Frances J. Pratt Letters on the U.S. Foreign Policy Association, 1964-1965

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^as bon of particular inter-ast to ^e. Since reading

The Shoes cf * e - jherman" at Garsington I have thought I sew parallels between Pope

~aul and the ficticious hero of th* book. Last night Vera told me of Max Ascoli's

(anti-fascist Italian emigre married great wealth here and for years has owned and

published THE REPORTER magazine) audience with the Pope, whom he knew well years ago.

Ascoli reminded the Pope of a former mutual friend, a priest who became an apostate

an wan urged by Ascoli to return to the Church before his death without success, and

kfd^^Ut hlS statuf* The Holy Fa"tker replied "I pray for him daily. Who can tell
what will happen. (Sorry, my slip he used the napal "we" throughout the conversation to ABColiis indignation at such formality with -*n c!d iVV-d, f)

With great oereaction Aunt Annie arrived here on Deeember 5 P if ->f hour before

the eno-- nf the Cbv'stmns storm started falling p,n* 1 at > - - ^ f jn v/it - he-

Poo*

dear, she had t shift for herself a greet de l as six cf the -v* TM * li /

were w^rk davs and. t e EPA took not only my time but muc'- ti ay energy. The NBC Jan uary lunch- :uilt busily nd I also h*d to ~tir myself about OTR spey.htre chairmen for Je.iu-ry 1 ^hehe.oh? . Further complic-ticx w * a mess*- that the head

" ruary,

fA~i,',<* TR buffet was hoiscHal -d u^ulf. rot be able to work before Feb cf thih ~U * i- the re--neibility of the wo--n "tbev" retired

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lunt '*:'9 "d 1 did

a lovelv Christmas and the

eekend . gather. With the office cluing at noon on the 24+h *re caught a "soeciel"

train te Er*oort, and. were with Martha and CI eve wt.er *ren and

assorted males'

de;4ver^

olls<rt Christ-, rifts. Thev v used Ion- enough to have tee

when t-e gre^t puz.l-ment of t' e i* st six year old Tomm* tns revealed. He couV not

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ttoo sS-ttoonnyv BRrrnonoVk. Mart la '-rdI C2lov"st7ayFed^for dinnerV, Sddurr0iTn"g -thhriOhU^lntoht .erIDOinT'r- lwrfjd<,enow.

fell, soon -fter th9y i . f t for Cl5.- to uoher , t the Tranefiguratien service, t e l g h .

bore earn, to -tag carols in th, ,,,ot to u- srd nick uo rscruits, s T*i,, hone Is we were

the nine'o'to .''c.^e ^34th

celebration at the Caroline Church. We selected

the nine o c. -k - tb the new junior choir, which looked adorable in their long ecerlet

gown, end carding electrie c-ndlee in ih-ir left band, against the white wainscottlng

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I "stored old church. The white Eucharist candles contrasted with the

0n a

!sr' viin" r*d 'uldl<"' in trass triols sconces and great

wreaths Witb Dig red bows decoratsd white walls an either side. It was a lovely service

end I -ere in good voice and sang lustily, though he seemed surrrised that it was

communion. Fred and a pal of hi, set in the first row ,f t*e old slave balcony and

probably had an even more dramatic visual imoression than we in th<> nave. We are nil

old enough now to wait until after breakfast on Christmas morning to ooen out gifts 1

: oily was good enough to h^va our roast beef dinner middar Rg Aunt Annie and I had to taJ'3 ths 4;17 train.

,, , >-^rdry ^ornin^re did seme shopping and in th afternoon called on Aunt Mary, f.cnday j. left the of.ice ejrly to receive the ?u.rn:+ure from storage. Jry had x^sctod to br=.ng it but getting an emergency job had Fred do it. He got lest and' arriWtnc and a -alf hours la.er than expected during which time I imagined all sorts cf hti^re,
^ I0! racy ?t^ed for dinner after which Aunt Annie and T pondered the wisdom f ' my charted rearrangement of existing furniture and placing of the things I have not u a nee we arid the Bayport house in 1946. Tuesday night we looked at xh*i I had packe in Jie trunk so many years age and discovered things I 'tad forgotten and many of vhl i vonc.er ^y I ever kept, !%at am T to do with the huge silver te? tray for ear-mpi^ r^ie box of rlass ana cmna ana anotner of books were snoved into a closet ^or muth later examination. I'm not so sure I shall be settled by Easter11 On. New Yeaps -mof 1'tlly **,r broiight Bill to town in snov J sleet to take tne noon tr*in with Aunt

January 5, 1964
Today the Pope is in the Hely Land. Ever since I routed for his election . witnessed the reaction of officials and humble felk near the Velez-Malaga market the news with beaming smiles, handshakes arid embraces, ringing of church and conve. bells and aerial bombs, he has been of particular interest to me. Since reading "The Shoes of the Fisherman" at Garsington 1 have thought I saw parallels between iropt haul and the ficticious hero of the book. Last night Vera told me of Lax Ascoli's V (anti-fascist Italian emigre married great wealth here and for years has owned and published THE HEPORTHR magazine) audience with the Pope, whom he knew well years ago. Ascoli reminded the Pope of a former mutual friend, a priest who became an apostate and was urged by Ascoli to return to the Church before his death without success!, and ashed about his status. The holy Father replied "I pray for hira daily, .<ho can tell what will happen, " (>orry, my slip he used the papal "we" throughout the conversation to Ascoli s indignation at such formality with an eld friend !)

Vith freat perception Aunt urnie arrived here on December 2? half and hour before

the snow of the Christmas storm started falling and let herself in with her key, Poor

dear, are h*d to shift lor herself a great deal a six of the days she was with me

were work days and the IT A took not only my time but much of my energy. The NBC Jpn-

uary lu .cheonjouilt busily and I also had to stir myself about QTR speakers and

chairmen i;;r ^anuary luncheons . Further complication was a message that the head

waitress for the OTH bu. fet was in hospital and would not be able to work before Feb-

ruary. upenrision of this staff is the responsibility of the woman "they" retired

in mid-December i Nevertheless Aunt Annie and I did have a lovely Christmas and the

weekend together, vdth the office closing at noon on the 24th we caught a "special"

tiain to Ireeport, and were vdth . artha and CIeve when Fran and her assorted males

arrived to delivery and collect Christmas gifts. They paused long encurh to have tea

vhen tie great puzzlement of the almost six year old Tommy was revealed. He sould not

understand how Jesus came be a baby when he is a man. Ixplannticns of the co numera

tion oi the birth were again patiently made, but Tommy was still confused or uncon

vinced unless he was unwilling to give up this good attention getting device*, As soon

rs thev left to visit their paternal grandparents, we drove through the snowy landscape

to Story Brook. Martha and Clave stayed for dinner, during which another inch of sno-v

fell. Soon aiter they left for Clove to usher at the Transfiguration service, the neighs

oors came to sing carols in the snow to us and pick up recruits, a vain hope as we were

al. ab-ut to go to^the 234th Christmas celebration at the Caroline Church, He elected

nir.o o clock with the new junior choir, wi ich locked adorable in their long scarlet

gowns a* C eding electric candles in their left hands against the white wainscotting

0 . * romrauly restored old church. The vhite Eucharist candles contrasted with the

re pcintsettas banked on the altar, while red candles in brass triple sconces .^nd great

wyesths wit bog red bows decorated white walls on either side. It was a lovely sorvice .

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1,1 coa V'r'-L(:3 and sang lustily, though he seemed surprised that it was

cornyuro on. fred and a pel of his sat in tho first row of the old slave balcony and

probably had an even more dramatic visual impression than we in the nave. We are all

old er> )ugh nov to wait until after breakfast on Christmas morning to open out gifts

l olly was good en:u$i to have our roast beef dinner midday as Aunt Annie and I hid to take the 4slV train.

Saturday morning we did some shopping and in the afternoon called on Aunt Mary,

Monde: x le-t tne office early to receive the furniture from storage. Jay had expected to onng it Dut getting an emergency job had Fred do it. He got lost and arrived two

and a naif <iours later than expected during which time I imagined all sorts of hvarrors.

II endjjoe x>rady stayed for dinner after which Aunt Annie and I pondered the wisdom of

my charted rearrangement of existing furniture and placing of the things I have not used

a nee we sold the Eaypcrt house in 1946. Tuesday night we looked at tfjat I had packed

in the trunk so many years ago and discovered things I had forgotten and many of which

v.Oxider why 1 ever kept, Hhat am I to do with the huge silver tea tray for example?

The box of glass and china and another of books were shoved into a closet for much'

later ixam-nadon, irm not so sure I shall be settled by Easter*! On New Years morning

Iffelly &

brought Bill to tow* in snow & sleet to take the noon train with Aunt Annie*

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January 12, 1964

On Tuesday and Wednesday oeorle for the NBC luncheon at the Hilton cancelled and reserved at such a hectic pace t^at we were hard put to know just where we stood. The chart went to the hotel ind* fating 1696 people to be served, of which 39 were on the double tiered dais. Rain delayed many people and torrents made getting bask to the
office a nig tmare. It is clear that t! 3 TT lit en totk a sizeable number of headwaiters, captains and others from the /eldorf a3 I had to shske a lot if hands while putting the place careds on the dais and three special tables where I wanted certain peoole to talk to others* The ballroom is attractive and has superb acouties, The reception for guests of honor was a shambles socially as Halres insisted upon too many people being in vited and Maude Seligman involved too many of us in a search for her glasses, (She al ways looses something, I literally got on my knees to peer under a cocktail table. Later she insisted her table had more than ten people, although I had written and placed the seating cards myself. When I went to it with her I found two couples had not appeared and someone had sat the society editor of the ARKANSAS GAZETTE vfao had appeared at 12:30 unexpectedly with Patterson, the publisher and an FPA Board member, I knew of a defection at another honor table and started to lead her off when Mrs. S. changed her mind and said probably all four of the tardy ones would not come I) Tomorrow afternoon there will be a conference to plot tie next big event to make another $21,000 as the fund raising department **s running behind on income I

Thursday morning,1Georges" of the Hilton telephoned m that my room had been reserved-- a delicate attention as he thought I might like to leave my coat and perhaps rest after lunch. I couldnot have cared less, but it seemed ungracious to spurn his offer, so with "Merci biens" and "Avec plaisirs" I terminated the call. It was time taking to register, have the bellboy escort me and Mary Golden to room 3216, but it did afford'a quick look at the narrow corridors, the boat shaped bathtub, the small candle in glass cup beside the Gideon Bible in the writing table drawer and the unmarked white plastic panel to be pushed to turn on the bathroom light. Even from the 32nd floor the view was impeded by an equally tall office building across 53rd Street, the Americana to the Southwest and the new CBS building to the Southeast*--the nhole south wall was to&ndows. Both the bell boy and the chambermaid were friendly and efficient.. We aro all favorably inclined to use the Hilton again if we can. The fire destroying the Hotel letor ballroom has led to the reeeheduP-atg of a lot of Amotions elsewhere and will complicate "bancuet" book ings for the rest of the season.

The feud with the lord" erd continues wit'- fresh fury on my ja rt when I found a legal document tucked into the doer jar.h Friday, January. 3, which sp-eajjjed to be a first step in eviction for nonra"mi cp rent for Detejber.gnr. Jrrrrry -- thev never even botherod to send the J iry rent bill!. Not being able to carry on the office alarums and excur sions attendant upon the lunch*?r, I drew my cheek sending it with a letter to theagent remind-' ng him of if; wwembor latter asking about the things thev have not done, reminded him of my mid-December telephone call reiterating my dislike of being in arrears nd bogging him to rat some answers for me. Then J. wrote the Clerk of the Court issuing the document telling him the score and sent copies to the landlord*- lawyers -- Flom & Flon -- hereafter to be bed ^lim- l-m It ir clear the lendloard is undercapitalized and de*~e-ate for e*h, His la^el effort of two weeks ago to urgrade the rent by "decon trolling" the house washed out as the house w*s alrendy decontrolled 1

This Panamanian rioting confounds me. One can imaging the familioc TMho went th^re

50 veart ago th nk nd beh-ve like Gringoes, hut irresponsible fl-g raising contrar" to

official orders seems scant cause for t*rt> deaths. Granted the

Panama are in

fected with the world wide virus of gr.o - n c ww- -ism of small nations but 0x3 cannot

help vond-Hng if th^re is more to this than meet* the eve.OPeration "Bi^ Lift" must

have demonstrated that the Canal is not the essential element to our national defence it

once was. The Security Council was correct in turning this over to the Organization of

American States, but our new OAS representative Ulswiirib Bunker has not impressed me

especially since he flirted put of his OTR date 13 months ago. He has alwys seemed

cold, rigid and pompous, but I am told the Indians likod him as our Ambassador in New

Delhi. The problem of Nehru1s successor is interesting, I root for Kamaraj of Madrae,

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made a big figure *8* around it until the weather ship arrived. Last night the Madi

son Avenue bus I was going to Vera's on stopped iniiile the driver went to the aid" of

a down going bus unable to make a right hand turn at 39th/ because of badly parked ; , ears. For over five minutes these tv/o busses effectively, crosstown and up and down /1\ aJl

traffic, Great confusion end wild honkl^^ ensued. After dinner we ^?nt to tfea off

Breeds1' production of "Too Much Johnson" -- a revival of William Gillette's 1896

farce.probably more of an adaptation, very amusingly dc* by a fir.it e l s- e s t *

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ftooo...prohabl, acre of an steptfcttton, very esweiagly don. by a first ol,,? ea,t.

