private fun with this# as I did tell him to go ahead and see what he can do with the understanding that I could not leave FPA for a year# now would they be ready to undertake this expandion befoee then. The riotous thing is their office is less than two blocks from here--walk to work and come horns for lunch 4

Tomorrow we have a farewell wing-ding for Nason and I had to even contemplate the number of man hours that have gone into it. Jeanne Singer and I are co-chairmen and after an initial committee meeting she went on holiday. We have created the Foreign Policy University and will confer a doctorate on him, complete with academci procession to "Pomp and Circumstance" a silly citation, which has a couple of nasty cracks in it, the vice presidents are Deans and the rest of us faculty members, who have struggled through the ten years of his incum bency to teach him enough to warrant the degree. We all wear paper motarboards. I hope it is a nice day, so we can sj>ill over onto tl 12th floor terrace with its lovely view of the UN# its garden and the East River. So few of the "little people" have ever been up there that the locale alone should give them pleasure. Next week we have to have another, but not so elaborate a party for two girl secretarys. Even if one of them came to FPA as my secretary and still helps on the check-in desk for OTR luncheons, I have firmly stated I would not be a committee member on arrangements. Service on two such in a row is enough.

Today Bill picked up on tickets on Trans Canada for July 15# to Montreal and then by jet to Vancouver ihere we are due at 6i35 that afternoon. This weekend by LIRR to Stony Brook

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A hot but pleasant weekend, and 1 am indeed glad to be here# Yesterday Hank had asked me to g 6 to 8 party at 60th Street for the secretary General of one of the new Africa amalgamations which he had put together on very short notice# When it developed that he ha d an appropriate number of white faces acceptingf I begged off in order to arrive here before seven instead of about ten# It would have been a chore to change in the office, go there with ay weekend bag at six a nd leaving at seven for the train, I probably would not have gotten any dinner# The orchids given me on June 14th were still wear able yesterday, but they will NOT go back to town with ae They hate been the joke of the office in their durability# I have a private suspicion that between the florist and my shoulder they paused at the undertakers for a shot of embalming fluid# Even keeping thaa in the refrigerator every night could not of itself explain their longevity#

Tuesday night I ha d to work quite late on soke of my "moonlight" letters and then had horrid cramps# With little sleep I felt utterly foul on Wednesday, when the office was astir with the excitement of the four o'clock party for Nason# Probably no worse than he though# The movers had been ordered to take the things from the Darien house on Tuesday and did not show up until Wednesday morning, when they wre also ta king things from the Park Avenue apartment# Seme possessiocs go to Northfield, Minnesota, others to one of his sons in Connecticut^ other things go to Elizabeth's first husband in New York, to her parent s1 near Boston and a few to John's house in the Adirondaoks. The logistics sound horrendous# With all this to cope with Elizabeth turned up at party--a complete surprize to him*-wearing a cotton dress made in Horg Kong from material given her in Java#.rather workaday for the corsage of medium size white orchids we had for her# I wore my new silk sheath of emerald green, saphire blue, ruby red with a few in between shades--* sounds dreadful, but really rather nice# We all wore paper motarboards, which were inclined to take wing when one went onto the terrace, but otherwise added to the occasion# The Nasons took the spoofing in good pa rt a nd I for one could not care less if they felt the point f some of the more barbed linei9 and really seemed pleased with the unbreakable, illumine ted globe on a ha ndsome wa lnut stand, together with an atlas# A little before six I started to dry the glasses and pack them away and ha ve since wondered wha t the "die hards" who continued the party until 7:30 in the Fifth Floor Conference room used# This hard core who have not the sense to heave when a party is over have been a problem, which I hope can be solved with the new president# (The Committee of Selection met yesterday and I pray we get an announcement soon# The alteady bed morale slips lowere each day#)

On Tuesday Bill Strobbe picked up my tiokets for Sunday, July 15 Trans Canada Airways flights, New York to Montreal and after luncheon at the airport with Evelyn Tudor on by TCA jet to Vancouver, due there at 6:35 p#m* presumably having been fed dinner aloft# There are a good many odds and ends to be tidied up both in the office and at home befbre departure, including the time taking process of having a permanent aid I hope a long session with Mary Kohler before she leaves for two speeches in Denver and on to San Francisco to be with her mother until time to attend the American Bar Association convention there about August 8# Now I must go and pull a weed or two in the rock garden#

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This is the weekend I was going to Oak Beach with Maria and Hank, but somehow

things do not "march11 as quickly as I had anticipated and I urgently need this week

end here for the permanent I got yesterday and further clearing up of the paper work

and sorting out -the clothes to o Canada and the things to be left here. Since de

parture is topmost in my mind, lets clear that up* I*m out of 1B re at 8 o clock

Sunday morning (not an easy time to get a taxi) for the air terminal and limosine to

Idlewild for Trans Canada Airways flight #621 to Montreal leaving at 9i35* jwelyn

Tudor will meet me at the airport for lunch before the 2il5 departure of TCA flight

805 to Vancouver, where Mary will meet me* Nicely varied mealsi breakfast here alone,

luncheon in Montreal with Evelyn end supper with Mary* (Although we are due in Van

couver at 6i35, TCA diverts us enroute with dinner*) For the record Mary iss

Mrs* O F* Harrison

but mail should go c/o Dewar

1872 Fulton Avenue West Vancouver, B*C* Canada

Bx 237 Penticton, B* C* Canada

because I have no idea itoen we shall go to Penticton nor when return* I have only a one way ticket -- but unlike a social welfare case shall have money for return I have said I would stay in B*C until August 13 when I planned on a day or two each in Seattle and San Francisco* Now I have pretty wall eliminated California and unless I hear more interesting reports on the Seattle Fair than to date shall probably not go there even* I must be in the office Monday, August 20 and would like to lave a few days to catch up on the family and my mail. (There is a rather nice nonstop jet leaving Vancouver at 9$50 am* to Toronto with a connection due at Idlewild I might just lay that on for Wednesday, August 15. It can be bought in cheap-Canadaan dollars and I save the US travel tax, which I was irked to pay on Montreal to Vancouver*J

Tuesday night there was a delightful dinner at Vera*s for the Popper^s and the Prebichevichs. Dave used to be a member of the FPA staff pre-war days. From the amy he went into diplomacy and after several years of haggling with the Russians over :the test ban and disarmament lias only been hAck from Geneva at the US Mission bo UN *cr less than a year, when ho was transferred to Washington* They have bsen able to sii the house they bought in Scarsdale and fortunately have access to their home in washington, where they have not been for six years. Last autumn Stoyan went back to Yugoslavia for two months to verify some material on a book he is writing on the Macedonians, who seem to be a rather disident republic of Yugoslavia. Having distracted himslef witn records about the role his father andg randfather played in the old Serbia he stayed eight months and now seems to be concurrently workin on two books* It is lucky that his charming English born wife keeps a nice steady job* Poor Bill Dean only joined us as the party was breaking up--he spends his days in -the law library and his evenings at a cramming institute against his bar exams which come on Tuesday. He is defcermina to pass them the firBt time, and get along with his military service*

This is the first Fourth of July I have been in New York in so long that I cant remember* There were rather more firecrackers than I had -thought, but the city was blissfully empty when I went over to see Aunt Mary before her departure to Mohonk, where the trained nurse has a room just below hers. Also we have recently had the fire trucks in the block twice in ten days* The first one was across the street and closer to Fifth. When I heard the equipment going against traffic it merited investi gation even if I was in the bathtub, A couple of nights ago it sounded even worse ^ because of the frantic barking of the dog riding the chemical ho^.se truck* It paused at the house next to the Howards, dropped off a couple of men and the hose nozzle, drove on toward Madison unreeling the snake of hose. Dog somewhat silenced when trie extension laddsr truck stopped in front, turning a spotlight on the building into which men poured* Most of them carried red tin boxes about the size of a portable typewriter--wnion seeme
carry their swake masks. Happily this too was a brief visitation and all whe vehicles
docilely waitid at Madison Avenue for the light to turn in their favor *

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It was not necessary to have two alarm clocks to get me up last Sunday, nor M need I have worried about getting a cab a little before eight on a Sunday morning. My luggage was so under weight that I could leave my top coat in the big bag and go off for an unnecessary cup of coffee at the East Side Air Terminal before the bu left for Idlewild. Wheel

There were so many bookings th,t a larger jet was put on aid arrival at Mon

treal 1$ minutes ahead of schedule. The carton of cigarettes I ordered

were delivered even before we were airborne. Evelyn Tudor met me at tne airport

for lunch and we had a good chance to talk, which made it pleasant. Although Ae

jet across Canada was also heavily booked (one of the stewardesses tole me they

served 111 dinners) , we stopped at Toronto and Edmonton long enough for meJo

"go ashore" stretch my legs and buy some post cards, yet we were five minutes ear y

in Vancouver. The trip into town is through pleasant residential areas with well

kept lawns and profusion of flowers--quantities of roses, magnificent nastursi ,

foxgloves and all manner of flowering shrubs plus hardy and annuaIf:

did not seem natural for the Lions and other mountains to oe lost in cloud, but

the sight of Mary looking so well more than made up for that. Her new house

so well suited to her needs with her bedroom downstairs and the two guest rooms

unstairs so she can forget them when she is alone. The garden is more manageable

with only a few fruit trees and some berry bushes-enough to keep ^r hand in va

out being a constant demand on her time. Both her daughters with their husb nds

and three of the grandchildren came in the days we wer.s there, ine gre*

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to was siphoning off the water in the swimming pool, a task organized y sons and closely watched by us. It was materially hampered f

which seemed to add more water than the hose curried off across uceigtoorsland

a noisey stream. Wednesday afternoon Robin, rightfully proud of his spandy new

driver^s license took us to the air terndnal in Mary's car and we caught the si*

o'clock Convair flight. Snow covered mountains poking out of the cloud c

looked, likificebergs to a sea of ice. Although it was only an hour^e -n-io-ht wp were served a very good dinner and almost before we Knew iu we

were at the'Pentic^ton airport, Sere Pat and Fred, the new Glasgow born chauffeur-

houseman met us.

Douglas seemed better than I had dared to hope. from 11 a.m. to 10,30 P.M. each dayand Friday went tothe h.DBpitsOfcxrhis fort^

tofSlephone r^ort'n tofafternoto that both blood pressure^fag^tior^fao-

damaged the apricots so that c-op, which /

y,n,-,+ the ancles has been

suspect thepeaches may have been nJJ-ned mentioned. For some other reason there

willabee

Spears no^

He already calculates a developed

110,000 loss on the orchard for tneseason.

threatenes to go off to his

cataracts is said to break things rign an family in Vancouver. There has been trouble

pump and the kitchen stove puff (For nQ ^e^ible

and the granddaughter born last Sunday 1

like it) so life is filled

reason except that Douglas Jr. and is new

years and is more poised as

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enough to enjoy toe air on an(} four. No date it

sciertcufloartionugr ddeevpiasretuarned, I whdiochnowtilflpnooftheb^ebbeefioorree Waeedonneesdayy,, Auogust 1. At least when ^ leave the retired doctor, George Paine, will remain as long as

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morning was tea-P^ned^ternoon". She replied she would

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gasket

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orchard men at 8.30 in

tQ the doctor yes

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out and explained that feJZnderi^if

Mary and I*** lain objective

tomorrow mornxng. N<w I ara the comfort of the staff *

^ cook appeared.

It is so hard to get

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of the family. "is ^ ^ suspioion it was ;sometn:^ ^ moTg than

fo^f LteralHperation --he is in his mid

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August 5, 1962 West Vaneouver--Mary's machine We were fooled on Tuesday coming down from Penticton--no dinner served on the flight. For several days the clouds had buil/lt up in the after noon for a thunderstorm, which never came near us. The smae thing Tues day and I half expected that we might catch it on the way. We did not go through a storm, but the clouds around us were most beautiful and yet we saw a great deal more of the distant show covered mountains and the rugged rock and timber covered terrain with only the odd patch of snow over which we flew until we hit the Fraser River. As usual there were prisoners on that flight, I looked for them with interest when we boarded and could not make them out, but sure enough when we rolled up to the gate for deplahing there was the black maria with a matron to chaperone a woman presumably. Everyone complains of the number of muggings and vandalism . On the way to town our driver pointed out a bamk which had been robbed that morning of $17,000 and the teller was shot through the hand. Clean get-away, but the evening newscast reported a boy had found the revolver dropped in the alley used by the robber. It was very good to be back on the Coast with its damper air and everything green despite a almost total absence of rain while we were away,..to say nothing of the lovely coolness. The furnace turns itself on from time to time --a very good thing as we have had torrents of rain now that the low pressure system which haa h/overed over the coast of Alaska for the two weeks we were at Banbury. One or both of Mary's two daughters come in for tea or a drink almost daily, One afternoon a most attractive couple with his son came for a drink. The next day we expected Douglas Adair, with Looe and their new baby, Kelly, but D.A. was late getting back from a trip up the Coast with a tug and NAT II --an oil barge carrying 4$^000 imperial gallons which he designed, He has left Standard Oil as of the end of June, had a month's hdliday to cover the birth of the baby and had just started in on this new venture in "private enterprise" in which he is part owner. Heavy weather in the north had delayed the return and they arrived after ten, Looe having phoned they could not make it at five and would come after dinner. She is a most attractive tall brunnette with a great deal of charm and capability. I am so happy that it gives every promise of a happy marriage. The baby is a lamb, long and slender with undoubtedly the Dewar nose . D.A. is leaving this afternoon with another load of fuel oil this afternoon, so there was nothing for it but that we go up the mountain to their place for dinner last night. After Poppy and Art had tea with us we set off in pouring rain with not too good instructions for finding their place-- well off the row in real "bush". We missed the watertank to mark our left turn and knew we were wrong trhen we reached the entrance to the chair lift, turned back and with trepadation took the proper road for a good mile along a single lane track. A couple of times rain laden branches slapped across the windshield and I could ohly wish I had brought the pruing shears 2 Then a fork in the road and no instructions as to which was outs. I thought I saw a trace of blacktop and recommended the right hand branch, around a couple of bends we hit the real black top, which had very recently been put in. and with relief arrived at the small house, (This property was Looe's and presumably strangers were warned they should leave their cars a mile back the track and walk in-- Mary had never been there before. You can imagine my relief that we took the right road]) They are above the fog line and in good weather can see 50 miles. They plan to build a three level house later. Meanwhile they have electricity, telephone and use propane for heating and cooking. Looe's mother Mrs. Baker came with D.A, and we had a magnificent dinner, fiahshing with the first apricot pie Looe had ever made. She used the 'cots we had brought down from Penticton and given them the night before.

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z Juat back from a lovelyjsekand

provided!' Young^S ^'pent most^of

game at the Polo Grounds.

Grtat anda3forterd ?oft"by station wagon.

dockIt was a be*uti- il

2& -iSS ^ . , tho LIER and the subway instead of

P utmost snipping off the odd dead head

wrrr-a sr. Wednesday Kary saw me off
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Anrwav UNited gave so little direct -

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Needle restaurant,despite their tang had ^

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a few days earlier dxd not materialize^ry^and

about an hour and a restaurant. I^ was

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^P9:^fnrivelge at four fixed spots. Nevertheless, I ^ed^^^outBtanding

myright foot, in concentration on tfce

^ secession of pictures without ads-

though some people may have b e e n interee ^tfemanation and models of that country

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s'coiieennttiiif:ic

and technological triumphs, ^^religious paint-

The Philippines seemed the most rounded

^ aom6 of the people had ^omefaith,

ing and woodoarving to make the "3i_.or

painlessly from the raw material

tu their impressive lianiia hemp display they jumpeo

variety of woods

a vfrlety i the finished product/1 for example. The use aof enough air for

rs^r. xsszz spu.- srfifs JSss1-

sevmr-e^peraanentbuilding anf^

od JveVe the creeps.

, _uQ nf ersat French scientists and u

., _ e.t4r.rii folk from th farm# On

sssrsrfs. The crowd3 were Sood mt"9d^i3/'po^ibirprofeseor from small mid-west college with

on the fair. No doubt they got to .hej^Y *Y> d th0 innumerable small shops to

exhibit, to the John Glen space suit,, and * %

d up on foot as well as riding,

buy treasures from Europe, Asia and Afri -a

that it was airy and also ha}>*

i A ^4nner in a Danish Garden for the simp ^

g^j. conditioned* vhen ...

I a 11 the other places were indoors and di not appear-

and t the

!! L * tn th fOlympic gin and tonio revived me enough to P"*g Northwest Orient

I?45^ for the dary Sd to the airport and

United flight that

genteelly delayed our takeoff to collect

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Lovely to have this weekend in town--hopefully to clean up chaos of papsrs and possessions here and finish off my thank-you letters* I need to bring order into my moonlight job, although I am paying Bill to do a good deal of the typing for me. More than half the staff are on holiday and the rest plotting a series of unveilings of Samuel P. Hayes as our new president--plans which will have to be approved by him after he appears on September 5. It will be most wonderful fun to see the two vice presidents get into the act of furthering themselves when they return from holiday. I am having a love ly time and if I can only continue in my present role of being above the battle and re fusing any persoaal involvement emotionally, the fun could go on all season. However, it Beams inevitable that Khrushchev will attend the 17th General Assembly of the UN open ing in mid-September and be followed by his cohorts including Castro, the office area will be in a state of siege by the chanting demonstrator s. She City will spend all the money saved on snow removal in police protection. The feeling of excitement and anythingcan^happen created by these mobs scenes is wearisome end destructive to our working con-' ditions. I dread this. It looks now a3 if Sir Zafrullah Khan of Pakistan would be the new G.A. President and the Indians are fighting it tooth and nail. The rather slim chances of Ceylon's Melalasekera were ruined this week when some simpleton put letters intended for Ceylon's Embassy around the world into envelopes addressed to Embassy offic ials of all the countries maintaining Ambassadors in Ottawa, where he is also High Commis si oner \ Melalasekera may be a distinguished Buddhist scholar but he is neither a good politician nor administrator.

The week has held some hellish days of heat and humidity and some lovely dry & clear. The Post Office has muddled things by forwarding seme of my mail to Freeport after several days of delivery hers. V9ra# after a week with friends in the south of France, has moved on to Morocco, Algeria and Tuni3 before a final fling of fun and rost with more friends in Venice. Meanwhile I look after her mail and get involved with the bank because of an overdraft# She leans to have gone by her bank balance and $$ neglected to consider a check for over $600 issued in April and not presented until mid-August fir collection I Then Bill wrote the bank that he had lost a check Vera had drawn in his favor without filling in the amount. I have had three telephone conversations and two interviews with the man in charge of our branch over this and went up to her apartment a second time to get the bank statement which came between hsr departure and the date I told her she could have mail forwarded to me.

My weeks with Mary in West Vancouver were lovely --the house is ideal for her both as to size and location end the garden both pleasant and manageable. The storm that began soon after our return from Penticton lasted practically a week, but did not cramp our style. Although we planned only one social event a day, sometimes we did double up and finally had to decline both luncheon and dinner invitations. Scarcely a day passed that one or both Mary's daughters did not come for lunch or a drink alone or with members of theifc families--and we got to Poppy for dinner, Rhea for tea and the young Douglas Dewar's for dinner. Several times Mary had olfl friends I had not seen for years to luncheon and others for a drink in the afternoon. It was all so easy and relaxed. I enjoyed the others but would have been quite content just with Mary. The day we had luncehon with a friend of Mary* b at the Stanley Park restaurant with its charming view of well cropped ]awn and magnificent towering conifers we went on to see my old loves the penguins. Since my last visit they have added to them and there are now three varieties--all of them clowns, who obliged with "show-ff" swimming and solemn strutting. Something over half a dozen eggs had been laid, but only three were fefctile--one had hatched, one had been crushed in get ting out of the shell and the third was still being "sat on". We watched ihehen, noted her mate standing guard ever her and perhaps to take over to give her a rest. Suddenly a penguin of another bred siddled up and wanted the honor of sitting. A first class hoohaw ensued with raucous schreeching and some shouldering away on the part of half a dozen birds of the same variety as the intruder. They then stood in a circle, muttering together as if deciding what punishment to mete out to the aggressive one. Now Mary ha3 sent me a clipping to the effect that the King penguir^ chick is now coming out from under its mother1 feather three or four times a day for a look around, Query did we see the mother of the chick ? It is a month before the chick "waddles" on its own & a year before its first sw3~

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Witk no one home except Molly, I have an unexpected chance t writ at least a bit while ske has a rest* Conditioned as w are to regard. September as an autumn month, this might rate as the last day of summer* From tk train X noticed tk goldenred bheoming, tke Queen Pa* ne's las gone to seed and brown, tke huckleberry bushes rusty, but*., Tk tempera ture is as f mid-summer, kot and humid. Tke strangely let first tropical storm of tke season, Alma, was a poor tking. Initially rated as a tropical storm dumping rains on tke Carolines, seemed almost forgotten when ske was suddenly upgraded t Hurricane Alma touching tke eastern end f Long Island and giving us all a let of rain and some wird Last I kea rd ske had been demoted on ker way out to sea to a tropical storm a gain. Ske has however left 80-90 degree temperatures witk even higher humidity with us. Presumably out fate for the next few days un less it rains on Monday.
Both Monday a nd Wednesday I went again to Gerry to have ker work on this silly "air conditioning" back of mine, which for lack of anything better we call miasit&s (spelling ?) Having gotten that far over town I went on to Broadwa y a nd paid my first visit to the Social Security Administration. CIeve tohd me two years ago it was well to get a recoit of ne's account periodically Although I know of their crediting tke earnings of one brother to another's account for an apprecia ble period it was not until July that I got around to asking them for it Tuesday I ha d a letter asking me to bring proof of age and aimed witk passport I dodged the downpours 9 end presented myself Wednesday. It reminded m of a modernized and grander stage setting for "The Consul", only in add?ition to the rows and rows of comfortable straight back chairs where the public waits for their names to be called, there was an acre of grey steel desks, sparsely settled witk interviewers and near the windows executives After waiting 40 minutes Joseph Dunne saw me, seemed disappointed that I was not prepa red t file a claim to receive Uncle Sam's largese at this point. Like the several other employees I came in contact witk he hat a pleasant personality, good manners and seemed to know his Job. Nothing seemed hurried or too much trouble for any of them. I nearly flipped when after I thanked him for helping me, he said "I enjoyed talking with you." in the manner of one's table partner at the end of a dinner party. I know to a penny wha?t I can expect monthly should I retire the end of 1965, 64 or 65 sea son. Very helpful in planning the "dream world".
New York has been through so much after it was learned that the litt 1 Orr boy had smallpox after arriving from Brazil en route t Canada, that it seems a nightma re to hear tha t the three children of Philadelphia wer spotted upon their arrival in Idlewild from Brazil yesterday. It is hoped they only have chicken pox. I lost track at about ,300 innooulations administered by the public health service after the Orr discovery. The taxi driver who took the Orrs from Idlewild to Grand Central station seem ingly never cheeked in for his. It is thought he may have overcharged cdd feared tke loss of kis license than the possibility of tke disease. I wonder if I should have brought my innooulation redord for possible showing Sunday ni^it when Maria and I take Hank to Idlewild I
Another high spot of tke trip to Stanley was the area of six young white polar bears. They also were show offs and gave us a lot of laughs as they gracelessly fell into the pool and then looked to be sure people were apprecia ting their attempts to amuse. Vancouver is very proud f its Stanley Park, and rightly so, and has a real affeotion and civic pride
for the inhabitants of the zoo.

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Instead of being at Freeport today with Aunt Annie as planned, I had to put her off* Late Tuesday a chest cold took over and I spent the next two days on liquids, the hot pad etc* As the fever broke Thursday fit went to the office and got in some good licks but got mighty tired* Aunt Annie comes Tuesday and we shall see about Freeport next weekend* Time
will tell*
As advertised the Labor Day weekend was largely open and shut* Molly, Jim and I had a fine swim in a bright interval on Saturday afternoon* She still carries an air foam rubber cushion about with her and gets in extra rest. Her surgeon is pleased and does not need to see her again until October --Jim looks fine after his holiday and the boys are full of beans. They flash in and out often accompanied by their cohorts at such speed that it is hard to focus on them. Fred left for college on Tuesday and Bill went back to school on Wednesday. Sunday after an early lunch Molly and Jim took me to Babylon in intermittent rain where Maria and Hank met me.
Happily there had been enough rain to keep traffic much lighter than normal when we drove to Idlewild, which was in a state of confusion through Operation Air Shield -- the grounding of all commercial flights until 8:30* While Hank parked the oar and Maria watched so we could find it again, I took his ticket and passport to cheek in his six pieces of luggage* It is well Ahat he turned up when it was discovered he was 34 Kilos excess * Air France was in a tizzy with a couple of flights practically at once, Hank was stewing because he was not being given the usual VIP courier service* Eventually the excess charges were coped with and he got the seat he wanted on the selection board and we set off for the fine dinner he wanted to give Maria and me at the Golden Door restaurant. It was like a Max Sennett (?) commedy, first given wrong directions for the First Glass Lounge where he wanted to leave his flight bag and then for the restaurant, we went up stairs and down, along endless corridors often the same one twioe before we were able to order our roast duckling flambee, which I enjoyed* At 8:30 we whipped back along the endless corridor and down stair3, Hank got his stuff and escorted by an Air France guide disappeared up the moving staircase. When we got to the car and colapsed for our after dinner cigarette, Maria said she had by the grace of God taken Hank's car keys from him ae a careful examination then of her purse showed she had not brought her own. I maintain that ja rt of Air SBield included the removal of some road signs, as tie British had done vhen they expected invasion, at any rate we made the first turn correctly and missed the second* Soon I realized we were going too far north and was dismayed by the signs I saw and wanted no part of wandering about on unfamiliar side roads, even thou^i I had brought a road map* After we had a chance to get on the Long Island Expressway headed for Riverhead, I knew how to guide us back to the roads we needed for Oak Beach* We went at least a dozen miles out of our way and were still in the garage with the house black as ink when the phone rang. Hank calling from Montreal gave me complicated instructions about his bank to transmit to Maria* Poor dear, having expected a fine Air France dinner immediately after take-off he had not eaten with us and up to tnst time had had only caviar and champagne with dinner promised right after departure from Montreal^ Maria and I revived ourselves with a gi.n and tonic with conversa tion. I was still in my bed but awake when the telephone rang at 9:30 the next morning--Hank reporting good flight and safe arrival. Larry was with him so he and I exchanged a few words too. Monday was a fine day, we went to Baby lon to mail Hank's memos and other business letters entrusted to me at the airport, swam twice and generally enjoyed ourselves*
Tuesday morning Maria drove me to town, vhere Dr. Samuel P. nayes, new FPA president was brought to meet me* The first impression was jjjood#

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Vera and I met at the UN Delegates Lounge to^-aWt

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was it perhaps merely a matter o. -howi g ^cummerbund, alas today X could around his neck. ( He has always worn ,a burnt orange c , &^^ shake u<s.

not see if be had changed that to green.) to

in which he

Ambassa d o r Plimpton's hand and congratulate ---wi#eonsin on the TOT confeerence

dropped the piece of1Sacked the credentials of an

table. The care with whicn the u, sec j

descended its twin was impressive.

Asian delegate as they started up .he escala .

marching demonstration outside

At 5,30 as X started heme there was a

JfCuba . Vera looks

pur building, happily

eh! had in Venice rubbed off the effects of

wonderfully and claims

Ind MoroCOO, where she interviewed a lot 01

Xir-li^slnd^Wwae thoroughly

HSlSS2 IftheTetVopofita! So'... the Feme de la creme of their offerings.

Tomorrow Bill Bean flies to Puerto Rico ito be

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bloa30ming, so I have only

this high adventure two weeks ago 3U

. he hae finished law school, and

talked about it on the telephone to huu^.^ ^ Marine Corps are happy to

the Navy turned him down because* of .o

months? la is very

have him, but not until March. Problem, *

^neelloring, so tried his

good with children and has done a

bstitute teaching, coaching sports or

old preparatory school for pa -

headmaster had undertaken the task of

something. Thoy had nothing o 1 hnv's to get the Puerto Rican school going,

helping the father of one of me old boy

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Christmas holiday, and

The man he selected for headmaster cannot go atri

^^so long

Bill took the three month assignme

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to open the school, at ip4 a month, . - P

his way back to New York in November,

even agreed to give him three d^ ^eave and pay his way bac^^^^teaohers

Aunt Annie came on Tueday and was forte in having clear^L whidr to run about town. Saturday morning we went to Freepor.,^

the gardon was ^ ^

a riot of color with zinnias and high spider plants, begonias, 0 a

^^red and ^te bloom, some roses

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an! the tag end of phlox. I out d9a^lX.tC"nden^oying the bright blue bay

Beach as far as Captree inspecting nea ins af

pattern for Idlewild did distract

and ocean. The number of jets on theinbouni . .

minutes apart. (Vera's

attention. At times they were landing ^"^hing wSh customs, she signalled the

nonstop flight from Rome was amongst them. -

^^ poUo# vhile Greiyko

-waiting Bill that she would join bim. only

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and party was sent along their way f-rs.^ g -

,^nning the first race,

see the end of the America s Cup Race on

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n t nd they SOund wonderful--

b 'zssJsx&ifZsr, .---*v-*e*.- Stha and CIeve have their European ^Fria ^d alferal days in Karlsruhe with the

Ireland, Sootland, England, Holland, Austria an ,

^sr church Cleve oarbe-

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Arrangements for the dinner for Reginald 1^?leFet!ry1tf 3tate8isoonfinid for Nov. 20. September 25 get more and more involved. The secretary or

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..and a very happy beginning of autumn to youj Several days last week we were un comfortable in the office with the air conditioning blasting out cold air, little sun nthewe boluatcskideandtemwpheitreatturraevienl tchoeatlowwith50t*hse. SFcroottstPianpeWr iensttcehrelisnteirngonfoTrhuwrsadtaeyrpnroigohfitn.gMy
gives promise of grisat utility as the Scott foam stuff is fine insulation against wind. There has been a lot of that whipping across Central Park as I wait for a Fifth Avenue bus, ladison Avenue is being completely resurfaced for the first time 3ince 1933 or thereabout when the trolley tracks were removed. At present five or six blocks in the 501 s are torn up southbound, leaving two northbound lanes to carry a sinle line of traffic in each direction. Sensible people switch to Fifth or Park, 3D all three move mighty slowly.

Thursday night I had dinner with Maria and was overwhelmed by the attention of the smaller Siamese cat. Heretofore both of them had eyed me coldly. This one is a psycho logical case as far as its feeding goes. It eats only tilings it steals and the result shows in its size. Its regular meals are largely completely disregarded. Anybody know
a good cat psychiatrist? The next night Maria called to tell me Hank had cabled he was about to'-leave MsJUr have a day in Paris and planned to arrive home today. She also had a telegram from Poletti saying the African misson had gone well and "Hank is quite a boy".

The office is filled with such a conglomeration of confusions and cross purposes that morale is badly undermined, My lighthearted proposal that we set up a shrine to the saint concerned with those-about-to-lose-their-minds where troubled staffers may light a votive candle has several enthusiastic supporters. Overnight two packets of 3x5 index cards disappeared from my Bill's desk--as they were the records of the new OTR members, they had to be remade, though I doubt whether he has yet had time to dig out all the data lost. He was so upset that he reported "sick " on Wednesday. 3am Hayes (new president) met with the administrative staff, sensed 3a ck of communica tion between departments and agreed to let us chew a sandwich at luncheon with him once a week. So far I have seen nothing to reinforce my initially favorable impression ,
whi<h is slowly slipping away.

Friday morning I had my first flu shot and by afternoon had enough reaction to be

sorry I was scheduled for the preview reception at the AmericanaHHotel, Seventh Avenue

at 52nd Street. I took Fred Nunes for support. The escalator to the Imperial Ballroom

(100 x 195 feet) broke down, the announcer at the receiving line did not announce, but

the fourth in line Claude C. Philippe did recognize me and have the grace to introduce

the architect who was next ti him, The center of this room was devoted to a huge oval

buffet table, while tables and chairs fringed three sides of the room, V/aiters in pairs

were scattered about the area, one with a tray of bottles the othe$ with glasses and

ice. We accepted drinks and retired to a raised section for an overview of the place

and then I led Fred to the Princess Ballroom an octagonal gem for 250 people vdth huge

windows to north (over the entrance), west and south--practically uninhabited. We had

a lovely time noting the pink table clothes had not been laundered, that the ash trays

were cheap, that the "hot" hors d1 oeuvres passed us were neither hot

nor good.

He whispered that a lot of the women looked like "higfc class tarts" and J retaliated

with half of the unhatted women wore wigs. Across the room a fabulous white haired

woman in a rose flowered evening dress held court and when some of the public relations

staff escorted her away it was apparent that she was "stoned". In inspecting some of

the other rooms we chatted with several other organization representatives I knew--

English Speaking Union, St. Nicholas Society and American Association for the United

Nations. I left Fred there and departed a few minutes before seven for an early bed.

Saturday I bought an office dress, a coffee pot, eletric light bulbs, etc., etc. called n Aunt Mary and went to Vera1 s for dinner before going to the Metropolitan to see the impressive Bolshoi Ballet , In the opening number the corps de ballet was implemented vdth "local pupils"-- beys and girls from five to eight who portrayed the beginners. "Ballet School" gradually built into "fireworks" by the company s principals.