Ae lnteet thing In iff Broadway la not having a matinee on Saturday, instead a per*

fer:nea at awon and another at tan. At va vara having dinner at a.van attended

Lrt^M0 *?* !** 12,30 t0 ftrai tt* elevator out of vhaoh. Fortunately it

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2d o2TM! w ateinietrator and aft.r balng tfa. lert Governor General of bath Jasudaa

or, i^*f ""fc haaaaa nations vaa aaaignad to tha British delegation to

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CP' > W4' hHC --and that is as far as I got yesterday# It was a dreary foggy day with rain #iich is probably only a fraction of a drop in our reservoir bucket# The post snow torrents were a disservice washing both mow and rain away too quickly* Authorities are not satisfied with the million gallon a day conservation recently achieved and threaten a dire future*

On Wednesday the women chewed up all the sandwiches and none were left for the workers for whom we always order* This is a mystery which I cannot solve satisfaotox** ily from the actual attendance figures and the food order* A few people always come without warning, but as usual a larger number for whom we ordered failed to show up* In the old days I only had to worry lest the speaker not show and have someone in mind who might fill in* Now thanks to the FPA retiring Henrietta Frederiekson in Deeember9 I have to prejudge not later than noon on the Monday what the weather may do to attendanee and/or sharpen appetites I Friday noon when I place a tentative order so the turkey, ham and other meat can be purchased on Saturday, it looked as if we would have our slimmost audience on tho 29th* At best it is a ehaneey thing*

I wish I did not feel that the office generally is going to pot* On the one hand -there is so much ttgold brisking" on -the job and busk passing* On the other Hayes and his three vice presidents cook up ideas and never think to cheek on the availability of humans to execute them or whether the little people may be tied up in other assignments* The old pattern of frequent Administrative Staff meetings where one had an opportunity to learn about future plane before they are jelled has been abandoned with the natural resulting loss of tohesion and teamwork* Winslow*s position as a vice president is threatened the grapevine tells me* I only know that he is moving into my Special Events area and without el earaaee with anyone mairig overtures for a apeaker at a large May luncheon* Should a miracle be per* formed and the Allen Dulles luncheon in Marsh make a lot of money we would not need to have one in May* I know this is wishful thinking, but sines I have not yet had time to complete the wrapping up of January 9, it adds to my aggravations*

Thursday I vent across to the UN to get my pass renewed and pick up a $12*50

rebate on my summer flight# The security man said he only needed one picture and

after it was taken I started to put on my dark glasses

a second one was flashed,

somewhat surprised 1 remained in the booth for the next two and was given the three

very funny pictures he did not want* He used a very Mrogue*s gallejry " shot, *iieh

is better than my old identifieatioa but hardly a happy portrait* Friday I took

atj full luncheon hour for the first time in many weeks and went overtown* What fun

to see Madison Avenue by daylight and belatedly buy ay 1964 Leathemith purse

diary at full prise* No doubt I could have gotten a markdovn by shopping about,

but for that there was no time* I planned yesterday (Saturday) to have a look

at Altaian*a for the winter dress and hat I have not had time to buy and the fibers

glass curtains for the kitchen but it was such a dismal day I finished cleaning and

oiling the mahogany dresser and even got a few things in two drawers* The task of

preparing the hall book ease did not go so well* Somewhere along the line it has

lost its bask and somewhat sprung its shell* It would be hasardeus to put the books

in before the whole is braced* Perhaps a stained plywood bask is the answer, and I

fear beyond my capabilities#

Yesterday morning it seemed pious to offer to go to Aunt Mary on such a dreary day* Four e*clock was agreed upon and half an hour later she called back Would I go for luneh with her today instead as she did not want me out in the rain* So mush chaos reigned here that I agreed and then worked so hard until I stopped for luneh that I lay down to hear the first act of "Magic Flute" on ifae radio* Result --all my writing left until today as I conked out after dinner and ay half hour reading with the good eye patched* Semehow that takes a lot out of me, but Connolly has made it clear that is something I must de* So, now it is time to ready myself to go up to Aunt Mary, happily in brisk sunshine#

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Sorry to skip a week but last Saturday I went to Freeport in a heavy drenching drizzle* Martha and Cleve drove me back Sunday afternoon with a piece of plywood for the back of the hall bookcase* He had cut it skillfully to my measurement e, nailed it in and did several other jobs beyond my competence* Now, I have not excuse for leaving books in three or four more eartonsl Today I hung the hall mirror att did a couple of other constructive things before going up to fetch Judith Listowel on 58th Street for dinner at the Club* She leaves Monday for Washington, Pennsylvania, Ohio and then ten days in Florida* A friend had given her a ticket for the new Henry Miller play eo we had two hours together and I have the evening to myself* She has moved into the new house, finished the book on Tanganyika save for the epilogue and is eonvinsed that JFK was murdsrsd by a plot involving both Oswald and Ruby* She is convinced they knew one another and is asking "Who stands to gain by the death? ".not the USSR, probably not American Communists, the American Radical Right or who paid the assassin?

The February waether forecast of wetter and colder has held up fatithfully fo far* I was almost washed away coming home from the office on Mondays and again on Thursday* This morning all the Syeamorc tree "buttene" across the street were tapped with snow and looked like inverted cotton balls* Tonight there is a eold wind*

Monday Penn Hails took me to lunch and told some of his six month adventures motoring in Europe* He was fassinated by the differing conditions in the several Satellite countirec he visited and loved Hungary* He left me eager to hear more when he returns from several weeks in hie Vermont house* Tuesday Mrs* Kirk telephoned she had a sore throat and could not preside at Wednesday's OTR* When Z telephoned Bill Henderson that Mrs* T oungm&n would introduse him instead, he confessed that he wae convalescing from fly, but promised to be ambulatory Wednesday* His analysis was more courageous than cheery, but the audience liked him* He pointed out the succession of meeees or srisss from the Yemen to Korea and warned there would be more, deplored de6aullets proposal of neutralizing South Vietnam on the grounds that similar action in Laos had given the Communists opportunity to solidify their position there*

Last night I had dinner with Vera and her son Bill* Now he has his own apartment he goes home to mother for dinner and TV when he has no othsd date* He assured me he has no "housekeeping problems" and plainly loves being an admiralty lawyer as his father was* He is taking a course in the developement of art from the Renaissanee on this semester at the New Sehool* In the autumn took an NYU eourse in elassieal litera ture* picking things he did not take as an undergraduats at Harvard* Tomorrow Vera is coming here and we will go out for luneh together --ehe is depressed and being very Russian in hsr self criticism and analysis of her boredom with her graduate sehool students at NYU, with the books she is editing, and the articles she writes for the Indian syndicate* It is my suspicion that ehe is doing to^mueh to savour the satis faction of any one undertaking*

Fred Nunes and I had an amusing fencing session with Fisher, the new Banquet Mana ger at the Waldorf--a young twirp from Rhode Island and I suspect of French Canuekantecedents* I gently told him I h*d had my firwt Waldorf arranging with Oeear down *t the old Fifth Avenue location* Somewhat later after eelacting their first dae fmit eur fo^ our first eouree asking if it would be served in the "silver euos% he avowed hie eolo^ bv replying "Yes, in the fnew ilve- eure* Oec&r and Fhillippe have called them since they were bought 30 years ago! " He did faeeinate me on the "little potatoes" we shall have with filet of sole with white grapes* In the old days they had a bevy of old women vho spent their days peeling them by hand* Then they got an abrasive lined drum, vhish a couple of boys operated* By centrifigal force the skins are rubbed off and ehunks of larger potatoes rounded* Now the drum method is used by the Long Island potato growers and the result delivered in cellophane bags with a little harmless, colorless and tasteless chemical added to keep them from turning dark* The skins and bits of potato are washed out the bottom of the drum, dried and sold as pig food. So now we have settled the menu, the announcements have begun to go out and we have eold 125 covers* The real returns will start coming in by Monday week for March 20*

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This has been the week of the Medeterranian influence for me. Greatly enjoying the bocss of Gerald Durrellen wild animal collecting in the Cameroon*, I hare taken a whirl at the Alexandria Quartet of hi# brother Lawrence in my "practise period" of bad eye reading and the standard use of both eye# for the half hour bed time enjoyment* "Justine" *as put asids in the autumn tfian 40 page# confused and irritated me, but in returning to it I managed to tolerate the unusual form, the extraordinary adjective# used in

or Alexandriaa.nd"^B+&!l!th0naifaUr" imngor*asmll6ocretloMn orfothtfhr#.

raw., religions and .ulturaa X think Durrall Harried something in

VS, Justiaa" and it is not merely that I am aonditioned to him. Thuraday night I

saw Mda at the Metropolitan in eontradiatinetion to "hearing" it as the nam produetion

finanaed by Amariaan Export and Isbrandtsen Lines is slnemasaopa in quality with mora

peepis on stage than in either of the other two productions I hare experienced at the

sJetropolitan~tha original and that contributed by the children of Otto Kahn. None of

m^ff[L^reJa^liar tt*nding~par for Mr, Bing's management. The speevaele was rv ^ ? greatly expanded role of the ballet extradedinary--choreography by
Katharine Dunham (a Negro) and dirertsd by Alicia ltarkowa. Belly dancers in brlllijrt ser-ae skirts, tribesmen from pretty far south of the Nile Delta with plumed headgear
spears, girls in two shades of blue Ao fell prone on their baeks all too frequently* Area six year olds In loin clothes shimmied and stamped about taking the eye from a double row of archers with French blue knee length skirts and bronscd torsos who marched

#w! p J 0 8 i t e o f

** P*" ach other in a diagonal line like a frieze

a as relief com# to life* In each set flights of stairs were included, unhelpful^

totl

? m6 tfiuaip5ai J1"*" of Badames* However, put to magniiieent use in the

M% I 3ccne2 blessing of Radames campaign against the Ethiopians -- a long flight at

ltft ea*b vith * double line of * it# robed, shaved headed priests I' thtir effective chorus against the off stage voices of the priestesses* In the

^ a*d

were sealed in the tomb, Amneris instead of clawing

groat block of stone on the top bemoaning the defection of the hero, appeared

on a pedestal well above looking and behaving like a porcelain figurine in her immobile

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l^y had just arrived from Columbus and leaves fan Athens, Rom, London

and Perugia in a month was with me* Thursday nsver was as smart a night as Monday, but

~ say men in business suits in the boxes and heard sustained whistles from the audience

mingled with the "bravos"* The character and behavior of opera attendees has vastly

c anged in the last decade* Just as Kurt Adler was entering the conductors stand for

the second act a mighty sneete resounded and was followed by laughter then applause* I

am not surs if the latter was for the sneeser or the conductor* To round out my Medi

terranean week, the Saturday afternoon opera braodeaet was "Otello" (Terdi again) with

its setting on the again strife torn island of Qyprus I

Lincoln's birthday was an office holiday but I vent in for a few hours after getting my belated flu booster ehot in the morning, I had planned to do some shopping (the lone Uoired dress and hat plus kitchen fiberglass curtain) but a cold and strong wind deterred me* As it was the shot gave me a general laeeitude and stuffy head which lasted for several days* Yesterday I unpacked a wooden box marked china and glass from storage, The ieswspapes used were September, 1940 so I imagine my grandmothers gold encrusted crystal and Dresden pierced edge take plates were patked away before we first put the Bayport house up for summer rental* To my horror the first little bundle unwrapped was a broken plate, the three major pieces each in a separate fold, then I was mystified that the paper was dated April 1952 % Did someone examine the contents, break a plate and return the pieces? A hasty examination does not seem probable tlmt this dozenth plate can be restored* I am sorry to say that three of the bowls of the stemmed goblets were shattered, but the water tumblers and what we now call fruit juice glasses were all intact* I wonder what my grandmother used them for, Mother had them for eider at winter holiday dinners* So often it is the "beet" things that survive and I would have been more interested in every day wear at thie point, but only for the sake of variety as there is more than enough of everything already on hand for my simple needs* When I shall ever get around to any entertaining here is a very open question f
An occasional brilliantly sunny day breaks the general weather pattern. It starts/9 to snow at nine last night, small purposeful flakes which later turned to rain

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Althodgfe a check was sashed for shopping money yesterday another Saturday is passing without the purshass of dressy hat, ete* It is a beautiful brigit and sunny day though well below freexing with a gusty wind, but I had a misadventure last night and need a weekend of recuperation* I'll try to give the picture with broad strokes* First, it has been a tough week and I. was very tired. Determination to write at least one letter after dinner went by the board* By nine o'clock I gave up reading feeling slightly odd and went to bed* At midnight I awoke feeling even odder and thought sitting up awhile in the living room would help* It didn't and I started back to bed only to find myself on the living room floor, having neatly avoided hitting my head on the magazine bench9 but feeling very comfortable spread eagled on the carpet and appre ciating the fresh cool air* Bed again seemed the solution, but a detour to the kitchen to leave an ashtray led to a small upchucking and another fall* This also accomplished without hitting anything though the tail of my spine began resenting contact with the floor* Then the explantion--a gas jet turned on enough to account for it all but iz>* auffiently to let the pilot light work* (I must investigate that burner to be sure nothing is the matter with it and somehow reinforee what X thought was a firm habit of checking the petcocks whenever I leave the kitchen*) Since I was not aceidently as phyxiated last eight the conclusion is I must have been born to be hanged I

Monday night Maria gave me a superb coq au vin for dinner, from a recipe she had learned from the French ehef of the friend with whom she stayed at Palm Beach during her highly satisfactory exhibition* Alas, I only looked at a couple of the many e* eellexrt reviews and stories before Hank came in after stage amgj| the arrival by hip of an ancient column from a Jordanian temple* Fair officials, the ambassador of Jordan, etc*, etc* complete with news men and TV equipment greeted the column, which after the Fair will be the gift of Jordan to the City of New York end remain at Flushing Meadows park* One wonders if eventually the name will not become Robert Moses Park \ As usual Maria and Hank had been skiing over the weeJe nd near Manchester and woke Sunday morning to a heavy snow storm just as pmeviously forecast* 18hy they waited sec* eral hours to start back is not elear, but perhaps it was to give the plows a chance to ele&r the roads* At any rate the plowmen seemed all to have overslept or gone to church* Heavy snow was blown by a high wind and they had a dreadful time trying to tee the road,avoid other cars and snow banks until they were well into Westchester* The trip took twice the usual time and according to Hank took a year off the life of the oar* No-one mentioned what it did to them I

We did not get much of that storm but on Tuesday about nine in the evening another visit us for about 30 hours* It was good to know that the OTR snadwiehes and goodies had arrived at the office shortly before I did having eoane over 40 miles from Mahopae in Putnam County* Of course, the audience stayed away in droves and at St 30 the chair* man telephoned she had a heavy cold and did so want to fly to Mexico on Saturday that she wanted to stay in bed* Could I get someone to substitute for her? Woman after woman turned me down when 1 could even get through to one --they all seemed to be re making their lives on the telephone* I got four busy tones on Mrs* Hitchcock's line, meanwhile trying other people's, before reaching her and having to promise to write complete script for her use* Now I am chewing my nails waiting for an answer from General Griffith, supposedly in New Delhi, on my invitation to be speaker at the 16th and closing meeting of the season* The March 20th luncheon at the Waldrof for Dulles has picked up on reservations and I feel a little eawier about it, but disturbed at thev insistence of much more money must be made in a May luncheon* Thursday I had to draft an invitation to Willie Brandt, Mayor of Berlin* In examining my records on him, it developes he is a bastard and uses a "pen name" he adopted in Soandixavia during the war, his birth record in the Lubeek Town Hall would chow him as neither a Willie or a Brandt* Meanwhile, too many little people doing clerical details and some of higher rank perform with such a lackadaisal manner as to ereate more snafus and frustrations than I should be subjected to* A week of silence has passed since I made my pitch to Hayes for an increase in alary# I don't expect to get it, but shall soon lave to re mind him, for it is part of my plan for graceful departure from FPA*

February 26, 1964
Spasi&l Bulletin
Subject* James Christopher Marra Having just finished a fine, informative chat with Sal, I rush to share with
you the bits and pieces. Fran and JC* both had a good, night last night and after seeing them both Shree times, Sal expects they will have another good rest tonight and will go home about ten on Saturday morning,
liIthtele boys are "eestatio" as thsy all minted a brother, except Johnny, who from time to tiae thought it would be nice to hare a "Boy-sister", They are
vi-j Vior-T*v with Martha'a experienced oare and seeing Cleve, iAio S- 3 - , ::^fm^-:^rstay until bedttae. when he goes to his own house.
Fran decided on Monday evsting that she would not last until Leap Tear lay and the doctor agree to meet her at South Nassau Coamumites Hospital in Oceanside, where he advised her to have a nice sleep and he would be prepared to action on Tuesday# (First night in a strange bed wasprobably not as restful for her a3 might have been, but it was not until midday Tuesday they telephoned for Sal, I failed to get either hour of delivery or time in delivery room, ) Birth weight ws i&ft'f ^ pounds 14 ot, III Fran has held JVC* several times is content, looks well and is reconciled to another son--the rsconcilsd is my word not SalTa, The Marra grandparents have been to see them, So far CI eve has not taken a pioture cf this new seventh grandchild, Sal went to school today and handed out the tradition* &1 ciagrs* He thinks he got more takers because of the generally held and probably erroneous new theory cigars are not as harmful as oigasettes*
As you will recall Fran has always been to Mercy Hospital after Berry, and liked the nursing care of the sisters# Unfortunately the nuns are in a reorganisation now withdrawn from nursing and devoting themselves to administration of "the hospital , which in the transition is reputed not to be well staffed with nurses* Hence I asked partiiularly about South Nassau# Fran is comfortable there, likee the etaff, food and pleased with the abundant care and ateention she has had
I apologise for the typographical errors, I went to a reception and film on the American Farm School in Greece, happily in the office building and did not reach home until after eight. Talked to Sal about nine after having gotten no answer at Hilldide# This was interrupted by a very long call from Vera, whose deep depression of the past three months has deeply concerned me. Although she thinks she has turned the corner today, it was a very long conversation* Now I must go to bed, I address the envelopes tomorrow morning and mail early*

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February 29, 1964

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the office at 3:45 ye _ it had become a real storm and had already

reached stony Brook at .

the wood3 and at road edges. It step-

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have to a ppear in modern re over breakfast this morning. Fred will

is magnificent from his ^^^^^friflfmatch at St. John's this

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NBC--actors a nd singers in a fast passed program rib every

Johnson down#

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wniitghhtLetoinctkientes for "Lohengrin. JustIu'ss^ell!! haUvDeU'Sluea^lalyCthiirneedset^hsaltlre-
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' ^^ j AS the hospital could keep over tonight, she will go homewith James
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March 7, 1964

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' Without any/ proten'sion of imitatin/'g That Was The Weok That .7a3in style or pating

I cannot resist th# temptation of tailing this the Week of Whoop-de-do X A letter on

Monday reported that Cal is inmobilised in bed again with phlebitis* But sinee the doctor

did not hospitalise him, I can only assme thatrest and medication is that is necessary*

That and time*

Wednesday upon arrival at odfioe, I was told that Teodoro Moseoso, former Director

of the Alliance for Progress and our OTH speaker that day had found ths Washington air*

port fogged in and was proceeding by train* and would surely arrive by It30, when he

was to have met me at 12s 20 and been introduced at one o'eleok* Penn RR reported the

St 30 out of Was-iingt<>3 ras due at 12s 20 and an hour out of Wahington was proceeding on

time* Knowing he was to have spoken at a high school in the Bronx in the morning I did

some research on share the sbhool was and best method of getting there for the benefit

of the aide travelling with the Ambassador* They did turn up, despite the confusion in

the undei*reeonstructionPenn Station and midday traffic at 12s40* He had his lunch and

Mrs, Kirk introduced him at one* Such af his speech as I could listen to rather disap-

pointed me with its poor coordination and jerky delivery--but he made a helpful analogy

to the Marshall Flan and the differences between European and South American countries*

cable

Some time during the day we got a

from Governing Mayor of West Berlin

saying he would like to speak for FPA but on Friday, May 15 instead of one of the dates

we had suggestedSo I have been writing the letter of confirmation and beginning to plot

format of event, operations timetable, working budget, etc* X only pray these prelimin^

aries don't confuse ms in the last two weeks work on the Allen Dulles luncheon of March

20* This by the way goes rather better than I had dared to hope, though the final days

are always hectic* I begin to wonder when I shall ever have time to work on the income

tax and the long list of things to do here, to say nothing of the OTR Governing Committee

meeting and the solicitation of renewals from the 775 memebers for next season I

Wednesday morning Aunt Mary telephoned me in a very tired voice to say everything had suddenly changed and Louise was flying alone on the ten o'clock BOAC jet to London * A limousine would take her, the cook and the nurse to Kennedy Airport* No, Aunt Mary did not want me to stay with her during the evening, but would take a sleeping pill* All I could do was call BCAC and put Louise on the list for early embarkation with the YIPs, unaccompanied children etc* and special stewardess attention enroute* Also call Louise later to report this and wish her a comfortable flight*she had never flown anywhere*

Friday before flying to Boston for a Radcliff Instute Committee meeting Vera asked me to join her upon he* return for dinner* She is much better, but still does not like to be alone and Bill, who had been expected, suddenly had an out of towner to see* She and I had a delightful evening, but I was not home while Hank Harris was trying to reach me* World's Fair business was suddenly taking him to Conarcky via Lisbon when he called me from Vermont this mronign* Although ho did not know his flight number on PanAm, nor arrival hour in Lisbon, nor how long he would be there Monday morning could I find tut and sail Larry wherever he was and see if he eould get to Lisbon* No, it had not secured to Hank that if stop over were short, a telephons conversation from Lisbon might be more satisfactory* Half an hour's telephoning produced flight number and the fact that there would only be an hour between arrival and departure on another flight* It took two hours to get through to Veles-Mal&ga and track Larry down* and the connection via Madrid was not very good requiring much repetition. He opted for Hank to phone him as it is 800 Km* from -there to Lisbon and hard driving* (I had already confirmed my suspicion of no direct air travel, that Iberian has only three flights a week Madrid to Lisbon with Mon day's leaving at the time he should be in Lisbon, could be done by Sunday afternoon flight from Madrid and it was already 7 P*M* in Malaga Saturday when we talked* ) It was nice to talk with him, ti ough I obviously did not indulge in extra conversation I
Sinee Judith Listowel with a fine Florida tan was hex* for lunch and her first im paction of the apartment, which she thoroughly approved of* She is flying back to Londen Monday night* She let me read a fascinating letter from a hard headed Soots in Bar as Salam from which it is clear the Tanganyika mutiny was saussd by their own disgruntled army & Nyere's inability to make a quick decision, being t^o contemplative for that *

March 15, 1964 r
Lert it get souaezfd out ar*n, th* Lea" Yer D*y ^erfon&anee of Jena Anouilh's"The Lark" wea excellent and deserved a much larger audience , held down perhaps. by enow during the previous night. Bill's interoretation of The Inquisitor was sinieter and impressive, aided bv the sneer with which he delivered his early lines* As the eBfstage flames, which in the and consumed Joan, gave a res* glow to his white over garment the Inquisitor could take it no longer **d with his most human and dramatistline fled from the stage. The stage was a complicated seHes of platforms and atera,,u~en which the east had to dind their wav in the dark ae instead of using 1he curtain the etage limits went on to show -the characters in that scene in rlace* An unnecessary hasard to ray mind and although Bill said people did fail in taking or leaving their * ol*ea, ne one came to great harm. The Joan was sone4b, in fast the whole cast was a credit to themselves and the school. Although this did not appear in the rlay, it did rise in my w*nd--^whatever did the imbecile Dauohin think to accomplish bv annulling Jean's sentence 25 veers after her death?
Thie alas is t^ie season when a familv health note is necessary# Gal has returned-> to Lockheed on a restricted work schedule# Thelma has an ulcer en her lower left eye lid, which alee s#m to be responding to medicine. Fran and J.G are doing beautifully out tha day thev got home from the hec^ital Bobby came down with a hard case of German, maasle*. (Any day now we shall see how many of his brothers he infected.) Meanwhile Martha has had a tenacious type of virus, which she seems unable to riiake entirely* Sal had a "short flu" end Johnny has been miserable with an earache, Mondav I had enough manifestation of cold to decline Maria's dinner invitation# Just ae well ae I had two-- degrees of temperature, at night* With consistent subnormal temperature in the morn ing, I have gone to the office but left a It 30 on Friday in the hone that two and a half days of extra rest would null me out of this nuisance.
"Hie office is unusually busy with to days of special conferences for people from across the country. Formerly I put an enormous amount of time into this sort of thing, but now I do not even have to attend Just as well as we have gone oyar 900 on the " Allies March 20 Waldorf and I have managed to work out the budget, operational schedule etc for the Brandt, Mav 15 luncheon at the Americana .* Wedneaday we had 200 to hear John Gates in the final session of the OTR Series * He delighted the audience and I can only orav that Penn Haile will do # well for the season closing of Scries B this Wednesday. Then I shall only have to wrork on the Governing Committee meeting and the report#--I managed to push that off until A^ril 8. Then comes the promotion of members for the 196465 season to be fitted in with the Brandt luncheon#
Forsythia picked two weeks ago with several inches of snow on the ground has been bloeming on the red lacquer chest with most generous profusion# Bill noticed it yes terday morning when he stopped with two of his friends to discuss w*>at thev ebould do on this unexpected day in town# As my intelligence was comparable to that of a brassmonkey, I am afraid I let -them down. I simply could not co^a *th either luncheon or dinner for them nor have the wit to give Bill money to treat his friends. After scann ing the NEW YORKER I merely telephoned the Rivoll to see if tickets were avail able for the "Cleooatria" matinee.
Isn't it nice Oueen Elizabeth had a third eon? If all goes well Fran will have her fifth boy baptized this afternoon* Last Sunday evening while doing my anc--eye^.. practice reading I experienced ten minutes of euphoria. Suddenly I became aware of; seeing the ^faole page unclouded, the gr*at-crreat aunt's framed embroidery on the wall opposite me and the apartment house on the corner both unm&rred# I was about to enter the precise moment in my dia^v when I realized that the oateh had slipped and I hadbeen ueing the good eye# It was a most blissful feeling while it lasted, though*. Forgive me for baing so dull. I'll try to mako up for this next weekend# I plan on going Thursday the 26th for Easter with Aunt Annie, so don't expect a chitchat two wreke hence# I have not quite figured out when the income tax will be done* So far I have onlv roughed out the income, but not deductions. The carving is almost the wo:

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April 1, 1964

Aunt Annie arrived from Albany on Friday and unlatched me from the hospital on Easter morning* As she had already taken an armload of books and three plants, down after Friday end Saturday visitations, vre managed auite easily to get ourselves and the remainder of the "loot" into a taxi and arrive in the cold, windy sunshine*.. Thank heavens for Blue Cross--the total bill was $417, of which I only had to pay about $40, Between x-rays, electric cardiograms, basal metabolism and blood tests galore Dr Scanlan is quite content that I do not have either TB nor canoer and. only require a lot of rest and building ur>. I'll need one more x-ray in her office be fore she is *tisfiad that the patch on my lung has completely cleared UP* Aunt Annie* s one ide- is that I em to "get seme mt on my bones * end in addition to thrts hearty meels a dv gives me "elevenses" and afternoon tea* I'm UD for meals and then back t bed, but this afternoon I really dressed and shall stav UP until after dinner, Seme talk of our going awav for a weekbefore I go back to the office but nothing mav come of it* Convalescence from pneumonia seams to go at a snail's race and I did myself no good bv working through the 18#*, Mv little experience with illness mekes me impatient with the tendency to tire,
Although Midtown has only 60 bads, it is a pleasant hospital and its good staff gave me excellent care. Mv favorite was an Irish aide from the Connemarrs country , whose cheery m*nner, brisk efficiency and Pleasing s"*sch enchanted me* She was de lighted that I knew end admired her home. The hospital was lamost too handy to the office as I had ae mnnv as five caller* in a day* The FPA staff overwhelmed me. with flowers, gifties and cords. I got an inferiority complex--as *o mnv oeo^e found eo much more attractive cards than I oyer have, Martha and Cleye. Mollv end Jim come to see me and telcHhonM frequently. Fred* verv handsome <n hie winter blue uniform,arrived with a bunch of anenomes on his vav home for the Easter vacation* Having heard about the five o'clcok dinner* Martha brought some delicious oe^it fours to supplement the nine p.m. hospital snack* Fred Nunes turned UP at the hospital almost every dav with two cards and some other item--a small box of candy. eouole of eupc*kee or somethings, Mercians got my mail here nd brought it along with the office stuff -- the docto- had said I might do some office work at. the hospital. I hd some difficulty in persuading Mrs* Samuel Haves not to drive ma home in their cr, Very kind of her, but I just could not take it*
-*T~' This is eesentielly for reassurance a"d to warn you not to be concerned nor enxioua* *unt Annie is giving me the most wonderful meals and attention* I have, only read the beginnings of the Allen Dulles book and Rabert Murphy's tome-- the do*en~ / mystery paperbacks have been easier to handle both physically and mentally apd I have wore than half "f them ehed of me* I'm being *etten spoiled, but doubt if I follow Aunt M*ry,a adv*c of not ever going back to the office? I here to make it on the 13th, though probablv on a part time basis for while, Don't worry if there ia not another chitchat for another couol* of weeks.

, TrfC,

April 19, 1964

So sorry to be so slow in getting to this, but my extremely self-sentered life
is wery demanding. Thr-e !a-ge meals and two snacks -lu- rest Periods, going to the

doctor and short constitutionals t-ke skillf-1 Vanning on the -art of Aunt Annie to

he s-u-ezed into my days. Pulling mv income tax together involved more tame

ehould have because freruent diort we-k -erioda neeeesitated hunting out the "est set

of records to be decked. Mirabel* dietu both federal end state with

esthetes

rot into the mail* I wrrt t" the offiee on Tuesday for a major confarenca on Wisudorf

luncheon* " ftr next season on Tu-edav--my only a-oerane* last week. Mercians on"

tinuos to bring me things and carry beck the racket of drafts, ete. that I have worked

on. Another very tire genu--'n -oouoation ere long telephone consul tationa . Poor

Aunt Annie inaia-te thev alavs come '-hen aither the elevenses or afternoon tea is

re-dv for consumption t The reservations for the milv Brandt luncheon of Mav lu

roll in at a most gratifying rate. Edith King sent the most magnificent arrangement

of deep red rose* and purple stock and two days liter a big box of r_r, ewe .,eei

roeas arrived from Mrs, Leach. Teeterd.y box of red roeee. verv long stemmed, came

from John Matthewe to welcome ua back from Freeoort .

Wednesday we went to Freeport where Martha, took over the routine of preparing moat delicious meale and snacke . We sle-t at tbe Gate-v Motel, a very attractive -l.ee in Merrick five minutes from Hillside Avenue, where we scent our waking hours for meale end rest periods. Martha took us to Jones Beach for the direct sea air ... and then two expeditions to the Bav. Jams- Christopher had to go to the dowser for _ a eold, but we had two glimosee of him end Fran. He is a fine bebv with a e.urdv b dy and long slender fingsre. While at seven week, he probablv does not really see, but
-hen he is a-ake gives every *-rsranee of keeping track of wna. goes "" a aeneciellv every move Fran makea. Tha new die-oeable bottlee obviate the neoeaait., of washing and sterilising and also prevents him from taking inair with hie o . A great help to the mother. It was lovelv to see spring unfold -- in 48 hours .. there w-e a diseamable increase in the number of daffodils in blossom, the size o., tra. buds. Primroe-e were prevalent, forsvthia blaze of yellow. Japenesamagncl in had shed the outer bud casing . e-rly azaleas provided a-ote of white and magenta. Soring haa reallv come, though probablv only briefly. Ysaterdav the temoarn
to 86 degreea and mv afternoon walk was curtailed from ahaer heat .

Everyone, except me, seems to know how long this convaleaeenca take*. I we

CHAgrinned when I "came apart at the sa.ms" . week -go Friday and had to gi-e UP tha.

ho-e of going back to the office cn the 13th. I now exoeet to go inabout tan

tomorrow a-d leave at one to go t- Dr. Soanlan for a going *ver and - shot, ath luck

this should inaugurate the four hour day for me. With great regret I a

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ticket for the World*. Fair Opening ceremony at which President Johnson i- ^o so

back to Hank Harris. He was good to have me put on the office!

*

there are enlv a limited number of ticket* I wa grateful t* himw Press -.r

theee cards is terrific (they are only sent after one accent* the hug*

invitation) ha is haopy enough t have mine ticket back- ?v*n x , e * on ^ f llv

demonstration doe* not come off, end I fear it will, I hod a ' 1 tostav until for me to attemot it- Aunt Annie ha cid i*e would be good enough to stav unti

the 24th to be sure that I "get ehought* eat"during mv first weak back. Her o

ffeiwe have oiled for four weeke, but eh offers to return if 1 n ed .

if fact t* delzv decar+ure. She has been so good to me that I fear ahe mav need a

rest curt h*r*lf t

Next time chit-ehat should not b* eo eelfcentered!

TiC, flilly,

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April 26, 1964

Happy First Day of Dayli^it Saving! Although I went to bed an hour early
last night, somehow I took another extra hour this morning and my day will bs rather mixed up, especially e only a portion of yesterday's nlnned activities were accom
plished. Aunt Annie left notes for me Friday --one taoed to kitchen sink of the dinner menu* another on M.llow , Her gift of four weeks of herself leaves me greatly indebted to her* Between much rain a"d her conscientous supervision of my
recovery (all the marketing, planning and execution of meals) she had no outside
diversion or social life* I had honed that 3he might enjoy more the things in New York #>ich usually entertain her*

On Mondav Dr* Scanlan thought it would be nice for me to take a four week cruise in the Caribbean, but settled for a oart time FPA schedule with consultation and three injections a week in her office. I try to concentrate on my own immediate
muttons in the offices the Brandt luncheon of May 15, renwl of OTR membershirts, organisation of its Committee structure end two new projects thev want to inaugurate ndxt season* At the same time I am dragged into initial rlans for the Bif Waldorf luncheons of 1964-65 and having tied UP the NBC new* correspondents for January 12 and am negotiating for Ladv Jackson (Barbara Ward) in November* For the present
I em keeping out of the aftermath of the resignation of on* of the FPA vice presidentsDick Winslow# It is not clear that his impending departure is wholly voluntary .
Whn I made what I trust were appropriate noises to him there was no intimation of what he would be going on to nor how mnv of"hie oedole" would also be leaving.

Wednesday John and Ruth Wheeler-Bennett had me for lunch at the Knickerbocker Club. I was touched that they had me alone as a partv of six or eight would be rather wearying and not nearly as informative and pleasant for me. He looks so much
better than at Garsington in July that I asked if his complexion was his own or some sort of Elisabeth Arden foundation cream for men. Wonderful news that they have de
cided not to asll the Manor after all. A staunch Conservative John thinks there is
still a chance that thev mav win the election, but save frankly that 12 veers is a long time for one Party to stay in power. While it is nice to have one's own opinion confirmed he considers Harold Wilson a dreadful man and is fearful of some of Labour Party proposals in the event of their coming to power. We admit we like the past
better than the present, let alone the future S Ruth looks splendidly and is busy in the shoos and the succession of dinner parties laid on for thsm before thev even arrived Tuesday . They sail on Thursday --can I see them again? I hope so, but fear not.

The Fair has been so fullv covered bv thi "sonmunications media" that it is suoej> fluous for me to say it wme chill and rainv for the official opening of 85$ of the exhibits. Hank has promised me a personally conducted tour on a day of my choice, but we have not even spoken on the telephone for a week. He must be badgered beyond endur ance by the problems of the countries for ^iose exhibits he arranged. The Lebanese
packed badlv and bleat about breakage -- yet stuff has come from ell over the world safelv. The Jews are pretesting the Jordanian mural as offensive to Israel and so on. At least Moses eesms to have won his fight with A & P and at the eleventh hour gotten ouipment from the American Flagpole Company, which will conceal Ann Page's rolls or
whatever from feirgoers* Jay and Mr. Johnson, president of Flagpole, went to Flushing Meadows several days early in the week leaving Stony Brook at 5t30 in the morning* No deubt there were scores of crash program during those nasty wet oreooening days *

Gene Smith's "When the Cheering Stopped" has held me spell bound--fascinating revelations to me about Woodrow Wilson's life. I em appalled at what seems to me to have been the attitude that we won the war and that Wilson was going to straighten
ut the resulting problems of the upheaval singlehanded. When Henry Cabot Lodge a^d
the Senate blocked our entry into the League of Nations after WWIIson had signed the
Covenant, I should have thought Europe and rest of the world would have made us stick to our own backyard for at least a century . All vsrv confusing.