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Pardon me vhile I spill my frustrations--Lucille never "turned up ih is week and I had to do the washing left for her. The expensively repaired watch, <h ich gave out in Penticton to be repaired again in Vancouver and has not been dependable for a couple of weeks--was to be taken back to jeweller today--High Holidays kept.him away, I was going downtown anyway but tried to balance the bank statement first, (The bank now gives statements at their pleasure aoout the middle of the month and arbitrarily sent Septem ber's to Freeport,) Probably my stupidity aggravated by a two week gap between any re port from them and the deduction of $12 without returning a check-for that amount led to my spending literally hours in balancing out. Greatest frustration of all the now pitifully clear intention on the part of iny coworkers to involve me materially in the program for the newly formed FPA Associates promise^ a series of eight meetings this season. Not only do I not have time to pull off eight additional meetings, but have even less for the two hour conversational sessions four other people like to=have'almtst daily about phases of Associates, only to meet again the next day for an equal length of time and undo all the near conclusions reached previously

To offset the aboui-to-lose-themind situation I have gotten as far as to have a notice put up. in the office corridor reading "Suggested site for the proposed shrine
to St, Dymphna", This weekend I hope to write for a picture 'of this Irish bom saint and can then see about the supply of candles for the distressed to light, Vi/hen I went out this afternoon to buy a few household supplies (the struggle with the checkbook having taken the time I & ould have gone downtown for the suit) I watched a pretty-
odd Steuben Day parade on Fifth Avenue, which seemingly was being reviewed by Mayor Willy Brandt of Berlin. Brewers, sausage makers, bakers & confectioners had weird floats and German organizations 3uch as Turnv9rein and Association of East Germans were interspersed with lets of school boys and girls--a few Bavarian costumes notably
a band in fake grey leather pants with a woman tootling away on a braes French horn. Even though many of the groups admittedly spent a lot of time in exercise all too many figures showed the result of much beer, potato and sausage.

Hank is back, I had dinner there last night andheard highlights of his visits to Africa and stopovers in Paris, He did not get in until almost eight and by nine-thirty was asleep in his chair, so I tiptoed out. He had to work this morning before they drove .to New Haven for the football game and overnight with friends, Thursday night after two days in Washington they went -to an African cocktail party, which turned out to be a smallish seated buffet in New Rochelle, In pouring rain and gale wind they got lost going and returning found themselves headed for Hong Island on the Throgge Neck Bridge I If I may say this worse than Maria and I did returning from Idlevdld.
The Tuesday night dinner in honor of the Right Honorable Reginald Maudling, Chan cellor of the Exchequer went very well, Emil Soubrey, FPA Chiarman of Board (retired Chairman, Standard Oil of New Jersye) and I arrived at the street door to greet them just as the official car drove up. Because the Board had been at work since four it was not a black tie dinner, Mrs, Maudling wore a raw i lk rose dress (I the multicolored silk sheath and Mrs. Hayes a clever black sleeveless sheath with matching 3hort cape which tied closely around the neck). We were about a hundred for cocktails and dinner. Maudling, a big hulk of a man with a moon face, spoke off the record saying nothing about the Common Market, his scheme for international reserve fund(presented at the International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington and not applauded by US representative Dillon) that we had not or could not have read in the N.Y. TIMES) but people liked him and asked 13 good questions.
To return to the Rolshoi Ballet, they also danced "Paganini" (like"Ballet School" premiere performance in Mew York) to the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody--fast paced, involved with sudden change of mood. The closing number was "Walpurgis Night " ud ng Gounod1 s "Faust" music. The bare torsos, especially of Pan and the Satyrs, revealed the rippling muscles of the hard working cast--Pan glistened with sweat vhen he took curtain calls. The "busy" backdrop showing Greek ruins interferred with my pleasure in the dancing but it was a lovely performance by first rate dancers and I greatly enjoyed the evening.

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Lovely to hear this morning that six orbit Wlat9r Schirra had gotten home to Houston to his so nice looking family. On Wednesday I thought 1h at his Navy competence would enable him to do the job without help from me, but got involved in the count down and was 20 minutes late in getting to the office because of the "hold" caused by the radar in the Canary Islands! These days anything after 8j30 is "late" as I have suddenly fcund myself what the Department of State calls "action officer" for a black tie, stag dinner in honor of His Royal Highness Hasan al-Ridda al-Sanusi, Crown Prince of the United King dom of Libya on.October 23, Dick Winslow and I fought the thing through three staff con ferences, We probably lost because 3am Hayes had committed the FPA without consultation nor much information or appreciation of what it entails. The ole mess is on my desk-- with such charming little complications as it being an Official Visit (the C.P, is seeing JFK) so Protol and Security require a list of all guests with designations of position in advance. The Libyan party will be 12 (unless there are subsequent additions) whom probably only their Ambassador to the US and UN, Fekini, speaks anything but Arabic. The King is old and ailing, so it is important the C.P. enjoy himslef and come to love U3 dearly for the sake of keeping Libya on "our" side, of our strategic air field "Wheelus" and of the very fine grade, cheap oil flowing plentifully from their desertl With the OTR beginning its steady beat on Wednesdays and the initial steps on the Waldorf luncheon November 20 in honor of the Secretary of State for which I have set the minimum audienc target of 1,000 cash customers at $20 each, the Libyan dinner comes out of my hideoffice hours from 8i30 to 6i30 or seven. Yesterday I went into the office to bring some sort of order out of my desk, got so absorbed I forgot about lunch and dictated half a belt on an already used one before discovering the stupidity and having to do five or six letters over I
The nice thing about yesterday was that after being told there were no suits with more than tight sheath skirts (vhich I dislike for sitting on couches during administra tive staff meetings now that all skirts are so short) I Lad the wit to go to the colleg iate shop and found a nice wool plaid with avocado and a darker shade of green skirt and then matched it up with jacket of same material in what they call "separates". After it is delivered I'll get the hat. Also got the Supphose, Gerrry suggested I try two weeks ago, a blouse to go with suit and the laundry in and out --a real production these days
Patricia, the wife of Sir Patrick Dean, an unostentatious person called me at the office as usual sayinguthis is Patricia Dean" in asking for me, the relief operator an nounced her as "Mrs. Dean" and was told to put her through. I thinking of Vera cheerily 3aid "Hi, Toots" in my breeziest voicdt After much merriment in sorting it out she asked me for luncheon on the 16th. She just returned from the summer in England on Saturday and gave me rather poor news of the ISheeler-Bennetts, alas. Last Sunday I had luncheon with Vera and had a chance to hear about how well things go with her at N,Y.U, and with the publishers for whom she is managing a whole series of text books dealing with various nations. The series is preceeded by a background "reader" a monumental task now about to be set in type. Yesterday she telephoned to say that Bill had not passed his bar sxams , which could bolox up his going into the Marine Corps in March and the whole planned structure of his future.
Friday I had the second half of my flu shot, discovered that in two weeks I had lest three pounds and gained 20 points in blood pressure reaching an all time high for me. Not surprising under the office situation, Tuesday I begin the oral anti-cold tablets and shall fl I am doing my best to keep fit for the sake of my employers. Already- I have plans to demand compensatory time off for what I shall be up against until after the NBC luncheon of January 11. Unlikely I can get it before then. Should I announce I'm going to the Caribbean for a couple of weeks as a deterent to doing two more Waldorfs in March and late April ? We have a conference about such notions Tuesday morning, which I have protested about already. All this just to warn that chit-ohat and/or letters may be sketchy and irregular, though blowing my top to you seems to have a ihapeutic effect on me. To my greta chagrin I completely overlooked Aunt Annie's birthday on October 1 I

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Ibis has been a weak of taking life very oasy in an attempt to get caught up on on of the fatigue recently acquired* l*jr pulse went to 90 in -diet Gerry calif fatigue heart. It has come flown 12 points and a program of early to bed will entirely correct it soon.
I had to go to the offico yesterday and then .vent to the Barclay 'f work for the A7A---this was head work, concerning the open house to the press on Thursday and the housewarming to members on Friday and I had a long quiet evening at home. Almost InBnediately X am going te Freepcrt for the night and part of tomorrow. If this strange warm and 3unny won then holds wo may go to Baypert tcmorrow to got the lilac hedge and lot me get th metal scrap collocted for the 3cy Scouts or seroeone unless they are too exhausted to bothor to take it away after their previous labors*
Yesterday I had a letter from Bill Maddox in London part of which I think bears repeating. M Sggs are few and far between* On about throe occasions this slimmer, wo have suecSoded in obtaining one egg apiece. (Ho hau been sharing an apr.rfcaoat with another American man) and then ensued a most impressive ritual on a Sunday morning* Long digcuseions as to the most appetizing way to prepare it; each of ua unwilling to risk liis egg in the handslof the other* and each unwilling to assume th# responsibility for the other. I assure you that no egg hn3 over tasted better than on such occasion*"
Musi eerrjn now and will add some notes on the now house---and Bayportj if we 8*t there* It depends largely upon the weather holding. During the week I 7,71s so sura it could not that I decided not to try a long weeekand at Bnyport myself.

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^//J^%x)ctober 13, 1962

Since we had our Columbus Day holiday the Friday to fore Labor Day, I missed the
possibility of seeing JFK yesterday when he reviewed the parade from the end street. Fascinating that at the Newark parade earlier in the day he claimed descent tlr ough his mother from the old Venetian family--Geraldinis. One wonders how a Howefeller can match that. Aunt Mary saw him from the Park Avenue window ten he left tne NT parade. Heard on the telephone today that she had been down to Eonwit Teller and also
Bergdorf looking in vain for a winter coat fitting snugly around the neck and would last fcr years. This solitary expedition at a bit over 90 years 0. age . ^ go to -ier lunch tomorrow. Incidently it was 85 0/0 te re yesterday, sunny and lovely. Just as nice today but, thank goodness coller. Nice for Fran and Sal, who packed the four boys into the station wagon and went to Plymouth as part of their historical si.e inspections.

The office has been very bing-bing this week with action on all four fronts, which
currently engage my attention. It works very nicely to have a ole ar from interruption half hour by getting in at BiSO. Acceptances for the Crown Prince dinner coming in so far at a little better than the ratio/ I plotted. Years ago Mrs. Thomas Lament tola me that whenever he husband gave a stag dinner, she always stood in Jie butter s pantry to be sure that each course was right as it went into the dining room. I am not about to emulate this and have laid on John Matthews to givo oversight to the food ana service, Alas, we cannot decide on our menu yet as U Thant is having the Libians .or a seaiea luncheon that day at the U N and we wish to avoid serving the same food, .or reasons I do not understand they never decide their menus until four days be., ore

Tuesday Douglas Dewar's nephew George, *0 is 7/ith Peat, Harwich, Mitchell in Glas

gow and came to the International Congress of Accountants here two weeks ago, came uj

to see me. He was fresh back from seeing ell the family in Per.ticton and Vancouver. --T

vs splendid to 'mar current, first hand reports. In return I too* him to tne relegate s

Lounge at the UN and gave him the short tour to see principal sights from the delegate

point of view in contradistinction to the views given on the public conducted tours,

jhile we were having a sandwich and coffee and I was pointing out the people

at

least by sight, in came Kongi Slim, last year's President 01 the General Assembly, he

Selected a round table immediately in front of our hfcnquetto and seated Ben :e..la, prime

minister of Algeria beside him, (Algeria had become the 109th country the day before

and that morning Ben Bella had made the national position speeoh to the 103 otner dele-

cat- ons. Examination of it the next day did not thrill me, out it was tne usual denun

ciation of colonialism and avowal of Algeria's policy .of political nonalignmeut, wnich

most of the new little countries profess while eagerly looking about fcr foreign eoon-

omic aid.)! Ben Bella is a tall slim young man with a fine highly mobile .ace, which

oamo alight over and overagain with a pleasant smils as various people were ur.ught up

to be presented. For each he rose, gave tfiat appeared to be a firm handclasp, smiled

and exchanged a few sentences. We couldn't have been better placed to see this coffee

drinking exhibition of good will and pleasant manners, when this small pleasant 00.fee

drop filled up with people waiting for tables, we slipped out to see what could be found

elsewhere. We aided up in the diplomatic seats in the General Assembly to note the

;~rantement of the various delegations' seats, laughing at our ignorance of the exact incation of some of the new nations and how Niger is one country and Nigeria another,

w-tched the maintenance crew go through coiling up the cords on the simultaneous trans-

i n'tion ear phones, when they had been carelessly thrown down on desks, etc., etc. This too' was a bit of luck as often the doors are looked between morning and af ,ernoon sessions

except for the public gallery, where the guided tours flow in with the rhythmic beat of

a clock. Thie is the hiight of the tourist season and the public areas swarm, tne 0 a sot

is filled with buses discharging groups from distant points.

This morning I 3lept until ten, wrote a have-a-safe-journey letter to Aunt Annie
die "takes the Wdlrerine Monday night to Michigan and popped downtown to buy a couple ~f v5x3 --a green small felt and a largish bsret in lovely cross between rust and orange . I^d-td pick up laundry on the way back, but that dashed jeweller was not open to rsc * mv watch, which 1 have not worn since Labor Day. I fear sooner or a ter 1 11 just lorget the year's guaranty he gave me in mid-June after the $16.5. job ,

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One hears "that heaven protects the working girl# This week Ifm giving direct credit to Allah, vho seems to have made the Crown Frince of Libya homesick the minute ho/ arrived in the U.S# or for all I know even before that. At any rate, soon after I got home Monday night from a delightiul dinner with Maria and Hank, theman in State Department Protocol telephoned to say His Royal Highness insisted on leaving earlier than scheduled thus can celling our dinner for the 23rd, Both Angier Biddle Duke and Governor Williams1 Office of African Affairs were very distressed as they considered our dinner as his most important opportunity of meeting high level Americans after his interview with President Kennedy. (He canceled several other things including his 36 hour stay in Detroit, where Libyans resident in the US are concentrated. )ai these doings were cleared with him at least ten days befcre departure,,) I sat down and drafted a couple of telegrams to go to all those who had accepted and. then phoned Williamsburg, where the official party was spending the night on standard Eastern time, for clearance. Tuesday the telegrams went out to as far away as Houston and a mimeographed notice of cancellation to those who had not responded. Heaven help anyone who declined and then turns up I Before going to bed, I cs^eo. o it memos to have the space and catering arrangements cancelled and so on. This on the theory I'd sleep better knowing I had moved the job along as far as possible, Alas, it did^not
work that way and I only slept from sometime after 4i20 until the alarm went off at 63 45.

The luncheon at the home of the British Ambassador to the UN was great fun on Tuesday. Patricia was good enou#i to seat me on the right of the guest of honor, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Godber. I me/t him last year and we found a lot to talk about and happily plenty of things to laugh over. On my right was a nice man from Manchester,^though I really had to "mind my manners" and not devote myself to Godber, It was a party cx 16 and formalities observed* I wore the new plain suit with the "Rembrandt" large beret, of
which the little girls in the office approved.

Wednesday Dick Gardner, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organ

izations, opened Series A of the Off the Record Luncheons, spo^e brilliantly making ' i.>

solidly educational stuff vsry palatable and giving his 248 auditors a sense of ^being in

on the inside. He was very cute in his introduction saying I had told him we liked people

"hot off a plane or ship" and as he had returned from Europe several weeks ago he had

taken the precaution of telephoning, the Department at 12:15 that day for the 3a test in

formation on the Congo and several other fluid situations he wanted to speak of. The

audience adored him, so my letter of thanks was two paragraphs --one telling him how

grateful we were and tho second why he should come back for tne otner naif

tn group

on December 12 or later. Immediately afterward we had the Governing Committee meeting

they all gave the reports I had prepared for them and beamed wit h mutual gratification

at the status of Group under their able administration and went off chattering happily.

The prepublio announcement of the Waldorf luncheon of November 20, Dean Rusk speaking has been encouraging. Through Friday 180 places had been paid for and that at $20 a cover. Life is not all bliss though. Thursday I telephoned the man in Washington, who back in May agreed to speak to the OTR,on November 14, to discuss the phrasing of his topic with
him for the announcement card only to be told that he would be in Chicago at that oime speaking to the Newspaper Association. It would have been nice if he had thought to tell me, especially as I had sent him a letter of confirmation in May and more recently one
alerting him to my need for topic. At the moment, Max Freedman is not in my good books.
Life was more cheerful later in the day when the Sam Hayes family had a small cocktail party whenel had a chance to chat informally with the Regional Directors (i* PA) here xor reporting and briefing. It was fun to know that a "Young Turk" movement is well advanced among them with a plot to dislodge the FPA vice president under whom they work and who has consistently been less than a friend of mine. Intrigue spreadsl What fun if they carry out their threat to give him a gold watch and say "It was nice to have known you."
Yesterday I got a ticket for a UN meeting for Lee Regal of San Francisco, great friend
of Larry's, who has just arrived from Paris. There was all too short a time to talk with him, but that will be made up tomorrow when we both have dinner with Maria and Hank.

^ f October 28, 1962
Like everyone else 1 listened to JFICrs sppech of national urgency on Monday night. Although it was well done it filled me with dismay* Had I teen wrongly taught the causes of the War of 1812? tfas it not for freedom of the seas? What ahcut our many oases ring-' ing the USSR in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East? Could he really oe saying don't do as I do, but do as I say? The eomparatively recent Treaty of Pdo de Janeiro does make the Monroe Doctrine an international matter for this hemisphere, though I de not recall that he mentioned this* Wednesday Louis Fischer spoke to another^overflowing CTR session and struek an optimistic note* He reminded us of Khrushchev*s ultimatum oi May 1953, whsn he demanded the allies get out of Berlin in six months so "hat he could make a treaty with East Germany and how of his own volition ,and for his own reasons; he has postponed and postponed that deadline for almost four years. Fischer also pointed out that Russians have always had an inferiority complex and that we would be well ad vised not to humiliate "Mr. K." in these negotiations if we want to. suceeed. There are plenty of internal troubles in Russia and while the' Men^ in the KremlinJiave made a million mistakes they have never consciously endangered the national welfare of the USSR*
Needlessto say this trisis has complicated getting a replacement for Max Freadman on November 14 as Thursday was the day I had to "go to press" and had invited Sir Patrick Dean.It was too soon to telephone him Monday and by Tuesday he was under terrific presure. I tried to provide myself with an anchor to windward in the person of 1-aron ^sudy ^ von Wechmar, who would be delighted to standby but thought it possible that Adenauer a scheduled visit of November 7-8 to JFK might be delayed to the 14th-15th and so it went. Finallv at 4s30 on "press day" I got Sir Patrick's acceptance uedged with the usual diplomatic admonition "provided official duties do not interfer" and by that time X was in little pisces but have taken the calculated risk. The Security Council has been meeting at unheard of hours such as 9 a.m. on Wednesday and 3 P.M. another day instead of the customary 10?30 a.m. and 3 P.M. (incidently Sir P. told me the day I luncned a. his house that under U Thant the General Assembly with the cooperation of Sir Zafrullah Khan (this year's G.A. President) actually started at scheduled hours instead of at least 30 minutes late, that did not mean the session ended earlier than usual merely that more work got done. Despite the additional nations to be heard from one G.A. has gotten through the "^general debate" when each country's respresentative makes its
National position speech in fewer days than they aid last year,)
Demonstrations by pro and anti Castro groups have been augmented by ban-the-bomb ,,nd better-red-than-dead proponents, etc. Most afternoons half a troop of mounted rolice are outside my office window, While they wait for things to happen tneir beauti ful horses are backed into the curb. Tuesday was the anniversary .ef the Hungarian up rising and a big demonstration planned for the new Soviet Delegation headquarters in East 67th Street--it looked as if my crosstown bus would be detoured along with all other traffic, but we were allowed to go through at least 200 police, foot and horse, behind the wooden police barrier. I did not wait to see that demonstration % The UN grounds that day were closed to the public from about noon onward, My good card passed me into the Delegate's Entrance, however, and I caught a glimpse oi U. Crown Prince of Libya as he emerged frcm his luncheon with U Thant. My plan was__ o get a pass for the General Assembly and hear him speak at three, but he too nad oeen pushed around and had said his two cents worth at 12:30. My glimpse wa* very range as I chewed a sandwich in the press bar at 2:30 overlooking the Children s , cun tain in front of the Secretariat Building, He wore a flowing robe and a very deep ro fez and at least in that traffic circle had only two motorcyle outriders ana four cars.
Automation, at least in the Chase-Manhattan Bank, enrages me. To. my great disgust the statements are now due with cancelled checks about the 17th. In September n was sent to CIeve's (my forwarding address in the summer of 1961, this year I ha- tnem hold my^mail) and believing' in the written instruction I took that repressed envelope inuo the proper clerk. When it had not come on the 20th, I began making noises and w_3 < it had been mailed, On the 26th I blew my top and then they discovered that ever/one_ knew my proper address except the "computer" ! It had again gone to Cleve ie^d ** a sits at the bottom of the mail shoot in his cellar. He and Martha get back tonight.

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November 3, 1962

Mas? I had already had my first cup of coffee before that man on th9 radio warned
"This is a day to stay in bed" I The weather is no surprise as we have had more rain than shine this week and the Saturday before Election is usually foul, I remember people feared for Roosevelt's health v/hen he drove around New York in 1944 in rain and swarms of people waiting in a drizzle two years ago to glimpse JFK, This is a day to stay in as v/e are alerted to high tides, winds of 30-40 m.p,h, with much higi er gusts, heavy rain sleet. Fortunately I can stay hom9 as I bought "real and pork, green beans, and more lovel# big Emperor grapes and a large avocado on the way home last night. Furthermore, I in ve plenty to do here including the draft of the Operations Schedule for the January 11 NBC!
luncheon at the Waldorf, I shall be deep in i.t3 preliminaries before the Dean Rusk lun cheon of November 20. It by the way continues to grow madly with 999 reservations paid for at $20 each and another 130 waiting for the checks to confirm telephoned requests for inclusion. No doubt I diould draft the script today for use next week by those who must telephone those ordering tickets probably beginning Wedesday-- We regret the response has been so prompt and overwhelming that we must return your check unless you are willing to be seated under the balcony or in a second tier box.

It was clever of U Thant to accept Castro's invitation so quickly and to charter a Brazilian plane for the trip, (My heart sank when it was announced that he would take
a large staff and might leave a cadre behind, as Brian Urquhart has been secured for the
OTR on November 7 and would be a prime candidate for not only going along but remaining.) It is significant that the Russians have sent Mikoyan to Castro to mollify him and per suade the acceptance of International Red Cross inspection of sites and & ips carrying missiles back to Russia Somehow this use of the Red Cross seems both novel and quaint. I wonder who first thought of that. At a cocktail party Tuesday I heard that a lot of New Yorkers had fled to the Adirondacks as soon as they could pack after JFK'3 speech t After the office I dropped off some strawberry-ice-cream colored carnations on Aunt Mary and found her composed, though I felt guilty at not having telephoned her at least the week before,

Thursday I lunched with Major Patrick 7,all, Conservative Member of Parliament, here
as a member of the United Kingdom delegation to the General Assembly, (I last saw him in London four years ago when he took me to the theatre followed by supper at Savoy Grill,) The Delegates Lounge was such a seething mass that I missed him on entering and had to have him paged. He had been on the Budget Committee, but just had the Trusteeship added
a3 a replacement for Sir Hugh Foot, about whose resignation from the delegation he had nothing kind to say. Not only are they of differnt parties (Foot is a Laborite) but "Jail frankly doe3 not like him and finds it incredible to resign from a post but not from the
service, I was anxious to reappraise Wall in case I needed a last minute replacement for the OTR luncheon of the 14th, when Sir Patrick Dean is scheduled. My life would be easier these days if I did not feel it necessary to have almost every speaker backstopped v/iifc an alternate. ... I am not bragging, but I think progress is being made in extri
cating myself from all but an advisory role in the new FPA "Associate" prograft# At least I did not have to go to the Thursday night dinner at which Ambassador Arthur Bean talked about disarmament. Furthermore I was most tenderly consulted about hostessing a
table at the Community Leader luncheon on Friday--a function I agreed to when needed a yeax ago. It is always on my calendar cluing the months this Friday event is scheduled, Crth, the senior VP of Johns Manville, deLone of the San Francisco Port Authority and $$$Armstrong a senior Western Electric man proved to be pleasant people to chat with,

Matsushita, the president of Rikkyo University in Tokyo, arrived on Wednesday for the OTR luncheon 20 minutes earlier than our rendez-vous and I had quite a time talking with him before Mrs, Laurance Rockefeller, #10 introduced him, arrived. It was not one of our "top flight" luncheojns. He did not talk to his agreed subject and displayed a typical Japanese male superiority toward women, Mrs, R. handled the questions poorly and the grapevine reports she realises her ineptness, ... Poor India -- the invasion "by Red China seems a high price to pay for getting rid of that menace to mankind, Krishna Msnnon, How Pakistan resents til arms we are flying to India for their defence 1

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November 10, 1962

Here I am at home again on a rainy, windy Saturday afternoon. Yesterday early I begged off from Mollv because Vera had asked me the evening before to dinner tonight to meet Mr. and Mrs. John Hazard just back from Russia. He teaches at the Columbia Law School and can be useful. Mollv graciouslv said "next week is fine or make it Thanks
giving" and I rushed off to the office without unpacking my bag. This morning I Had to call Vera about a sneaking engagement, where they are making a switch on hour and learned that Hazard has flu and another eruest has caught mumos from her children, so there will
be auite a different cast of characters but I hope some good conversation. I hope to morrow to put in hours on the far-awav-Christmas cards. The office is really thick with details of the Rusk luncheon, where we have now reached the point of having to telephone telling people we shall have to return their checks unless they are willing to accept
less desireable seating. On top of that the Secretrv of State telephoned on Thursday to ask if we want to postpone since he mav not be able to talk about Cuba on November 20. Meanwhile I had to work out the Operations Schedule for the January 11 luncheon and
talked Mondav with the man I shall be working with this year on the NBC correspondents
Alas, he cannot touch the ran he replaces for brains or manners. A time-study is being introduced in the office with so much involved that the man I thought I was really off loading the bulk of the audience seating for Rusk is behind schedule and Monday I shall have to dig in and help on that dull job.

Election did not surprise or disappoint me, though I am gld that so many

people turned out for an off y8r. I voted after my luncheon with Lionel Landry and

Mrs. Sorenson of the Asia Society. Chateau Henri IV, here on 64th Street midwav be

tween $17 and Asia House just the other side of Park Avenue. The dining room is

approached through a dim passage, over a moat filled with running water with helmetted

knights in full armour decorating the turns. However the food is good and we had a

auiet corner, where I let fall some priceless pearls of wisdom on their problem of

getting speakers about the country. Before we went to lunch there were a few words

with the boss man, Paul Sherbert. liVhen I commented that the Indian people had been

smart in insisting that Krishna Mennon be dropped completely from Nehru's cabinet, he

said he was sorry for Mennon. The explanation being that Mennon had never had any .

appreciation lor the value of money, had never saved a rupee and witb^nis Ministerial /out

salary and appurtenances would have to scratch for the rent. Further he had no real

friends, other perhaps than Nehru, all his following being stoodges and self seekers.

Landry dangles a "retainer" before me, possibly to

relatione warm, while we test

the -os*4Mlity of a future and dcccr ~rangmrrt It was rathe** fun van Tuesday.

Wednesday Bwi.sn Urauhart of th UN Secretariat fascinated an enthusiastic

OTR audience, which spilled over to listen en the loud speakers. Things are better in

the Conge, but will be difficult for years whil" the Africans learn about the eomniox

wo^ld of nations and unle~**n se^e f thir trih.l habits. The-"- J ov t* tik end a-e

ii-ffifst when so~e "n* save " I totally disagree." and presumably only stop afoen the

target cf the talk go's a t: sleep 1 Thursday I had dinner v.dth Vera and went on to

"An veMng with Robert Frost" during which he was given the 1962 Edward MacDowell Medal

and in response talked in a delight?"1!** r-^bling wv about his life o^d read a lot of

hi" rooms nftn exolainico- what had oramried

to vwit* that particular one. Although

h -i o p.r? am-'.einglv vigorous 87, I began ti fear that neither the MacDowell Association

president, Aaron lowland nor Mrs. Hugh Bullock, who presented the wedel l"ok4ng inyo"*v

in a white slipper satin gown "ith a plash "f emerald green aero?" the left "f +he

deoolltage and matching slippers and clutch purse, would be able to stor> him.

Mrs. Roosevelt's death brought 34 paid tributes fnm organizations with which

" h e had. i>een connect"'1 "n'1 I wonder how mer***

to mke this gesture. For AXTM"1* .

eh" ias t ~ne tire a mem1 or of the FFA an-' *** did not ifa'-e n insertion. It touched

r e th~t in sowe inst-nc0'3 ther"! were two -- one fro1*1 the

and another from the staff

of the AAUN. !Tie Board and t*e Bavg of the home for delinouents near Pnughkeeosie each - .. .

hd one. The General Assembly Memorial session although hestilv arranged was impressive

in tht nation after nation spok9 of some nersonal connection she had had with it. Stevensnn'S

"ghe would ra+her light a candle than cu**se the darkhess" seams'1 especially or>i to rne .

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November 18, 1962

Ones again the Stony Br ok weekend has had to be postponed -- by v/ednesdav

at 7s30 X was so tired and so much remained to be done that I telephoned Molly

before leaving the office, fin Saturday I went in for five or six hours and tried

to clear up some of

rnnrrl -- rk which had been nassed over. The Rusk luncheon

will b* a success numericallv with over 1,400# being fed, TV and press beseige us.

people drop off the double tiered Deis after we have arranged the seating and all

the usual tiro* consuming shennanigans, which stem from dealing with people. At least,

there w-s not a Security Council meeting on Wednesday and Patrick Dean told oyer 250

women at the 0r_R luncheon about British policv. Coming from an rcdemic familv and

0 lo-rver bv training he ordered his material in a masterlv manner and set perspectives

on a global scale. He gladdened my heart bv saying that he would come back and do the

other series after his December stint a President of the Security Council. Afterward

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Hi scoyered. that someone had taken Mrs. MoCrackents mink jacket, leaving a shorter

and older one in its rl-ce. This mess however w*s straightened out the next moaning.

Five inches of snow in Rochester today, while we have minor rain a"d leaden skv. Inside oracticallv no water. Yesterday as I left for the office I was perturbed to see p. galvanised iron barrel on the second fleer landing catching drips from an exposed pipe in the ceiling. Evident1v the w^ter has been turned down at the major intake to diminish the flow of the leak --result I have the merest trickle from mv faucets and have abandoned all hora of a hot bath . Tt would be cold before enough gathered to
make it worth getting into I
Fridav, despite my best efforts to get out of it, I had to hostess a. table at the Community Leaders luncheon. At least this time I drew enough extroverts to o.e able to make it a social success. On mv right tber-e was the assistant Attorney General of Michigan, who delighted in explaining what a fine man G. Mennon Williams is and. how he hs been defamed by the Michigan Republicans, To the left the SecretaryTreasurer of Pepsi-Cola'a Tampa Bottlinc** Blant told that he had had oO reius the attempt of their Havana plant to absorb th Cuban employees since many of the Tajtt emolovees had lng service with the plant. He seemed more concerned with his five pointers and the opening of the quail season the following day. The w.ves of both were pleasant. A retired <s0c~:ay ,robil officer plied me with questions about costs seemingly more interested in the physical arrangements and how their might be adapted to a golf club he has some responsibility for in Montclair than in the information he was getting on the UN in their morning and afternoon sessions. Before I went home^ 1 managed to dictate my appraisals on these and the four or five peopi I talkeo. v/u.tn
during cocktails.
Vera Dean made a couple of speeches this week and Mary Kohler is back from tne Pacific coast, so in course o- time Z should have some "moonlight" income to pay for Chris umas presents--if I ever get to buy themi On the way down town yesterday 1 hope fully laid in soTnw vhit- +isu paper, which will be useful in case t1 re turn- it't to be nothing to wrap. (The stop had to be made for Kleenex and some prints from a photographer.) In order to get the news I put on the radio when I get up and usually pick UP some gems while the bath runs, the coffee brews andl dress. "We loudly sing Nearer mv God to Th^e* and cram ourselv* with vitamin B." Th- current Hoffman comrmeroxal praise- "fchir ^ound bubble and warns against the flat effect y & drink cu sauar# buboes. Aa aoon as T cn I rnt to * some sou*re bubbles* Mv ears are flapping for a repeat of a side splitting dialogue done to tun* of Fr*o Jaenues. The latest bit of governmental gobblegook is "regression timewise" for delay,
A woman in the office who had worked with Mrs, Roosevelt when both were on the US Mission to UN was invited to the Hyde Park interment. There was delay and everyone except familv and Presidents, current and former, etc. stood about the rose garden or almost two hours, the drizzle holding off. All the former wives of the sons were -here including Faye Emerson, v.ho stood with bowed head among the crowd.