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Mi' May 2, 1964

Hooray--the sun shines today, Ifaough I'm gLad for hBat in the apartmsnt# The last
week of April brou^ii humidity (93$ and so much rain that the Croton reservoir is full* May's advmt was almost without drizzle. Both of the two previous Fridays I came apart at the seams* Yesterday I was only plenty tired, wfa Martha phoned this morning asking me to enjoy their sunshine today and tomorrow I had to decline* Have already done a
two machine washing and am in the midst of a thorough oleaning with extra writing laid
on for tomorrow* Last Sunday Aunt Annie telephoned to see how I was getting on alone* It was good to tell her to unpaek her bag, that while I missed her company and ministra#
tions I was and still am making out all right* Soon after she had settled in on Friday
she had a phone call-- Voice--"Do you remember me, Joe Brady?" , admitting she did not the voice eontinued " Aunt Annie, New York! "* Then she recalled Fred's friend, tfio had helped bring my furniture here during the Christmas holiday* He was down from
Niagara for a college conference and wanted to see her* The result was he, another boy and a girl called on her and they all went out to dinner* Afterward Joe took her home and stayed until 8|45 when ho should have been at a conference session* It was then revealed that in the manner of the young he had only been introduced to her as "Aunt Annie" and did not know her surname, but undaunted at not finding either Pratt or Brett
in the Albany telephone book had called Molly in Stony Brook I He was so interested Am her horse brass collection that he is going to keep an eye out for them* I hope he en-
Joyed the evening as much as die did* We are all very fond of Joe, even if he did for
sake Fred this Easter in their annual opening of the swioming season I

On April 29 Hayes came to me in response to my February 13 request for a raise, which I had expected him to deny and give grounds for my resignation on May 1 without putting it on my basic complaints against management or seeming capricious. "They" have decided
Yisv of my long service, devotion to duty, etc* to put me on a 10/a increased salary as of May 1st, (By the time tax, hospitalization and other deductions are made I may got $10 a week more "take-home-pay"*) By talking about my successor we each made it clear that I'll be leaving May 1965* I couldn't resist saying that had I not been so overwork ed as to be unable to resign giving decent notice I'd have left a year ago* Incidentally he took three weeks to get around to telling me after the decision was made on the ex cuse I was so little in the office* Nason would have written or telephoned the day after fche decision. So I have outsmarted myself and fallen into the trap I thou^x I had dug for him in February* Although I'll work like a beaver for the next year, I AM happy to fin*
ishy with the FPA to a logical conclusion*

Wednesday was also the day Martha and Cleve went to the World's Fair on Rotary Day in an almost steady downpour. They did enjoy it and managed two viewing3 of the Pieta,
which is much more impreasively shown than kn P.ome Cleve reports, American Roman Catho lics are now protesting the showing of a Madona in the Sudan pavillion on the grounds th*t the Sudanese are currently mistreating missionaries in their country* "Peace Through Understanding" may be the Fair's slogan, yet there seems to be a lot of backbiting at Flushing Meadow*. I hear that there ws so much work for Fair personnel to do in the last days that several rooms were rented in a nearbv motel for staff to catch a few hours
rest during the around the clock grind*

Last weekend I Just was not ut> to having the Wheeler Bennetts for luncheon or tea
even at the Club. * the.r T/r. staying with the Patrick Dat * tl*rhone lines are
often busy* Cray, the Embassy butler, is a lamb arH usuallv knew* the hour of the exrooted return of either of "her ladyships". Finally I got Ruth Tuesday after we had each gotten home for our afternoon rest. Alas, thev could not see me Wednesday as that
sailing dv, not Thursdav as I had understood and not bothered to verify. John is not currently writing a book, but v/hen he does it is bv long hand. My hat off to his secretaries--there are still words I cannot read in his latter to me about the death of JFK* maybe he wrote it in bed when he could not sleep*.he frequently doesn't*
The aoar$i^n+> superintendent, who also is a construction worker fell and broke his back yesterday. 4 series of his friends are coming in to help his wife here. One wonders how long this arrangement can last# The azalea Vera sent ine in the hospital still
blooms..definitely a record in my experience.

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May TO, 1964

Such a treat --last night I went to Vera1s for dinner a deaux--the first

time I have been out in the evening since earlv March- Tomorrow I may go to a

cocktail rarty at the British Embassy, another first in ages* But come the

time I may skip it* All depends on how things go in the office during the day-

I have been working longer hours and not being too done in bv

The evening

is dedicated to the left eve onlv reading a the cloud is still ihere and for

about a month I did skip the tract ice.

Thelma and Gel re starting for New York today on their hoidav greeting to arrive at Freetort on Tuesday, They mav be here for dinner on Wednesday as Martha nd CI eve have to be at dinnera both that evening and Saturday. (This is a minor earning that I mav not be very good at writing as the Georgia family will be here nyer two weeks-) It is ages since they were in New York and sill also want to see the Fair n well changes in New York. Mollv and Jim were going to the Fair today as the Fort Schuyler Pershing Rifles are competing in a trick dyil^ team competition. Mee, Fred cut hie hnd this week on hie bavonet --not oadly
but enough to make it unwise for him to participate.

Over. 1,300 people have raid the $20 per cover for the Willv Brandt luncheon on Fri*v nd I rticioate a orettv hectic week and mv own need to collarse for 04 hours- Some of the ramifications of official Germans and cress, radio and TV coverage hold, th- potential of making things difficult- A few days ago I dis covered that no one had invited Mrs- Lucius Clay to be our guest at the luncheon. Prettv shabbv when,he its reducing Brandt, but symtoroatic of manners around the FFS. Fortunately I was able to smooth it out by exolaining that I had been in hospital and she is coming. Obviously the fundraisers -re enchanted at the wrospacts of a fat haul.

There were 25 days of rain in *oril, pwobablv a record- So far May has given

us some clouds, but I think no rain so far. Two davs it has been over 80 r/a

but comparatively low humidity, so not auite all my starch wilted. ^ Yesterday was

slated for clothes shopping, but betwsen th* heat and having out in severs! over

long days in the office, I did verv little and ataved IN until time to go UP to

96th Street-Vicki *-?. rr1* posthumusiv

ished

autobiography makes in

teresting if confusing reading. She paid no heed to time and space vd+h resulting

poor organisation of material. (An agent presented the mms to Funk & yv/agna? "

apd then when the editor wanted to check certain points said that Dr. Richard

Lert (husband) and neither of the two sons were to be approached at all. )- She -

began by saying one can live down any number of flor* but never a *ucceas, that sis

could not even order fertilizer for her Holf^ood garden without being askd about

"Gpend Hotel" --alwavs the movie and not the book or nlav. Bv the time I em70

I shall have forgotten the remark she attributes to Princess Pauline Metiernick

upon be*ng congratulated on hep 70th birthdavi "Mv de ir, seventy 'sn't old for

cathedral- But for a woman -h, mon D^eu." At last I have gotten around to

reading Richard MsKenna1s 1963 Happer Prize Novel "The Send Pebbles"--story of

a weird US New gunboat "shwoing the flaw" in Hunn Province in the mid 20 8 ... nd culminating with the rape of Nankin? as Chiang Kai Shak and the Kuomirrtancr

e^enfc down fpom the interior in the Nationalist revolution. Alti ough the s. orv

daals with the San pblofs dutv upr*ver from Hankow, I did spend

in that citv an'* several more on e river boat from there to Shanghai. S ight con-

tramne when I appeared on board caused by the "E" in name name being taken to

indicate

an4 - cabin being assigned to Bill Wed-kind-~d me- Instead^of

baing ehO^n to my cbir upon aprival about ! ven P.M. the ENGLISH CST> ai

me to look down n the Chinese deck passengers, ^ile ^ f

into tha chert rm leaving his c-bin for v use. A few night- later ter * .

veiling O f bridge, h eagain escorted t o "mv" cabint o hewm e T 5 S , ticn for the rifle clipped ov-r the berth w~a s bandit* might attempt

/

Perhaps with a paragraph at a time last weekend's and next ofaitehat may be written*

Although 2 took dress, purse and shoes to the office for the cocktail party at the British

Embassy I was too tired to go. The pace In the office for the two weeks proceeding the

Brandt luncheon was very strenuous* Result Dr. Scanlan scolded me day before yesterday. Nevertheless both stethoscope and flouroscope showed continued shrinking of the patch and

we hope an 20*ray in a month will reveal complete clearance. Meanwhile I am enjoined to

strict adherence to the parttime work schedule and continued injections. Now 1 must get

along with seeing the dentist and the oculist and what the latter has to say about the

still present cloud in my left eye.

The Brandt luncheon was a great success after more than usual hoohaws. In March he

acknowledged our request for his English text on May 11 ... it was picked from the Waldorf

at 6s 30 the afternoon of the 14th* I dread the bill for its multilithing on overtime at

the processing shop we use* On Tuesday morning we learned through the oasualness of a

German Consulate press release that the Mayor would arrive on Wednesday afternoon instead

of Thursday as previously arranged* Great

flap to find someone to do the airport

greeting as Hayes was tied up* In the absenee of the chairman of the FPA Board, Bill Ly&*

gate went as our chairman cf executive committee, supported by Thetis Reavis of our Public

Information department as the eager beaver in the Consulate had set up a press conference

in the International Arrivals Building* At least I was smart enough to deal myself out

of that. At two o* clock Lufthansa reported estimated time of arrived at 5* 20 with good

possibility of getting in at five, so I waved our greeters off in the rented Cadillac at

four. The plane was two hours late and -that fool at the Consulate strung the press con

ference on for an hour. The Germans who had collected some Mercedes, and not enough of

them, ## were glad enough to let Brandt and the Acting Consul General go baek to town

with Lydgate in our Cadillac. It must have been two in the morning by Mayor Brandt* s

watch when he was delivered at the Waldorf Towers.

Thelma and Cal arrived from Georgia on Tuesday to stay with Martha and Clave* I could
to/ only speak them on the telephone until I went to Freeport on Saturday. It is wonderful to
find them both looking so well and very eager to catch up on changes since they were last here 11 years ago. They drove me to Stony Brook through the magnificent lush spring country, very beautiful in the wooded areas with dogwood and azaleas in residential parts.
Chestnuts with their gleaming white candles, and at Jones Beaoh patches of beach plum bloom made drifts of soft cotton wool while in open spaces especially at Captree huge seagulls beautifully to its and grey stood ltthargicly in their nesting areas, basking in the warm sun.
It was all lovely* Diane and Jay, who now talk of an August wedding, were at dinner with us, though Fred had the duty at the Fort and Bill was on a Thespian Society junket. Thelma and Cal had moonlight for their trip back to Freeport.

May 23 though I hoped to be sooner/ Molly and Jim drove me to Freeport for a midafternoon dinner and then Thelma and Cal brought me back to town to see the apartment and look about at changes in the city. We came by way of the World's Fair on the L.I. Expressway which on a viaduct cuts across the buildings, many of which are indeed fantastic flights of fancy, The Elgian Village is not yet CQmolete and I hear almost daily on the radio of new buildings and pavilions being opened. The s"bwav and LIRR vie with one another for transporting fair goers, the city Is
filled with special buses going there as well as chartered buses hauling people from Jersey. For $7.50 one can make the round trio by hydrofoil from the foot of East 25th Street.

Gradually w desk is being cleared of the Brandt luncheon and I am busy digging up materail for the OTR Sneakers Committee meeting on Wednesday* also prboeedures for a possible experimental pair of late afternoon with cocktails and sneaker for the Young Marrieds. "Togetherness" seems to have been revived ! Last Wednesday I stayed for an FPA Board- Associates dinner after which Paul Hoffman sroke. He is very canny in com bining solid information about the 151 projects his Special United Nations Fund has in underdeveloped countries with flashes of humor, Pat phrases like "Billions for bullets
and pennies for peace." Thursday I stopped at the Methodists* reception for Vera unveiling a pamphlet she wrote for them on the U.N. and had a chance to congratulate her on the birth of her granddaughter born that noon. Yesterday 4 today very hot. Tomorrow to Freeport.

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May 30, 1964 .

Lftg^ Sunday was even hotter and. as I had 3leot verv little the niiJu JieJVre^. -.fwfc4

I would gladly not have gone again to Ereeport. Late in the afternoon my foot went

J

to sleep with the ankle bent . Upon arising from my chair to get my drink and s,,art

dinner, the ankle turned and left me with a horrid sprain, Howveer Fran had asked .

everyone and Thelma and Gal were leaving the next morning, so more arnica and the

ace bandage served me better by day then by night. It was a fine party and rn oppor

tunity for much picture taking, Diane and Jay had to leave at four to see about a

house on the Sound at Rocky Point, Fred had to get back to the Fort to cram for a

thermodynamics course exam though seemed to have gotten lost in Freeport as we

came upon him when Molly, Jim and Bill dropped me at the station for the 4\41, v/ith

all my lovely loot, I don't think I hve ever seen primroses blooming at the same

time as rhododendron, but Fran's bed under the living room windows presented them.

Last night when I called Martha to say "Have a nice time in Atlantic City" * ere^

they are going this afternoon for a week's Edison Institute, she reported that une

Talisman and South Sea roses are in profusion, the Queen Elizabeth's about to pop

and the peonies so far along that they will be out this week, It is so dry that the

lawn is hrowning off as no one has had time to hose it,

veeterday was a mixed UP sort of day, more and more contracts are betng written giving Fridav off when a legal holiday falls on Saturday and Monday *en it csces_on Sunday. The Commerce and Industry Association announced that 84^ of the city would be off Friday, The Stock Market was closed, but the Chase Manhattan Bank open. Con Edison worked and so did FPA, because we are in a flap about the oDel for the Ford
Foundation g?*nt "these da.vs but we get a day added to our vacation. Just to com plete the confused oicture--NY University worked Friday and will give Monday as holiday 5 Vera may love the place, and they have just informed of a fine raise for her beginning in September, but I sometimes think thev are more than a little inept in administration. I am looking forward to dinner with her tonight. She has her two little grandsons with her from Sunday afternoon to Fridav ufaile Ellie and the
new daughter got accustomed to being at home.

Thursday afternoon I went to have my teeth cleaned and contrary to last year he marked a couole of teeth for his associate to fill. Said associate had a.lre&.dy lft for Memorial day weekend in Boston and let his nurse go off. I can only hope
for an early anointment to polish off that from the list of spring chores. Dr..
Snalter also took advantage of the long weekend, so the eye check up is slao on The-. # docket. Y/hile overtown for the dentist I shopped Arnold Constable again without success, meanwhile the old numbers which I ironed last Saturday are seeing me w rou6n.

Ms,v 31, 1964

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Knowing England better than I did thirty years ago I haye enjoyed rereading .

Andre Maurois* "Disraeli", though it ie not well organized or writtenjdoes touon or.

syolution of Victorian England. Useful if one accents the laet sentence of Robert

Mumhy's "Dirlomat Among Warriors" .."The past is the rrolnpie.

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t,,e are-Pearl Harbor American pushings and railings to Veer, Africa from the Nazis.

Friday.I2olan to go to Stony Brook and may or may not haye a chance to wits.

After complying with the office request to nut in vacation and

larehd

on M~ 1st, I had "to make an issue of was it aooroved? Graciously t j n\8 . *

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hour lvover s* Evelyn Tudor can lunch with me at the iaroort and then on by jet

^ Vancouver ^ith diLer on the plane, on Fridav, July 31a noneton ,et daytime

flight t Toronto for a change to N-- York reaching here about 8

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Aunt Annie will come for a week or ten days so we can go to Jay'e wedding on^the

8thtogetber. After that I will have a week to finish unnaokngbooks^nd things

h-re and attending to furniture reraire and Tenoyation^b^

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office. X have already started inviting speakers for next season

get nuite fev laid on during June.

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The -weather burets long term forecast for June promised "cooler then normal " Yesterday for a while I yearned for my 64tli Street fireplace and the proprietor of the shoo where I buy carda end books geniellv suggested we would have snow last night* The rain of the late afternoon confined me to the local errands instead of getting my fur coat over to storage. But things were accomplished--the big suit case was NICKED UP after repairs caused bv Air France last summer*s disengaging the frame* It carried home a drip-dry in ouce and red nurchased at Blomingdale* a and a, Foretman wool suit in a ersy nd white birdsey# weave- The latter came frm a shoo I steered into when no bus was in s* ght for the trir downtown from 59th St* and will serve me well I think. Incidently, the owner told me that the Union had just completed a new contract giving garment worVers a 20% wage increase. He calculates this will add about $10 to the price of each suit beginning with the autumn shiomenta. In the effcet*, noon I brushed, moth-rroofed and stowed in the clastic boes most of my wool ana*

Friday it took forever to get up to 165bh Street.to see Dr. Spelter. He is rleased with the eve and suggested an aye "tonic " called Visine, which he use* himself* No promise as to clearing of my vision and renewed satisfaction that August action prevented total loss of vision* With great gentility he continuee to associate me with that very haopv situation* I am to see him again in four months* T^e FPA ha decided that the health of its administrative staff is im portant, so I sr*nd the dev of June 16th at the Life Extension Institute getting their "comprehensive test" and expect to leve in a high state of rdio-activity. * Already I have had so many arrays that I avoid close proximity to Gelger counters t

Thursday Vera gave a bye-bye dinner for Gfwsn Craws, her former FPA helper and my travelling companion on UN charter flight a. It was delightful evening, though our common concern about the dreadful tvrhoid epidemic in Scotland started a c-mratgo to get her innoculated before her Saturday departure. I urged her to ait a^d have it done by -fee National Health Service in London on Monday*

Last Sunday afternoon I went UP to see Aunt Mary, VHO was in fine form, lent me the new Elizabeth Goudge book with the quaint title "The Scent of Water" and gave me "The Dtv They Shook the Plum Tre8".*the story of the grim massing and the final dispersal of Hetty Green*s fortune* (Thursday nieht w^sn Charles Bushong brought me home I discovered that he too was looking forward to reading it when his hectic job ae assistant Dean of Men at NYU permitted*) Both Aunt Marv and I were impressed with the long lines at IBM headquarters waiting to see the JFK memora bilia, includ ng the rooking chair# Sunday afternoon the line, four abreast stretched a third of the block down Madison and clear back to Fifth Avenue* Kiere were many children and quite a few Negroes, but I thought a really representative cross section of Nsw York.

Eisenhower's role in Republican politics seems so muzzy to me that I wonder if he understands the situation* Even the nomination of Gdldwater scares me* But then I an troubled about the developing situations in Vietnam, South Korea, Cyprus and so on* There is relief in the speedy and smooth manner in which India hhas elected its now Prime Minister, though I hope they get over the notion of mainwg Indira Gandhi the Foreign Minister* Seem* nyVrp this i* beine rushed col.sly because she is Nehru's daughter. Granted it is a distinguished, family with her grandfather as well as her father having toiled for independence and then betterment of the new nation* Anyway I should give my final thanks to Nehru both for having received me in Allahabad and arranging for my 20 minute private conversation with Gandhi in Agra back in 1929*

June 15, 1964 wtl- *tr, .
7 Thursday night drooping off to sleep I was conscious of the Fire Department hoard ing ut> Third Ave, and after becoing louder of sadden silence This seemed worthy of investigation and so it was* The extension ladder vehicle was directly under my living room window, hose cart, ate* filled in soacc back to Third and herpv day, several more- ... pieces had entered the block against traffic from Lexington and gave us full street of red fire wagons and black oil skinned firemen! The latter were pouring through the open door of $159 with hose, roles, exes. Three or four non-uniformed men wandered about the second floor living room with high balls. Then the oilskins showed UP on the roof . as thev naked about with electric torches looking for the fire* Satisfying themselves L. there was no business thev started to troop back to their several vehicles. Just as the driver of the long truck under my window gave a merry "All aboard" to his crew, I noticed that on of the free standing flambeaux on the roof had been relighted on the roof a*d the briek breeze made a foot long streamer of flame. With great restraint I did not call down to the firemen that their "fire" was again burning brightlv I

Friday morning as I began breakfast a very fat workman with an equally fat cigar -in his mouth rang my bell and announced he had come to fix the kitchen floor (a job t>ro>mised in November), A haoov surorisa. I finished breakfast and oacking for Stony Brook and left while the first laver was drying and he was working in another apartment. At the office I found a note from Hank with two tickets for a aoecial perfomrance of the ... Bavanihan Philippine Dance Comarnv followed bv a resection giv en bv the Ambassador to . the UN and the Consul-General in honor of Philippine Independence Dav that nigit. I had enjoved this trooc a vear ago *rd was enormously anxious to see the N,Y, State Theatre designed bv Philia Johnson* Honing that we could see Bill in "Come Back, Little Shaba" Saturday night instead of Friday, I phoned to delav mv arrival at Stony Brook and got Vera Dean to go with me to the Filiooino "do". (Unfortunately Fred#s birthday dinner had been planned for Saturday night and the plav going could not be changed, I was dis appointed , but Bill gently said "I onlv had a small cart"* The special gala cerforaance was not as interesting to me as the sequBnce of dances reeresentlng the culture and hit^ torv of the primitive tribes, the Moslems in the south and the Spanish influence. However the costumes were sumotious and vibrantly colorful with more sequined and trained ball gowns thn peasant garb. The audience was most interesting with many Filipino women Adih . upstanding "butterfly si eavesM. Even American men wore the handsomely embroidered thin lawn white dinner jackets looking not unlike pajama tops. At khe beginning the two nation al anthemns were played exclusively by guitars ard sounded better than I expected. In theirs both Vera and I thought we caught a phrase reminiscent of "Columbia the Gem of the Ocean" --maybe we did as I have since learned they call the Philippines "Pearl of the Orient".

June 377 Oh, what a day I had yesterday. Without so much as a sic a water passing my lips after the previous midnight, I went to the Life Extension Institute for a 10:30 appoint ment. In some ways it reminded me of the jury duty of a year ago. The main reception room was pleasnater and less populous than the Court1 s fish pool but during the next four and a half hours I returned there to continue filling out forms and waiting until the next testing team was ready for me. It was exceedingly well organized and included repetions of tests done in August and April such as electrocardiogram, blood test, x-ray of heart and lungs, complete physical examination plus new thing3 such as the x-rays of stomach and uupper intestines filled with strawBerrv tinted barium and a proctosigmoidoscopy examination (description upon reauest by the ignorant like me). I staggered out at three of clock. Next Tuesday I go back for a consultation and the collection of prints and re ports which then must be gone over by Drs. Scanlan and Wilmot. Is it necessary to confess that I did not return to the office 1

In a pleasanter vein the trip to Stony Brook on Saturday began in a drizzle but ras

gc nice. In the afternoon I did a bit of rock garden weeding and then went with Jim to

the beach to watch ^red water ski frori Jay*^ baot moat ckillfvlly. He loves to bs toiled

backward and the change from frontward to backward and reverse is beautiful. He was

pleased to ^successfully negotiate backwards on one leg, The late late on water and marsh beautiful. Sunday Jay < Diane took me to see the compact house ihey are buying, I

rot scwe snapdragons, pertwlawsu dinwthw* <* petunia? plantef * Ije* *cr frrnt

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Sine I nay not. have the use of a typewriter during Jul*,' tV*3 -is. - ba +hl

*hIre'bouts ' UnW1 AUSU3t* m'my

maJj#rP096 is to giye"^ plana and

Sunday June 28

Lv Kennedy Mr pert 9,25 a.m. yia TransCanada Air Linen flight #621

Ar*# Lontreal at 10>50 and lunch with Evelvn Tudor

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" 2>35 "am. Vifl TCA flight $805 (jet)

V*nrcuvet at 6,55 p.m. having had dinner between Edmonton 6 Vancouver.

Address, care of Mrs. C. F, Harrison, 1872 Fulton Avenue

West Vancouver. B.C. Cnd

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Postage same a,, within the U.S.A. Train mail takes minimum of five davs, air about three.

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She leave- for Mohonk on the 30th!

However,I .m going for lunch todav.

Madril1eae'bearing^a'"eland oTa^-fr' D f'Wan ^

to both eye end rml.te, The sweet w. !l o!!Sren "m" rff1 caTiar* Wonderful anpeal

Z ehorbert. P0or Hank wis SuIEd/JItS "ovel-blue berries coped with oraoge

cqming as he wee nutting ice in a glass

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ask me to pour for mvself ' The Jtto! I dri"k" Suspecting trouble be had to

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Foreign Minister and Ambassador of Jordsn had W Irtrtad!"" ^ Wenlv the morning end some VIP Nigerians in th* ft*TMTM* ', *?cted to v^it the Fair Saturday

arrangements. Mean^lf ZTJlTel ^5 vehicles for a special oartv he w h-JL* u 2,

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clar to ma. Even if he should turn out tn h +JDbT*v fkould be so important is not

ftt the San Francisco Convention ha hTa J*

Republican compromise candidate

At le-st Hank ^TUtin Ms ^"id ItTT * bin* the **** P^eaidant.

thrown from crisis to snfu continuously. Dozensof\hinps^U 2+

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could not even be mentioned X

lnS8 1 wanted to ak him about

.. . 1t a time ''He poor Joseph Kennedy, a-e h-vins. It i,,+ /i,,. ,

t at thev are now subjected to the wovrv of Ted^ Il.!a iZV S

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L " good -rogno.ia. Our superintendent had be'n w-lkfrg ."little -IT* ZZZZ**"

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V u a great deal even if I 8m a poor correanopdent in the next six weeks.

June 24, 1964

BBLLSTIN ON TESTS Yesterday was agin health day.

The Life Extension consultation

on the basis of test reports was very pleasant. Nothing unpleasant showed

up and Dr. Johnson parted from me hoping that he would find me in as good

health next year as they did today. He does not mind my being underweight

nor with low blood pressure. The choleeteraol is in the normal range,

though up from where it was when X got out of Midtown Hospital due to the

bacon, eggs, cheese etc.m Johnson says they are now de-emphasizing cholesterol

after its period of publicity. I may continue to smoke between 12-20 cigarets

a day. He does not recommend playing squash or tennis, but urges me to walk

more each day.

In the afternoon X saw both Scunlan and Gerry Wllmot, letting

them go over the reports of tests. Scanlan chided me for working too hard

and thinks I should be sterner and even upon my return to the office avoid

all overtime. Gerry who had not gone over me since later Frebruary when she

went to Europe found my back and body tone in fine shape. She applauds my

taking a rest when X get back to the apartment instead of plunging into some

task.