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November 24, 1962

I hope your Thanksgiving wa3 as happy as mine, Leaving the office at 2*20 "by the simple expedient of merely talking out on 'em I caught a train filled pith students "home for the holidays" accompanied by enormous luggage--for y/hich the New Y ork-Jamaica train had no racks. Much merriment ensued as we sorted out where to put feet after a place vas found to put "the person". My modest flight hag went neatly cn top of a nice boy1s from U. of Penn. but we had a problem with a girl from Michigan who had never been to New York and feared she was on the wrong train for Selden. then the conductor snaked his way through he explained she would change at Jamaica (with tfte re3t of us) and at Huntington take the bus an attractive blonde reported that she did that too. So U, of P, and I settled dovn to explain a little about the Long Island RR. At Jamaica I walked a couple of cars back and lost them. Molly met the train, which 7. had not been at all sure of making and we got home before the rain, Fred arrived with muddy shoes (some trouble with his cam at the Gomirack road) but otherwise resplen dent and very handsome in his brass buttoned "blue3".
All night wind lashed torrents of rain and continued until midday Thursday but we had a fine time--Roared with lau^iter at the record taking off the First Family, playing Scrabble, watching VI and generally catching up on one another. Thursday afternoon after we had dons our best by a 23 pound turkey, Jim drove Molly, Fill and me to the South Shore where we "cemetery hopped" first 3t, Lawrence's to check on the plot of a distant relative of her's and the St, Jnn!s for ours, Eill had never been in that church so we entered and I had a few moments for thanksgiving. On the return trip we looked vaiily for an open shop to replenish the milk supply -- those boys drink it like water. We finally resorted to a roadside vending machine for five quarts. Fri day morning I took the 9i26 through a lovely rain scoured landscape occasionally accented by the yellow of willows. This time there wer9 many small fry passengers who had never been on a train cr so seldom that it was a real adventure and were fun to watch or listen to. I barely got through the N.Yi TIMES.
Monday evsi ing we were informed that Rusk ?/as busy on his speech and there would be text for the press, The State Department also told the world. Tuesday we had a busy time with people suddenly deciding they want to attend the luncheon and then State phoned the speech had bsen scratched and there would be no release. This multiplied the number of reporters, TV camera crews and radio technicians to cover the event -- I still do not know how many we had to feed finally. The weather was murky with an occa sion spatter of rain. At 10:45 State telephoned me that tho Secretary's party had gotten off a little late in the MATS plane and warned everything would be from 15 to 30 minutes late, and as Rusk would have to do some telephoning he would not go to the private re ception before luncheon, though Mrs. Rusk would receive in his stead. From 11:15 when I got to the hotel onward things popped continually with bulletins being brought to me of progress or "regression timewise". I was annoyed in laying out the place cards for the double tiered dai3 to find the hotel had put three too few places at the upper table and had to ?;aste time while correction was made. When time came for them to go into the ballrocm Rusk had not come down from the suite I had arranged for them to use, so I sat by the elevator to greet, apologize and get him in to his place. At one point I had the hotel phone his assistant to see if he wanted to be served there, but he/ finally showed and gobbled his food. After a conference with his helper I went onto the dais to check with him and Hayes the improvised script for keeping audience in place and getting him out in a hurry, Nearly got my picture taken with my head between theirs It was then too late for me to .join my table, so I was served in the headwaiters office and got back to sit on a 3tep by the security table for the speech. Inhibited by the Kennedy six o'clock press conference, Rusk made sense rather than news and I was amazed that he was on the first page of the TIMES Wednesday mcrning. The only laugh, was "Vihen I asked a photographer why he wanted another picture when ih ere were dozens on file, he replied " You might be shot, Mr. Secretary, and I would have the last picture I f "
Wednesday I OKed the printer's proof on the copy for the January 11 NBC lunchern. Cal goes to the hospital on the 28th to have veins damaged two years ago nxscw

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November 29. 1962
FLASH *hile my bath rune, let me tell you of my talk with Thelrca last night. Cal*s operation went according to schedule at eight oclock yesterday morning and everything U fine. She had been persuaded not to be in the hospital at the time and the surgeon had explained everything Vo her, that Cal would have a spinal , be in the operating room from eight to ten nod the Recovery doom from ten until eleven. By 10sOS Thelnfe, wo nod not slept at all could not stand it any longer end called tie hospital to see if he vt- ir fteeovery. They put here through and she spoke to Cal, sh told her he bed reverted to the surgeon it would be nice If e magazine wars provided to pass the pat1snt*a time during the operpti-'tt. Apparently she spent much of the afternoon in Kennestone hospital and laughed that he and hi& roommate, another aan frcw Lockheed, talked shop all the time. Cal has a ssall TF with rs?aote control and his own telephone and ii ould get home on Tuesday. Tho surgeon recommends that he not. go oh ok to work until after the Christmas holidays. Although I asked twice if the vein was stripped I did not, get an answr, merely there had been swelling in the leg and she suspected some pain. ^hen she sailed Cal in the evening he told her there was a "spot on his leg that he did rot like". Whereupon sh6 raised a dust, got the surgeon to beck to the nbspitnl, remove the dressing and reassure Gal all was well. I have the uneasy feeling that my call upset Thelma and for the fir et few minute* was somewhat incoherent. She promised rae that she would call a taxi, go to her sisters, heve a glass ol s/srrr milk and go straight to bed. It was left that as I am out to dinner both tonight , and tomorrow I would not call again but that she was to sail me if tney wanted any thing or she wished to. I think from here on Cal can cope. He is accustomed to her dithers a

December 2. 1962

Wedn-ed"V evening T telephoned Thelira &n| learned thr.t Cat* s operation that morning had gone along right on schedule and everything was fine. TTe culcl got home on Tuesday aid spend the rest cf December recuperating# Then 1 called Clove to report this happy re :s, vo na'-d- flsvee had received his "alerting" orders v/I ich in cluded the news that he would go to Fort Hcod in Texas. It would seem that this ad vance information is rather in the natu.ro of "better begin to pack" without giving any date for the actual move. Now the great question is will they got quarters on the
post or have to find a hcuso and after living three years with Quartermaster* s furni ture buy everthing except for the dining room#

Larry arrived Thursday afternoon from Madrid and because there were so many

last minute things to attend to had not gotten to bod the night before, yet he looked

better than I have aver soon him. Furthermore he had mora pep than 1 aria, Hank cr I

at our reunion dinnor at the Yale Club, Unfortunately when he telephoned me Friday

morning to ask me to lunch with him, I was committed to the FPA Community Leaders

luncheon. As Maria and Hank were going to Oak Beach for the weekend lie went with them

for overnight and possibly got some ideas for the house he now dreams of building in

the south of Spain# For the rest of the weekend lie went to a childhood friend in

Connecticut. Tomorrow night I'll take him to the Cyprus ccoktail party at the UN and

Tuesday he is off to pay respects to relatives in Pennsylvania and San Antonio--Back

on Saturday# Needless to say I concentrate on Christmas meanwhile since there will

not be much time after he leaves on the 15th Our strange heat wave is no stimulus

--it was 63 0/0 yesterday morning when I went forth to see what 1 could find at

Bloomingdale's Although I wore a light weight suit, found myself seeking the shady

side of the street.

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On Tuesday Claude Phillippe invited me and my escort to be his guests at

the National Cultural Program $100 a plate dinner at the Americanna H'otel, Much as

I should have liked to see his ballroom under those circumstances I declined, on the

oasis that I would not have thanked anyone who tied me up to that kind of event after

a trans Atlantic jet flight. The battle between New York hotels for conventions and

events is getting vicious and will intensify when the next new hotel opens soon.

Last night Vera had Marian Frye, the trustee of U, of Rochester, with ?/hom she stayed the three nights a week she slept in Rochester for so many 3'ears, far dinner. Marian's brother Dr. Charles Warren came down with her and seems about to do something very important in kidney research# A greta friend of Dr. Crinnell and wife were also there, but happily medicine was not the topic of conversation# They all knov/ Bill and wanted to know about Vera's Thanksgiving in Puerto Rico with him and the terrific success he is making as acting headmaster of the new American sugar plantation school at Farajado. Later I was fascinated by the long version of her exciting stay in Algiers during the August demonstrations and shooting in the Kasbah, when the UN Commissioner of Refugees took her under his personal protection#

Somehow we are slipping with the Off the Record women*s luncheons--only 239 on Wednesday to hear Charles Wagley on Brazil, but he wafl very good --dealing as an anthropologist with the human problems with lovely little illustrativd stories to make his points. Everybody has now thanked everyone else in connection with the Rusk lun cheon and the first reservations have started to oome in from FPA board members for the January 11 luncheon with the NBC panel. By Wednesday we should be in full spate of deluge from that quarter ih ile the OTR hear Rudy von Wechmar on Sermany With his permission he was billed as Baron, a detail which seems to step up reservations for that day* My latest gambit with FPA vice presidents is to talk to them individually begging for help to understand the rationale of FPA budget building with special referrence to my salary. Cf course I only get dcublt talk, but should I decide to give notice of departure, there will be background of cause, which they can understand, since major concern these days is to raise more and more money. Such fun as I am quietly having?
Do not be surprised if I cannot write next weekend, please.

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December 9, 1962

Headline of the Week-- GAL DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL SUNDAY, Two Days Ahead of Schedule. At home he is up and dressed until bedtime, though keeps the leg on an ottoman in front of his di air. He highly recommends the Kennestone Hos pital for a good rest with good food. Second importance news item-- Miss Philip accepted Aunt Annie's offer to stay in Ann Arbor over Christmas. There is no need for me to editorialize on her generosity and loyalty to her friend of 40 years in
making this offer and sacrifice. We shall all miss her and admire the character prompting the action.

About 6s30 Larry came to the office and we went across to the UN for the

cocktail party of the..Ambassador of Cyprus to the USA and the UN, my old pal Zentn

Rossides. The Delegates' Dining Room was well filled when we arrived and I had a

little trouble jLiu.cto.jag vera, who wanted to talk a*.vi Larry about

luncheon session

with his publishers. We found a table on the fringe of things and sat down for talk

until she had to move along to her Seminar at N.Y*U. I chatted with Patrick Dean and

learned from a letter meu w.t ary from Carsington that Ruth and John have had a

miserable autumn. She is having her tonsils out and he reacts violently to some

medication for thyroid and passes out. However, they still cling to the January

17 arrival date in New York on the way to Arizona or New Mexico for recuperation.

Larry and I then went along to SCth Street for dinner with Maria and Hank, where I

learned of a plan switch. Upon arrival from San Antonio yesterday he was to go tc

6ak Beach for a great plotting session with Hank and a man coining from Europe on

some project they are all interested in. Rather them than me out there today--At

was snowing when I got up at eight this morning^

We had a good audience despite the drizzle on Wednesday far Rudy von h'echmar at the Off the Record luncheon. They liked him and one woman whispered to me that he reminded her of Prince Philip of England I I am disappointed that he goes soon after Christmas to Vienna for three years. I had rather counted on having him for the other half of the series. But on Monday I had a surprise telephone call from the White House--'Chester Bowles accepting for January 30 after I had quite given up
hope of landing him.

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The -window cleaner happily did not cane on 'ivednesday a3 expected for the drizzle turned to torrents. Thursday morning while I sat for two Hours with two FFA vice presidents and two other men arguing about the after-January-Yaldorfhigh wind
dashed $-0$ rain against the east windows with such violence that it seemed like a watrefall. During a brief lull I spied the Mutiny bucking the incoming tid9, and we
all sought peep holes for a better look. Late in the afternoon Ambassador Bunker1s secretary informed me that family illness in Brazil wa3 calling him there Monday and he would not speak to the CTR on the 12th...that he would oall me himself on Friday when he flew down from Vermont. I had never wranted to present him and had been un easy not only at being manoeuvred into inviting him, by his indeci3iveness in our
conversations but my own knowledge that he is a poor speaker. However as our former Ambassador to India the topic I persuaded him to speak on "India Faces up to Red China has brou$it in reservations from a more than capacity audience. To ginger up at
least the questional asked Vera to be my guest that day. She called me that night from Ann Arbor, where she was snow bound on another speaking date, and readily agreed to the substitution.

The newspaper strike is working hardship on a lot of people. Personally I do not mind not having to turn page after page of ads looking for hard news^ Jo far the radio reports promised to be fuller have seemed very inadequate to me. I got my
watch from the jeweller (certainly not to be called a watch repairer; at o p.m. and^ when 1 next consulted it after talking with Martha on the telephone found ix at 6s05 It eees fine when left on my bureau or desk, but soon stops when worn, kiwat next ;

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December 16, 1052
Artie winds and frayed tempera kyncted this week* The deep cold caused addition al fires 'with the screaming sirens of equipment rushing from point to point, more people crowding into busses and subways and perhaps had something to do with a water main hreak. Before that flood could be halted a subw roadbed was undermined and the resulting rerouting of traffic will/ seemingly cause confusion in subways for weeks, while extensive repairs are made. On Thursday the window cleaner finally care and while it is lively to have shining windows again, T am convinced' tT at the film of dirt provided a certain insulation. Tt is ds^nately colder near the three big front windows f.
Larry left last night and I can only hope he does not share my sense of too many unfinished sentences# We had supper here on Monday , dinner with Vera Wednesday to talk about his book, publishers and the curious world tf book making. Thursday night the Karris family had dinner with me at the Cosmopolitan Club when it turned out that Oak Beach again figured in the weekend . Knowing Larry wanted no part of going out I said if he stayed on at the Yale Club I would see him off and that is the v?ay it was agreed on Saturday morning# We decided that although flight time was 'a 20, it would be well to move along early and took the 5:10 limousine to an Italian flight a3 late afternoon had been scheduled. This gave a bonus of interest for our bus was stopped en route by another Carey driver with eleven Scandivanian line crew members, pilots, navigators, stewards, stewardesses. Leaving their disabled vehicle they joined us 1adsn with their New-York bought Christmas gifts--Kcrvette a prime iavorite, Idlewild always a sight after dark was even more spectacular with multi colored lights on Christmas trees and lots of decorated buildings--the American Airline hangar had a huge styliatd angel for easample# Having selected his seat, weighed in and gotten boarding pass in New York Larry went off to see about having duty free cigarettes put aboard before we sought the cup of tea and sandwich we had not taken at"the Yale^Club, Guarding the cabin luggage I wa3 reading about Stevenson in TEE when to my great surprise Rank greeted me--they had been delayed in town and were stopping off on their way to Oak Beach \ Maria had thoughtfully packed a thermos of ice, some gluesee end a bottle. Tberian shares space with Icelandic, as there was no flight of theirs coming up not even a clerk was visible and we moved over to a cozy corner away from other passengers bound for Madrid and peacefully drank to Larry's happy landing. It was great fun -- at 7:10 we accompanied our traveller to the "Passengers Only"gate and the throe of us went to the Brass Bail for coffee and hamburgers. I got a limousine at once, a taxi at the Last lids terminal quite quickly and was home before 9:30# By that time Maria and Hank should have been at the beach house, where I can only hope they do not freeze. It was wonderful to see Larry, who accomplished a great deal but probably not all he wanted to, but who does 1
As Ambassador Bunker never did telephone me about his defection all I could do was pledge the involved people to seorecy about his personal troubles and departure. Vera did a superb job to an overflow crowd, Vhen the session was adjourned a little old lady introduced herself to Vera as Bunker's cousin adding "You made a muck, tetter speech than he would have#" At least there is a snail breather as the next Cfu masting is mid January . Treedmari, the man I had for thqt has flipped on me, Urquhart can't tell me until Thursday whether U Thant will 3end him out of the country before Christmas and Chester Bowles is shifting his date again. So life is not exactly calm but T do have a bit of time to devote to the January 11 Jaldcrf luncheon for which most of the almost 1,000 people who have already applied for tickets want either a better table than they had "last time" or insist on having the same front row treat ment they 30 enjpyed before. It is gpoing to be sticky so I have advanced by two days the date of beginning to assign table numbers# Hayes seems about to mes3 in the format of the 0?R lundi eons--wouldn't it be lovely if he gave me a chance tq be sufficiently insubordinate so he would fire me and have to pay six months severance pay 1

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December 23, 1962 Stony Brook

A professional football game on TV releases me to type. The roads here are cleared but the woods a re snowy and there is eva*y possibility that we shall ha ye more either tonight or tomorrow. Perhaps we shall go to the Christmas Eve Service in a blizzard as last year 1
What a time I had with the storm on Friday--before it began I told Ted Higgins of Pittsburgh I would save the family reputaticn by ordering some Fannie Farmer chocolates for his relatives in New Jersey. The office thickened up after that, Patricj: Dean phonal and let me talk himinto two speaking dates in Arizona and New Mexico after which I had to call Colorado to report the good news to oir Regional Director# Then X talked with Hayes before he went off on ten day Christmas holiday. By that time First Avenue Y?s 3?*i(* with honking cars and I went on working at my desk until 7:15 when the office became so cold a standing bus seemed more comfortable# First a foreign car stall in fronbof us held us up for half an hour then a "regular" car got stuck slantwise across our traffic lane All passengers transferred to a second bus, and some helpful men pushed the car out of the second lane and at 8:30 I reached the candy shop at 62 West 50th Street, plaoed the orders, paid and via the Rockefeller Center lower arcade got to a few feet of Fifth Avenue dry shod# Willy nilly I got a good 12>ok at the big Christmas tree and the Channel snowmen made of wire, managed to keep the wind from taking my ha t and most of the snow out of my eyes# A Fifth Averue
bus got me home at 9:15 too pooped to want more than a drink, soup and my bed# Yesterday morning I went over to exchange gifts with Aunt Mary and have a nive chat with her, especial?-y welcome to ha? as Saturday is the nurse's day off# The rest of the day went with wrapping gifts, addressing the end of the oards and getting up my modest window and door greens#
Thursday afternoon I went to the Council on Foreign Relations members and wives Christmas party# I always have a good time tha?e especially as a lot of the members and their ladies are mystified at my presence# This on top of a sandwich lunch at the UN with an friend who now teaches at Skidmore College, at which Vera joined us made a very social day#
Alas I have just tlked to Thelma and found that Cal has net stayed in bed as he was supposed to and hence was not allowed to go /today/ horn^as he anticipated <dn Friday# Maybe more medication and another ' set of exrays will see him home for Christmas, but this problemati cal# I know that they are both very disappointed#
As soon as the football is over Fred and I will go back to "Spill and Spell", though I just made 113 and would like to rest on my laurels I Yesterday Jay bought a toy black poodle six weeks old to give Diane for Christmas# Meanwhile it lives in a box in his bedroom --we all hope it keeps still when she comes to dinner tonight# Fred is happy to be home from Fort Schuyler and Bill looks forwa rd to going Wednesday at crack of dawn to Lake Placid for winter sports with a party from his school#

Happy New Year I

FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION
INCORPORATED
345 Kits't 46th Street, New York 17. N. V. AreaCode 212 - OX 7-2432

BULLETIN

Friday, December 28,

About half an hour ago I was startled when I was asked if I

would accept a collect call from my sister-in-law. (Last week

I had told her to call me collect if she needed anything and on

Christmas evening when I talked to

Cal and he thought he

would be discharged from the hospital on Wednesday, we agreed

that from here on we would depend on the mails.)

The purpose of the call was that Cal would go home on Saturday

morning and Thelma would be too busy to write and di want the

family to know the score. Evidently the xrays showed the

lung clear, and the blood count OK.

He is being admonished

that he must take it easy when he gets home and be on a strict

diet. Quite apart of anticholesterol the doctors are deterraind

to get his weight down. He was told that he could check in

at Lockheed next Friday with a view to going back to work on January 7th.

Thelma had beenrf to the bank and picked up her groceries by taxi this morning so there would be no excuse for Cal to drive
the car tomorrow. It seems that he began doing that at once when he got out of the hospital after the operation.

It is a pleasure to be able to pass this information on to you and to add "Happy New Year".

T<*C_ ^tT>^

^ ^ j^ry !, 1263

Happy New Year '. Jith so much of the old to clQar up I had better be telegraphic rather than chronological or editorial today as a brilliant sun pores in (Still with deep cold and high v/ind3 my bedroom at SO o/o colder than the living room is closed off--
telephone lives under the galley stove and I sle9p on the day bed.Jathrocm kept livable with a succession of hot tubs of water, renewed when it ceases to give off BTUs, )

Thelma phoned ea*ly Friday afternoon to report that Cal would go home by taxi on

Saturday and kept on 3, strict weight lose diet as well a3 unti-cholesterol food. It is

anticipated that he can go back to work on January 7, if he behaves himself meanwhile.

That wa3 the best Christinas present I had as it advanced his return home frcrn what he

believed when I talked to him on the telphone cr Christmas night, .""hen I got back from

wve might ith Martha and Cleve on Sunday I found a special deliver^ from Aunt *.nni.e

reporting that Misr Philip had slipped away early Friday morning, I called hr in. Am

Arbor at once and found that she "was paddling along", had been invited out for Now Year

dinner, but run into an all space reserved 3inca November situation on the railroad. 3hs

hope3 to return to

Thursday* night but bad no surety.

Cn Christmas Eve Jay declared he could not possibly just ke^d Diane the little

black poodle, which will be grey when it gets its ral coat--it must be y*ft wrapped.

He, Pill and I spent an hour devising a box, one end of which would pull down -hen a

ribbon was polled, an air'vent concealby a big bow of ribbon. A bobby p/r soirdd.

the problem f keeping a large red rosette of ribbon, which looked like c hat, tn top

f her heads, The poor wee thing not much more 'than eight inches long was still nameless

when I saw Dime Qhristmas afternoon sfter ine micUu.&nx presentation, its pert little face made me call it Monk-Monk, ITer father had unexpectedly given. lay a present and

at intervals Christmas morning rog enlivened with a bria1- game *f "Bottle, bottle. MHO

has got a bottle? 11 When the neighborhood carolers came to us on GHristmas Eve, Jim

invited them in as usual and the varied orders made it necessary to open every new bottle

in the house--Jay obviously could not settle for a bottle of Bourbon lacking one drink,

nor Scotch minus two and so on. Finally a firiend of Molly*s agreed on the telephone to

lend for the emergency 24 hours a bottle of John Begg Scotch. In between times a tape

recorder Jay had given Jim provided entertainment

for all as timeless sentiments

were recorded, played back and I suspect erased in further experimentation. We did dis

cover that paper being ripped off a gift recorded as a mighty roar not unlike Niagara

Falls. All day we expect word from the doctor saying that he had arranged a bed at

Mather Hospital to remove a cyst from Fred*s lwwBr back. Maybe be changed his mind

but anyway he lanced it on Wednesday with the expectation of removal in the Easter

holiday. I managed to write a couple of thank-you notes on the train back to town.

The office was rather a shambles as several people were allowed to take pieces of

their annual leave between Christmas and New Year, when my secretary telephone Thursday

morning that he had sore throat and temperature, I was told the office pool had no one

to transcribe belts. Sam Hayes has duplicated Nason fine contract allov/ing for ten

days at Christmas and six weeks in the suramerl But he had left ten $$$ belts of dicta

tion for his secretary's occupation. IbjLew my top and a girl

f ouhdi i< hcse method

wrs to take off the ditation in draft, sumit for correction and then retype. Even at

that she did one letter to India without any carbon copies \

Saturday morning I had the v^iit to wear my Edinburgh suit and fur coat to Martha and 01eve. Chat a break I During the night the thermometer began to drop. and the wind made such a noise that it seemed as if the LIRE, was tearing through..Hillside Avenue. After church I delivered belatedly the Christmas presents to Fran and her men --having only wrapped them three nights before. They were all in fine ford and I had a lovely visit 7.-:.-Mr them, and somehow a real conversation with Fran. By five o'clock it was 8 0/0
with wind unabated. My train was late, taxis nonexistent and I thought I . o.uld be swept
off my feet as I crossed 7th Avenue for my bus at 33rd Street, and 54th Street as bad. Not only my breath but my wits were swept a^ay 3rd I made the mistake of "sleeping" in my bed room, who re the gusts roared around the skylight so loudly I had the., fooling of never get ting off to sleep. Monday's radio advised elderly people to stay home A ulnost dmd*

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January' 6, 1963

Last night Aunt Annie called from Albany to report her safe return that morn ing from her long stay in Michigan. No word from Georgia since Thelma*s call of the 28th, so one assumes he is recuperating happily at home.. r e .mei forces ftat',/"^y being what it is we also assume Belli, 01eve and the two oahes nave 'smba. -iod on une military transport "Darby" on their way home. The ship is scheduled to arrive on the 12th and we pray they will have one of calm winter crossings of the north Atlantic. No one krr,rs Lew long t-'ty ill be here before moving on to- Camp hood, deep in the
heart of Texas.

Although I had thought of the need of wearing a tweed skirt over my cocktail dres3

and shedding it with my coat at Vera* s New Year party cn Tuesday 1 did not. Happily,

the Y/eather~wa3 less vicious and I had great luck with transport --as I did on Monday

morning getting a cab to the office, is always I had an interesting time chatting with

old friends and meeting some people I did not know. Increasingly Vera invites frie nds

of her son end daughter too, and comes up with an across the board assemblage, I was

fascinated to find a man from Teachers College, Columbia, was a former Foreign Service

Officer and had been the duty officer at our Legation in Tangier to receive the telegram

for the Minister, John Carter Vincent, ordering him to Washington for the martyrdom of

investigation by the House U nAmerioan Activities Committee for having reported the

truth about the Chinese Nationalist Government in World War II. Shay shared my suspic

ion that some person or lobby had been "out to get" John. ;1 deplore Roc. China but

feel that US guidance 20 years ago could have enabled Chiang Kai Shek to make refer me

:M so greatly needed which would have obviated the rise of the Communists and his ovn

currently futile retreat to Taiwan. Those were the reforms

implied criticism

which Vincent had bean sending from his post in Chungking,)

List weekend CIeve showed me some material about BICFJTTFlIcycles a theory + ot

man is influenced by three cycles--physical of 2d daya, sensitivity of *.9 days^ao1

intellectual of 33 days. Thes seem to have been developed as a result of hexford

Cra~"for-1 r a study of ih c; cl of accidents cn the Pennsylvania Railroad, v. .ore '

dis-cdveped t' at ir'1-* vidua! men Mad a rhythm of time in iLiek tliey ./ore pior# prone

to Make errors leading to accident. '"new Crawford and used him as a speaker just

before he started there fafetw tudi.) CI eve used hi? clmout^h and did the graphs

on m* ^or

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R'*n+ba so I k:iA~" when to* be sure to atke extra rest, when

my mental alertness will bo at peak r>srformancM -obviovisl: the T ft tc rv with,

the income tax-~r d

I only hope th~t I

0 able i>o

a,% e *"*ine

-,i m-ke notes on my own experience during the three months which can serve as guides to

planning my work 3> tie future. 'las,

trdr.r^ee is t*e bcttc

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Id yd +v* NT5C "'mcheon and just before that I e' a"1! be 7 to 8 times

more accident prone I "What fun to watch and try to double check everything dur

what is considered the "critical days" Forewarned is forearmed, etc.

The game of "what news do you hear?" continues and the stop gaps are incrsas.uglyinteresting. Yesterday I sw the World Telegram's t*i*tyoe reeling off the news in ^ a Stern1 s window for the rasaer-br. Last weekend I noticed a, large placard of SapphireF
blu in LIRR coach --World Telegram banner cros the top and the legend "We miss you too" in white on ye blue field. When they r*sum rrintine th morning rrers will sure-
lv go from five cents to ten. As I do not consider Scripps-Howard19 World Telegram worth ten cento, I do not expect to ry 15 should the evening rnpsrs also UP their prices. On December 20 the Christian Science Monitor carried the calvneo greetings to Kennedy and Macmillan hich so may missed: "To Mr. Kennedy greetine-s and salutation For the wav vou handled the Cuban situation. As the President of the United States you've given the whole world id. I hope some dav vou buv Castro a razor blade. And for Macmillan " We 3*1ute vou and England and all vour Cabinet, And wish your good lucx
v/ith the Common Market. Nassau wishes the best in every discussion you have, I am so harpy vou didn't bring Khrushchev. " Nice? Our other game this week has ben jnat adventures did you have in the deo freeze?" The answers have be*n vrW--on* window wane by her bed blew in on Ada Bass, another had all her house plants completely frozen.

January 6, I9f3

iMt night Hu4 Mi# called fro& Albany to report her safe return tl *t morn-

iag from her long stay la Michigan# No word from Ceergl* since Thelwa0* call of the

fcfctte, so os# assumes be i# recuse rating hapiily at hone# Tfc# ArwwS Fore## m&ohiagyy

fceifc^ wi*t it ! wo also aesume Dalli, Ulwee and tne two babes have estoertred on tha

aUltary transport "Efcrby" on their **y horns# 7ho ship ie ebedalcd to arrive *n the

1* U, and w# pray the; will have one of calm winter oressinge of ih# "*rth Atlantic#

ho or.e knows how len& they A1Z *>e her# before moving ott to OaJBp Hood* deer in the

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Although 1 hed thought of the need of weerint a tweed skirt v*r my cocktail dress and shedding It with my ooat at Vera*# Eew Year|- rty on Tuesday I did net# Happily, the ueather me less vicious a d I had gi&t luck 1th transport --as X did on Monday morning getting a cab to to# office# la alwa?s T had an Interesting tin# chatting with old friends and meeting some people I did not know. Increasingly Term invitee frb ode of her eon and daughter toe, erd ccee up with as acreet the board aeseeMage# I mas laeeiaated to Xino a man iroiu leaehert College, Columbia, wet a former F r*lg wrvice Of fleer end had been the duty officer at our Legation is Tangier to receive the telegram for the Minister, Jefcn Carter Vincent, ordering him to %eh|*gte* f^r the mmftyrdem of investigation by 1he dou.ee 9 nawrisen Activities Go^itte^ for ^avlng reported the troth about tits Chinees Nationalist Government Is world Jsr II# Shay chared my tusp4* ion that soa# person or lobby had been "out to get" John# (I deplnre Had China but t w#l that US guidance &> years ego could have enabled QfeinAK Kvi Shek t Make referaa so greatly needle Aicte ^culd have obviated the rise of the Oenwittsiata and his oxm currently futile retreat to Xaimn. To*** vwr# the reforms a?sd implied criticism which Vincent bad been sanding from hie vest In Chungking#)

Last weekend CI eve showed me some material about KlOiWTlQieyeles a theory that

m ie influs oec. by ti res cycles--physical of S3 daye sensitivity of 28 d&ya and

intellactual of 33 days# ffee* 6 seem to have been developed &p a re*uit of Harford

Crawford9# study of the cycle of accidents on the Pemsylvs&la Railread, eherr be

discovered that individual mm sad rhythm f time in which teey were acre prone

to make errors leading to accident, (X knew Crawford and used him as a speaker just

before he started these safety studies#) Clove used Hie computer srd did the fraphs

on zi9 for V'4 .nejtt tbrafi f&oatbe ee I ka^w steer to b* or to at to #xtr* r*t, when

my otel elertaeee will be at peak performance -ohvioraly the Time to struggle dtfc

the incoae tan--and ae

L only hope the* I *'**1 - f ul* to l#b e<are <?' #~d

iftske sctaa en a^* ota es^erlease during the three months which can serve at ft*idee to

planning my work In the futt re, Alas, my physical endurance ie at the bottom of the

curve on January 11 and the NBC luncheon *itd just before that 1 Shall be T tr S times

aeoideiTi prune

Ami fun to toh end try to double eck ewervthing ri^g

at ie considered the 'critical days" For*mrn*A is forearmed, etc#

The game of "Lst mmu do you iuwrtrt continues and thi stop gap# <?r tngre singly

Interesting# feeiorday I saw Urn lorld Telegyga9# teletvte rtsllrTM off the nawc ia

a Stern0e winiow for the raeerr-by# Last weekend X noticed a large nl&eurd of Sptpfclrs

blue ia a lI Jl coach -- Acrid Telegra benae* ecroee the top and the lmd " v&M you

too" in white on eye blue field# *ti*n they res-ate

the morning

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ly ac froa five o^att to ten. As I do act consider ioripr>w.rd9 World m#l#raa

worth tea cents, J. do set earsot to pry IP should the vertup prrerc alec up their

prices# On December M> the Christian Science Monitor carried the talywse greet:!

to keansdy and ItaoMiilan mticfc ce nay mlesedi "To Mr# Kennedy greetings end *nl ' tioa

For the way you bandied the Cuban dtuaticft* MB the President f the tfrlted St&tsa

you've given the shole world aid# I hope seme day you buv Ceetre a resor bled##" ini

for 4scsilln H Asluie yeu ad ^npleed end sit your Ce>>lret, Vnd wink

luck

witr ih# Sesames Umrket* haeesu wishes ire best is every diteusslon yeu h^ve, I ac? so

happy yau didaH bring Khrushchev# * blast Our other gano this week has bean "&hat

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Our deep-freeze wee followed by treacherously mild weather end since Friday by almost continuous drizzle and fog so thick this morning that the ra'io j1 st reported a Quanta*? plane whs diverted from ^.dlewild to Fittsturgh Just before tne 'Darby
sailed from Breraeekkven 01evee cabled it would arrive on Thursday, he 10th. CIeve'a friends arranged a good parking place for the car close to the ship and passes for the family to go aboard. He borrowed Fran's station wagon and the two sets of grand parents arrived at the military marine terminal in time to see the troops debark before
the "cabin" passengers* H ev had had one of those fine calm crossings of the North Atlantic with only one unsunny day. The children had become so ship minded that they w? ^ted to go aboard some of the several dozen vessels p" ckrer inthe Lowr Dry waiting for the dock strike to enable them to discharge their cargoes* It n-..\. appears that Cleve has taken some leave and they will be hereabout for for a couple of weeks. I hope to see them next Sunday. Delli admits she had a realholiday on the ship with fine meals provided according to the requirements of the varied ages. The last day or so the ship slackened speed so as not to arrive the day before schedule I

The "iBC luncheon on Friday went off with only the normal number of excitements for the staff and the correspondents were in excellent form. Several of us felt they were, livelier than last year and the 1,462 people expected all ate fis / and seemed uo enjoy it as well as the speakers. The Waldorf seems to have suffered from haying some of its staff stolen by tie Americana and the soon to open new Hilton. Me ordered white napery and evidently outran their supply--there was a large black smudge on a table cloth before guests arrived. Three tables had to use a rainbow of pink and two difientnt shades of blue napkins, k stern letter will have to be concocted to if em, The three nights before I worked until quarter of seven, arriving home too tired to eat more
than soup* Friday night I slept for 13 hours from sheer fatigue and without taking a
sleeping pill i
The treacherous weather has played hob with pe' pie. Poor holly had a cold aex-tle in her throat and glands and was on pennicillin for eifeht days while Jav had the same ti im; but managed to throw it off with rest and asperin. Sal has had high temperature with the doctor telling him that without wonder drugs, he would doubtless have had to have the mastoid operation. All are on the upgrade now. In the office three people have had abcessed teeth during the week--two of tl em resorting to extractions, while the absences from colds and bad backa are too numerous to count, but contributed to treasure on me. affairs of the Friday luncheon had to be done and v: en no one sise was available I did silly things like alphabetizing the seating list tl Since it is both windy and raining I decided not to go to Aunt larv today and found sne has been feeling very tired in recent days, I must remember to see if she is up to having me drop in at 5:30 some afternoon soon,
Vera too ie on the mend after several days of pretending nothing was the matter until sue went for a routine oheok~up and got a scolding and penicillin, I went there for dinner last night and found her wearing a beautiful peacock green Chinese satin hostess gown, still husky of voice but otherwise in good form. Bill setaaed muted to me as a result of spending his days in the Columbia law school library cramming for his second whack at the bar examinations* I felt sorry that he x,ad to dine with ua on his birthday but wns glad to see the pictures of his school and charges in Puerto llico. There is no doubt but thst this three months experience has interested him pro foundly in teaching. After he passes his examinations he must wait several months before fulfilling his contract with the Ferine Corps,
Next week we get into the steady beat of an CTR lure eon each iednssdap for a while and I must begin to create an agenda and series of reports for the January 30 committee meeting. At least tody the notion bores me intensely. Tuesday night I had dinner .ith Faria and Hank seeing them for the first time since our December lo bye-bye party for Larry. They were skiing around the Manchester goli course while the ski lifl vras closed because of snow and cold. Resting in a wooden shelter the great gale struo in subzero tuapercture and they had a very hard time getting back to uown.