With the cancer, TB, diabetes, ulcers, etc. that the Life

Extension people were looking for it id lovely to know that I can start for

Vancouver on Sunday morning, instead of going to a hospital or undertaking

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Friday morning po^ry and Arth*r McKenz* * took me to the airport bus station^-

starting early enough to have a look at Stanley Park, the 1,000 acre virgin timber, .

yardens, etc at the first narrows of the Vancouver harbor* The jet penetrated the cloud

cover prompt! v and nothing we visible of the mountains. A brief glimnae of the. multi--

colored (Beige, gran, rurola ) prarie cultivation somewhere abound Galgsrv was all-we

saw until the

Ontario farm!and. In suite of our 37,000 feet altitude there

were patches of turbulence a couple of times. Between tha la^lines scheduling of planes -

with heavy passenger leads *nd reor direct!one! markers passing customs at Toronto was

* mess. Merely because I al-rrvs get my next boarding pass immediately upon arrival* I was

spared ons snafu a god manv people fell into the trap of US Customs being unable to

clear luggage without the boarding pass. The Vanguard on to New York was also fully

booked and as we vre+e onlv one hour 35 minutes flaw at 17,000 feet no with few clouds

afforded glimpses of Lake Erie, but not Niagara Falls though we presumably wars very

close the Finger Lakes, Hudson River, LI* Sound after coming in si ght of the Atlantic

at the New Robert Koess Bridge to Fire Island Beach wa want tort of or the oq^faen, yet

approached the Air Canada landing strip from the north t To my delighted surprise

01eve was there to mast me and we drove to town in crystal clear orange sunset against

which the New York sky line was most impressive. Further mors it was col enough for

me to put mv coat over my ehmlder as wa dove In* Although I left at 10j am. Pacific time, it was already 1 o*m* Toronto and New York time, so the journev was feat consider

ing thgt wa were heww about 8s30. The apartment aired out quickly but I realized how

sold it is at the jet's altitude when I hung UP mv thoroughly chilled dresses !

Even though my typing has deteriorated badlv I jgad better push along with th' is Sr p

as .urrt Annie will be here about noon tomorrow. Of course, Lucille did not qfaine QBrfft

Friday to dean as she was supposed to and every time I telephoned her .someone said

she would be back shortly and would call me,..she did ao at lit30

she is to come

early tomorrow morning, I am not taking any chances and have made Aunt Annie's bed and

my own fresh and will vacumn the living rvm so whtn my guest arrives h<*r ^remises will

be ready at least. In the morning I mu3t go to the bank as they are holding my state

ment for July and notices of dividends 3ent directly thwe, I would rather not pay the

several bills until I know just *her9 I stand* Also I must go into the office to find

Bill Dean's telephone number as some bills and other communications of Verass have been

forwarded to ais# I do not understand the meticulous Vera doing this without clearance*

It seemed very long to propose myself to Mary for five weeks, but the time

just flew and I did not begin to do all the things in her garden that unskilled help-

could hev* sccomplishsd, After we left on such

notice for Pentlcton upen hearing

another stroke had put Dougl" a in the hospital we stayed longer there than we Planned ,

but again I did not finish cutting off the dead lilac blooms, a trek which I had set- my-

sslf, Going in to see him at the hospital each afternoon broke Into mv dv and "bebv

witting " with

wear dd Keli.v while Looe and Marv went back for the evening visiting

hours interferred with the Invelv after-dinner weed pulling time whic h the family tra

ditionally has done for years-- Douglas excepted, of course, as he would not know a weed

from a special plant* Poor dear, now periods of great mental confusion intersperse

timeB of alertness and even gaifby, I have seen him in both conditions, but Physically

he has improved enough for the trip down to his tewn house by ambulance, where the family

can see more of him. All of the current staff want to leave, but they hooe the man ser

vant will stay, Already a new nurse has been found and she thinks a cook she has had pre

vious experience with will take the job. To me the air at the Coast is more bracing and

I loved it, whether we had wind from the sea or off the glaciers on the mountains. Even

vhen I left Mary's front bedroom gave a view of patches of snow on the 6,000 foot mount-

aina yet nasturtiums, phlox. ttt.Brecia, roa*e and Easier l^lli-es were blooming in her

garden among other things. Mary and I went about a little and had people either for

drinks or dinner but I declined luncheons end tees in Vancouver city. Alas, I saw little

of Pet, whose job and own apartment so ecouppie* her that eh* came once for tea when a

friend drove her over. She oref erred not to come over on the bus and

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blocks up the hill to Mary's, she is happy in her independence, which has gone .0 her head

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August 10, 1964 Stony Brook

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' Another bright blue sky day with dry air. Aunt Annie returned to

Albenv Friday morning and I came here in the afternoon. Since I do not go

back to"the office until next Monday I am indulging myself in a long "Eng-

iVh w^kndA It has been such a dry summer that crops are poor and gaiden bloom limited even when people ha ve watered assiduously. Fruit trees aid

shrubs eight feet high at Jay and Diane* s recently acquired home have be

sadly neglected and cry piteously for water. Already I fear they have lcs t

a nice dogwood. Yesterday after church Molly, Jim and I had a picnic lurch

at the Suffolk County beach "park" at Smith's Point, The off shore wind

kept the Atlantic breakers small, but blew the spindrift both at the bar

and shore back to the green shallow water and the blue depths beyond the

bar. The dunes here seem not to ha ve been bothered by storm erosion in

a good many years -- a very pleasant place. This was rather a ^itial Fling

for Jim's holiday as he went back to his office this morning. Jay and Diana

are working ha rd on at their respective jofes and evenings and Sundays at

painting the inside of their house. Fred, who likes his job at Gyrodyne as

an apprentice parts-inspector, has underta ken to make

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general trim white, Joe Brady lent a hand too yesterday, though the several

other anticipated volunteers failed to show up. The da te of the wedding

is still unsettled and depends on how rapidly the work progresses.

Aunt Annie and I had a look at the new Lincoln Center complex but ecu Id not get any tickets for Rise Stevens in "The King and I", the Huntington Hartford Gallery in its extraordinary white building on Columbus Circle, ^ Manha ttan from the Circle boa t and a day at the Fair, As she had already been to the Fair three times I hoped we oould concentrate on things she ad not seen and was only pa rtia lly suacessful. However we took the long tour of the grounds, thoroughly examined the Spainish offering including the paintings from the Prado, not as numerous as I had thought, with a small and to me untypical 11 Greoo, a standard Murillo, a couple of good examples of Ribera, Vales*uez(sp.) and Goya. It was fun to see clothed and unoloih eft reclining figure hung at right angles to each other as the latter was on loan in Paris last summer when I did the Prado in Madrid, The second floor was devoted to very well displayed examples of the various crafts---pouteiy , leather, wool, steel from Toledo, through perfume,soap, etc, we found Indo nesia interesting and were disappointed in Thailand, which is very gaudy with gold from the outside but has inadequate space within. Aunt^Annie _ was rewarded in taking me to see the Charred Gross from Coventry Ccuindral by noting the oross made of the old nails,missed before, burnished^unoil they look like silver. The many fountains and well laid out plantings
take the curse as far as I am concerned off the weird architecture of commercial buildings as IBM, Of course, it is all much larger than my Jest fair experience two years ago in Seattle, yet the Monorail seemeu by compari son a short and feeble thing. Aunt Annie took me to lunbh at the Seven bp place where they have plates of four sandwiches and one chooses between four different regions, I selected the Mediterranean Pla te arc! ua|B rewii ofFSance, Italy, Spain and Morrooo--great fun and very satisfying. itL day we went to the Huntington Ha rtford Gallery (A & P fortune) we ate in the 9th floor Gaguin Room with a lovely view across Central Park to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and had Polynesian food, well served in a reTM 1axing atmosphere. The Gallery itself is unusual, after pwying the $1 en trance fee one takes the elevator to the Fifth Floor and walks down after viewing well hung works from Mr. Hartford7 s personal collection including too manv Burne-Jones for my pleasure, but good examples of artists from Mary Cassatt back to Rembrandt. Interesting landings display the Dali conception of Columbus landing executed especially for this Gallery and a head of JFK near a Hammond organ as Mr, Hartford thinks music and paint- * Ings go together. However there was non while we were there. The special exhibit opened the previous day was of posters of the last 75 years and from many countries, Toulouse-Latree, Maxfield Parrish, etc. Some quite fun.

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August 18, 1S64

Delli*s second son was born last night#"Mother & babe doing well" at the Fort Hood Hospital# My, but we run to bovs# This is Martha and Clave*e eighth grandchild--one girl and seven bovs. After being discharged from the Fenticton Hosoital Douglas Dewar went to his Vancouver home bv ambulance and Mary reports he is in good shape, actually reading a book himself. Letter from Larry this week comments on the lovely sound of running water of his irrigation system, the scheduled arid.val of some furniture from the Madrid apart ment, completion of the inside and outside painting and electrical work# Loud cheers on both -these reports.
Mondav evening we had an earlv meal at the Port Jefferson Ferry restaurant overlooking that large harbor, which in 191V was widely touted as a fine anchorage for the U.S.Naw. Bill 0*Dav (layout editor for LOOK) and his family turned UP at a table near us. Fred invited tham to join us on the "Lumfca", a 3?, (or is it 38?) foot cruiser he end a coutlLe of friends have bought. "Lumr'a" sleeps four and is a most comfortable and commodious craft, which ha already crossed Long Island Sound to the Connecticut s^ore for cookouts# Itf acquisition was celebrated the first evening bv a stwsr Night, followed bv Date Night and lastlv bv Parents* Party. Our very pleasant excursion was enlivened by running aground on a sand shoal near the west channel. As it was an hour before low t*de we were grateful to Fred for patiently bacHrg us into deep water. After we had staged back to the Marina Fred asked me if I would like to take the wheel. I soon found that my tiller and sail experience was of little help. The wake looking like the tortured track of a snake in its death throes shamed me. Needless to sav I returned to the role of passenger well before time for Fred to make a neat approach to the rier#

Thursday Dr# Wilson took the first step in replacing the tooth I lost in Vancouver#

After his technician returns in Sect ember we go into making a new lower piece so I have

been uneasy about not having a soars. Fridav Aunt Marv*s cabinet maker came about the .

retire needed eereciallv on things which had so long been in storage# Aunt CaroIIn*e

sewing tali.e drawers were examined and revealed that it is late 18 th Cent my or early-19th-

--certainly before 1820. My Grandmother Pratt's rocking chair "is not a*d never will be -

m antique" (w agreed that it ie circa 1880) but it is a rather sweet and very comfortable

niece. To me it is worth the rather expensive repairs. He also hd two of the set of four

mhogony straight back chairs carted off leaving me with onlv five chairs in the living

room# Ruddy admired the Japanese red lacquer chest, vhich Aunt Annie had helped me glue,- ...

and the "church" chair ahich I shall fix mvself H* noted work to be don on a two drawer

dron

table but I said "later". I shall be luckv to have this load back bv mid-Septem

ber t Meanwhile I have emptied two cartons and cleared out and reorgan* *ed the records

stored in the desk drawers finding a certain srount of stuff for tha incinerator. Dear it

a delightful coolness I have not accomplished nearly as much as I had hoped but refuse tc

fret. Tomorrow I return to the office quite without enthusiasm although I hear from the

gmpevine some rather interesting reports as weH as some disquieting notions of Haves# -

Somehow I missed all news of the BedBfird-Stuyvessrt riots until I read a hair raising

account in the August 8 NF.w YORKER and sked dev about it# It all started at a Brooklyn

comer where Con Edison has s branch office, The first night their windows were broken

*nd replaced the next dav, ditto for a furniture store next door. The latter were smashed

the second night and boarded up# CI eve ordered all of hi men -"ho read, repair, install

or remove meters in that area to stay off th street. After one day of working in the

office or carrying on in ether districts, thev assured him it was safe to go back to their

routine# Permiss*n granted and he gcrt a report that one man went to remove a meter when

the building superintendent told him "Don't bother -those boys. They are trying to get a-

little rest# Boy, have w* had fun I

Looting and malicious destruction of property

seems to is still

have been more a motivating nasty# After four nights of

foerxcoeitotmhaenntaintti-hwashistteopdpeemdo, nbsturtatwiohne.theAr ta/$nyfrroamte

it

boredom in repetition, exhaustion or the brk in th h*ri T yould not pretend to say*

Now I must write to Belli and Clevee so as to catch the afternoon mail with that and one or two other letters. I have not finished all Try P.O, t n.nk 1
n the Ittiyrs I had planned to write -there# Ah, me %

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/August 22, 1964

Martha flew back from Texas last night J e wi n * the rw bbv and v9rvn* *l-a in f n* condition. She claim* to BaVe seriously depleted their alreadv tew water W4l'y. . from the quantities ahe dr&nk to reolsce her "ersM ration* Ol^vee will homo' for another week and have * fine chance to do things wi#_ the other two children.' ' Option Big Lift ond ouher field exercises have keot him from them so much in the oast year, _ y',T ^rsd, ! *8 mronif8 * her. brother was suddenly asked to attend conferences in New York and teenxngton next wee*, so May- and Ted thr-w things into their Stingray (or word to that effect/ and zoomed up from Tueealoeia to have a Stone* Brock weekend, I hope to fee them Monday. Fred seems to have been promoted at Gyrodyn --beginning Monday he must wear a suit, shite shirt end tie to work lastad of slacks and a sport shirt,

The r.e*, #f ,S5th Street 5.3 that the Police station has abandoned us and I miss the boys, Our 15th Precinct seems to have been jerrymandered-the southern part is now based

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nf on l8,J sir9Bif vhile the upper portion has merged with something further

f2rlem T tha:n* TInoj.den?te?.liry"tlhretosunuserlihtlhmeeieil:f iosat>ba*c^uahnd able t*o**d*o*a isH*tPtul^liuf&)t ,w*or*k ,& around the building. The broken back still bothers him too much for him to ero back t* Jus construactien job. The building was without hot water lest Saturday and Sunday and now there is a notice that on the coming Monday and Tuesday the elevator will not operate
a borough overall job in done. So this morning I ran a wash and brought in such neavy supplies as milk, prunes, and tonic. One day a weak ago.the very black housencn with an impressive Van Dyke of a familv at #145 cam# out with a miniature *nd r toy " ' poodle on a leash one was pink and the other blue, both rale but soft and strong al adee. ,..eared I had beep drinking too much and this was the current version of sooin^'pink
; v'ro ' ^ second tins this trio appeared I rubbed my eyes and assured myself they yere real. Mow I only gulp.