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B U L L E T I N a t 6 p.m.

Lartha has just telephoned that Sal became worse on Friday and had

not responded to the medicine for the swollen glands in his neek, toe eevere

head ache and temperature of 103 depress. On Saturday they had a dreadful time

trying to get a hospital bed for him? finally succeeding at the Freeport Hospital

on South Ocoan Avenue, Freeport. He ie in a private room with Fran as the only

visitor permitted. The diagnosis now is mononueleoueis although other glands are

neither painful now swollen. roor Sal. Arid poor Fran, who ia not only worried about him but distressed that this

should happen just as the "German family" returned. She had DO looked forward to

having her boys have the fun of playing with their contemporary cousins. Tommy has

taken up his residence with Lartha* Last night Jerry and Bobby were with Sal's sister

Angle, but I assume home toni^it to go to school tomorrow. In fact Hartha was going

down to put the boys to bed while Fran went to the hospital. Johnny has a stuffy

head cold-as you can see it is all very tough. 1*11 let you have the next round in

a few days# from Martha and/or Glare as sailing Fran seems jus4 one r.ore demand on her.

Today the Russells had their family "welcome home" party. It is aost unlikely

that ours whith was to bar# been next Sunday will some off. It is also uncertain if or

when Delli and Glevse will mk* their hoped for three day trip to Washington without

the children or their contemplated visit to her sister at Silver Creek near Buffalo.

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^ n * TM , x ? l n g . # a l l t d m to oome to lunch tomorrow and share her plei

a wmawffmF manificent box of red ro/ses she had just received from The Bank of

York comaenorating the 70th anniversary of her having opened a checking account wd

Fifth Avenue Bank* Then Martha phoned to see if I would go there tomorrow to sec

"German family", so I leave Aunt Mary at 2t30 and get to Freeport a little before

^ien the children shall have risen from afternoon naps* Things have been at sixe

sevens as with great difficulty a hospital bed was found for Sal last Saturday, wh

doctor decided that he had mononucleosis* The first drug did not help at all but i

he is on something else which seems effective* It seemed cruel to badger Fran and

have kept in touch through Martha or Glevs* Being unable to raise them this morni*

had a fine talk with Fran, who haw been superb through out* There is a chance that

can go back to hie own hid tcwfrrow, defending on *fea+ today*s renort f the

blood count eho--, Dr. Plese is concerned

secondary, noniwftcHi^S jwund

nnd emxious to keen htm in isolation but Salff experience writ* +*>4 Vesr.it'fti staff i1

crim--mad* to take a -ill * he protested wap <$4 for him an* *feic>. tve

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he had not ordered# meals not esrved, etc., etc. All very grim Of

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h^ b 6X&E8 at Queen* Col if we. vut Fran has s^leined all that and gotten oerHlwsioi

register him toy h*s **on* fcmcster coursee to *w at+*ndfd whn he is able* (All

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little boys were marvelous in not insisting o

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3a' Wov thev got him into the hoaoitel and laying ouietlv --seneinp

was their contribution to hia getting bettsw.

Lots f ns^ole have been ca"*1 e l*nr dJst?nee for .dvio* about sreskers

tMng t>4. sk and when I was chatting with Chautauqua, NY* I asked about the

so far this season they have had 100 inches all told and have not seen the bare /

since the first or second week of Noavcsnber* The poor %n added that with the i

banned up snow it was hard on his spandy new ear* I could not resist suggesting

a ^sep for the duration* IVhil I write a ham hock is cooking for my dinner* Sh

I shop everything, especially meat and fruit, has increased* When I spied $*42

package I would not resist and got 1*44 pounds and had to ask Martha how to. coo

Now before Gristede is swamped with the late Afternoon shoppers I must go out e

some hot mustards well as some needed bread and milk* What is the matter wit]

I keep putting in extra letters ? WeAl, the bargain meat will be accompanied b

Diablo hot mustard at $*31 for six ounces* The UN Charter flight dates are ou

seems a pity not to use the $250 roundtrip to London by jet offir, though I wc

to take two weeks unpaid holiday as both flights encompass six weeks* There

a eateh in a bargain. The latest is Grand Central Towers at 230 East 44th S

described as an imaginative concept of luxury* They are enticing tenants wit

of furnishing the entire apartment at their expense and no additional rent*

the small print adds "This is a limited offer and is currently available on

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An 13 month old desire was met yesterday afternoon when I finally saw "Beyond the Fringe1' --best efforts in London summer of *61 being to no avail I ordered tickets in October to

take Vera# As you probably know four young Oxford students presented a number of skits

there, *iih were so enthusiastidy greeted that they took the ahow to London. The New

York presentation opened October 27 and after three months and despite the newspaper

strike credited with the early folding of several plays still sells out for every per

formance# They are talented, *any, and grat fun in a satirical and irreverent manner#

The takeoff of Maemillian making a speech has made me hope that I shall never have to do a Whldorf dinner for him* Jonathan Miller reminds me of Danny Kaye, Dudley Moore

is an excellent pianist, who spoofs his talent and the eomposar with equal charm. Peter

Cock is ths youngest of the four author*performers and like Miller comes from a family

able to send him to boarding school before University. The other son of the "working

class" is Alan Bennett, di o had a scholarship at Oxford and stayed on to teach there* Sociological note--the two from better-heeled families are appreciably taller than the

others, despite the fact that Bennett*s father was a butcher in Leeds* Maybe he preferred

to sell the meat to "wasting it on his family"# It was a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon ,

followed by an early dinner at Verafs* The snow began diile we were eating and was well

over an inch at eight, when we came downtown together--die to go to what turned out to be

dinner as well as veiygood colored slides on India# In all we had 4#2 inches with a

topping of rain, forssast daepfrees# tonight which will make for hideous icy streets

and messy piles of

stuff tomorrow. Tonight I go to Maria and Hank at seven for

dinner as thav hava forsworn the ski slooes this weekend--and verv wisely*

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Th- "ferman family" to Silver Craek on Mondav and back on Wednesday, and none the

worse for t*e lone hard trio, oractieallv to Buffalo. Thev sterned to soend an hour with

Aunt Annie where the snow caught up with them a"d Delli left her nurse. I had a fine

four hours with tvsr at 01eve and Martha*s last Sunday afternoon Molly, Jim, Bill, Jay and his girl/ were the-"* fro* Stony Brook fo- a delicious dinner. The children fresh fyn*m noa were vrv sweet and merry., Mf oueh David is a year younger than Laurie he

practically a# tall erd I susrect alr-adv -'trfie mora, Thev oian to start off on Tuesday with sto^* at Aberdeen to son one of ClT*A#e croateet friends. the Pentagon to cheek his fitno-s ret>ort a*d to span* all dav Fri<*-v in ah*1esten with Page and "Bee", Sal is
Qftw allowed to go downstairs to ait fa-- - afeila e*eh dev. Fran gAt oyer to Queens College

yeste*d w to register him as planned and things move well.

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Mondaw was bitter wH* high wind hut Pu+h if- e slerwBannatt and Patricia Dean got to

Chataeu Henri IV to Join ma r.t dinner s*ile there y - stag dinner at the Dean*s *4iere the W-Bs were jjtv^ng. We ha* a gav time and talked until almost eleven. Because of the dock

at* v, "thev brw?**% #r7v

lucgarA-lA riee. The Cunard oeorle gave Pattiek lugubri

ous warning that the offie* *ta.ff eould ret #t -assengare off and throuh customs before

YP|30 and more likely a"*- at twe. Bv oo4 Irs'- }stricia arrived with the car at Hi30 just as the W-BJJ steered out f the elevate*- at street "*evel, Wednesdav wa had another overflow audience the Sari.ee B OTR to hear Petvifh, r"*o res even better than the first,

time- He rather t*oV Dean *chescnfs W*st Point s^ae^h bout the Br4 ieh a^art and assured

us that Acheeon'e atats^'nta on the decline and fail of Britain was utter nonsense. After

Wednesday being a nonfur coat day, Hiursdav was ^tter end I wa lucky to get taxi to and from the #?t*ee, >ut ae I began to feel quea*v in the afternoon I racked UP some stuff

I needs? to write a "short history of the Sneakers Bureau" for Saw--30 years in four

different phases i a jcb* Scalded milk and toast for sunner and to bed with heat pad alternately on ach^n* hack and cramping tummy helped. Friday I had a wee temperature, so

phoned the office I would work at home and they could call me for tfiatever was wanted & indeed thev did* But I managed to slug out most of the needful document* I*m fine now

and think I was wise to stay quiet Friday.

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eating to get some details from Ruth--the ten days before they left it was a totally whit landscape frem Gars"*ngien for the ten miles or better to the Whittenham Clumps^ accented bv the black of the bare trees# Thev had to use the t-ain rather than the Rolls to Sout hampton--t^e t>aw will bring disastrous flooding to ra*l linef & ount*-v lanes*

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We are just back from afternoon visiting hours at the hospitaL . He looks even better than he did last night . Between the routine and a TV, he had time to read the first 50 pages of the "Bafut Beeg lesn which I left last night and he was finding very funny. Wednesday night Martha asked me to go to Freeport, Thursday a fternoon about five Molly called and asked me to come here, so I called Cleve to beg off from them and left the office ea rly enough to get to Stony Brook by 6:30. After dinner we went to see Fred for a few minutes and found the snow covered landscape very cold, but he was feeling well. Excellent as the pilonatal cyst had only been removed at 11: 3D the day before. I certainly hope he will be able to get back to school as soon as he anticipates. He has made the Pershing Rifles and anticipa tes going to New London with them on the 16th. (I have just let a very wet cat in and before I could settle down a dog out.)

Some how the "German family" sorted out the wedding presents they want to take to Texas, those which are to carried later by visiting grandparents, and packed their clothes and got off on Wed nesday. This morning they were to have left Charleston, were they spent two nights to give the wees a chance to wear themselves out running about. Sal continues to do a little more each day, but presumably wi 11 have to have another blood test this week before given the green ligit to go back to school.
Tuesday I had a horrid time getting a cab to the Jock Duncan's cocktail party. Most of the sidewalks had been cleared but streets were a horrid mess of slush, grime and salt. One never knows after four how a taxi can be procured, nor how close it can come to the c\rb. nothing for it but to wear the galoshes, which I removed in the lower lobby of 850 Pa rk, clipped together with a clothespin and left in the upper lobby, serving the Duncans and abother family, before ring ing their bell. Worked very well, and I had a most pleasant time. Many people I knew and opportunity to meet the new deputy Consul Gen eral Simpson and others whom I was glad to chat with. That being the day deGaulle put the final lid on the British application to Common Market all of us tried to be particularly agreeable to the British. Patricia Dean came just as I was leaving and said from two postoards the Wheelers Bennetts Twentieth Century was late enough in Chicago to make them miss the connection to Arizona and they had arrived at their destination 32 Hours la te. Japan has suffered great cold and delved trains, too, I heard on the radio. One train scheduled to take six hours to Tokyo was four days enroute. The Japanese Government makes a practise of refunding the fare to all passengers who are over two hours la te. Alas, when I rode their trains they were always on time
Wednesday Vera spoke to the other OTR Series and a tube blew in the public a ddress system just as she began. The ensuing confusion was a trouble to her, but I was so busy outside talking to Ellie Lemont
about what she was to say at the Governing Committee meeting after* ward The audience enjoyed Vera and the Committee meetingwent off well, only appointing two Committees to make further study of points. I fatuously hoped they would settle then and theye. They bore me.
Time out at this point to help Jay count and roll $18.50 worth of pennies and nickels, for dinner and to go a gain to see Fred. I slipped returning in the afternoon in a puddle on top of ice just after assuring Molly I was being carefult Church & hospital Sunday, icy.

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Tuesday Fred was to have had the stitches out and a fresh dressing on and discharged from the hospital for return to Fort Schuyler, going back home today for the surgeon to have another look at his back* Sal progresses, but quite natur ally tires easily* The "ferznan familyM arrived at Killeen, Texas early enough on Wednesday afternoon to look at some houses, presumably found by a sergeant and his wife who had been at Sermersheim Maybe it was Tuesday they arrived, anyway by Wednesday night they had bought the necessary furniture, stove and refrigerator for 607 Cardinal Drive (15 minutes from the base), expected to settle in Thursday so GLevee could report for duty on Friday* The house has three bedrooms and a com bined living-dining room and most important almost-a completely fenced backyard* Henceforth they will have to be known now as the Texas family.

The 40 degree drop we had in temperature Wednesday night coming after two days of balmy weather seemed even colder than sero becuase a sharp wind brought it from Canada. One knew the Canadians were angry at cold words the Department of State directed at them concerning nuclear weapons, but we were unprepared for their diemay and #iile it seems sensible to share our nuclear warheads with our nearest and dearest neighbor, dielike their pushing filthy, frigid air on us to underscore their displeasure* If the Prime Minister carries out his threat of basing his campaign for reelection on antiAmerieanism, the next two months will indeed be grim*

Last Saturday Judith Listowel arrived from Toronto and Ohio, where she had

been speaking, with a nasty flu* Monday night X returned the plants I had carried

over her absence in my office windows, Tuesday morning her typewriter, which had

been here, and Thursday the liquor also stored here. She thoroughly enjoyed her

two months in the autumn in Tanganyika getting more material for the book, which is

now better than half written. She hopes to do a ehapter

a week in the five weeks

she will be here. I'm going to her later this afternoon for a bit, as it is pretty

dull for her while she is recuperating

Wednesday a very tanaed and much whiter of hair than when I last saw him Chester Bowles spoke to the OTR. He went out of his way to praise the British and the hundred years of peace they had giving the world during the Empire*e colonial period and the fine administration given the people of their colonies, the spirit of tolerance and understanding with which the new nation*c early struggles are now regarded. He covered a lot of time and space and ended up on a strong reminder that our foreign aid pro gram is not as costly as most people think and the best contribution we can now make toward the peace of the world as well as being in our own self interest. Something tells me that the President*a Special Advisor on African, Asian and Latin American Affairs suspects the Foreign Aid Bill will have a tought time in the Congress.

This and that. Over a week ago I had my first purple j* tunia bloom in the window. It balanced nicely the spot of color from a red double geranium blooming happily for two weeks now. Last Sunday I picked up a twig of larch in the church yard, broken no doubt by the weight of iee on its seven cones. I am now watching it eagerly to see if it will NnmedleM out in wtter. **.Brasil has declared a soccer player a "national treasure" not to be let out of the country to accept a tempting contract elsewhere* M, The "MonaLisa" is attracting hordes at the Metropolitan, but as one passes four or five abreast and has about eight seconds to look, I doubt if I shall be one to go to look. .Overheard near the UN Delegates entrance M Look at that beautiful lady in a safari*M "No dear, she is wearing a sari* A safari is a desert in Africa." * Office worker shopping for a new dress to sales clerk " Oh, that is much too low in the neck to waar to the office I " Clerks " But this dress has been especially designed for office use. It will make the boss think a second time about installing automation*" Now I must begin the first real attack on my income tax as I go to Charlottesville for the Washington Birthday weekend and the next to Stony Brook for the Jim-Jay birthday cele bration. Any minute now I shall be involved in a big lunch or dinner at *Sie office and must make progress while I can. Dreary prospect.

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Pardon my snug expression# It is caused by hours of slugging yesterday on the fed* eral income tax, which carried me to the completion of the whole thing including the 1963 estimate form. Now I hare only to find another schedule B and form 1040 so as to hare a carbon of the typed return for my record and copy "these four pages. Usually the State return goes prttty quickly from this point. A little flurry in the office during the week rewired the underlieing threat that since the director of fundraising has gone to the hospital again the decrease in the supposedly noimal flow of income Aould be made up by two Waldorf luncheons or dinners. This is what comes of haring already ex ceeded the budget target set me. After that I was glad enough to go up in the wintry wind for dinner with Vera and Bill, who had just returned from taking his District of Columbia bar exams* He was tired after the three days grind and went to bed early.

Last Thursday morning I was awakened about 4i30 by a succession of explosions and the screaming sirens of fire apparatus* There was nothing to be seen to the south and the scant traffic on Madison Arenue seemed largely to be going up town, but it was much too cold to go to the roof to satisfy my curiosity, though I managed to so thoroughly waken my self as to be unable to go to sleep again until after six. It was a strange fire in a 35 story apartment house under construction at 360 East 72nd Street calling out equipment on four alarms. It began on the 29th floor. During the cold weather propane gas heaters had been used to keep cement from premature hardening. One of them is 1h ought to be the cause of the fire. The explosions were the other propane tanks--one of which was hurled three blooks away to land one a roof. Many thought the Russians had attacked and a woman told me that in rery short order the streets were filled with men, women and children. You de cide whether they feared their homes would catch fire, were escaping -to the hills from a bomb attack or merely thrill seekers. I can understand that anyone who had parted his car in the area for overnight would hasten to remove it.

That afternoon I went to the Cosmopolitan Club to hear Galo Flasa of Ecuador (194852). After a succession of 27 pr esidents in 29 years, he was the first to serve his full elected term and a most attractive person* He was bora in New York while his father wag Ambassador to the U.S. and speaks perfect English with only the tiniest occasional hint of the deep south, which made me wonder if he had had a colored nurse in his childhood. In effect he said the unrest in Latin America is the prioe we now pay for the Dulles policy of ignoring these countries except as minor supports in his anti-Communist meas ures in western Europe, the downgrading of the Oragnisation of American States, and the failure to stabilise commodity prices on the world market. In presenting the Alliance for Progress, the US failed to make it clear that it is more than an American project in which they had no part. The result is that the Latin Americans sit on the side line3 passively except to critic*sc.

This week I got a Christmas card from Ghana with a letter dated October 16 enclosed.

It began*" We knew we were still in Afrioa the evening that Henri went out to call the

cat and got a monkey instead.n Meanwhile they have come back on homo leave and Jim has

been in to see me, reporting that the State Department wanted faim to take his next tour

in Washington, while he was trying to get another foreign post. During their two years

in

Jim was our Number Two man in the Embassy and often aoting Number One a i i the

two years there were three different Ambassadors with the inevitable gaps between

Tomorrow night Judith and I go to wHow to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying thanks to Bob Smallwood. Thursday afternoon I take the Southerner to Charlottesville for the Washington1s Birthday long weekend with Maisie and Jim Cash, returning late Sunday. The Pennsylvania and Southern railroads do not synchronise timetables well, so although I do not have to diange trains in Washington going down it is a seven hour journey. At this season it is too risky to depend on planes in and out of the Blue Ridge Mountains-- furthermore I do not like the equipment used between Washington & Charlottesville *

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space. Yesterday it several inches in five nours . Jay and Bill were out

turnedto a drizzley"IshoretTToft rain, . + n-icht sanding other trucks pLowL far ?rom good tofly! Trees and shrubs

aedrpeticiceceocaotaetdel>--rhodedenlodork0ns lleikavee3a efoauchnthaainvewaithpenbdraennct niecsicwleeig,htehde to tne

ground" Should the ^n co.e out it will ^ fairyland. (Tine out to speak

to Fred and dispatch Jim to Patchogue to fetch him.)

v;?i t Tvancinnrt to and from Crozet was orowded and messy. I took the Souths

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SLarsr S-S1slsmss .0 w _ learn^n^; tha t some how we had acquired passengers wno .ad -

?J i - i Ti K ~f?J T M M aervice with Maisie, gave me fresh homemade bread, biscuit and other
treats. Black tie dinner on Saturday night when the Dumas Malones (he &
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Saturday afternoon there was a lovely windless period with bright sun so I went out to cut peach branches for forcing. I was told to take what I mad but as Paul the farmer had pruned I gathered small bits from his cutting
think that I shall have results. Anyway although they would never mis3 ^bushel of peaches I would not risk cutting an already properly pruned tree .

March 3. The sun did not come out yesterday, but this morning to and

from church was magnificent--birches, forsythia and some ^er shrubs as

well as yellowed two foot weeds seemed to have attracted especially vy

coatings of ice and to have glistened longer tha n oaks pines etc. Curiously the mimosa and magnolia seemed almost ioefreewhileaJ-apanese led

maple was on the other hand extremely well coated, ^Jr *r?

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cold days last weekend and during the week, <Je thought that the ladi

would stay away from the Wednesday OTR luncheon in droves, y

practically no No-Shows and the place was bedlam. ^drepbilip, tto left Pa ris on Saturday was in splendid form and made the poin* that Franc only objected to British entry into the European Economic Community (o _ Ma rket to us) because in joining "the club" they want boohangetherules

and politely implied tha t one usually joined a club and_ then patiently went to work as a member in good standing to make such alterations in the rules a s seemed desireable J, He also said that Americans generally did

Cu-bi aanT>crirriesciias,tethothugehEaudrdopedeatnhgartetahteadFmreinrcahtiotankeforanJFaKmbsivhialanndtlinvgiew01obf hheim. One old gal misunderstood "view" and was heard to exclaim delightedly ..a

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in Stony Brook a re in fine form, and as usual I may be alone briefly or

activity may go on in all three rings at once to the aooompaniment of TV,

radio and/or record player. Rather a now you see 'em and now you done't

atmosphere. Now 1*11 put on my things and go out for a while.

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c-me into the dining r -n the -l-unee where we had coffee and it wee very nJeasa^t.

Tueadav I had luncheon with Penn Hails* *10 leaves April let for six monthe in Euroo# including a counts of months behind the Iron Curtain* The satellites seem quite certain* but the Russians have not given a vine vst and mav wall decline to do so when the time comas--hie book "The Bear and the Eagle", not at all friendlv to Communism* will soon be released in a new **H undated edition* Time will tell* He told me a storv I like well enough to share* When the results of the Gallup Poll in Fr~ne on public opinion on deGaulle's veto f the British membership in the European Economic Community were revealed an aide rush?* into the gy^at man** office saving "Mon Dieu* the percentage is evn more in favor than we thought I" DeGaulle replied "That is good* But it is *Mon Generals* nt *Mon Dieu4."
As I took the 4*17 train f^osi Stonv Bro*k last Sunde"* ihers ws a chance to eee all sorts of lakes* rivers and lagoons which would never svow man* This makes the second Sundav afternoon in suooession of travel in brilliant sun a"d and unseasonably warm temoer-ture* The snow had fallen on a northwest wind so hillsides and embankments on the left of the track were at*!! haw with snow while everv alone on the right was barren. The newspaner strike was nresumoblv settled tMa week* but tver* seem a good, many odds and ends to wind up and a 1st of -dv^rtieing to lay on so we nrohblv will not hv* a New York Ti^es bfo^e the 18+h* So mnv little naonle have suffered. Last weekend Jim told me that a "country store" *iidh sold, the Sundav oaner* as well as food had hen so hard hit that th- owner Xiterallv worrid himself to death* Everyone stooped for the nanere before op after ehurch and rememli red thev needed milk or butter* bread or ice cream* and he did a big business. Without a "soar noodle took the other road home nd did without the food--or remembered to buy i+ at the suenrmawket the dav 1b fore.
Tuesday night Maria had me and the two Judithsst dinner* Hank only appeared at ten as I was leaving. Very pleasant and I was deligMjed to see a portrait well along on the *ar*X. The sitter is igela* the duaghter of the Soanish Ambassador to the UN and a beautiful* sensitive face* I hone I shall see it in the finished state aa it Promises to b outstanding*
I hardlv dare to mention it* but I think at long last I have gotten rid of the --.v. effects of an airoenditi oning chill gotten bv sitting (stunidlv) under a louvrer duringM >. a drearv staff meeting on February 17th* Mostly I lust felt badly but hod no temperature-- the symntons were ^igrator** -- for a dav mv n~ae dripped* then my tummv would hurt* sudden ly a gland undar the jaw eted up* then my voice started to go but the ice cube and wool treatment prevailed, finally there w-- several days of nain just behind mv "Eve's" e,Dole.

hiT> ^'^'^ll.rch 16, 1963

It is St. Patrick's Day on Fifth Avenue and a noisy afternoon. I looked from

the end of the block right across from the reviewing stand decorated by a five foot hare. .. ,

made of ivy and thought Gov. Rockefelle# rather grayer than last time I saw him. He was

hatless and much of the time busy signing autographs for small boys, shaking hands, speaking

into a portable mike, and bending over for whispered consultation with a man standing on the

street. Sen. Javits left while I was t^ere, handshaking his way out of the stand. Hundreds hundredde of firemen passed and they can't march worth resnuts, desrite the fact that^

one contingent had the cejtr guard and band from ^ort Schuyler* Mavbe

Mayor was working

en the news* ?*r * ife* for I did not S3* him. The achievement <vf TM~nlnz wa to readv

both my tax forme for mailing the middle of the week. All I have to do in April is draw the chftkf for the fir*i (quarter Payments on this year--by that time the bank balance will have

fattened u^ to stand the withdrawalS.

Sunday I thought it strange when the radio reported that Bidault had soufeht^

neMtsal

in Bavrri, having entered Germany on a VALID French passport* N^t at all

said Andre Phili- at lunch --Ifae. Bidault still ha* hep Jth in the Passy>rt section of the .v

Front!". Forei.r*

wb.tr* ah* ha* b**n r^mur--at4velv efe-ffleved f*r ,raa""*. Other sni-rets

picked u- over a ver^ long Frer*h

Th miners* strike coses grave problem as to grant

t^oir denrnd fep -r 8$ wage increase Wmld nlv br*ng thaw Into line with other wages it

would Zrt anaw Ml of inriatlon. De GauU* has handled it ineptly. The manorial

grouo of all the mine* are

r* contributing two davs salary to the strike

fund. The ch-nagl for A* Garlle "requisition" for the miners to return to work is bv^wav

of the mayors of the tormg ^ere the mines are located arc* "the mi>vr>re nuietlv sat on the

orders. Algeria ha asked to send men to France to be $r*ined both as Army officers and

the Gendarmerie. St. Gyr cannot take them as biggested but France will provide the instruc

tors in No~fch AfH--perhaps $ school to train for Tunisia ~nd Morose* a well as Algeria--*

(I restrained myself fro-* making anv comment on the distance France has come since the days,

of French Indo-China,) Ben Bella offers French former administrators in Algeria a 100$ bonus

in salary to stay on and heir organise the administration of the new countw, Francjunen who

hd grown rich in Algerian industry, comma-#*

'g^AU^turs ^ring i*ng term operations

there have elected to taks *" -*-4 in nationality for themselves and fTMllies. remain in their

luxurious villes *rd bask in the sunshine of Ben RaXlas

Tuesday Olivia Ja^eo hod a missive thrombosis rd died within two hours. As she

was the first director of FPA Speakers

(volunteer for five mornings a week five months-,

a vo-r and t-ained me) I -nt +o the funerl at

of tv% ^irhanv on Fridav morning..:.

Her sister, Justine Ward, seem? not to hve come from Whington. The family pew wa occupied

bv hr niece M.** (Mrrouesa d'Origo), mn who might hays been her husband, Nathalie Hooper

whs

'? ar the rra of man I too*: te Tie Mr. V**V ?%:#., who has managed the Cuttin*? family* >-

financial affaire for vears. Ha discr*etlv aliened i*to the pw behind. I am glad for

Nathalie's sake thet the Marauess*. came from Ita.lv after a eteuggle with herself a to v.hether

h*r greater ''ut""7' wee to remain end ssa her daughter through n accouchement. The coffin was

covered with an interesting loTendar-rurrlish ailk end a round bunch of b*x nd other greens

from Veetb^ooV--touehi^yl oent bv the chairman of the beard t the Cutting Arboretum. With

out newspapers I fear a *re-.t w-nv neoole *if *t * now af the funeral . The onlv others I

-recognised were D1". and Mr-. Henry Lerch, Mrs. 'uguat ^*1 o:.t -nd Mrs. & Mrs. Frederick R.

Kinw (he we the architect for Fnirh-nv --Swedish tyne with ^l--einglv cloan line nd ennr

iderbie simnlicitv verging on the austere,)

Brian TJmu^art "res good again at aeries A

closing meeting. In discussing theo

CongA, ha js!rolfffir4 that thev were frightened of makirer dat'e^enf. One of the UN tasks is. .

train*Cftngolese to take -sver the m-n-gement o^ the airf^el4 (air transport being so essen

tial dur4ng the r^iods tv* roads become imnrssable). Control tow~r coAration training uses

model, of the airfield eaui~yith the flrohtr" Xvhtr, et. The model nlene circles

about and who* to +i~* for the order for it to come in should be giveb, the cla melts- .

to go out foy - coVc rather than decide th correct aonreooh under the given simulated

conditions, Nevertheleas he thinks given time and patience the Congolese will develone into

n* important and rich nation as their natural Resources are plentif"l. Our subsequent

ConmdttAe meeting we-t well they voted the FPA $5,000 from their surplus -fter paying bills.

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A4 *ven in "the morning of the first dav of spring the air was filled with nasty
little snow fikes whipped al*ng almost horizontally bv * strong wind* My heart sank,r but the ~dio assured me that the temperature wo* 33 o/o, By the time I got to the office grsse in the UN n~k and on Welfare Island w>* white, but pavement* remained merely wet.

Monday .fter**on I took my summons for jurv dutv down to the Countv Clerk and

#fter filling out n 16nc quest!onaire res handed "Juror*s

nd told I would be

c-'lle'4 in Aorf l 97 Mav. We shall eee *hai kronen*. Some sav that leavers will regard me

*, n "eerwhtad1* and ust peremptory challenges to keep me off the jury box* A lovely sunny

afternoon tempted me to return to the office via First Avenue bus4, which actually w*8 no

slower than a subwev rd then across town and gave me a fine sightseeing experience. - The

area east and north of City Hall is distinctly messy with construction -- a new housing

develorsment, old streets being widened or abolished, new ones paved but surrounded by

rubble pending tve construction of new arsMteatural wonders# Maybe I shall have a chance

to do some real exploration when I am called for two weeks of service,

In the office we struggle through the series of Administrative Staff Meetings to discuss next year's programat the rate of about two a week. Tuesdav Hayes was so ruthless-
in hi1 remarks to Dick Winslow, that a*eroX of us wished we could slip under the table but admired Dick for his control of himself. Rumors fly about that Winslow is 1B *ving, but so far no one can pin down vftere he departs to. Bill Campbell, who works out of San Francis
co, gets his severance on March 30 in a situation which shocks me deeply* Maybe Hayes is trying to spread out the departures and avoid the mass rolling of heads in June, which we suffered for several v-ars of th9 Nasi* administration, I was *0 di*t-f5**d Tue*d*v that I laid out my money for the June 13 AIR RRANGE charter, which will g*t me back on July 24. Meanwhile I have received an invitation to speak in Munich, which leaves me strangely cold though I must do eons exploration befoye declining. More immediately I go to Stonv Brook
for the weekend of the 29th and to Albany on April 11th for Easter with Aunt Annie. Martha leaves for a week in Charleston tonight and Cleve moves into the St. George Hotel, handy to Con. Edison and the Rotary Club effioe. He has two dinner meetings in town during the week and will poiish off his income tax other evenings -- it does not look a* if wf would
have an evening on V tew* ttwither.

The inii'al machinations for the Presidential Campaign reported by radio make me

grateful *n ? m*nor way that the newspaper dtrike drags on. I can just imagine the pages

which might be devoted tr speculation as to ho*" the hopefuls ^-agrees and whether the 1964

conventions will *n

iKtr-f Beh, Sen Fra^'sst? Chicago, Baltimore or

New York. It seems the Republicans are oo^edtted to late July and the Democrats to early

August * Georva Reiatoy is quoted as saying that if he/ gets the Republican nomination he

can put the Kennedy family to e*nd place when it comes to relative *ct5.va in the c&r,i~

paign. His Moraen grandfather had thyo wfyr.ee *-res"lt three to four hundred cousins to

beat the bushes for votes!

Friday Nick Farhham and I had lunch with Dick Rowon to hear about his European

tofrfiioo-flflThaendbiwatrtrearn.icmosle*lftebvmptbsrdiskhiemxeorfcti?*se ontt*nmeins;tiraeetisnteofreLsotnidnogn,inPtaerrivsieawnsdiRnofmrei.giIdtaly

stirred him especially--economic recovery seems to be slipping at long last down into souilv

m Italy* (Recover" is th* wrong wordas this ha* alwavs been a depressed and backward

area.) At *nv ^ate a wfasdics factory has b9en built in Brdndi*i which employs a work force

equal to the total population of the town. All ov**1* the sentinsnt

fdnds the results of

the European Economic Community with nn+^v* workers entering industry leaving jobs which are

snapped up by unskilled from Turkev, Greece,

and Italv, etc. Dick was amusing about

the modest Rathskellers of Muni oh f^^erly patronized * middle class Germans, who now can-

afford the use of private rooms leaving the large cellars forltelian workers, ^diere red

wine and spaghetti large!v take the place of beer and bre,t"Tuw*t mit karioffel. Hotels have "been so hard hit by this stings l^bor turner*-* that seme knife eleeed . Many have been

comrell*'4 to use ra4t.ers, chsmberas! *nd dishrashers with little or no language of the country and no experience in the jobs. Guests fare worse 4n luxury hotles than small family

style.

March 30, 1963 Stony Brook

w and enough sharnness in the air to drive me in

afterAapnewitnesrpecction of the yyeellllooww aannda ppurpple crocuses# Frterdanasnpdorta csloamsesmoafte

were with us

dinner last night tojplck^

^afternoon..he will

hi* r+,,hicht They were lllot the Thursday night escapadj-two whale

boat

loads

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aoross the Sound dauoing reo. y

^qrhflwine real vandalism of breaking in

swimming pool enclosed by gla ^ . fl

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overall trophy won that day is too big for their trophy case.

Monday morning en route to the dentist for spring cleaning, I looked

for s igns of spring in the Central Park trees-only swelling in

theii^skeletons wire the multicolored runaway balloons. By Thursday the

TMs dlffodils had burst their paperlike bud covers

full blown blooms. Yesterday on the train close to town

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redbud swamp maples were swelling with buds to give a furry sil _

against the sky. Further out farmers had rolled up their "1^^ "tM fences. The Stony Brook station master was complaining that he had extra

work with two freight cars of seed potatoes oil uhe siding,

Thursday I lunched with Vera at the UN immediately after she had done

a TV program on the status of women for Canadian Broadcasting ^ompany. She

looked wonderfully well (Hatless because her ha irdresser had told her to

=top wearing hats--they mash down her hairdo) and the producer had complfe-

mented her on the photogenic quality of her sapphire hluesuitwith print

blouse. Leaving by the Delegates' entrance I was startled to see a NYC

green Department of Correction "bus" which looks like a mispainted Blaok

Maria parked. This bothered me until half way down the driveway I met

Ellie French (the Mayor*s Commissioner for UN Delegations), who gained

"Thats us. We are taking women delegation members on a tour of the

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Prison." Appropriate transport or just an added touch of realism to the

junket?

Wednesday we had the last OTR luncheon with Saul Padover speaking. Such a happy dav tha t I stopped on the way home with some scarlet and jffl white carna tions for Aunt Mary, She has laid on her dates for Mohonk and will again take the nurse with her and begun to think about a new dress or two for the summer. In fact she has ordered several and is beginning to wonder if she will like them. We examined samples of material Sloan had sent her for new library slip covers. Happily I plopped for the one she favored.

Everything looked so bright for newspapers on Thursday that the interim papers stopped publishing, the Christian Science Monitor failed send copies from Boston for our newstands and I did not even get a wall Street Journal. What a hocus pocus. No wonder both the state and city budgets are out of whack with loss of income tax from papers and workers and sales taxes on purchases not made, etc,, etc#

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Neiift Is b.tr#Vr rfvtn thai tVtr will' Is n issue of chitchat over the Easter

weekend. I go to Aunt Annie on Thursday evening and return too late on Sunday to sit

*T*~ (?"- * at the typewriter, \ week ago Friday Fran took to her bed with flu, Martha returned

as

esterf.4* Satur^", Tuesday they got the result of Fran's blood

i' test showing mononucleosis. Fortunately it is a less stvere case than Sal*s in this

r>hse without

^oadeche and violent sweats. The doctor has not vet set a. date

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vinod test, which will forest the day when she can begin to get out of bed,

Meantime it is a period of patience and complete rest. Two hours after my first attempt

I have just gotten Martbf for better deteila than CIeve eve^ relates. The swelling of the

neck glend is subsiding, the golden color of Mondav is fading and Fran is being a wonder-

ftil -tient t-^n* a long np during the day. entertaining herself with eelit-ire. and

watching TV on the pprtablt stt occasionallv. She has bathroom orivslege*, though is a

little woorev when she gets up. Bobby, who has had a touch of flu, is out todav. The

doeotr se^e there i n ehrnce of Sal becoming pe-nfacted, though he still tires easily he

tke oyer from Martha when he gets back from school about four o'clock*

Martha*c brief visit to Charleston was eve filling* Tbe hard long winter delayed blooms and she caught asalens,wisteria and Jassemine at peak. Sinca the latter is now protected bv law the road to Summerville is lined with a Drofuesion of blhem# Heat of _ -- 91 o/o this last Thursday has orobablv de fer * lot the things Martha found so beautiful., Not being especially fond of caHHias, it took - question to bring out that Page* s-white one was in fine flower. In a word, Martha had never seen the area *o beautiful. Things hereabout naturally very different. After the 11 c*clock service at the Caroline Church last Sun'W I did a ndrrr deenuo of the rok garden, cutting off a lot of winter killed iw, etc. The onX"' Merra w*# the purple and go1 d clumo" e* crocus- In town the UN daffo-
di"l% are handsome, nd the buds on Japanese magnolia soiling ra^idlv*

After the office Thursday while having - drink with Ted Hieans, the father of seven here from Pittsburgh for a d-v or two of job hunting, the temperature drormed dramaticlv- * and gale winds arrived. The later were so boisterous as to interfer with my sleep, but not until after I had n amusing telephone call fromKIngCoooer. His Naw oceanography gave him a night in New York between New London and the establishment on the west bank of.the Hudson t the former here *f th- elder Thomas Lamonte. His description of the conversion of the house and grounds to the use of science wa- -musing. The large old root cellar has become the re eismogronh center, th- lovely wood- re dotted with old refrigerators , r used for th- storing *xploaiv-s, something he.s been converted to a sample of ocean bottom, and the former Hutton yacht is used for expeditions. Unfortunately he had to rush back to
Washington Fridev night.

Bettv Dav and I had our -f+afluncheon coffee an the sundrenched terrace of the Cos Club vesta~i~ and +h-n went to the 69th Regiment Armory for the 50th Anniversary Exhibi tion of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which created such a stir in the presentation of modern art--American and European. An extraordinary job has been done in gathering almost 400 paintings, drawings and sculptures which had been exhibited in the original show and blowing up the chocked new-paper reviews, cartoons cd other memoribilia of 1913. The r ,, Henry Street Settlement House is the beneficiary of the undertaking and should make Pots of monev as all caste have presumably been paid by their friends. Fourteen of the artists including Marcel Duchamo oresumablv attended the gala opening the night before for which the Champagne Producers of France provided the drink. The hanging committee did a nice
the works of artist* -ho had eaver-1 entries were grouped together and on the whole things were well identified individually. I was impressed bv the number of artists who used shades of yellow, gold and beige in one or more paintings, and fascinated by a* six atone colored lithograph# An Oregon museum loaned a Delacroix oil framed underglass, which was almost impossible to study. The exhibit badly needs traffic control so the dockwis*viswers do not run smakk into the counterclockwisers# During the intervening 50 years ... much of the type which offended have since become commpnplac and acceptable. I was happy however that a good percentage of the exhibition was made up of ti inga I can unders and --
George Bellows, Ghilde Hassan, Renoir, et

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4 1 ?i' 7!ek New York has been gay

forsythia and Japanese magnolia blooms, the

nink hydrand- and Easter lilies in the Park Avenue traffic island Sings began to

ToAar r^Lr^eVL^:

1111 be VdIo~

s,*fKaK?t Americana to see the room where the May 23 luncheon for David Bell

T'l f!_ Tuwlhlir MW Tg""s9t'tle the menu and auch details. When Dressed to

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Another bright sunny day when we need rain so badly and the menace of brush and

forest fire continues# Manhattan equipment shuttles back and forth to Staten Island

to heir there so much that laet week the Fire Commissioner went on the radio to beg

New Yorkers it h intiirlly e-reful# Evidtn+1v

mny men have had to work too

constantly to be fit for immediate duty# I do not men to make a parallel with my

own week of jury dut\r, but its frustration has left me too in a state of exhaustion*

The crush of the morniny rush hour in the subway to get to the C*u~t House by 9*15,

then sitting in the Jurors* Assembly room, commonly called the Fish Pond, ai swerine

roll call then waiting to be called in a panel of 30 to go off to a ready-room , Here

the lawyers outline the fa*"'? meanvMl studying the first 12 seated in the jury box

asking nuostions of each and threw'ry cut ibe ones tbey mistrust. This forming of the

final jury takes almost two hours and before they are satisfied moet of th # or 35

potentials have sat at least briefly in the box# Some reorle disqualify -themselves,

others have to leave on Preeimrfcory Challenge -*-ih unexplained removal by one or another

of the lawyers# I was called eh a oanel Monday morn4rg and not again until Friday,

when I ws scotped out of the Pond both moraine and eftemetn. My long stay in the box

was possibly half an hour, but in each case I 1 rrt been thrown back into the Pond. From

cbservotion and cellaring notes with other rejects, I'mafruid they want bus drivers,

clerks nd junior bookkeepers rather the* executives# There is interest in hearing

about cases and watch5.ne the selection Protf*s but the utter boredom of sitting in the

Pond for three and a 1-lf days is hideous# There is always just enouffh doing to make

concentration on more than newspaper reading impossible., Beinsr unsuccessful in catch

ing the Commissioner of Jurors in his office T finallv left him a note asking if I could^

be excused without prejuidice from the second week# Tomorrow will tell the result# The.

one bright spot ws the accidental teaming UP with Mrs, Mortimer Reamen on Monday MORNING

She is a frightfully attractive person and I suspect her husband, the second and probably

somewhat elder, is wealthy and not without political influence# She vnt herself excused

on Wednesday afternoon--maybe I could have too, but felt I should msh UP to the office

for as much of an Administrative Staff meeting as possible, so did not accompany her to

the Commissioner. I have gotten in two or three hou^s each afternoon at the office even

if it meant staying until seven o'clcok*

Wednesday afternoon I met Molly and Bill in the Rainbow Room, which wave ?. lovely

view of the variety of soft new greens of Central Parv in t*e !te afternoon light.

After dinner we rut Molly on her train and Bill and I came here to rare over a nap and

the things he would do on Thursday# He was a fine guest and managed to "st about on his

own very well both Thursday end Friday* We thought he would like to 88 the morning

subway rush, but his inate oolitness almost sera-nitr' m, I w** well in the cay *4in .

he said "Franfcie, there isn*T room fo** me t" He responded to mv urging to push and we

were reunited# I had honed to take him t0 see Aunt Mary that afternoon, but I got stuck

with Scott Hamilton from Anchorage in the office and Bill had to coil h4s heeXe in the

office lobby for almost an hour# I learned a lot about Alaska, and the problems of the

World Affairs Council there of which the 33 year old Hamilton may be the next President#

He refers to mainland USA as the "South 48" and svg that Edna Ferber*s "Ice Palace"

was written in the living row of the Robert Atwood's w*th vary thinly disguised charac

ters of

hostess and other leading citizens# Having corresponded with Mrs# Atwood

for several years I must read the book# Mrs# A# ha* openly courted Hamilton on behalf

of her second d-uehter though ha is determird not to raarrv into a matriarchy.

Not being able to acoeot Patricia Dt-n*'9 4notation for dime o Thursday night, I v/ent around for a d^ink at six last night to see Ruth and John Wheeler-Bennett, who are saving tiers until their Tueedav lailino. Ruth looks so much better than in Janu ary, but John is seedv, among other things has s#H*w of carbuncles \ We did fix UP Julv 9 to 15 for me to stav with them, which was just the time I had thought of for Garsington in mv now shaping UP itinerary# 1*11 go STRAIGHT on to Madrid upon arrival June 13 or 14-# If it is not too hot Larrv wants to taka me to Malaga to see his newly aoouired oliys and almond grove** and the hilltop where he p^ans to build a house# This would give me a dav in Granada, en routa. From Spain to Dublin to meet Fred, then to Edinburgh to aee Addle Petrie, and after Garsincrfcon to London wMJ# Betty Day is there.

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Midafternoon brought a temperature of 86 o/> --all time high for this date. Dur^ m

I the week we have had about an inch of rain, a temporary respite from the forest firs ^
me^nace. Now at six p.m. it is an official 83 but happily no* humid. However I fear

that two fri*nds of Amv Dewar1- here from Vancouver on a theatrical binge--a play every

night and extras on matinee days--are finding it hard to take. They had luncheon- with-

me veeterdav in the Delegates* Dining Room at the UN and a little look at some of the

things they would not see later with two other women from Vancouver with whom they took

the regular guided tour. It was nice to have fresh news of the Dewars and to see Laura

Jukes and Phyllis Rochford. The latter will flv nn to London to go a family chore and-

return to B.C. over the pole. Alas she exoects to have finished UP her English visit

before I get -here. Upon my return to the office I had a message that a man in NBC had

gotten four tickets for aMonday afternoon TV show for them at my earlier request. Alas,

I had to rhone him that thev had already gone to CBS and seen "What's my line " and been

frightfully bored. Hewas very decent and said Cueat Relations would have no trouble in

disposing of them in view of the heavy influx of visitors. Brown was quite bitter'about

them--visitors in general but gracious about my having sent him on a foil's errand. They,

the visitors absolutely fill up all the places in the Radio City area he usually eats his

lunch in.

All this was possible because on Monday mroning I was finally able to get

to the Commissioner of JurorA, who sent me along with his blesdng to the Clerk. At his

suggestion I answered Roll Call in the Fish Pond, went to his office and got excused for

the rest of the week. In the course of time I'll get a check from our poverty stricken

city for $37.60. The FPA will get $36 and 1*11 ke<p the carfare I

This morning I went for a permanent and then down town to pick up timetables for

my flights from place to place in Europe. Nothing can be done yet about laying on the -

tickets as Air France has not revealed the hour of our departure from New Yorkon June 13

nor the ETA in London and Paris. The man I talked to in Air France thinks it most unusual

i* we hsulci stp in London, however time will tell. Anyway I would rather go on to

Madrid from Paris nvw*"% 7*e <?re*t aim at the T-itwent is to avoid the hocus*^reus e*

<r r* +

iPe night in either London ^r Pari#. I'd rather rush on to Sni4n

and have a good bath and a long sleep. Trans Atlantic jet is so fast that bv the time you

have a drink and dinne** it is not woH&h trying to get some sleep. It is just possible that

1*11 work at the FFA all day and then go to ~dlwigft for the f

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I have been booked for another Administrative

Staff

<v "Vesdyw pith the Trrrnin<r that it way go on all day- The May 23 lun

cheon builds sIgwIv and I *> xrfc dlsyalr, v""1' *oubt that weshsll msve the $5-500 which

would mak iv Office of Spec*8 1 vents income for the fiscal vi ir $50,000. I like nice

round figure t (At this rTIT thicker \>JT

and rnv d.ri, +? * ,r' and somehow

I did not get bac t the t'r" ---it* so t

ex ffuYida '0

While on Fifth Avenue yert* ^ y * ent to : #

In Trvstal" exhibit at Steuebn

--very interesting. Thev t ?S. hlthert.

shed p*rais including short and long

1

by W.H. Auden, Witter lynxor, feira&i Aiken and Mark Van Borer h e th*m studied by agists,

who created deeien in festal t~ bo ere-t#d by thair craftsmen are etched The object

w e t" erris i' " A* " tmv the srdpit o* the noem The result is a formidable

challenge in creative interpretation and extre^ci- rail displayed -- each piece in its

own well lighted nithe is accra nis* bv its roem9 Sc r were TMgnifiert for the beauty

of line of crvstal, others attracted ms rore for the delicacv of the etching. I heppan.

to know that the hourglass shy^e used for the Srar V>. Istvpa Allen poem ia priced at

$4,900. While in the rooii near +v, door I

heard blind i",n accompanied by a voung

woman and a Seeing ve

nek a cle**k to be shown so in* bird nd enamel eryt*1e adding

"I8m especialXy crti\I t.trie" Late"" I saw them at the e *lv containing these three

to fipe inch objects, rhere he ranfv

feeling one ft 1 rh r. Previously I --

hsd admired the owls myself and learned from the cat-lreus the price of $70. Rather

sweet snails a~e only $30. With passport ranewal, typhoid shots etc. coming UP I shall

probably not g*t v->eh to Steuben and have to enjov the photographs in the NEW YORKER

full page advertisementc . Th* lck ow w

h broken, the Isndlcard refuses to

to repsir, eo T ressiv the locksmith t mv expense eerlv tcmorrow ner

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Mv IS, 1963

After a couple of days of hot, humid weather it got cold that the rapacious landlord gave us heat Fridv night and Saturday# (Yes, the locksmith csme promptly on Mondav morning replaced a broken soring, costing ma $7.) Yesterdav morning I thought it.
vervclever t telephone a couple of places about the grev flannel tailleur suit I want and saved myself a trip downtown. One is exploring the matter with the manufacturer and. HL11 call me earl^ iw tie ~eek. Another call resulted in wasting an hour bv going to 77th Street *nd Thi~d Avenue to the Irish Tourist Center, which turned out to be a travel
gne~ -understaffed end naturally more interested in arranging world tours for couples. (1*11 g to the Irish government one weekday soon.) Bloemingdals was doing a mad business for Mother* s Dav but I got a cotton dres for Soain and a Pair of Suophose, Thursday morning I left my -pe,9S"crt for renewal and wee delighted to have it back on Saturday. Frances Knight has certaivlw gingered UP the Passport Office oroceedures under hi* direction. Chins, Kre, Viet-Nam and Albania remains off bounds with Cubs added to the list, but Hungary is now permitted.

Evervone who has spoken to me about Governor Rockefeller's soeedy marriage to "Haopv" Murohy a week ago has been critical. He is much to be pitied if rov earlier guess that his son's dsath in New Guinea was reall" a well executed protest suicide. John D. Ill showed his position by staunchly spending the day with, the ex-Mrs. Governor, instead,
of going to the wedding. Isn't it quaint that Richard Nixon, who underscored his lack . of wealth when he campaigned with Eisenhower, can now afford to own an expensive coopera tive apartment at 810 Fifth Avenue? How often will he run into the Governor in the lobby?

Wednesday right I had dinner with Maria and heard the fantastic shenanigans of Hank*8 departure the day before for the Cameroons. Ages ago he signed up the 12 former French-color It*- row^'ndependent-nations (Chad, etc.),who have banded together under the
generic UAM for greater effectiveness, for a joint psvillion at the World's Fair. Being too poor to finance undertaking themselves, Hank tried to find the money for them. This is more or less what seems to have happened. Through a Czech prince a Texas tycoon put. up the necessary four million dollars. Lawyers, architects, etc have busied themselves for six months in drafts of agreements, plans for the ^uflding and so on. Hepresentativas of the UAM were all together last week in Konkery and could do the necessary "things for Hank. (As Maria outs it the earthbreeking ceremony ha" alrdv tk*w place at Flushing Meadows.) When the architects,etc. asked again for ravment, the Creek stalled, tried to
browbeat the orchitects who froze^ and Hank's plane tickets were cancelled . For almost five days his bags,save fHsuits remained packed, plane flights were reserved and cancelled. Tuesday was the last possible day to leave end connect with the UAMers and a World's Fair driver was circling the block in case Hank should be taken to Idiewild. In the early aftracer Hank celled the C*eeh again saying he personally could not care less, but the Czech must be reminded that unless the architects, etc. did not have some sum like $300,000 before thro o'clock the whole deal r.rrald be off and there would un doubtedly be law suits over nonfullfillment of signed contracts. Of course, Hank cared a great deal, but his plain speaking at last had results. In an amazingly di ort time the architects were on the nhpne reporting the-" had "bags of money" and were content. Mafia packed the suits, Hank found the car and they were off to Idlewild. A good drama
tist could make a lovely rl?r of this involving the human interest of national character istics--the overbearing money loving Czech, the happy-go-lucky Texan calling the Czecv . "that joker", the distress of the architects as to whether they would bo reimbursed for a5x r.'.ontr * of hard work, Hank's concern that the naive UAM blacks would never understand if they were not represented at the Fair and sue-ft especially during this period of trouble in Alabama that it was racial discrimination, etc. I suspect the Czech had put the TeXans monev into the stock prkt for hie *rai h,

On the way to Albany I read the legend of the peepers--what aver you are doing when you hear the first peepers of the spring you do all summer. Aunt Annie and I were j?CtriS*/ delighted to hearAlate Friday afternoon wh41 drivinc on the sunny, peaceful Saratoga
Battlefield with its marvelous view of mountains beyond iT"*. rolling country aide. ... Next weekend to Freeport and the following one to Stony Brook .

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May 19, 1993

TMg will doubtless be more solan dash than usual as I am just back from overnight with Martha end Cleve. A doozev of week' coming ut>, viiat is not accomplished tonight in the ray of correspondence may well be delayed. It teemed yesterday morning when I started--F*fth Avenue res ff*y with fla^s frr the Armed Forces parade which were whirred about in a strong dnd. It was wonderful to have
tea with Fran, who locks very well# Little John has grown so tall and developed
in Daoe would not have been recognized had we met out of the house, Later Cleve took me to see the soring bloom, * magnificent year for deer r*nk dogwood, most of
the white has rassed rrimei, azaleas at peak of profusion. The lilac hedge I took
from Bavrort fo^ Mollv and Jim does will and seemed at full bloom. The contrast be tween the olanting at older houses more formal with evergreens predominating and the newer ones where a nursery man has been turned loose and planted Quantities of ifrpieas-- not always with much attention to the color of the house. It is a mixed
uo season. Martha has a Drofusion of Star of Bethlehem edging long borders, iris, iulir*, "rape hyacinth, soma lovelv luoine spikes in early staee of flower, and Talisman rose buds showing color all at once, Alas they lost several azaleas, a
dozen roses, all the oriental oenpies, forgetmenots, much of the lunine and rrim-
roses, manv bu?bs and rest of the iw^ laborious trained over a big stump. The Dickevs nsxt door alBO suffered a good many loses but had a fullblown ink peonev and a deep red, *hi!e Martha's slants are fine and healthv few of her well budded peoney sfeow color. It was a color filled weekend and love!-* this afternoon sitting in the sun watching birds have slpashy baths. Why this should be desireable a-Pter yat^rdav4s torr-nts is not clear.

Betty nd Hanson's erandson was christened Christooher John at the 11 o'clock service with much cere~*nv--the femilv followed the crucifer and two aeolvtes carry ing fat candles and the clergy from the front new to the baptismal fount. Bettv
o3enned this neatlv-- right after the babv was born she and Hanson went to Bangkok
^iere he had some atomic radiation conference For three weeks thev had a small ar*rtment with two servants. Since there was no common language she maneged the household through neverending charades!

Mv trio arrangements nrogress s1 -*wly~fi**st tvohoid shot on Wednesday (I'm satisfied Gerry's secretary goofed in not ordering the material ^dien I asked her tjffo two weeks ago.) We now kn^ 4hat w leave Tdlewild at 11*20 p.m- on June 13, so I gess I'll work that dav. After a stop at London, we arrive in Paris at 1 o.m. '
on Friday, June 14. My ticket to go on to Madrid that afternoon have been ordered, as well as flights from there to Dublin via London, to Edinburgh and later on to London. Judith Lietowel writes she e l-oks forward to having me with her, but does not know whether it will be at 16 Chester Row or a new house she has bought I We leave Londonon July 24 at 6*15 o.w. end arrive in New York at 8i50 t>,m also on the 24th, It does make a difference if one travels with or against the sun in local times. Larry, Mary and Franz sent me a joint card from Holland vfaere thev all were having dinner together--the Mahlmeyers somewhat confusing me with warm exoressions
of anticipation at seeing me-- nresumablv at Hiiversum--though I have no plan for going to Holland.

Poor Douglas Dewar was driven to the University of B.C to see its azalea dis
play and caught a chill and ended up in the hseoital. This may delay their going uo to Penticton for the summer. I am anxious for the next letter. Wednesday evening I spent again with Maria, Hank seems to have successfully accomplished hi mission in French Equatorial Africa, but the World's Fair want h-im to go to Libya "whilw he is in the neighborhood1'* This means flying back to Paris, then to Ror and again across the Medeterranean, I hope the people he has to deal with are
Tripoli and he does not have to pop about to the "other" capitals established
internal political reasons' Martha and Cleve leave early Friday morning 7 Dallas, pick up a rented car and drive over a hundred miles to Killeen to s family for a week, then drive to New Orleans for a few days and fly home ok Uiey both need the change of oace and scene. I'm so glad they are ging.

S-TalC -- fatty- [?,,

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May 25, 1963 Stony Brook

The result of the May 23 luncheon for David Bell was a determination Never to use the Georgian Room at the Americana , if posskble never use that hotel again nor attempt another May event. I had warned of May competition to no a vail and what we were up against was stupendous Kennedy was in town Eisenhower and Ed Murrow speaking at the same time, Cooper left midmorning' and so on. Working in new physical surroundings 1 insisted the staff he them at eleven o'clock. Upon a rrival we found the Georgian had been rented to engineers until 11:30, the t the temporary partitions divided the room into two meeting rooms. When they # finally pushed the engineers out. waiters busboys and others swa rmed in to pla oe the tables, set them and rearrange '
irs* Tbe pa rtltions jammed, the frantic supervisors bellowed, the underlings screamed back tha t they should not be expected to work under such conditions and where was the shopstewa rd to protect them or let them strike. The schedule called for our audience to go to their tables at 12 o'clock aid
ffcle t0 order cocktails. They probably did not get in before 12*20 aid o23L0f them ?Fe tola th bar bad closed. I probably did not get place card at three special floor tables before that time, had to ask Fred Nunes and BIT. S^robbe to lay out the dais place cards, a task 1 prefer to do myself and much later rearranged the placing of the Dais flower arrangements.

Meanwhile Mrs. Bell, whose regrets we had twice received, turned up aifl had to be put at an honor table. He and one of his aides got stuck in traff i>

andera Jbbo bbe Georgian room en route to the reoeption in the Regerey Room, meanwhile Dick Winalow had been waiting to receive him at the street

aLpef.arra?gnent with Bell's office and had to be rescued. Somewhere along the line Ellie Lamont discovered that Brian Urquhart had quietly Mar ried the former Mrs, Cass Canfield junior and it would be less than happyt to ha ve him at the same table with Oanfield senior. (This is further in volved by the new Mrs. U. being the granddaughter of Walter Damrosch and

r sisters had also divorced Ca ss junior or his brother \) Thh little rearrangement took a neat bit of doing and 1 must give Ellie every mark for doing what she oould in meeting Mr. Oanfield in the lobby and had-

hoth ^

t0^e t0 tabl #70 instead of #30. Eventually we

1

wbere she had to entertain Sir Patrick Dean and I the Pr-

First Na tional Bank of Portland, Oregon. Of course, servioe

ZLi o poor buTt"suddenly I realized the time table was belm -..A and ent to Sam Ha yes and told him he had to begin even if praoiioly noone had# dessert. When I got back to my table X foSnd a note from C.O. Phillips and an enormous wrapped bottle tied with red ribbon from Hogan the

Forty-five minutes earlier while he was esoorting me to my

v? 1

0nfirm the January date, X had coldly told

4 3 .things SO far, I thouhgt it unlikely we would

of 1959 chMpagne Da a n* The bottle contains three quarts eight oz.

Yesterday haying a sandwiah in the Delegates Coffee Shop with Vera I

faw ?aas f P0Ple 1 know inoluding Bob Clifford arrived from 15 months in

?

^ Sv0JP"y .?ay before. Caught the 4:33 train to be hew

an time for pinner before Molly, Jim and I went to see Bill as the Headmasv

f, . S Dighton's farce "The Happiest Days of Your Life". He did very

well, in fact the whole east and production was better than one would expect

j roai junior high sonool. Fred will be home later and he and I will talk

about our next meeting in Dublin. Martha and Cleve had a fine day yesterday

to start to Dalla s, and I am blessed with another brilliant day here --

preciably warmer tha n the 39 o/O we had Thursday night in New York. Fran

the flower clusters this should be a wonderful year for mountain laurel ho.

Now lrts, bridal wreath, wisteria, azaleas, last of the tulips and lilje of

v

a r Sod. Heaven knows I have not done much gardening today, laut

I suspect enough to fehl tomorrow or Monday i

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June 1, 1963

Fred was in

throes of exams and did not come until lunch time on Sunday. We

left about **30 to tk him b*,cv to Fet Schuyler to get in some extra studying, I wad

glad to see the establishment and the ship on which he will make his cruise before Jim left

at the subway in the outer Bronx, Part of the rout* in was the LI E^ressway, where

what I guess was surplus wheat had been used as ground cover and erosion prevention on the

banks of overpasses. More useful than paying storage on the stuff. The scrub oak was

lovely in its variety of shades of pale gray-green, beige and a tawny rose. If one can

judge from the holes tiere is a fine plan for planting along the right of way.

Tuesday morning ae I was about to leave a distressed florist telephoned saying he was trying to deliver to me since Friday, A little after seven a dozen and a half pink and interesting diade of red carnations appeared from Eustace Seligman with belated birthday greetings. I was quite overcome as Christmas cards and a cocktail party a year has been the ejrcent of their gestures to me. (He is senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell has been an fiA board member almost as long as I have been on the staff,) The flowers are especially heavy in scent, very large and long stemmed. Only today did I read the little metal tag-- Colorado Carnations". I'm tempted to call the florist and ask if they are really shipped twothirds across the country, when green houses on Long Island always used to grow very satisfactory flowers.

Gwen Crowe, who will be my Charter travelling companion has been robbed, in a most disquieting manner. Of course, her jewelry, primarily old family brooches and bracelets, her typewriter and camera went. But the inclusion of her passport, alien registration and social security cards, letters, postcards, bank records and even her address book were eluded. We hate to disturb her, but it would seem that the thief was more interested in /..si- identity and only took the rest with small pawnable value as cover up. Poor thing, she has even had to go to the public library to register that her lending card had been taken. . have promised to bear witness for her if they awe as slow as threatened in replacing the alien registration card. She cannot reenter the U.S. without that I

Memorial Day I turned out a closet and several drawers in a search for my luggage

scale without success, but got a nice by-produot of stuff to throw out. In the late aftei*.

V; wn^ over to s? Auirfc

had ne down to see the new monument at the Battery

President Kennedy dedicated the week before and declares the eagle is very threatening look

ing. either the last of my typhoid shots, a week of high humidity or depression from the

extremely low office morale has given me a general malaise. I'm beginning to fera "to at

Hayes has not the foggiest notion what it is all about. The mood was not improved whn I

wnet overtown Monday and found the flannel suit was tailleur all right, but too light a gray

for me. No contrast between face, hair and it. Today I went as planned to pick up my

tickets from Air France, only to find my charming girl not on duty and the whole place

much understaffed. However a nice Mr. Gabel telephoned Idlewild, tfiere 1he clerk was be-

3a.de erself with incoming calls, end discovered that all my flights had been confirmed but

tlie price had not been calculated. Gabel will call me Monday to report the amount, I mail

my creek and he mails my tickets. At least I got my skunk coat to storage and bought some

hose at Pock & t^eck, for which the clerk tried to charge me an extra dollar, and moth spray

at Korvottes. Little by little things seem to get don and I expect I shall get off all in

one piece on the 13th. Larry has proposed including Cartegena in the touristic package he

has dreamed up for me. I an glad that a friend os his wants to go at least one way with us which will help him with the driving.

Yesterday as I was entering the UN driveway to do a couple of errands there I ran into \ era searching for a man we both know with whom she had a luncheon date. Accomplishing ono errgnd, frustrated on two, I was compensated by finding her alone and we caught up on conversation over a sandwich. She is off today to make the Commencement speech at Skidmore tomorrow--replacing Rockefeller, ... It is amazing the way Pope John keeps regaining con sciousness, I am so glad for his family that they were rewarded by recognition. He has certainly made his mark on the world and I hope his plans for the carrying out of his fars"Vigtfhhattedisidtheeaslaotpeesrtatree.poTrtodoany xAneovP*oaipiee?a"rd one man ask another at meeting on a street corner,

June 8, 1963
Monday afternoon the heavens opened and the downpour wa3 driven on a high wind. Foor Aunt Mary had gene to see a friercL, who had recently entered a heme for the aged out of tern, and was driven bach in an inverted waterfall# The car found arrangements for runoff inadequate on the New England Expressway and threw up a continual geyser as it splashed through the accumulated water* Happily she had time to enjoy the garden and grounds with Mrs* Robinson before the rain came and completely satisfied herself about the place and its inmates# About dinner time the storm abated Delta reported that Martha and Cleve's flight from New Orleans would be half an hour late because of a backlog layered up. Ihen Sal got to Idlewild to meet them he learned they had been diverted to Philadelphia. It was almost half past ten when he phoned Fran and she called me* We decided that they would be sent to New York by bus and would spend the night in town and that is just what they did* One of the other airlines preempted all the buses for their passengers and Delta had to fiddle about to get a couple for their passengers* Bie Pratts got to the St* George a little before two. I was so bemused wondering if I could find out what time they registered without waking the family that I went straight to the office and forgot that I had an early appointment with Garry i The hotel told me their room number but refused to reveal the hour of registration. Martha and 01eve were not bothered by the dry heat of Killeen (pronounced Clean), found the family thriving and happy in their new surroundings* enlivened by a continual breazs* It is* a treeless area and gives a sense of boundless space* Hood is the largest Army in stallation in the country and with two full divisions has plenty of brass and much social life* The children love the pool, Cleves has lost weight, looks trim and una* Alter the initial assignment of handling men, he has been shunted back to inasnines (or more properly vehicles)# As part of the Headquarters Company he has a nice air conditioned privato cn-iisa# -ihough he would rather have command of men and was about to get his own Company, when he was pulled off* The trip from there to New Orleans, where the car rented in Dallas was to be turned in was pleasant and they enjoyed wandering around that city*
This morning I went downtown to pick up a few things I need for packing and was fascinated by the number of nuns in the neighborhood of St. Patricks--walking, hopping into station wagons, hailing taxis --different Orders and none seeming to enter the Cathe dral, which had great wreaths of black and purple bibbon backed by branches of arbor vita-- which I regret to say 1B already browning* Flags have been generally half staffed in mourning for the Pope, including that of the the UN* The Engineering Building across 47th Street from my office windows does it so thoroughly that the flag appears to bo only about one third up the handsome pole made by Jay's friends, the Johnsons#
Tomorrow I have lunch with Aunt Mary to say "have a nice summer at Mohonk" to her* Monday evening I dine with Maria and Hank and hope to hear about fciB recent trip to Africa and say "happy time at Oak Beach" to them. After that all extra time goes into getting^off Thursday evening* It was fun to learn that Patricia Dean will be on tbo ilighb*Patr.,c^ has a stag dinner for Ian MacLoed that night so she will have a "stand-in" to weigh her luggage for her and go to Idlewild after she has assured herself that the dinner is going smoothly# Gwen and I plan to go early and secure seats by the Emergency Door, inhere there is a little extra leg room* We shall try to reserve for Patricia too, before we have food to kill time before boarding* Meanwhile the game of decisions on the basis of ounces goes on* Objects without multiple use must stay at home as the oddments of jewelry, toilet kit, sewing and writing materials add up the weigrt in the most unexpected manner*
Last night Vera asked Gwen and me plus another former helper to dinner to "send us off". (While I had planned to clear up Borne points with Vera, I was not anxious to get involved with FPA polities--a Union contract is being negotiated and the usual extravagant demands being made#) Just before we were about to go in to dinner, th doorbell rang and a delightful Argentinian woman appeared. Although invited for Saturday she was made wel come and all the talk turned on Argentina (she opposes the present military government, which she claims resulted from a group of their officers spending several months in ,ne Pentagon) and the Alliance of Progress, tfiich she also opposes Either she or I do not understand its provisions ae her basic objection does not obtain in my view. Next chitchat early August.meanwhile take care and have fun I

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July 20, 1963

VERY INFORMAL ARRIVAL BULLETIN--written in the office after five o'clock because it is awfully hot and hunid outside.

Because of weight limits I wore the new very heavy weight S anish

suit and carried the top coat Wedensday. Not uncomfortable la London, but oh ay

at Idlewlld and into New York rather much. We were half an hour late in takedff

for reason unknown as they just kept us on the ground and then lost a bit more time

en route. Result I let Owen's friends drop me at the office at 10: 30, took off

suit and left all the luggage except the overnight bag here. A taxi got me home

about 11 into what seemed an uninhabited house--it is just as well that I did

not have a taxi driver taking part of the luggage up for me. Bti by bit X shall

get it home.

It was a 21 hour day as Judith was leaving for Italy Wednesday

and I took her to the alrterminal, did two errands for her one of which was to go

to the police stattlon and report that the little Austrian maid would be alone in

16 Chester Row and beg them to keep an eye on the premises. * ;I also ordered a

couple of books I wanted, finished my packing, had lunch early* disappointed the

little maid by not having her pack for me, and obliged her by

ted at three

and letting her put my luggage in the taxi. At the terminal Owen and I arrived

at the same moment and we had coffee in the lounge with the interesting Morris mother

and daughter with whom she had been staying.

Happily the apartment aired out fairly quickly while I had a bottle of warm ginger ale and looked at the several letters awaiting me. No trouble in getting to sleep at 5 a.m. by my watch, though only mindnlght New York time. To the office by 10:30 on Thursday. Cleve, who had a luncheon in New York delivered the parcel of mail, which had been forwarded to Freeport. He looked well and we had a nice chat. DEI11 and the two children have arrived to stay the month that Clevee is on military maeouvres in South Carolina and is dividing herself and the children between the#**## two sets of grandparents. Somehow I did not do very much with that packet of mail last night. Molly phoned before I ceuld call her and report all well in Stony Brook. I'll go there for the weekend on Friday, August 2.

Alas, when I telephoned Aung Annie I found that she had broken her left wrist. She and a friend had been visiting in Canadaand the first day of the return journey went well until she started to dinner when she mistook a double step stair for a single and fell. The docotor there told her she could drive herself, but was quite wrong. She was fortunate in finding a woman familiar with a gear shift drive who was glad to drive them to Albany for a consideration. There her own doctor re~xrayed her wrist and found an impounded fracture, which he set and put in a splint. Her doctor friend, Hazel Curry, not only went with her for this session, but keeps an eye on her. I am afsaid that it was not only a shock and a strain, but may continue to be painful,she has been warned that she must exercise her hand and fingers or there will be Impairment We shall see how it all goes before deciding when she comes to see me.

My holiday was lovely but from Dublin on I have had from one to three heavy wool blankets and a down puff--in North Berwick and Garslngton a hot water tooso Hew York's heat and humidity makes me fear I shall not be able to move before Labor Day.

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It was only midnight Wednesday when I staggered to bed in Mew York , but my TOt_

etill at London time was fire in the morning and I had he.d a busy 21 hour day.



1- lMri f r a holiday in the Bay of Naples and I took her to the West London Air TeraW

at nine o'clock. taxied to M.ocadilly to buy a few books I wanted, a bus to Grosser Gardens

to cost some ems. for her and then to the police station. The errand there was to ask the.

to keep an eye on 16 Chester Row during the next two weeks. Judith e little Aus-nan max.

MM whose Knelish is only two and a half months along preferred to stay in the house. I" had

been arranged f^ her to stay two

Mocks away at Lord and Lady (Judith's daughter

Beirdre) Grantley's share she would hare the eompanionship of their staff and the ,,wo little v,,,, while she was riving me my luncheon, I tried to show her the advantages of spending

part*of the time there, but found it awkward to point out that they would pay her ertra for

;,,v ,,.ork she did in -that household. Deirdre and Johnny had dined with us the night be fore Sd Ttod heart it ai discussed gathering that their staff had suddenly shrunk to * e eook

and the nurse with the defection of a parlour maid*

It is unnecessary to say that all of Britain has been rocked by the Stephen Ward case

with its extensive ramifications reaching in so many directions. The simplest people are troubled by -Si eir daughters' reaction to the penny press descriptions of the elothee, glsmtur

end cash returns of promiscuity d the fed ing that after Prcfurae lied in the House of

Commons, they can never believe anything said in Parliament. The upper e.helons of sosiety

not only share these reactions, hut are living on the edge of the

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dcar that Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Devise are name droppers art vxccuely determined

wring everything they can out of the situation. The Astors uajg ^reputation - or hospital-.y

for generations, Cliveden ie a huge house end it was not unoF^Jj people staying at his cottage to the big house. Johnny Grant!sY' f: suitor

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has played bridge with the Russian Naval Attache (in the Frcf'imc case,1 and fswv w'*iw4|W:

Rl-e-Daviee. Naturally they dread the day -fceir names are dropped in testimonj aa

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friends". The only ooneolation is that they will be ore among eumany

that it will scon be forgotten. Needless to say the matter was not discussed either vh en

t wont to their very attractive home for a drink one afternoon nor when they cam -ct r with Judith end me on Tuesday. I suppose the Royal Family had no alternative but
to have the sketches of them bought up adding by my figuring $15,120 to Y/ard*e doftnce fund.

he mere fact that exhibition and sale was held shows the inclination to involve everyone

poseibile in a guilt-by-association or an attempt to demonstrate I-enat-be-ae bad-as-pa..n t-

X*-kn.o^* so-many- fine-peopl e

-me variants in weather have been wide. After two nights in ^drid.Lar-ryend Iotartal

south Sunday morning,joined Pepe Pardol and hie wife at luncheon at San.a Elena at vhe

first mourrtair. pase four hours from Madrid. We spent that night at Granada, which was en

fios+a so after dinner Pepe insisted I see how the people m joyed themselves --brandj ...

-e place and coffee in the Arab quarters. Women and children dressed in uhe lull flounced

skirts of Seville walking about or riding in open oarriages, also a pair

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back from a day of sport on the Sierra Nevada. The next day we went on to Vele i-kalaga

to see the newly purchased olive and almcnd fine*. Here a sheet was enoughtosleopunde.,

hut I always had a wrap when we went after dinner for brandy at a sidewalk cafe. A week

later on the trip north Larry got the brunt of the afternoon sun, which was tough on urn

bu- 2 was comfortable. From Dublin onward I encountered varying degrees of cold, clouu. .ther if not always rain and found two or three heavy wool blankets and down pu-. on

my beds--at North Berwick and Garsingtcn a hot water bottle was always pu+

am greeted with a heat wave accompanied by hidh humidity and to ray dismay no i-i .. 6 |ith a handkerchief tied around my head like a Commanohe to keep the sweaty-rem pu.raan*

into my eys, another in my lap for ready use with the drips

Larry has since written how glad he was I went first to Spain as iw

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Madrid after I left. (It is bad enough to have 1b re, where at 1

5 c nirconditioned and I have to wear a sweater.) On the point of transport-- Gwen and I did not think Air Franva service as good a-

KLK or BOAC charters. Patricia Dean and Ellie & John French (she is Mayor Wagners

July 28, 1963 page 2 Comissloner to the UN to keep good relations with the various foreign delegations and the City) were among 145 (or so) fellow passengers on our jet. Despite the densest low cloud
or Fog at London inhere we first stopped outbound we got to Paris on the tick. Lucky for Ellie and John as they had booked a 20 minute connection to go on to Athens...something I would never have done. It probably rained steadily during the seven hours of my layover
in Paris, which actually the best connection I uld make for Madrid. After working all day Thursday in the office and encountering inefficiency on the part of Air France at Idlewild, I was indeed glad to find Larry waiting for me at ten o1 clock at the Madrid
airport . (Why our departure from Paris was delayed half an hour I'm not sure though it
appeared to be the late arrival of some personage I) In Spain I travelled only by Rover and most comfortably. Always in Larry's except one afternoon in the Pardol*s when we went to Torresmolinas, west of Malaga, so I could see the way. foreign capital for the
most part is transforming a lovely little fishing village inj% community of tall hotels
and apartments between the sea and the mountains. It all adds to the land boom in the Costa del Sol and should contribute to wie Spanish economy but most of the buildings ate so hideous and out of keeping with x** simple wliite walls and red tile of -the country I
Larry especially wanted me to see a lovely house fairly high over the town with a beauti- ful English type lawn and garden. Charming, but as I studied the surroundings I could see their view of the sea already infringed upon by the monstrosities and too many open spaces upon which additional concrete horross could be erected both seaward and toward the backdrop mountains.

In Dublin I walked, used a few taxis, took Fred on an interesting sighseeing trip of the city and 20 miles north to Howth, which gave a good idea of the east coast green,green country side with the fields divided as in England by hedgerows enlivenedxwiih elderberry in bloom. The day before we both left the cadets and soem civilians including me went on a radio train straight across Ireland to Galway. The equipment "was new and comfortable with an intercom system over which we were told about the country we passed*through and
heard appropriate music. Tickets carried car and seat numbers for four places around a fixed table on each side of the aisle. I drew a window seat facing the diesel with an Irish couple across from me but no one besidekne. Fred knew my location and after an hour joined me for a while, but went back to his pals before a hot lunch v/as served. At Galway
we got into busses to go into the rugged Conneznara country. (Through a misreading of the schedule the cadets thou^zt they would be back in Dublin at 7i30 instead of leaving Galway and all had dates for their last night in port* They raised a great dust so it was arrang ed that they get a shortened motor coach trip, have their high tea in the radio train and return by a regular train at 5a30 due in Dublin about 8.) To the consternation of the
Leprecaunish driver I went along on a cadet bus as it seemed silly to say goodbye to Fred in the Galway station at one o'clock. As it poured torrents at frequent intervals I think I was just as well off. Happily it was dry when we stopped in Cong for a tea break, which
Fred and 1 used to walk through the village to tfce entrance of Ashford Castle, where we found a moBt pleasing modern church built beside the ruins of a larger very old one.

I liked the Irish Airlines which flew me from London to Dublin and on to Edinburgh

and I suspect it was not their fault that my big bag, checked through at Madrid did not

arrive in Dublin until 24 hours after I did. In fact I thought they did a first class

job in finding it at all since the luggage tag had been jerked off both bags. This I lay

at the door of a small boy in Madrid who put a hex on me one morning when I was having a

lemonade on a terrace near the Caetillano-Hilton while.#d attended to some business. He

wanted me to buy a nabisco like wafer rolled into a hollow tube about a foot long* (I had

noticed a tray of these at a place we

passed that morning and asked Larry about them

and they did not sound like anything attractive to me.) I tried to politely decline the

child*s persistent proffering of his wares, and he was- persistent, and went one reading

the papsr or the 1913 Baedeker, which was my constant companion. He stood with his mouth

close to my shoulder and muttered in a very soft voice for at least a minute and I KNEW

I had been cursed--gypsy or otherwise! My Dublin style would have been cramped had I been

longer with only my ni^it things, my books and papers, two extra pair of shoes and one

dress and no extra hose, handkerchiefs, lingerie, blouses, etc.

This organization of comments under major headings may be a great iftistake , if so put

July 28, 1963 -- page 3 ^.t down to bemusement by heat* So let us move into Flora and Fauna* The most important being Larry's olives--knowing especially the olives of Italy with their pattial and tor*, tured trunks reminding me of Dors's pictures of souls in the agony of hell, it was bliss for me to find his large, well shaped trees with proper trunks marching up to the ridge and coastingdown to the back of the property* He made arrangements for the land to be fenced to keep goats from damaging the trees and will return for the well digging immedi ately after September 1st when the water table level should be at its lowest* If as seems inevitable water is found it will be pumped to a reservoir on the ridge, which can serve as swimming pool, before running down both slopes to irrigate the trees* The rid^ge with & fine view of one of Velez's several churches and a Moorish watch tower on a hill with mountains in the distance is the ideal place for the house* It will catch the breeze from the Mediteranean and be in the center of the finca*

The trip down via Granada and back via Cordova led us through huge vineyards and olive

plantations, some arid areas where sheep and goats fed on what they could find among the

rock crevices. Road side poppies were small and flowered 6-8 inches from the ground, even

thistles attained little height, but on a road filled with hairpin turns carrying us over

the last mountain range before Velez I saw one white thistle -- a lovely thing, which haunt

ed me until the return journey at the same elevation but a different road I spotted sever

al Owhera* Along the coast the#e are palm trees, jasamine, bougainvilia cascading over

houses and walls and lots of other semitropical trees and plants reminding me alternately

of the Virgin Islands end south China and India. Spain has beautiful horses with the glossi

est coats seen outside the showring. Burros, donkeys, etc usually carry double paniers of

burden and frequently rider too, but alwyas have red and white wool balls decorating the

harness* %ile we had our breakfast coffee on the sidewalk at Velez I watched teams of

oxen following their master throu^i the street and responding instantly to a long, li^rfc

wand he laid li^itly on their backs to stop, start or have them turn. When they plowed

the finca they bowed their heads to avoid touching the outspreading branches of the trees,

and placed their feet delicately to miss small shoots* Don't let me give the impression

that mechanization has not reached Spain* One afternoon after siesta we drove to the

finca and contributed to a traffic jam at a corner away from the main road-- tho Rover

was going south, a double paniered donkey laden with wood pruned from trees was on the

way north, a yoke of oxen had turned from west to south and been stopped by a huge orange-

yellow road scraper, and somewhere a farm cart from which an animal had been disengaged

blocked part of the passage* With smiles and patience on all sides we all got sorted out

and were on our several ways* The barboy at ou* breakfast place had a three days old

reddish brown kid for a pet, which followed him about as best it could. Mien the boy

darted too fast or lost the kid on a sudden twist among; the tabled, the wee thing made a

distress signal--combination of a parrot and the chattering of a squirrel* We became

good enough friends for me to scratch his chin and pat his shanks* Dogs in the village

were mostly small and to me unattractive and not vexy numerous* In the old Arab quarter

of Velez, as elsewhere in former Moorish built flush to the street * In Velez the

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tfce latter carry iron brackets in which pots of geraniums and other colorful plants

bloom against the white walls surmounted by red tile roofs, which in turn are usually

lichen covered often with varietes putting forth yellow or pink flowers* Very gay and in

finitely tidy* This is done for their own satisfaction as Velez is so small and untourist-

ed that "there is no hotel* We stayed at the Pensions Nacional on central oblong "square"*

It serveojlunch, which we usually took about 2 or 2a 30 and dinner about 11. For breakfast

we went to the Square for coffee, made in an Espresso machine, often they had rolls and

had to send to the market for butter* Frequently Juan, our Pensions waiter, passed with

the two big baskets of vegetables and fruits for the day* He stopped to greet us and

because it had been revealed that the Senora liked ripeyd figs he would leave a few for

our breakfast*

In Ireland the continual rain makes everything very green and encourages fl. ower boxes in front of public buildings and places of business* In the dramatic west coast dry masonry stone walls separate fields and how the sheep are shifted from field to field I never did discover* But fuschia trees dangling their purple and cerise blooms grew wild along the roadside* We saw "turf" being cut for fuel both in the peat bog3 of the great central plateau both by hand with a long handled curved blade shovel ana by great machines*

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The Irish are as voluable as the Spaniards and are touched with the same feeling of

ie the hurry, there is always tomorrow". Their horses are poor scraggly

except for

a huge stallion with some Pecheron ancestry, which we watched take a pull on the bark of

a road side tree we had noticed was being stripped and could not see how. Both Scotland

and England showed the results of the dreadful winter and the almost total absence of spring*

The Russell lupine, which had so impressed me in Edinburgh two years ago, had a late and unspectacular bloom. Garsington roses were largely rain ruined, "fa ough I cut deadheads "there in the hope that a spell of fine weather would bring out the buds. Of the 24 box

bordered beds with their sentinel yews in the formal garden, only the lovely delphinium and tag end of lupine were showing above the box. Pansies were still in beds which should

have had summer into autumn plants and provided me with a lot of war k. The Esther Reeds

were just beginning, so no deadhead cutting there. The Zinnias, marigolds and asters were

not far enough along for me to cut the terminals to make them branch, but the dahlias from

seed, largely yellow, offered seed pods to cut off, while the tuberous variety were still

to flower. Because of the size of their seed order Sutton sent a man down to see how

things were doing and he was ecstatic about the sweet peas, as was I.

covered a heavy

wire six foot fence erected a couple of feet from the red brick wall for oVer 50 feet. I

picked thousands of unusually large flowers of every known sweet pea shade, four to six
blooms on a stalk. Ruth said earlier in the season there had been even more per stalk I

The cold had damaged the magnolia grandiflora espaliered against the house so that all the

old leaves had fallen off and while new ones came sparsely I saw no flower buds. Other

parts of t$EB south wall should have been covered with pears, and there were only a few. It

will be sad if this sunsaer*s brave efforts are a final fling of loyalty and these trees

die. The spectacifcar yew hedges on either side of the forecourt looked thin enou^i for

m to judge for the first time the size of the end tree--about six feet in circumfrance a

yard from the ground. It was planted in 1530 when the house was built and still harbors

an enormous number oi birds nssts. Because of morning light I use some of my A ront wind ows for ventilation rather man 1nos to the east and heard than twittering away about four

in the morning.

Since I did not have time to walk in Karnaington Gardens I cannot make much of a gar den report on London, excejt window ooxes in Chester Row heavily favored petunias this season. Juoith was late m getting things for her back garden and had to relie largely on geraniums. To our surprise she was getting scme second bloom (I assume) on her wis teria and first flowering of 1B r neighbor*s jasamine was popping through the fence to her. The thing about Lond^iich struck me most forcefully was the tremendous amount of build ing going on all over town--apartments, office buildings and hotels. It could be that thebf have done too much. Traffic still snarls despite the most confusing rerouting on on ^vay streets and elaborate subway passages for pedestrians to get into the park from Park Lane. It confuses taxi drivers and bus riders alike. I actually had to giv direc tions twice to cabbies to get to Chester Row. It used to be that men could not take out a cab without passing a police test to demonstrate their knowledge of streets and those which after a few blocks tire of their names and for no good reason change| as Oxford Street becomes New Oxofrd, then High Holbom, iter just Kolborn before it is Holburn Viaduct and
lastly Newgate Street.

Next weekend I go to Stony Brook, but when I get a chance I'll carry on perhaps with food, drink and hotels; major sights; interesting sidelights and trivia. I begin to won der if a straight chronological account might not be more interesting. However for that I really need my books on Spain and Dublin, which are caning by sea post. The office is pleasantly busy and of course superbly cool. If this weather holds I shall have to abandon all thought of either finding a new apartment or getting moved into it. I have a hot meal at lunch and simple cold things here at night and make as little exertion as possible. Perhaps I am adjust^ I have not been as uncomfortable today as yesterday, al though the forecast was for hotter--at least the last few hours there has been something of a breeze and I think it is less humid, "fllhile damp I am not at the moment dripping. This mroning Then I telephoned Aunt Annie to see if they had changed the splint on her broken left wriit for a cast (they had not) she said it was sizzling in Albany. Ios~erdav people had gathered on State Street to watch a huge new thermometer, which had gotten to 99 o/o. They evidently hoped to see it at the 100 mark. Such heat is nard on her.

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Late Tuesday Canada pushed same aloe dry air emte us, But witkeut enough terse behind it t# move aur Bermuda high sufficiently far iata tke Atlaatie ta prevent tke humidity from railing back about midnigkt Wednesday night* Tke respite was goad while it lasted but only a teaser* It was wonderful, ta see tke family and sleep under a blanket la st night* Craps leaked pear from tke train and gardens kere lack tkeir usual profuse blase af color* Molly, Jim a nd I ha d a goad swim this morning* If this afternoon*s elouis and laek of wind da not give us rain tomorrow 1*11 ka ve anotker* Talking so muck about Fred and Dublin kas ratker broken my pattern, so kere is Fire*

The flight from Madrid was broken in London by a change from Iberian to Irish Air, though my luggage was checked through with tke delay of the ULg bag you ha ve already heard about* The city was still decorated with Amer ican flags from the JFK visit and everyone in a state of high excitement about kirn, the "grand1* crowds which turned out ta see him claiming there had D,ovr been so mariy people ta look at in a single place* One af the lift bays in a jacket la den with brass buttons was greatly upset when I admitted I reached Dublin too late tc see tke President* Only my remark tka t I had last s een him in Washington mollified tke lad* The numbers? boys who looked no more than ten years old working as bus keys, pages cud elevator operators in tke Gresham bothered me* Later I noticed them doing all sorts of jobs* Fred turned up Monday afternoon in time to have his roast beef meal just before the dining room closed* A conference lead \ t bpy tickets for the seven o'clock sightseeing tour and a trip across the River Liffey on the O'jfceimel Street bridge (wider than it is long) to Trinity College only to find the Library housing the Book of Kells had closed for the day twenty minutes earlier* We wandered about the campus (the college was founded by Queen Elizabeth I in 1591 though the nly~re maining relict of her work is a deeply carved coat of arms) and returned t o the north pa rt of the city by another bridge to the very new and alrea^ inadequate bus terminal, where we ha d an early dinner and embarked en the tour* There a re many broad thoroughfares like 0*Connell street with its double row f plane trees down the centre, beautiful streets of 18th CeMtuiy residences a nd frequent bridges across the Liffey* We were Impressed ly Phoenix Park (1,760 acres, the largest enclosed urban park in the world) where the American Ambassa dor and the President of the Irish Republic are luck enough to have their residences, the bea utiful Mansion House--offJoiaL home of Dublin* s Lords Mayor since 1715 , the windowless facade of the Baik of Ireland seems to imply that the Irish were not to be trusted by the Bri tish when they built it in 1719 as the pa rliament house* The Guinness*s Brewery oovers60 acres with buildings n three levels is Handily on the b ank of the river* Since the family bought it in 1759 their benefactions haie been judicious and extensive* Unfortunately it was too late for us to g> into the famous Botanical Ga rdens and Zoo, so we drove through newer middle olass residential areas and through the wonderful farm and pasture land to the Head f Howth* From its 560 foot eleva tion one can see the coast of Wales en a clear day* Not being so fortune te we only enjoyed a glimpse of the Csstle (built 1564) with its lovely rhododendrons and beech hedges til Ireland's Eye a dramatic small island* On the way back the Dublin harbcr jetty was pointed out as the work of Captain Bligh of Mutiny on the Bounty fame* The next day Fred had the duty and after having my hair washed and lea ving candy for the Irish Air staff who had found my luggae and deliver ed it to the hotel I went back to Trinity to see The Book of Kells. a mm of the Gospels wonderously wrought by monks presumably in the 8th centiuy in precise manuscript with magnificent illumina tion* They also exhibit

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foot battlemented tower is said to remain from the Danes. From the outa

aide we groped down trea oherously uneven steps into remarkable vaults

covered with oobwebs. Handsome lead caskets decorated with brass can be

glimpsed behind grills. One presumably nonprivate vault oontained wooden

caskets, whioh had turned to powder over oenturies exposing the intact

bodies which remain soft but with a brown leatherlike appea ranee. Facial

ohara oteristios remain olea r and natural in the 300 year old "Nun" .The

"Crusader" lies nearby and his hands ha ve beoome shiny from the custom

of visitors shaking hands with him. The vergerassured us that all the

women who wished to be ma rried were led to the altar within six months

after suoh a ahnd sfcake. Neither Fred nor I oared for the experience,

though we saw several men and women step up for the wish and handclasp.

On^ Thursday, our last da y in Dublin, we made the twip to the west ooast. Leaving the trim, well farmed oountryside of the east coast with its narrow lanes and hedgerows we followed the Royal Canal, built about 1790 when the penny post was introduced and maoh progress was made in In land during the brief life of autonomy of the Irish Parliament granted when England was under the pressure of fighting the American Revolutionary War. Today the oanl looks about 16 feet wide and is choked with weed. At Mullinga r we lost the oan&l and entered the Midlands, a vast expanse of level oountry broken by scattered mounta in outcrops. In these pasture lands with wooded slopes and quiet river valleys one glimpses round towers high atone orosses, mediavel castle or abbey ruins and the barren areas where peat is out for fuel, and left stacked with air spaoe for the initiial drying out. We passed through Moate and Ballinasloe the great cattle market oenter andooaated down into County Galway on the Atlantio. This also is varied in soenery--aoerland and mountains with lakes and deep in. denta tiona from the sea. The oity of Galway is on the River Corrib whioh oorries the waters of Lough Corrib a short distance in Galway Bay. Salmon swan. oT.r tha rlTer bed and up the weir. We ohanged to the bus to go north.

August 6, 1963

Family News.

Last night X talked to Aunt Annie. She is coming along with frequent trips to the doctor to have the bandage on her split tightened as the swelling goes down. It is still very painful, and I suspect especially so with weather changes. The doctor says little but will not permit her to go to Cape Cod on the 12th nor come to New York. She knits a row at a time as part of the necessary exercise program. It is hard to deliberately cause pain, but the doctor insists on exercise. There is^ no power in the left hand at all and braiding her hair is a major problem. By thinking ahead she gets friends to open the fruit juice tin or whatever requires two hands. It *d mot only a painful , but a very boring, experience. I wanted to go up this weekend or next, but she would have nothing to do with the notion on the grounds that I am too busy. Of course I should be busy in the apartment hunting and preparing to move departtment, but somehow 1 have not knuckled down to that yet. Greatest progress was to have Jay say over the weekend that of course he and such brothers as were available
on moving day would do the job for me. Isn't that nice!

This morning I called Cleve and found that yesterday Belli flew to Buffalo to spend a week with her sist er at Silver Creek. (Her brother Bob came back from the Orient with a tropical disease, which has finally been correctly diagnosed at a hospital in New York. The drug now being administered is supposed to kill the bugs in
his Intestines in three days and he will be on the way to health.)

Fran and her family had a fine time at Baiting Hollow. The weather was good and they found the 96 steps from the beach to their cottage a little much. But evidently they all made it on their own steam except Johnny, who had to be carried part
way. They had dinner on Sunday with Martha and Cleve to tell all about it.

Stony Brook notes. Friday night we had delicious fresh blue fish

which Jim had caught. Sunday Jim and Jay played against each other An the Soundview

Men and Boys soft ball game. After Molly and 1 had gotten corn for dinner we watched

for a while and saw Jay go to bat with "boys" cm first and second, hit a home run and

raise their score by three. Although the boys had a good lead, aftel* we left the men

pulled up their socks and wen the game. We heard the cheering, but rnwer guessed the

outcome!

Recently Bill was fishing in the middle of the Sound when tube motor conked

out in their boat. Someone took off his red shirt and raised it on a fishing pole and

in half an hour the Coast Guard came out from Eaton's Neck and towed them ashore. Great

disgust was registered that they were landed at the Coast Guard station instead of Doing towed

home. As usual it was Jim who had to drive about twenty miles to bring hdwe the six boys

and one girl in the party. I never did hear how or when the boat was reco vered.

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August 10, 1S63

Yihile this would be a lovely day to be in the country, I have at least ticked off four more apartments to add to the 20 examined during the week# The ideal is not at hand but perhaps I am clarifying what is offered and the things which are indispensible to me coming into sharper focus# Last weekend I ran out of paper with a bit more on Ireland---

The bus trip north through the Connamara country was over good but narrow roads through pastureland, between green hills topped with grey rock and other times along Lough (Lake) Cprrib with frequent islands, on some of which were grey stone castles, abbeys or monasteries# Iflhile Gaelic is taught in all the schools of Dublin, it is the exclusive language in Joyces country west of the Corrib# In our short version trip of about 70 miles we made a circle of Lougi Corrib# Should I ever have more time in Ireland I should like to go back to Cong at the head of the Corrib and stay at Ashford Castle, formerly one of the Guinness family places and now a hotel# Sconomicly Ireland is forging ahead, but I felt that for too long too many people had migrated and left too few to make the most of its resources. Like Edinburgh in the east of Scotland Dublin is a fine city with a tra dition for learning and culture# A less sharp comparison can be drawn between the western cities of Glasgow and Galway--both very conscious of the sea and possibilities of ocean trade#

Since Molly found my category treatment interesting let's move into hotels and homes In Madrid Larry reserved a room for me at the Tirol, not too far from his apartment, where I was comfortably housed --single occupancy of a twin bedded room with bath at 200 pesetas ($3#60) a nigfct including the service charge--though somehow one tips anyway# The two elevators ars self service and a law unto themselves as one would not infrequently go tt eight from five when expecting to go down# The morning after we returned from Velez I wanted to go down from the eighth floor, where for one night I la d been put into a suite at $425, and neither car responded. A house window washed tried to help and when un successful murmured "manana" smiliingly# After I had written a post card, the elevator appeared# There was a pleasant dining room with good food, writing room and lounge on the second floor and what they called a cafeteria but was really a counter with stools and plenty of tables with a couple of Spanish speaking girls off the lobby# I usually had my breakfast at ths counter, -fti ough ejqpsrimented both with having it sent to my room and in the dining room# On the way south Pardol had made reservations at the Hotel Casablanca in Granada, where my smaller room and bath was about $1 # On the return we spent a night at the Hotel Cervantes in Linares# (We had no reservation and I got a much larger corner room for the same prios without bath, but running water and went down the hall for my bath#) Velez-Malaga being small has no hotel and we stayed at Pension Nacional for five nights --running water as baths are now being added to some rooms -- with luncheon and dinner, each four courses (no breakfast served) came to about $2 a day# Some staff, dining room and reception desk,in Madrid spoke Engli h but after that I would have been lost without Larry's Spanish# But were it not for him, I never would have gone to Spain# The service was good throughout, invariably with a smile# In Scotland I had to listen to a long diatribe from a bank manager who had been to a resort hotel near Barcelona# H e and his wife had nothing good to say about the eleven o'clock dinner hour and were furious because all their efforts to be fed earlier gained them nothing# Y/aiters raver seemed to hurry us, but always had the next course ready to serve when we were up to it# I became very fond of a cold soup with which was passed bowls of chopped tomato, cucumber, onions and small cubes of bread You add some of each or what pleases you# The Spaish always have a fish course at night and sometimes at lufach, using often the tiniest fish or "shrimp11 I ever saw cooked# A serving consists of hundreds if not thous ands. One night we had been delayed in Malaga overlong and drove the 20 miles along the sea about eleven o'clcok under a beautiful star studded sky and soon saw the larger "stars of the fishing boats out on the calm Mediterranean getting our food for the next day# flhila Larry parked the car I went into see about dinner# The dining room, on the second floor as were our bedrooms, was dark and in the kitchen Juan, our waiter greited me with his usual grin although the cook was folding up hsr apron and the patron was at a table presumably figuring the day's profit or was it the shopping list for the morrow? I wrung mSeynhoarnpdrso, ndtoep. loBreydthits twimasetwI ehnatdy wmainshuetdesm1yb fhoarnedsm, idLnairgrhyt,apppaneatormedinedn tohuer hdyinnignegr raonodmaadndded

Augi st 10 -- page 2 -our courses appeared at our relaid table--no choices that night i Tiling is the usual flooring with carpet runners in corridors and rugs in the rooms * Windows have shutters to keep out the daytime heat--in England heavy floor length drapery to shut out cold and early morning light# At Garsington dawn appeared five hours before my nine o'clock break fast tray with newspaper and mail. In Spain I removed the blanket or puff thoughtfully provided before going to bed, ihile from Dublin onward there were three heavy blankets and a puff and usually all of them were used. In North Berwick arrl Garsington a hot water bottle was slipped in as well# Before leaving hotels a word about the Gresham --very expensive after Spain --my twin bedded room without bath was 55 shillings$7.86 per night. Its public rooms are comfortable, corridors wide and silent, a great many people ssem in volved in providing first class Bervice, Don't try to stay there during the horse race weeks as the place is very popular with English racing set.
My friends in England do net consider me a tourist so we mis t return to Spain for the sigitseeing, file four days spent motoring from Madrid to the Mediterranean and back were packed with beauty and interest. Aunt Caroline's 1913 Baedeker, which I gave her for her 1527 trip provided lots of interesting and useful infonnation and Larry's extensive travel was a firm foundation. Our culture may be a composite influenced by peoples of many lands wfoo brought ideas as immigrants deteraind to make their homes te re, not as foreign invaders. imposing their will. Spain is diffirsnt-- alien cultures lave been imposed and the good thii%8
~rain used for ths benefit of others. Superficially, their forests were destroyed cen turies ago and without extensive replanting the soil has been eroded. Scratching a livihood from poor easrth has kept most people too poor to have stature building and even today we find tall people only among the rich. The historical pattern is fascinating to met the Phoenicians wei t to Spain in 1100 3Cfounding Malaga} the Carthagenians founded Cartagena in 236 B.C., the Romans pushed out the Cathagenians in 205 BC and by 19 BC completed the con quest of the whole peninsular save the Basques in the noth. By 483 AD the Visigoths ended the Roman domination and in 711 the last Visigoth king was killed by the Moors." In turn the Moorish grip on Spain ended in 1492, During their occupation the Moors' fortunes seesav/ednot only from the Christian Spanish Kings' efforts, but the incursions of Charlemagne, Louis of France and the Crusaders, who found it easier to fight Moors in Spain than in the Holy Land. The Bourbons rulled Spainand even Napoleon's brother Joesph had his moment as King of Spain. The Duke of Wellington pursued the British war against France on Spanish soil. The wars depleted the land and the people and the succession of foreign rulers and occupiers left their words in the language, their styles of architecture and the rssulte of their greed as well benefactions.
Granada, itself at an elevation of 2195 feet, is built on two mountain spurs with a deep gorge between and within sight of the never melting aiow of the Sierra Nevada . Well watered by two rivers--the Darro, hich thoughtfully burrows underground for much of the city center and the Gentil presents especially on the Alhambra hill a wealth of green trees planes and elms of such density mat after the brilliant sun the appraoch up tne hill to the Alhambra on the plateau. Tue intricate series of courts, of gardens and buildings is confusing, but using the Arab technique of anji. open court surrounded by columns supporting the roof over a gallery from whioh various rooms open make either for vista after vista or nearby delight in the intricate design of decoration as of the honeycomb vaulting of ceilings and tne grace of Arabic script poems written on walls. While the slender columns said to represent tent poles are of different marbles, most of the construction is of wood and plaster. Probably some of it has been poorly maintained in the centuries since the Moors built with such patience and delicacy. Each unglassed window offers a fine view of well irrigated gardens and beyond to glimpses of other buildings and in the distance the surrounding country. When T was there the swallows were having a busy time on the f&ce of the Hall of the Ambassadors which fortunately has immensely'thick walls into which they had innumerable entrances for their nests. Inside the plaster ornamentation presents 152 different patterns made by iron stamps pressed on the fresh, wet plaster and colored red and dark blue. Many of the doors are beautifully carved ae in the winter residence of th9 ruler's harem, where again the honeycomb ceiling is so beautiful and intricate it would seem that the workmen must have vied with one another to add additional embellishments. Later we went to the Royal Chapel i^down in the city) to see the huge royal monuments of mXaiirebilrepelareincte-id.eaoto.enthceasmkeemtsorayreofi.tnhea V"Caualttho3liixc Korinegisg"jhktnoswtenptsobuelsowasthFeernmiodnaunmde^ntIss.abella,

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August 17, 1963

Yesterday was a red letter day--I signed the lease for an arm and a leg at 152 East 35th Street, New York 17, N.Y.--Zip number 10017. It has an elevator and a residence superintendent, both of which I have missed for te# many years, The living room has a b#y window to the north, the bedroom has two on the south, bath and kitchen each one also south* and there are five closets. The living room is a little smaller than this one and has no fireplace, the bed room a little larger. The building is an old one, which ht s been cou>plstely renovated--new oak floors, new plaster, pipes and electrical system but of necessity retains the odl high ceilings. Of course, it is air conditioned about which I could not care less, but shall doubtless use it in extreme heat. This afternoon Fred Nunes and a pal of his brought me five wonderful cartons for packing books and four useful but inferior ones. Before Fred made the last flight, he was muttering "Oh Miss Pratt, you should not be climbing these stairs. I am so glad you are moving,"
Thursday, on the other hand, was a shocking day# even if it was pay day. Bill Strobbe was no himself--discovered he had me.de three stupid errors in a memo he had transcribed copied it over, threw the copy job--which was not perfect--away and gave me the error one in my "sign book". To help a collegue, I asked him to go to the first floor at four o'clock "to play a taped speech onto a dictaphone belt for transcription. He evidently went down at 3s40 before Matthews was ready for him there was an "explosion" Bill returned to his desk, while I was with Hayes, packed his few belonging into his music case, which I saw him with at 3s50 and called "Bill, everything has changed. Please sse me before you leave," --meaning within the next ten minutes, I called Matthews on th interoffice phone to re* port I needed Bill to transcribe a letter(Nixon invitation) Hayes had asked ne to do and got along with the dictation. When it was done, no 3ill either at his desk or on the ground floor, so I had to get a girl from the pool to transcribe a draft. Somewhere along the way a very silly unsigned note to me was found on his desk, which I promptly concealed* As I more than half expected he did not show on Friday, nor did he answer six telephone calls I made to him, although about lis 30 he called another department for which he had undertaken some overtime copy work telling them he could not complete it and where the portion done was to be found. He said he was at home and yst did not answer when the grapevine brought ma this news inside of 15 minutes, I got him finally about 4s30 and was told that he had gone stale on the job and had been feeling for some time that he would never make anything of his life if he stayed in such a comfortable job with complete security. From lyalty^tome, though/ not to FPA he would come back and break someone in for mo if that was desired* j murmured about two weeks customary notice and my ignorance of his general disaffection and suggested that since I bad protected him on the events of Thursday and there would be no embarrassment I hoped he would think the whole thing over udring the weekend and come in Monday, but in any event j$jj he and I had to talk on Monday. He has always been competent on the job, but is a strange moody person with a vile temper, which flairs if anyone nudges the chip on his shoulder. Although I hate the -thought of breaking in a new person, I may be well rid of him---after he finishes the OTR jobs for which he is responsible and are now in train. Quelle Bore t t
The war games going on in several southern states, which have engaged Clevee for weeks past are concluding. He should be back in Texas on the 22nd. So I go to Freeport tomorrow to see Delli and the babes before they fly back to join him. There won't be much packing to show for this weekend, but tomorrow is also Martha's birthday and I have only seen Cleve since my return. He was good enough to meet me at 152 Eaat 35th on Wednesday afternoon, go over the space, the fixtures, etc, with meticulous care and encou raged me to take the place. Precious time for which I am most grateful, I probably shall be sketchy about writing for the next several weeks, lorry, but at least you won't need three guesses to know what I'll be doing*
This afternoon I went over to see Aunt Mary, just back from Mohonk. She enjoyed her six weeks there, though her maid told me "Home is the only place for Miss Mary now". For herself Aunt Mary says she feels better now than she has for over a year, the only trouble is she tires easily and would like to do something useful in her short periods of energy. Today being the nurses day off, she had a fine time going down to Sake-Fifth Avenue and buying two pair of Italian shoes and looking at other things, She loves to get off on her own and was interested at the large percentage of negroes in the almost empty shop.

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While this is actually being dictated in the office, it is "as of 152 East 35th Street," and designed to be a quick chronological fill-in on the last two weeks. After luncheon on August 21, while sitting at my desk, I suddenly started seeing shooting stars. That display did not last more than 20 minutes, but I then discovered the vision of my left eye was badly clouded with a large thunderhead-type of blot. Because of his summer schedule, I could not see Dr. Connelly, my regular oculist, until Friday morning. He immediately proposed that I have a few days of bed rest for treat ments and medication. He called Dr. Spalter at the Institute of Ophthalmology of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Spalter found there was no bed available that day and made an appointment to see me at 7:45 Saturday morning up there. Spalter was able to get a private room for me on an emergency basis after he had run the same tests that Connelly had conducted the day before. By 10:30, I was in bed and, from a large and very efficient staff, had drops in my eyes, pills in my mouth, deep heat treatment, blood from my arm, blood from my finger, and so on for the next five days. In between
times I lay quietly in bed with a radio control switch at one hand and the black satin mask over both eyes. Spalter was glad to see the progress I had made and let me go
home after a final heat treatment Thursday morning.

Instead of sorting and packing, I did a good deal of resting. Friday, Bill Strobbe came and painted one my bookcases; Saturday morning he came back to wash down the other one, as there was no time to paint it. A little after 10:00, Jim came with Jay and Bill, soon followed by Fred and a friend from Honolulu who was spending leave with them. Two pickup trucks made two round trips from 64th to 35th Street. They rigged a line out one of the windows and lowered boxes, chairs and all manner of things down the four stories to the sidewalk. East 64th Street was never like this before, I am sureJ Lucille, my colored maid, turned up to assist in packing. Everything in sight was put
into some container or other. Alas, my helpful family did not get away until 8:15 after a very hard day's work. We discovered the faulty lock on my front door at 35th Street had not been fixed, so I went to bed with some bookshelves wudged under the
doorknob and held in place by the typewriter.

Sunday, about 2:30, Martha and Cleve with work clothes and a lovely kit of tools; and stayed until after 8:00. Bright and early Monday morning they were back again for another big day of getting the kitchen and the bathroom, both of which were extremely dirty, cleaned up and organized for me. We also got a good many cartons and bags emptied. The latter went into the high storage places over one or another of the five closets the
new apartment boasts.

Dr. Spalter expected me to sit like Madame Queen and give orders, or to lie down with my eyes covered. Well, I did the best I could in complying with his instructions. Tuesday I came to the office and tried to keep hours here from 10:00 to 4:00, so as to have several nonsleeping hours each day with the mask on the eyes.

Thursday (September 5) I made the sabbath-day's journey up to 165th Street where Dr. Spalter was delighted at the continued progress. The swelling at the back of my eye has almost completely disappeared, though the inflammation without its original angry look remains. Happily, my cloud is U-shaped with the legs above and below the macula the essential source of vision. Spalter said, "You walked up to the edge of the precipice and managed to keep your balance. Had you gone over, you would have lost all vision in the left eye." He is happy and so am I. I've reported to Dr. Connelly on the telephone, v/ho is very pleased but puzzles me by saying that the blood vessel did not break, I don't understand it but am so happy that they can see progress made, that I can live v/ith the unpleasant sense of imperfect focus and resulting sense of imbalance and a certain queasiness in the tummy. Both men warn me that it will take time to clear up the cloud, but seem confident that it will be done. I am on a greatly reduced pill-anddrop schedule over that of the past week, which of course does not touch the ten or a dozen pills and four or five drops a day which I had in the hospital. The oculist can't cell me what caused this misadventure. We only know that it is not from high blood
pressure, because I was admitted to the hospital with very low pressure; that is, very

much lower than my usual 120 over 90. The settling in to the new home I had always expected would take a long time. It is now clear that it is going to take even longer than anticipated. I do well if I can work at unpacking an hour a day. Lucille will be with me again tomorrow morning for several hours when I hope we* 11 make a real im print; in addition to getting ceiling lights in and an adjustment to the lock, Cleve got all of the still-packed pieces of luggage and boxes pushed aginst the walls, so the place has a livable aspect.
I am indeed blessed with a wonderful family who rallied around in time of need; and we were all grateful that the weather remained dry and oh the cool side. While I was in the hospital, Molly and Jim came in to see me on Saturday afternoon, and Cleve and Martha came on Sunday afternoon. It must have given them all something of a shock to have me chatter along with my eyes completely covered* By the way, that is an extraordinary experience to lie for extended periods totally without vision. One takes a very different look at oneself and at one's world. I did what seemed at the time to be some constructive thinking on the problem of conformity (zip numbers)(and all of the rest of the forms automation is putting us into until we will all look as if we were made of something plastic poured from the same mold) versus individuality. Of course I have hospitalization and will only, I expect, have to pay the difference between the private room, which was the only thing available to me on admission, and semi-private rates. The doctors' bills will be something else again. I have the fond hope that when I put these deep thoughts about "down with conformity and up with indi vidualism" on paper, I may be able to place it for enough to cover the doctors' bills. There are only two drawbacks to this: 1) get the time to do the writing and 2) find the market!
It seems that the owner of the apartment building on 35th Street ran out of funds before they finished some portions of my space. For example, there are no Venetian blinds so I live in a goldfish globe. I cannot put up glass curtains until the blinds are up, or so it seems to me. However, I learned on the telephone this morning th,at new financing has been arranged and the missing objects, including the air-conditioning units, ought to be installed comparatively soon. I have rambled badly but I hope have brought you up to date, and also reassured you about my eyes, the most important thing in my life at the moment.

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September 15, 1963

Brace yourself for all sorts of possible typographical errores* When illness

cancelled my luncheon date for today, it seemed a good idea to come and use Bill's type

writer for chitchat as I have not yet come upon my own carbons! My routine leaves all too

little time for unpacking* Perhaps the nine hours of sleep and about three others of blind

fold rest is encouraging my naturally indolent nature* Gerry Wilmot Mas ordained "No

smoking" and 1 know from past experience that this in itself produces lassitude for a

while* 1 might as well confess that having allowed myself to creep up to better than

a pack a day, 1 am beginning this time but cutting down and have kept to udder half a pack

a day --usually six to eight in point of fact* From so much to nothing would be more than

my system could take just now* But I have discovered that "the urge" can be temporarily

quelled by sniffing smelling salts or something with a sharp odor* My Constance companion

--and very helpful--is a bottle of Lentheric "iceberg Cologne", which Martha and Cleve

brought me to the hospital *

1 have completely lost perspective about how my eye progresses

and shall get Dr* Spalter, when 1 see him on Thursday, to tell me in general terms whether

to expect six weeks, six months or six years*

The attempted 10 to 4 in the office has not always worked* Twice this week I have been trapped until after five --that is when 1 get mighty queasy in the tummy. The great dilation of the left eye continues , though 1 seem to have grown accustomed to the imbalance that bothered me too much--or it has grown less* The people responsible for fund raising in the office are working everyone into a lather at the number of declinations we are getting from people whom we have invited to speak in the autumn and fearing that this source of income is not going to compensate for the money they are not bringing in from other sources* The memberships for the Off the Recordluncheons roll in and Bill and 1 are afaird we may have to return checks(after we had mailed the invitations to new people, the Committee lowered the top figure for membership*) We seem to be trapped in a "you can't win" situation* Despite Bill's resignation of a month ago, Personnnel has not produced a single candidate for replacement* Hayes has decreed that the woman who has ridden herd on the waitresses, filling in at pressure points or emergencies at the buffet is to leave the FPA on her 69th birthday next month* Personally 1 am furious, nor am 1 alone, at this decision* She dees her total job well and has a fine health record, much better than a man who got a $1,000 increase--and this after I had made the annual for-the-record bid for a raise and was told there would be no money for administrative increases' Nor did Hayes Increase his standing with me when he suggested that this about to be separated woman be informed of the decision while she was in California on her holiday* Fortunately her immediatesuperior did not have an address for her* More and more 1 regret not having separated myself at least last spring*

The little dabs 1 make at settling into the apartment are filled with surprises* For two weeks 1 have been cramped without my personal telephone book* Yesterday it turned up in my old black leather hatbox, which needless to say contained no hats* There still are not Venetian blinds, hence no glass curtains or drapery* The bathroom has a ground glass window, so 1 dress and undress there and if anyone is interested in watching put the drops in my eyes after 1 get into bed, they are welcome. The lock, improved by Cleve, has now been properly fixed and I could have the duplicate keys made--the emergency and company set kept in the office and one for Lucille* She did not turn up a weekago Saturday, but made it yesterday and we got two boxes of "breakables" (decanters, flower vases and such) washed and put on a high shelf* You can imagine my indignation when 1 bought a fine step stool and carried it home in a cab a week ago to discover that like a child's Mechano set, it has to be bolted together I I am certainly glad we moved the old wooden step ladder, which has
been broken for years,

Tuesday night 1 went up to Vera Dean's for dinner--she flew 26 hours on a flight from Bombay and arrived the day before* She had a marvelous time in Egypt and India, She had planned being heme a week sooner, but both Nehru and the President of India allowed they wanted to see her and she stayed over for those appointments in New Delhi* Nehru came up with the quaint observation that the Chinese do not understand Marxism and talked about
the poor translations from the Russian into Chinese* 1 wonder if he is telling the Kremlin they had better send Peking a correct version? Never having gotten around to "safely home" letters to English hostesses 1 think 1 will dictate those to Dictaphone and go home*

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Serptemmbbeer 21, 1959

Not much to show for,today'a activity, but oh my so much satisfaction, I found a let

tct hat^odiflihfftri l inadave"r!te0nntiliyEhlrestb.usiTnheesys rpeenmdaiinnE'to be prIotpewroluyldfihlaevde, bbuetentohuhmaivleiatthienmg
T fj. 5 * graat load* Also, my winga are sprouting--at eight p.m. im o> mv sLr+h
wriillll not lbe / impaired, kbut cTahnunrostdatyaiDlr'hoSwpallotnegr ltihkeed"cwlfocautd"hweislalwr,emiasisna.tiIstfieids tnhoew seixgphltained tr-at the blood vessel became clogged and they feared it would buret and suffuse the macula

of n^r! "

and the sight would be gone. He is unable to give ma exJX

,, **T oasoe, as evidently hie is a rare occurence and presumably "they" do not get a

, +-'? B". +e ae "

to help- Ee reduced medication, saye I can do anything in mode-

hl aalf ha\ao

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?00in9 5Verfatigusd 621 up aEain0t in

8,1(5 muat kep in tiptop condition. As a smoker going off cigarettes, approved heartily at having

"l.,s"brUanlff? h"'0 1;ha" hflf' r0*r#d

laughter at my titavating the olefactory

s<! TMfth! f*Y4

of taking a cigarette. In three weeks I go to Connoly

mmyy ccaassee . in March I shalliSaesekmlhnigmliyfheIh'ompetso btehes"colsosuedi"nwailltefbcet gboonoek,then and he can cl.sl

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,rflen the U.N. General Assembly opened there have been daily dmonstrstiens

under my office *ndow but Friday was the climax. The general theme has bfen*?iVith

"f"6, +* "f F.ed9ral troop3 t Alabama. Midday I was pleased to have a period TM 5 f ! h learned they had moved to 45th Street and the U.Scission to the UN and refused to move when asked by the police to do so. One man was arreted enough, own to the 15th Precinct house, next door bjet one to this building. The crowd . ollowed demonstrating in this street until residents protested they could not gain access

-.-tore refused fT^ tW buBln,?ses' 1 ther it was quite a rumble and when the demon1*;b J Lf '!?!+! "Pon Police request, they were forced to do so. Stuck in the

1* "'I . "1",,

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f 51 about 630 and was puzzled at all the little (trash) in

LT at+er"'F,,

witchVe, d pedestrians

and 01,1,0 telBPhad before examine the discarded placartls.

Tsheeveonntloy

obneesIurecoIuldwereeaadllwraisght

"Me are not going to live with rats NO MORE", They seem rather mixed ,,P and l am more fcar-

TM'tTkg,r,ad ar!1<'19 in CORNHHI. (an Eng. ish quarterly Ruth & John send me ) bj James Robinson and publiBhe throe years ago in which ho describes his scorn and hatred

:!'

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8 and ,n mas3e' Incidsntly I followed tlie August 28th Washington March

f

bsd and fought it magnificently handled and was properly grateful that

c G*'

-nu other potential trouble makers were not successful*

Tuesday before I got to the office Mrs, Kirk telephoned that the Admiral was in the hospital and I must not count on him for the October 16 CTR, Sed sday I had switched'the subject and gotten someone else, who on Thursday confessed he had misread his schedule and couldn t do it. The rex canoidate is being transferred. Monday 1*1 hear if numbers 4 *r5 will be agreeable. Copy .or the announcement goes to prooees house on Tuesday, Meanwhile the forst candidate Personnel turned up as Bill's replacement is a Negro girl and I declined -to see i.sr-- explaining for my part it made no difference, but I could not vouch for the 750 a rocr'e.So.aldallii^ghhtt, BBiillllafndi^ pthersWwlhlod rhalvnet!tnotih0annadllle>rthsaeym,frmo0mt 2i:0,0e-235h4e,wocuolndfircmontshteruewaaseoiahness of some especially when they are on the late side. Personnel screwed at my C go . Or .3 ques .on to Mildred tonyon, OTA chairmen, who agreed, Personnel then ran te? Kayos, who naturally hacker up Personnel even after I went to him. I agreed to see the girl performed. MeanwhilT e,V Personne,l f dugheurp>anoHt,hre8r1wToOBmana, ma.toPrh>astuntothlealdd iDnicttahpehowninegesxaenedrifeenvcear tut las 0 r excellent qualities. She, Mrs. Maroiana Bottger arrives on the 30th and Bill Strobbe will remain that weak to break her in,

!iC?4 th8 tre Whi0h insPir9d Jy Kilmer's poem, what have you envisaged Not that it is my favori.e species, I have lawayspictured a white birch. It was something 0f a shock to hear on the radio/ this week that it was a 68 foot high oak with a 100 foot spread on the Rutgers campus, Alas, it is completely dead and had to be taken down this week. nFeevwerpeloipke9 otnha^ti.rs b Ive, to eee JFK leave the UN yesterday in his bubble top car# Dublin was

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aar-ti.c,l^ e Ihatd^dii\stS ur!bed 'mreTif2l 1 Ja-me's

Para 2 7he Nesro
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aac"tothrinagnd"

awbroiutet rhwishoso

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i-ison id a minister and X believe a thoroughly moderate and nstruetive Negro leader also

an the next paragraph -I was trying to say that from a total of 750 wZm.To-w^t .

aure that .me of them in the flurxy of cheeking in at a U^heon Mght nc*. L'ntentionallv

joggle a cnip on a shoulder. I have a pious hope that they era all well' ta w !,

seen enough of them to know they ean be thoughtless and seL rude orlverbelring S

Sre,o1 Lr Z Z' lZZ~ Z 9ref 'Z" ^ ve3 all* y L^ avs very lit*tl e coump p4reahet'nHsiaoynesoSf wtthafttFrPJiEstaSffti3

hulpt~ llr.g +on aft neliv?ieyreaoJf s"tWhe8n^ havehaadN1e0g^roo9r ebc<rertttaerry. f

staff colored a" it jurt io

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for AdmirraelplKzcipetneTMnt an appalling work-out. It reminded me of

- --- tv,. ! " ijp0ak?ff Bursau when I was providing groups all over the country with spea-

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always started out with demanding the unattainable and I had

co11Co declinations before they would listen to my advice as to whom thev mieht uret

j, 7 %

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fa" X wasthewonanto'whomthe lilt

thought of til play of several seasons ago "The Tenth Man" in which

sowi^ ' TX + ' a G ^reat struggle getting the necessary tenth man in order to hold a

service 1 outdid them numerically and either on the twelfth or thirteenth try sot Arnold

uaT t. Z waa f*iil_ElaHd_itwhO ithU ouW t going into the Admiarnafl's Bt0oUpldic39anndd awenhooiepe when heKisir?btehtatetrttehe

'T"x aaak* Privately moat of us fear he will not survive, but I hope the eseture r-'ll

tghaovseethIemtriseodmewsamntailnlgctoomsfoperta.k

Incidently later in the

I have a seaaon.

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-u :m+ m?Z".v'JrTalternoaorns

I had hardl? Parted my after-tho-office rest when Fred and dam ourdclassmen, they have Wednesday afternoon liberty from four-

'L'll shifted

"gbt* around some

of

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the high

Prod's wristwatch ar.d heavy storage

bu kindly put mv step-stool teeether bits and put in my hands some L-ora

TEnw

sorely needed^ Xhey would not stay for supper as they could eat baok'at Fort'SohXr but

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it is to demonstrate teat

S in"0 oouur f^^urrooje ealn alnliae^s as drefG"a?ul,k. antrdoPtShebrasChkavfre0nimGpelrimeadn#>" and France we are not desert-

The management of this building leaves much to be desired still not having complied

tc I Irders* ^q"e?ts.fv:!netlan blinds, connecting my buzzer with the front door, etc.,

;

. , !!* tnis is the customary proceedure in new buildings and I have not spoken

pLeocplele^lOoOoOkK

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they

have

eoktail fla^ ot vhen they no rugs I know their habits

get home' S hone^u pretty well, there Zve

no ,, been cocktail party noises. Every time I look out the window someone ie moving in or

ou along the block. I knew the old May 1 moving had gradually shifted to October 1, but

; ; ^eesnese has been continual all September. Some of it has plainly been summer

sublets and back to college transitions. But I have been impressed with the reJ home'

moving wi .r beds end bookcases, tables and chairs carried on by amateurs. They have some-

'ZJi a"rhadZto9m ke rd9J f pudting a bookcase, a desk and e table into a station

t,he fProof^eeoGs^iioo^nalslsSwwiitthhaJ,1lll their ram^ ps and do5lll0iensg ria+n'hd ctlnoethJoslbin9gsw#hoIlehoXpoet Ifadstoenr't

*? toST bugta^'d-f Z: 3a\9d tfc9 bulk f my cartoas' ^st - oasf! Lucille came

Ht' t>5r h no*MV* h9r ^Pack--plenty of plain cleaning to be. done while T

2P.p Z.:J:b"+6r ZC

? not d0* Tomorrow I'll go up for lunch with Aunt Mary -

fa -

S

P 01e" Ii8S! for.me S It is ten o'clock and again T

only had i ^ cigarettes today-the worst ft is week was nine or Wednesday. Sorrv^ I ^

tnis is a.-.l very dull. Mayoe smoking stimulated ms 1

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yv.i^a. ,7\-, W, /7?7^ October 5, 1963

If the 7/orld Series have ever been called on account of rain, I do nci rsr-eivber# After last Sunday's rain and high wind, two inches of rain in 12 hours as much as wo had in the rest of Setember put together, "there have been oright skies, warm middays and cool to cold nights# Good also for all the people moving, whose methods and possessions can so easily be observed from my bay window# This morning T made the pleasant little trip over to 3# Altaian on an errand and rediscoversd what a thoroughly nice place it is with
exoellent personnel# I must open a charge account ih ere#

On October 1st this building acquired a new superintendent, as well as the third agent to manage the building. Third in my experience, though there may have been otners. I plan to dicker about my October rent on basis of rebate for lacking items d nee August 30-- no Venetian blinds, no air conditioning,now shower, neither broiler nor oven operating, etc.-- a list with which you are by now quite bored. Some how I have done no real sevtoxng fcnis week, partially lest I decide this building is hopeless and I move again and partly on^ account of greater difficulty in focusing and the accompanying lack ci physics.- staying power. Tflien I called Dr. Connolly for an appointment he said this was a sign of improve ment I So against seeing him on Wednesday, the atropine is discontinued. One less thing to bother with. Monday there was the flu shot and then I began the series of ^aily anticold pills for a week and carried on after that at once a week. Thursday, toe pretoy pale green Athemcl-N tablets arrived to fight the high cholesterol and are consumed at trie rate of three a day. Between all of this, the cutting down on cigarettes and avoiding animal fat. meat products of a fatty character including bacon, liver, dairy products and eggs ^ there is a good deal to think of, I get so much rest that everyone thinks i look splendid-^ ly and never miss the ten pounds lost since late May, not? do I expept when I get on the
scales--or notice the way things fit.

Aunt Mary had gone out by herself on Saturday and toil disappointed in not finding a winter hat she likod had greatly enjoyed the junket, the weather and being on her onu She had Blept well and was in fine form when I was there Sunday for luncshon with her. She is about to try for the second time to read Barry Soldwater's hook and I can scarcely rait to see if she still favors him for president after that. One evening a, specia-. delxvry invitation from Her Britannic Majesty's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs for co tails on the 8th. Vty curiosity is piqi ed -- how did ihis replacement o- Godber, * o suceed/Profumo in the War Office discover,/ my new address.

I never really did think I would have the services of both Bill Strobbe and Marciana

Bottger last week, but he got so involved training her and being too busy to do anything

himself that I began to regret tbd "break-in". He is so concerned with nimself and uneven

in behaviour that the change will hold one or two compensations for me. Marciana is ot

Basque extraction having gone to high school and Loyala in New Or* ans--gradually we shall

learn more about her. The Fair Employment Practises code is eso sweeping that I never

ask a question in interview which is not opened up in the questionaire. For example place

of birth is no longer asked, She is small and wiry, black hair and dark eyes, quiet in

voice and manner. At Bill's bye-bye party when I had to say words over him the Jorld ^

Almanac was my main resource revealing that the motto of Iowa where he was brought up is:

We Prize our Liberties and our Rights we will Maintain", I suspect many members o* toe

staff caught the barhb in that but it wa3 legitimate as it load to the conclusion that he

was now living by New Y ork*s "Excelsior, Ever Upward" which

of course we all wished

him.

Aside from his speech and reception (its) at the UN General Assembly, two things

pleased me about the Lion of Judahfs American stay. First ia en he was at the 7/hite House,

toe ouestion attributed to Caroline4* little brother "HasnH anyone an# chewing, gum? and ia Kew York Haile Belaesie's trip up to lolunbia-PreBbyterinn Modioal Osnter to t;ank the doctors, nurses mi staff for the work they had doas on hxs granddaughter in the Institute

of Oothscology, One wonders if this Jill set off chain reaction ot *

rr

ot middle-.astorn and north African tubing families going there, . Tt xs car. ttortSd lurr<Mt

has lost his lung. He looked badly in the last picture I saw o, him >.n -he sprxng.

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October 12, 1963

This is the first Columbus Day in a very long time I have not been distracted by the
blare of bands and general disruption of traffic up Fifth Avenue, and find it ratherpeaceful# It is anither lovely day, though we begin to be worried at the depletion of water level in the reservoirs* It has been a pleasantly social week, beginning on Tuesday with the British cocktail party,. where my dark glasses created a sensation amongst my friends. Since the invitations were issued in the title rather than the name of Peter Thomas, it was right that he should head the receiving line but awkward as Patrick Dean had to introduce most of the guests to him, a task for which he wore spectacles I had never seen before. Patricia was rather dripping off the end and bade me to stay close to talk
to her, when she was not having to whisper names to her husband# We settled on a quick lunch together soor. and I started circling the room chatting with those I wished to and not seeing the others#

Wednesday I lunched with a very interesting woman of the Netherlands Foreign Service currently attached to their Information Service here at Tocque Blanche, one of my favorite near the office restaurants. She has been stationed in Tokyo and more recently in Bonn and shares my views on ihe impossible behavior of the postwar Germans# The Dutch current ly love me because of some help I gate them in arranging a speaking tour for former Ambass ador von Balluseck# Thursday evening Mary Harrison*s new son-in-law, Herbert Rosen, came to see me bearing some charming yiilow rosebuds, which are coming out nicely# I liked him very much and was glad to be able to write Mary about him as none of the Vancouver family could go to San Francisco wedding, which took plaoe at the end of his holiday the end of August instead of in November when he leaves here to take a new job there#

Friday was variegated# Immediately on my aarival Marciana came in to ask if I had used her stamps after she had locked her desk Thursday. She had found our after hours supply envelope empty on the top of hsr desk, a packet of OTR membership checks on top of instead of in a folder in hsr center drawer# V?hile I was reporting this to Ed Macy, his
helper came in to report a similar story--desk unlocked, stamps gone but not checks she
was to mail on Friday# In all about ten desks were tampered with, including the jimmying of both the president's and the executive veep's* No one appreciates my query--"Could it have been a case of looking for confidential information and the stamps only taken as a blind?" The curious part is that $1#45 I had paid for metered postage or stamps on books or personal mail kept in a samll tin box in the same drawer as our stamps was overlooked. The office door was locked at 5:20 and after 6 'or maybe 5:30) anyone geing into or out of the building i3 supposed to sign the register in the lower lobby--name, room number and time entrance and/or departure. The building management has been notified as well as the police# People were still buzzing when I had to go to Dr. Connolly. He was pleased that the eye had responded to hospitalization and treatment, but is not as encouraging as Spalter. I am lucky -there wa3 no extension, but only time will tell if the cloud will be absorbed# There is no secondary vascular system at the back of the eye to help in the process. He wants me to wear a plastic clipon blinder ever the left eye when I do a con centrated piece of reading for a couple of weeks and then switch it to the right eye to keep the left from getting too lazy. I am sure it will be easy to become accustomed to it on the left, but I dread being dependent only on what the left will do for me# In the late afternoon we had a amusing bye-bye party arranged by Fred Nunes for the secretary to Sam Hayes, who wants to get into public relations and has been threatening to leave for months# At last she has secured the job she thinks she wants.

No response to my letter to the new management her asking the amount of rent remission for my lacking items# However, the new Super has produced the shower head (and I hung the white fiberglass shower curtain with the white plastic rose hooks -- housewarming from Fred Nunes), the handle for one of the kitchen cabinet doors and the missing board from the shelf in their linen closet, where I store other things# The number of objects sitting about along the walls has been slightly decreased. The very nice Max Schling planter given me the spring I had shingles survived the move from the office and looks very well in the center of the bay window. The shower worked well to wash off its leaves--it would have been a bore to hand wash the narrow leaves of the large center palm.

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Oetebor 20, 1963

The continuation of the mad extension of summer gav9 me two lovely days on Long Island.

Testerday afternoon CIeve took Martha and me to Jones .Beaoh to see their spectacular display

of bedded chrysjj^nthemuma. Martha and I allowed we would have arranged the patches of color

differently by enjoyed them nonetheless, while Clove had a fine time with the new camera* pre

sented by the"Brooklyn Rotary Club at the completion of Ills year's work as itsi pregidnt. I

eh* always amused at that nasty shade of pink, tfiieh hereabout used to be call guinee pink,

but in the south is "nigger11 pink and in British Columbia is "^jfawash". The sunshine was

muted by haze, but 7/9 wait on across the Island to Stony Brook through strange but beautiful

autumn color. Sumac is brilliant as are tbB swamp maples, which should have shed their bright

red leaves before the oaks turned russet and brown. Norway maples are 3till green as of course

are willows. Elms and locusts are largely so confused that they have just dropped their

leaves, but walnuts went yellow then brown and are shedding noisily in dead calm Eir, Rain

is forecast for tomornw, but we need a week's worth. Everyone in Stony Brook is fine, though

Fred had not appeared before we had to leave. Instead Jay came in with three friends 7&0 had

just bought a Laborador Retriever--age seven weeks for duck hunting, A little tougl^f on the

household as the aog and cat have recently been implemented by "Chichi" the grey, toy poodle

Jay gave Diane for Christinas, which her mother will no longer tolarate in their houBe, Al

ready Chichi rules them all. The haze turned to heavy fog and Fran and Sal had a slow trip

to Sayville for dinner with friends. (From Friday about nine p.m. until about ten on Satur

day morning Idlewild was closed down completely#) As a reward for cutting deadhead on mari

golds and zinnias I had planted at Stony Brook in May and dahlias, roses, marigolds and zinnias

at Freeport, I came back laden with lovely pale yellow marigolds and a sunny yellow chrysan*

themum from Freeport.

Wednesday I learned that 12 hours is too long a day for me at the office. We opened
Series A of the OTR with Arnold Bractaan on Malaysia, who was a tremendous success so I have asked him for a November date. Using different space for the buffet and Marciana being new there was more pressure than usual. Then I went slong to the Governing Committee meeting where at least they took my advice and voted the membership ceiling at 730, which enables us to take most of the owmen whose checks we have been holding for weeks. In the evening there was a combined FPA Board of Directors and Associates dinner, which it behooved me to attend and hear Roswell Gilpatric, Assistant Secretary of Defense who also was very effective. I had a good talk with Brooks Emeny and several other Board members, whom I no longer have much chance of seeing. (It was worth the $4 I had to pay.) 1 made a mistake in thinking 1 was tired enoughto 3leep quickly end soundly but heard the living room clock strike .two. Result Thursday was a great effort, I gnoked too many cigarettes and stupidly left my ring in the washroom when I tottered home. I was so frayed I never missed it until Friday morning when it was not with my wristwatch after my tub. After an extensive and exasperating search I tells phoned Marciana at 3s $5 to say I was on the way in. She asked if I had lost my ring as Alio Sheridan had found it* thought it was mine but since it was her birthday did not have
time to search out my number to ask 1

Monday I helped Macy celebrated its birthday by purchasing a peacock blue and green nylofa

rug for my living room--9 x 12 for $33, so I spent another $9.99 for a good pad to go under it.

Tyis will leave a border of the oak hardwood floor -- I am not keen about wall to wall carpet.

It was delivered yesterday, but on account of my "gardening" the temptation of getting it

down tonight was not hard to resist.

This afternoon Jay brought Diane to Freeport to

cv?l and she looked very pretty. 6n her twentieth birthday this week he gave her an engage

ment ring -- resetting the diamond Uncle Jim had given Aunt 01 before their marriage in 1892.

jay says now that they will not be married for two years.

Friday I had dinner with Vera

o-od as usual we had more to talk about than we oan plow through on any given oca&sion. She

Xs still unsettled from her visit to India, where her opinions are sought by people of iinpor-

- anc vho assume she consorts with their opposite numbers here.

The Board of Elections

v,c sent a card acknowledging my registration for voting from this address. Now I must bone

"on what issues there are beside off track betting in this off year election. Our polling

1 ce is in a sweQt Swsdenborgen Church just the other side of Lexington Avenue. Now I must

-to bed before I fall a3leep at the typewriter.

M/lf- Mrt^/V*\ tUfn, Td-^tAay,

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0etober 26> 1963

We are rather bored with records, but for posterity another was se/ft today with 78 d<^ grees on our 23rd da* without rain. New Yorkers are asked not to waste water end tor severa days the Sanitation Department has not washed the streets. A stationary hign pressure area hangs over the eastern seaboard creating an inversion phenomenon nolding down pollution in our air. Mle it has not yet reached the danger point, it has near, nard^or severa- da} on persons with cardiac and respiratory troubles and just plain tough on the res. ot us. If it Tets worse there mil be a ban on non-essential traffic and fires. I suppose tnat means building incinerators will no longer burn refuse. Early morning fog has also oecome our standard and I fear Martha and Cleve had trouble on their early morning start yes.erday to Charleston. The Jersey turnpike was closed to Newark and all trafnc in.o ^.le ci y 7,*s reported very slow, if moving at all. I hope Ginny had turned out to sea oefore they got to
tte Carolinas* Thelma and Cal are also on holiday and hoped for swimming in Florida.

Tito made a great flurry in New York with his staff charging that our police did not give him adequate"protection, I can only report that on Tuesday mroning when he was expect ed to speak at the UN at noon, 47th Street between Second and First Avenues was a solid blue line about 9i30 as I went to the office. Sure enougi demonstrators soon assembled under my windows and for hours chanted "Down Tito" and Tito, go, go, go" alternately. From.their placards they seemed largely Croatians --one reading "Coexistence means tirany, etc. One wonders if the I for Y was from ignorance or by design, 7/hen police state governments or
ganize demonstrations themselves, I suppose they expect other governments the same. I do feel they di ould make inquiries te f ore making charges. TKhile the mass media covered tie 47th Street demonstration thoroughly, it is unlikely Tito saw it at all^ His motorcao.e weny
un First Avenue at what I judge 20 miles an hour about 100 yeards from the police farrier restraining the demonstrations, whose vocal roar sounded to ma as much like entf-usiast-tf
cheering as disapproval at the brief moment of passing in closed e&r3

Tuesday I stopped at Aunt Mary's to leave tie lovely yellow African marigolds, had a nice visit with her and was amused to find that ihe found Barry Goldwater s book s, ;.l. rt>avy going on the second try. She can't stand Nixon, doesn't like Rockefeller and is elreac.y worried about next year's election. I tried to soothe her that it was still a long time t# the Conventions and point out that the early contenders generally exhaust hemselves and their ideas . Then, as Hank is in Jordan and Egypt for two weeks 1 went to Maria for a qiue, atch-up eveing since we had not seen each other since before I went abroad. Dinner was held for Peter Moore, a very attractive but intense Irishman who seems to have some sort o* finger in the World's Fair pie and a lot of other things. Naturally we did not cover the conversa tional ground we had expected, nor did he as he stayed at least three hours after 1 1 t. I vent back Friday night end heard about two fascinating new canvasses painted ihis summer. Kach is out of doors inform*! grouping of family and thoir pots. Dony.reter Bostwiokwuth four children, threo miniature horses from Argentina, a pnF/ a ^race of donkej (Mot-.sr ft duaghter) and so m. domesticated wild ducks cuught at the edge of a pasture mth the garden ond hint of houss in the background beyond a beautifully painted pan of apple -.rees. am ei- lehoutillier, in the other pioture is with her five children on the lawn with an unusuali'rV'-.-ed Norway maple between them and the house. Again many animals including a cranky but delightful looking shite donkey called "Sweetie Pie", In both fercups Maria's sstradine.ry skill in oatehing a quick likeness has made each of the subjects alive. Failing a better
term these are called "Outdoor Portraits" and will probably be shown in Florida with some
of her other portraits in Palm Beach in February,

Wednesday Pick Gardner, deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organiza tions# opened* OTR Series B season for an overflow crowd of enthusiastic women. t>o now i
yTv hrv 14 more to do, but all the speakers are sgned up to Christmas. Ack. Alan Kin., ?o was to have spoken on the 16th died on the 15th (though Lydia his mfe nad warned me
week before the announcements were to go out that he would not be up to spea"i-g) prated two columns and an editorial on his brilliant raval career (Command of the
*+ ask Force of 1,000 ships putting the US First Army on Omaha and Utah eac>.ss -or
I"* Normandy invasion-314,514 troops,. 41,000 i^^ifdtJ1BllEi^0|nd0^aSfy " Nlt!Snal-
ifr5ii^^eBK sl^lo^.l^f'^^"nl^^Ir^pkciation of the "Admiral's Lady" .

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November 2, 1963

aa ialscc

I air. having additional private fi,,*f havh been readies p

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variety of small objects deaireable for aettli^n pwce-

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mind me to undress there. You messed it +hT^

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room, living retta or UtvkorT^

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oven j. must dress to go to the Ssm

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of the JPA Board from San S-anoisco * ^ vw

A nembfcr

;.rr.ixrxrxi r * ?'*1X2,*., alse. The grapevine keeps brinrinv 9" reports o"Vn -'n t i afVke#,r<m kn!>3
go lower I) after 8 staff meeting in whict Hayds tried to eSn I"t?'rtud4! *?

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t.iere again while he remembers

^Qrry cane back h3re> admired the layout, en-

it worry fou?" To ^c" SSTt

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^ovombSi V. (Sunday) Laso night was endlsss* never get hom by court 3 sv of PTHO P

John French until after midnight, I balanced Kan Lee, GolernoHf \ILi^list

L; ^TY (LSFT'SSMK E ua, <ath Dr. c- Mrs. Marshall Driggs as additional couple, The^- play ohamber music * Virginia

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" rai:,-roati springs (iron not water) and settles

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audience. She also told of a Scottish couple who staked out 20

feet and got an enormous amount of gold in the boom days. The Campbells imported suLe+s

ioEnEl/ndSemeaMbUitt h iC3eni'fi,en't n9"sion about 20 miles from Virginia"city, went "

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b J-foeived by Queen Victoria and were snubbed, lire, Dri<-gs ia



,, f a" opefa 011 tiUS

for +.he reopening of her opera house, is I aaa

rttui |f d from 9W

to ask if I could have a drink with 1hem and-

ieue. _J.oore this afternoon as there is some great crisis. I proposed talking to Hank,

upon their return today and letting him cope alone with Moore, but promised foLmtha

t"me' t

vV3n/4^ Jviary Pboned this corning to ask me for lunch I declined. Too much t

do -e^to inc-uce t^o social occasions the sams day. Next weekend I go to Stony Brook

and Auno Aj nie has agreed to come here for Thanksgiving so as to attend the November 3

Diane-Jay engagement announcement party. It will be so good to see her after such - very

long stretch,

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November 9f 1963 Stomy Brook--Typewriter by courtesy of Molly

Lets of lovely rata this week, over three iaches eae day and most of it to the accompaniment of high winds* They say the ground was so dry tha t the moisture was absorbed and the reservoirs are still too lew, only about one third capacity, so restaurants no longer serve a glass of water unless it is requested* Every morning the office displays a eouple of dozen variagated open umbrellas drying out -- a colorful touch* I was most lucky injg getting a cab to take me home after dinner Wednesday night with Vera, which was a particula rly violent night* Thursday I stayed in to receive representatives of the apartment owner and the management* They agreed I had put up with a lot and am to get a remission of rent* At this point I am not quite sure how much, as late in the afternoon another im possible questionaire had been thrown at me in the office* It had to be completed by eleven the next morning so I finished it at home and was not as bright as I might ha ve been at the rent dickering session* The irony cmae on Friday morning, when Hayes became embroiled and we only covered the first of the 26 questions on the initial set when the session had to postponed until Monday* As I left his office I mentioned that I had work ed myself cross eyed n the seconda ry questionaire and finished it at home the night before* He smiled sappily and said "Wellij- tha tfs what we have to expect*" What a chara cter %

Sunday night dinner with Maria and Hank was enlivened by a splendid travelogue on Jordan, where he had spent a week and made a great hit with King Hussein by asking him to autograph a copy of the royal autobiography, with which Hank had had the wit to provide himself. I had not realized that all the important shrines except the site of the Last Supper are in Jordan or the Arab part of Jeruselem* He saw them all and went into the Quatum Caves on the shores of the Dead Sea, where the famous Scrolls were discovered* Unfortunately he ate a tainted canape on the TWA flight from Rome and had a horrid Atlantic crossing on Friday, so we saved the glories of his week in Egypt for another session* The man--Peter Moore- who I fearwd might interfer with our evening never showed up, thank goodness* Tuesday I voted and unpacked two oases of books and generally enjoyed not having to go to the office* Wednesday there was another OTR luncheon followed by a Speakers Committee meeting* Other alarums and excursions in the office have kept me from acting on the green lights I got from them on post Christmas speakers* I ha ve a great desire to line up the talent soon and leave me to cope with the actual running of the remaining sessions and the big so called Waldorf luncheons. The first of the latter is on January 9th and I must soon be drawing up the schedule of operations and getting copy of the announcements to the printer* We work Monday (Veterans1 Day) and get the day after Thanksgiving off --a pleasant arrangement, But it leaves a la rge yfaole in the end of the month*

The rain yesterday afternoon somewha t impeded my progress here, who? e the ground is littered with still sodden oak leaves* The willows are attHL green, Norway maples, sassafaas and birch are bright yellow while strangely swamp maXi>es are still vivid scarlet. Jim, Jay, Fred and a couple of fileads are duck hunting. Bill ha s gone to have a picture taken for "Show Boat" publicity. We go tonight to the third and last performance* When he txie^ out for the lead, they discovered that he has the tiniest lfesp, for which the school is now giving him corrective instruction* Molly was aware of it hut neither Jim nor I had ever noticed it. Fred is top rifleman at Fort Schuyler and glad to be sleeping in the new dormitory instead of on the ship as last year. All of the family in fine health and spirits. Hope you are too

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November 17, 1963

Well, at last on the day te fore yesterday they got in the Venetian blinds t like

the lamb he so often is Fred Nunes came late yesterday afternoon vdth a vor^ *^1*" ckets he had collected and has made it possible for me to have curtains in b.dro.m ( or^

CL^te nylon marquiset from 54th St, *ich X

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a** kitchen, which must he fiberglass because the stove is right by .he mndc... .. m als

told the oven end broiler pilot light works now, but I have become so accustomed to eating

from the top burners that X hare not baked or broiled yet. hope to nave orciioc. ac..^ _ ^

scuash for dinner tonight. Wore books have been unpacked, recently discovered Guata^^n

fabrics not dr. keeping with tills decor packed in a trunk for storage and strides on .ns fronts. I even washed a couple of blankets yesterday, which have been out o. o-.rcu-

lation for a couple of years*

It was GO1 & enough on Wednesday "to give the 255 women large appetite*^she. we came very oiose'to running out of sandwiches. .Je know that a few will turn up vTitacut reservations and more will fail to come after have said they would. Aw <*,, it is a tricky business to come out anything like sven and we prefer .0 be over ratner -nan unde". I have dirscted that we count on a slightly higher per oap-ta consumption wor the cold months, Francis Eator, senior economic advisor to the Agency .or international Uevelopement on leave from the faculty of 125, v.as the speaker on foreign aid ^ created a great deal pf comment. Views on Ms contribution to understanding hate poured wto m surely ovsr four hours wort* I was on the phone steadily from four to sioc on Wednesday and agin on Thursday. Most found themselves lost in the economist''s Jargon rt*ich was overlaid with some governmentalese gobbled;'-go ok. In a word .is 13 all rci J~ - S > not because it makes the recipients lovs us but for the necessity of giving underdeveloped nations the means of improving the lot of their citizens and enabling it .0 be an open
society without which the US cannot long survive#

Gone are the nice patterns of sun and shade on the sidewalks across the street-

between the torrents of ten days ago, the cold and high winds most ci the leaves en toe

sycamore trees have vanished. Kevertheless those stupid pigeons were billing and cooing

rn the TOO* of the ex-stable opposite this morning. Yes, you guesses it, .. am

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r^e^yelym th. am of the law without benefit of identification,

the

dignity and authority of his role well. Already he is cast as We colonel in

9

" e lu?ust Moon" and deep in rehearsal for a mid December production. 1^ -

-

last of the pale yellow African marigolds and some petunia seedlings, which I hope wil.

"bloom in February

My blood pressure rose on Monday*en I learned that Don Dennis has inherited

- .+ of Ed Macy's job and bowed out of audience procurement and seating for the fil|

Iv^ts S i am delighted that Fred Hunes is to take over, it annoyed me tnat the

I?t!h hafbetn discussed for days without consulting me despite my overall respcnsibil-

^iv for^hese undertakings. Marciana is still not completely broken in as ^ 1e;ericai person on the QTR luncheons but I shall keep her upon the completion 0, her
+ .t..- "period and start at scratch training Fred. The one good thing is tnat he/ .voi-sd

--dtr me for about five years in the Speakers Bureau and thcrougily understands and

--u<5- my basic approach and demsnds concerning any given operation, we cave aireaay

to gun

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ffeoxV rpmesrsimccefn-rtt-^wrsiteh- St&>heM.R.s.il.t..onUannfao- rat.ul-l1nat-thvee.l.yihcwaozeva^cr<oduas ld0a-p.nwwontorlrcgL-ie-nntFgthvrre-ttbnWawnladworrfje Brsaollnrnoeolminanudimffuoertent

geographical setting. Tomorrow Fred and I are going over t*e ^-n,

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Faa+ H^ooSlv the head of the Banquet Department is a man x

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heforet probably in*the familiar Waldorf setting, shy does so much happen to me th,s

season?

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November 24, 1963

the Co^un'ty^aderri'LSeo^on *42^^ of this incredible act still hangs over r- on Li n

Was *rJ** to at being served. The shock

reports before the confirmed statement o* dep+h 'Z" ? ^9rnocn# T:ie several interim

as we hung on a quickly installed television ^ThpTmvfidl +*

ddd t0 1:116 horror

t using and cancellation of usual programs^-a' r' * c^t^ilment of all adver-

swrsi s K acsi1rr

humble that Mr, Kennedy commanded so mlh"r's^ct Sd Iffect'^ ff0Ud.a,ld

ancient of years and almost blind deValar*

+h! '? ax;ect--n< It as touching that

for the funeral among the host of o(here? U 0 rtaMv w ' TM 6 df'aulle ara ^ming

Duke, his helpers in the Department e" w+h 1+ ,L

3orr}' for

Biddle

fco have make arrangemente and oroteet

ItT* -1 l lTM "* tha Seeret Swvioe

Bitii admiration for Mrs, Kennedy throughout this ordeal?" wTf-JnTfiiV 1
her refusal to hide behind a veil today at the Capitol ;w,, J C 80/ar beinS Lyndon Johnson the greater have been ay hopes that he bliib I have heard about

3uissfwisrssssafc -

*~&xi srss rffststsjrkv^-ssz?^aatsw tsri

for not having trMsS it

JIT I, , 1 tro-tted ?P to

office 3S penance

Just as veil as she admitted she would h-V* +^1+*,8F?#A"*B,rt boo!: heu she joined me.

treanddiocnrteptoolrdtedmehaiss dXosatthart#e,AdNhoTmre>mto>ft*v>tahAe^ RuttinoT,^_ + s ^<3hh .hooootj.tn'ng^co.' I,ea Oswald andsuthPeerin-

that now we shall nwr rtlVklT^JZ':

j Vr,riM e thinS *>d so dreadful

If it were the Cov^r U woulf s^efh! own guess is that Kennedy was t>-e trt Edgar Wallace type X InT^Pubv-' TMf

J U

h~'V**1 -v Cl-sr and

teha*si.ePr r9ospipdo^rtunritCieosn,nol}lyy,

Connolly an accident . Unless this iB

have Oswald teskfy but 1^1^^ ^fLeT^' 'T he #Wld.not afford to

^gainst Radical Right and ^"rvativee ^S^ti^V.^ATp^cl.^SS^ hL9

Biond i .rent to the Hilton where"^onrcrp" +/Oa rm tliey underwent a week oeo before TFKf c+n V" r?o.

t x ilout -ne security checks

job there than et the ieri^e e^L " k 1 !'+- 6

have done r better

dial sest of honor recent ions-- too SaH V-n elln^r T +?

deaig;ied for PWM-

ludrieously far away. One

t?TM* ^

thinking he was bein- led beside the ane-in^ *? '

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throe corridors

tires short but unoarpettad flights of st-ilrs" T aJ-rea 0Ct'al -rner and then walk down

^tr^ ?* t 0 * - B e U r 0 0 f f l - f O T ^ g e n c ^ i e n o ^ d

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Airports -^th twoSs?tsrtcf3e^al0-o-? S^'thHl
f#: tabler

of Crly and the Montreal

festert.ay I got hold of Paul the Super and got the embroidered picture (work of Frances Jackson, my great-grandmother's sister) hunr end one trunk to~-<n/J1^ J The apartment is a total shambles as I have attacked some'l tTMLs iefb's Sdt^f* f^led with a melange of objects, some of which I have not seen for years! The Goo^iT industries bag is filling wall, with at least six dresses I really do not Led, but 1^1 pro^abl} spend a rt of tomorrow just poking stuff out of sight against Aunt Annie's ' arrival ^uesaay. We shall ue on Long Island from Thursday morning to Sunday afternoon -- l^iif:sgi\a ig ' t-- i art, a and Cleveland Stony Brook at least on Saturday for the Diane-Jay tfueonSaAf^rv^n-\.<Toavvjrn^- n^^+'^-ea?l^- igamrteyi?s cHa:neceexl a.acdt* diAvilsliodnecoisfiotinmseinsomgoeowdhasteadseojsnn, dsIohntpwrh*ether

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Pcafil Harbor Day, 1^63

,, jsngssaattBgaBfeg&tttKads x nv,ir -burn wflpk^ have el apseel since our d&v of "tragedy>

to be stunned and incapable of performing a- _

tg c-p ^eG-uHe

X r?hfSSS.tlS

-tbousanda o^aa89d through"the Capitol

S oS sX ALfL innumerable tiiea bands played "Eternal Fatr.er. Strongto^

S^e" during the lonr orocessior. from the Capitol to Arlingt.n are but a few. I found the

vreat outpouring of sympathy from all aver the world very hiucbl-naking--las. night era

I spokt on Se telejb.rae of'an interesting article to be written on the national imag of

the USA revealed Jus and the wolrd through, such things as the ** the ten thousand^ Indians who crowded the Embassy courtyeard in New Delhi to empress e. mpa

the closing of schools in Vancouver as soon as they had the news and so on.

Normallv bv this time I have mailed the "far away" Christmas cards, but todate have

not addressed one. With the period of mourning lasting u^lthe^

^

xr*+ T h*+s to skip a year as in many cases the annual note scrabbled on the care, is tne

only exchange I have ^th old friends. Recent activities have put a stop to normal

correspondence, so I am delinquent all around

.

^ ,,+ -+ oft erneon conference in the office on the oth kept me from meeting

Aunt Snis^rainl but I telephoned her fat the superintendent would expect to let her in

^fl'w^ld come soon as possible. She cleverly got a taxi quickly and was here upon my

arrival a lwiit+t+-lie,, ap.fttesrr 55*.B300.

raw? f Iitt was lloevvely/ to see her lookienngthsuosiwaes.t,,ilcj tahboouugththse^ia^pl ahratm- ent.,

Z + V

RHIS-EE th AS T had lust washed my hair Thursday we get in traitic sna.x

T\, ,r..n w the TTac"'parade, but made the train for Freeport with two minutes to spare.

2G&S

tfdr&'iW Jcbm Beach to Captree end see the new co^^ut^nopenrf

v; acro +n mire Island and let Aunt Annie see and aniff the sea .v.t-- a n- .

"rg dinner Ucvo showed! lot of hi. pictures including those of the Texas family in teWST,

north in the summer and at home in Killeen,

Friday brought torrents of rain and gale force wind3, but kolly and Jii

c 1

rid ^rcre us back to Stony Brook. None of the underpasses were awash, but o. tsn w. ..aw

i n v e r t e d waterfalls splash car roof high. Jim. went off to a dentist ^ointment, the beys

L e nd went before and after dinner. A little before ten Aunt Annie and I were .e.ken to

the Fort Jefferson Marina Motel for the night as the sotrm continued to howl arou. on

re Saturday continued with high wind, levering clouds out practically no rain. 3,11

w!rehearse all day for "Teahouse of the August Moon" but the other coys went duck

^tlng, returning half frosen (there had been the tiniest snowflake * ower early) but

vdtheut a bag. Scheduling was tight as Jim's car was at the garage for '.emails. A a

;;,ner we put on our party clothes for the engagement announcement part}, Diane^look d

- Alv her narents were most hospitable and her maternal grandmother danced as is cer

custom at all family functions. The aunts, uncles and cousins turned W tt. dosen ..

+h ti e cancellation of the Army-Navy game Martha and Sieve swelled the .ir.y r a

^tinLgetnat Tanw d wee wweL.

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Lore-'the mountain of gifts "hut I've since heard there was not s single dupiioat6--ns.ee cpiij.lv coordination. We left a little after mid-night to drive, back to reeport under a lively full moon, which I was too tired to enjoy, as much as it deserved.

It is hard to believe but the Sunday after Thanksgiving was the First Sunday _in Advent. . ,,-t. Lie and I went from the 11 o'clock service at Transfiguration to a train, *iohgot u s here f o ra l a t eluncheon. I t was finet o cover s o much geography a r ca - - a s
left"onthe3Bmp5.r? State, now ax 8,45.

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It is not only ths wintry weather which descai ded late yesterday with icy blasts but the pressure of things tc do, which must make in is hurried* Anyone i.ho has time to read at this point is unusual Either illness is on the up swing or superstition is getting the uppe# hand--three people from along the office north corridor were absent on Friday, the 13th As for Christmas shop ping in Hew York, reports vary sharply depending on which side of the counter they come from. Clerks say sales are frighteningly low, customers insist ^ crowds are larger than ever and it is a workout to get even something closely
resembling your objective*
Molly came to town for a matinee of the Mary Martin shew on the 4th and was good enough to come here for a quickly put together supper* She approves of the apartment. She told me that on the evening of the 1st, the police GSXUQ to tii house asking if they owned a 1954 green Ford sedan. Answer "Tee, but it is at Shields garage for repair of its Chrysler engine*11 Reverts " No, It is abandoned in Farmer 3o-ard-ScHs field and he is demanding its removal, tfhen Jay went the next morning tt tow .it away he found several juvenile delin quents busy on the process of stripping it. He asked vhy "faey were not in scbwel and were they not ashamed, They replied "Is it your car? " H allowed it was not end went off, returning with the ptliee, who knew the kids a3 bad characters but seemingly could dc nothing* Pilfering low cost items is not a crime. The glass had all been broken before Jay got there and the cop was not going te expose him self t a charge of wrong arrest. Jay then told the J*D,s if "hey would pay the matter could be drepped- The police blanched at that and said "Hey, dtrdt get me mixed up with extortion*" Shields had not evan missed the car and it rather looks as if Jim had lost.his transport to the office. I gather ne in
surance covers this situation*
Thursday afternoon there wa3 a very nice party for Henrietta Frederickscn, vj c is being retired by the FPA after almost 33 years of service* Jne wa" t ; to continue, although over the 65 year retirement age, and there has been a good deal of feeling about her departure. I have arranged for her to oontinue to^ Sttperviia the OTR buffet for the remainedr of the season with the ladies paying her directly. Ytfic is going to handle the inventory r d purchasing of office supplies and other things she has gone very capably is a complete mystery, This in an additional factor in my determination to leave before I am pushed out, even if I have to live on capital. Ye of t e staff gave her a loveay geld -1bracelet with matching pattern charm from Tiffany. The FPA Board presented through the medium of 3an layes a frame4 resc mtion of approc-.a^ion*

"Jodnesday Georges-H*iri Martin, editor in chief of the Tribune de Geneve,

a brilliant Swiss whom I knew years ago when he was a correspondent nere spoke

to the OTR series B (he did the A group on the 4th the day after arriving by

iet from Switzerland) . Despite ssriou3 hoarseness, 1 thought him even be-tor

than the .-revious week. It does help when I can get excellent speakers to do

both -roups. Ke threw me for a loop upon turning up in my t^icc not r ay by

Ms voice and admission thai he was full of every kind of panacea aVaxlaMe but

by rendering if he had out it too fine in time. "Te had an apptintment m 1 nnce-

ton to see Dr., Oppenhoimer nfcich required taking a 2i3i bus from the Aye. ^

terminal. Cue gulp and I let him make some telephone calls while I got no^d e^

a nice boy to have a taxi at the door by 2:#5* Adjournment at 2 was fo^-o/wu

hv whipping him off platform, into overvoat and with fur cap and oriei case m

hand down a flight of carpetted stairs into the leiby and otf. (Be.oro th ^

masting had gone to the tank so could cash his honorarium cim* ahaeaftai

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ihe nig,. wind carried the water, until holes were cut in the roof, to the street

and crwtsd a vast sheet of ice. The Metropolitan Life Insurance oeoole havs

given their auditor!#! for Soiohany masses. In the apmijr the ceilii" of "st

"eorge's or Stryvssaht %are fell-"em"li ifxnusl

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f-cemoO I wwt td the Iflunoil on 'oreing Relations Christmas resection, eftioh

TMor# rn<5*:31- u -3n 37,r but I did manage to see a good many reools I blow.

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r, ^*,orlRy of their staff to intrigue prospective advert.13ire. This oppo*^-

unr.tv to iso Christina8 decorations at Rockefeller Cent or yid along Fifth. Ivemio--

which I ccnsidsrod not up to par a view sharad bytho anrrent "New Yorker". The

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^ luht nnio -r'Ph come tomorrow and Tuesday wa go to Stony Brook for ovomiyht.

7j pl..n ;o go to the nine o'clock service at the Caroline Church instead of the 11

0 cloc.% on Christmas Rve I must be back in the office ThurccU.y moiniry* Uy owe*-

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tar cold 30 ,, yn. Her maid Louisa was wall enough to let me in, her raniacement is

.oing well, out Aunt Mary finds housekeeping taxing & wonders if she should give up apt.

December 22, 196S
This may be th# first day of winter, but we have bed below frsoslng temper ature* enhanced by high winds for over a week# The usual number of fires have resultedr^Friday's was the R#G# Church of ti e Epiphany, nfour ularraer # ich necessitated the evacuation of families from two adjoining apartment houses# Tii# higi wind carried the water, until holes were cut in the roof, to the street and created a vast sheet of ice# The Metropolitan Life Insurance yeorle have given their auditorium for Epiphary masses# In tha summer the ceiling of St# George's on btuyvesant Square fell--Temple Emanuel has offered the use of their facilities for St# George's traditional eandellight service of carols this a ter* noon.
Last Sunday Vera oame for a drink here, praised the apartment * 3d then we went to Harvey1s for luncheon and to finish our "catoh-up" session# 'Tuesday afternoon I went to the Council on Forcing delations Christmas reception, which was more packed than ever but I did manage to see n good mary people I know# About Hi 30 on Wednesday morning my left eye registered chain lightening in the other comer from my cloud# Or# Connolly saw me on an emergency basis, though the disturbance stopped in the taxi on the way to his offioe# He called it a spasm and declared the cloud better and rave me a persoription for Seconal to relax me# hen I phoned him Friday to report he said H Good, keep it up a few days mors and take it easy# This is bettsr than going back to the hospital,"" Needless to say that was what I feared might be his verdict when I telephoned asking to be seen without appointment. On the other hand, Tuesday I went for the cholesterol test -- w^ich shows a drop of 60 points --basic and cheering#
Having delayed in getting my fur coat from storage I went over to pick it up on Friday (big hocus-pocus about inability to deliver to address other than that on the receipt -- I certainly goofed last spring not to give the office and stupidly failed to have my charge corrected since coming here.) On the way I delivered 199 tickets for Janauary 9 to HBO--they not only rrdvid# the talent but give us a very pleasnat dollar profit# However, we give them e fine showcase for the dipplay of their staff to intrigue prospective advertisirs. Thi opportuiilty to See Christum. decorations at Rockefeller Center and along Fifth Avenue-- which I considered not up to par a vievr shared bythe current "New Yorker"# The Hadio City tree seemed jrslier f an usual the decorations in tha channel pedes trian # Hie Avenue is filled with half-staffed flags, which will continue until January 4 in honor of former Governor Lehman# I hear the decorations in the big stores are not so elaborate this year.
For a long time I have wanted a transistor radio to take to the kitchen or bedroom, Fred Nunss was good enough to purchase one for me when he was doing some shopping of his own this week# I added to the "Family Pool" present and have one with attachment to use on the regular current, or can use the battery by a ssinall adjustment--even an ear phone so as not to disturb other people in public places# My good old radio CI eve gave me a good IB years ago took umbrage at the mere presence of the transitior and conked out tro days later* There was nothing for it but put nry Christams present into use a few days early# How glad I was to have it #
Aunt Annie will com# tomorrow and Tuesday we go to Stony Brook for overnight# :/e plan to go to the nine o'clock service at the Caroline Church instead of the U o'eloek on Christmas hre# I must be back in the office Thursday morning# My prosent problem is how to put even a small pine branch and stuff on ray metal front door# Yesterday afternoon I went up to see Aunt Eary, who has not gone out since th cold set in# Her maid Louise was well enough to let ms in, her replacement is doing well, but Aunt Mary finds housekeeping taxing A wonders if she should give up apt#