Aren't the revelations about the LBJ fortune delightful? LIFE saying $14 million ,

*?*:non th

coming out with the auditor's figure of $3.4 million. That is *

mightybig s^re^d for the difference between a market and a book value I With Goldwater's

partial accounting of his $1,7 he is a near osuoer. But then what does a "partial account

ing mean? Anwv The Tima editorially *TMi#ads Johnson's disclosure 9.9 " real con

tribution, ihi*h should be made mandatory for all Presidential candidates." I could be

vrong but it 3eesis to me that the N.Y Times tries to give him a pat at least every other

day. The Gallup Public Opinion poll on reaction to the San Francisco Convention fascinate

- 1 O', Of those claiming to pay some heed to the .lepublioan wing-ding 46$ are -critical t

too ,ruch horse play, too drawn out, too expensive, too much mud. slinging and 'the' candidate*

e.a0a . ~ 00 chosen oy hatxchpidp prrim^ry lections not in back rooms by

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' ' ,l 9 business lisce session in Atlantic lity. ,V7hat cloud does he live on? Who ever

heard of quite and restrained Democrats? Well, we shall soon see.

more weight md especially on my face. I'm still wondering how one accomplishes thai. Was-

that the purpose of Lillian Russell's milk baths? This week Hank Harris is in Cairo look

ing for an Arb League exhibtion for th# Fair next summer. Maria is on an island off Cape

Cod doing the first set of sitting's on one of the ."family and their animal friends" can

vasses, If she ccuies back next week 03 expected to rest or maybe work on the thing in the

studio I hope to sea her, especially a3 I have just had a fantastic letter from Judith

Listowel from Budapest. In view of her arti-Communist activity it is interesting she was

admitted. Unless her letter was written for the. censor the comments about the fur. of rdrkt

clwbs vhere the' Sovornmer.t, including Evfcr 'fairas*lf ,e.r# ribbed and her delimit in finding

old friends living comfortably and holding good,well raid rositions *re amazing, Ssnecially

t^eae now content need are of the class

de rived of everything including the

riyhi to work and have their children educated. She stresses the determination of Hungar

ian# to resist inclusion in the Communist world. Last vear Penn Haile on a first visit

reported observing the independence of Hungarian thinking and visible cracks in the domina

tion of Moscow. Judith does sav s* would never go back to live in Hungary, in 30 years

ahe has become too British and of course a pleasant life in London *

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'August 29, 1964

Long life and happiness to Diane pnd Jav * kt two o'clock yeeterdev tne

announced Mr. and Mrs. Pratt had come to see me. They had been married in ui.e -i b# 0 Judre at Haurmgue with Fred a beat man and parents in attendance. They were on their

wv north, perhaps going to Niagara Falls and had delayed take off to rick UP their re-

srentire birth certificates on the chance of going into Canada. Diana was wearing a

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brocade ahaath and ^hite erohid while Jar*a dark suit was adorned with a white carnation.

Martha and Clave started this morning for Columbia, %Q* to

her sister, Page, and hus

band in the new horns

when fhe doctor husband etched from the Charleston TB hot*i~

tel to statewide work in the seme field, to vhich he if dedicated.

Baoeuea mv elevator's overhaul, which took from early Mondav to mid Wednesday, Maye and Ted could not oo^e to me Monday night and X went UP to see them. (I've a good mind to deduct mv taxis from the next rent flheek, eereodelly as I hear several reoole are

denning withholding for hot water failures end having to vlk uo and down ate rat) It we. good to see and talk with, the Alabama vieitore, though thev curled mv hair with. ne

that Gov. Wallace will appear at least on the Mississippi and Alabama election ba.- ofcs

and mav d-id the result of tha Electoral College bv instructions to hie delegates .

The Wallace name a-oearing in the Democratic column under the

and the le-

jind'hita ^remacv" both legacies from the earret baegere of almost 100 years age,

a, ,.ntl 1BJ sentiment ie so strong that the bulk of the southern vote will go t fcM-

water, not because he ie liked but because Johnson is hated. When I protested that hie

wee childish emotionalism, Ted pointed out that it was human nature. 3ft 18 * f ; ?? tradsgy, built ur for a lonfe time into "a wv of life" that nonwhitesshould 1be oth

segregated and eub.1ugat.ad. The extreme of the other side of the coin is found i
Black Muslim's (uou will recall that Cassius Clav reeantlv beoama one and tool an Arab sounding name). Mava'a maid is a Black Muslim and swears that she would not oeralt her child to go to a school with whites. Is it possible to win? After tapping tne . (rd

Foundation on Tuesday morning for half a million dollars Ted was

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Campaign people in Washington on Wednesday for more monev for the University ot Wabema

although ha nsrecnallv does not approve of the Poverty program. (There wasn t time_ to -

find out why.) He pointed out the ourious reversal, of usual oroceedure in Ine _.c. ... ._.a

ket this summer. When things look bright for the Democrats the prices advance Instead _f

declining. Tha big-mnnev-bove ere frightened of Goldwatar'e anti-inflation real-ion an >

sell nff whenever his prospects brighten,

Fridev * week *** Gwen Crowe (with yiim I cross the Atlantic on UN Charters) tele

phoned me et midnight from the police station. Her nurse had been snatched and could I

?i thelo her get into the FPA office for the snare setAkact there, X offered to have 'fyMom* hare for the night, but it was dear she wanted her own bed nd t0 have the oolio
' to to her ars*twrt with her lest the young black, disappointed at the small ha hava_

"viooeded her thsrs. I phonsd the nigfct super a my overtime has given me , warm a

friendship with the night people as the building's day staff electing him to her plight.

Then I called Fred Nunes, who lives only six short blocks from the office, and asked him

3 h. eould ba , knight in shining amor" and meet Gw.n there and reiterate my *- ^.Uld come hera. It was a long time before he called me back that the iesion had heen

rocomoliehed st tha office and Owen insisted that he go back to 104th Street and rid a

prowl car to 92nd. (One of the men on duty had loaned her $5 to oay for her cabs.) Late

on Saturday tha police called her that her puree had been found in Central Park endsho

.

,'3Fstreetcorner rendei-vous with the patrolman vho had called her from t ie street

-ha had in tow the auxiliary policeman who makes a free time pursuit of scrabbling in

itvk ahrubbery for ^ust such items. The puree contained her ssviiigs bank pasabook. eya

Id other documante but not her fountain pen or oomract. Meanwhile Fred had gone cask

and changed the lock on her door for her . %hat a whoop-de-do?

Tomorrow ie St. Fiacre's Day-patfon saint of gardeners. He went from Ire^nd to ^

Franco, Where he died about 670 and has a shrine at Breuil, fee, vhe old Franc- -a-ri.-

i named for him as the oonvevane* waa used bv oilgrims going to his shrine, A a *atio ,

flg vehicles wae estabshad about 1650. Late yesterday afternoon X *ne E""

OP' oral eviction notice from my office to provide sts.ee for a man in a

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Weak^d cogitation. do I comply (eaoh of the two offered spaces are unacoe,table) .

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September 4, 1964

Although this is a d^y off from the office--we later make up for it by working on Columbus Day--I have come into the dear place to do some things for myself and take advantage of the air conditioning and the electric typewriter. The rest of the weekend is probably going to be both hot and muggy and for me veyycut
up. The eviction threat of a week ago today gave me such a horrid weekend , but I did some hard thinking and set up three lines of attack. Monday morning I presented the first to the Executive vice president and the head of personnelwithout getting
much reaction before I was called off to take a call from our San Francisco office. While still on it the Personnel man left a note on my desk promising news in the after noon. At 5:15 when on a call from a man here in New York, he dropped another note on my desk to see him before leaving. Well, they had capitulated and called Hayes in Massachusetts, who agreed to another alternative which leaves me and my "jungle" un
disturbed. I am grateful I did not have to fall back on Plan B of Plan C as my think ing had gotten nastier and nastier as I concocted my lines of attack.

lomorrow if her plans for today do not overtire her, I am going up to teach Aunt
Mary to play Spite and Malice. Sshe was in rare form when I was there last Saturday
afternoon. The summer at Mohonk did her a lot of good. We discussed the wisdom of her letting the nurse go and getting a ladies' maid in her place--she is tired of being bossed around and claims she does not need a nurse. She now thinks she will live to be 100, but alas does not relish the notion I

A few days before Mrs. Kirk for Europe and to see her son at our Embassy in

Moscow she had Mildred Kenyon and me for lunch at her new apartmentto discuss some

Off the Record luncheon affairs. Lydia (Kirk) stayed with friends near Edmonton

where another guest was from Kenya. The latter told how she was roused in the

night with news that the wife of one of the platations workers was in trouble in

child birth and could the mistress possibly go to her aid? Picking up her "little

black bag" she added a bottle of gin and a box of snuff and off she went into the

night. First she administered a liberal libation of gin and stuffed the nostrils

with snuff.

Yes, you guessed it, A tremendous sneeze was promptly followed by

the appearance of the babe. When the lady from Kenya was asked how she happened

to follow this proceedure she replied: "Well, you see I have recently been reading

'Tom Jones* I" We did accomplish some work, but had a good and most comfortable

time at it.

Instead of being married from her brother's home, as was in the wind when I left Vancouver, Patricia seems to have been married on a Friday by a Justice of the Peace, gotten onto the bus and arrived up in the Okanagan at 3 a.m. Whereupon she telephoned the house, where her brother and sister in law had settled in with some friends, and said she and her husband needed accomodation for two nights. As near as I can make out there were already four couples, about ten children and two extra maids bedded down. The only available spot for the newcomers was a single cabin, which the man had occupied when he was there last autumn. It must have been a bitter pill to have to swallow. While she probably knew the other couples and their children she probably did not know of the houseparty in motion. They must have had to eat in aseries
of sittings I

On Monday afternoon I am going out to the J.F.K. airpofcj to see Lee Regal during his TWA layover between San Francisco and Madrid.journey, Labor Day traffic will be heavy both on the road and in the airport without doubt. I may even get an amusing
experience out of it.

Clare Booth Luce's withdrawal from the race for the Senate in New York disappoints me. Even the Democrats could not have devised anything more disturbing to the Republicnas. On the national level I hear that the Republican leadership is contemplating the expenditure of $15 million to make Goldwater and Miller more appetizing to the voters. The feel they must counteract the defeatism in the rank and file based on the assumption that jQhngQhapPy
c- too far ahead to beat. They also feel Goldwater must be made not to appear ti
anti-Negro, against social security and the tool of extreme right wing groups .

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After too many days in the upper 30*s and low 90*s the thermometer has moved to the nid 60ls -- at least for yesterday and today, ^eaven be praised. Fortunately the window washer and the char did not overlap- yesterday and while my papers are still in chaos, the place is clean as a whistle. He always'have torrents of r.?,,~n hen X have th wxndows washed, cerhaos- X should h&vo ad this contribution to breaking our drought weeks age % It dees seem unfair that Korea averaged two inches of rain per hour for three %onra yaftierday, Our humidity has been so great that I wished for an aoua-0 ung to get to end from the office. It iced up the Frigidair ao heavily that I had to defrost yesterday after I cm& back from seeing Aunt Mary.

Perhaps the Jewish New Year on Monday kebt traffic down. At"any rots the delays on the road to the JFK Airport were nonaxistont. Lee Hegal*3 flight fromSan Francisco ma 20 minutes ahead d? schedule and m had a fine time together. 2 waited until hi^ Madrid flight was posted as leaving on time' and read3r for bc&rdirg. (Several weeks ago Y ank Y "arris was held up for three hours in departing on that pi^n n route for uairo and it seemed wis to dq sure tkas was not common practise with TA. Hank .had cabled Larry to .meet him for his hour layover in Madrid, where they wdre either bemused or too engrossed in each other to 'rear the Cairo flight announced. Had "ank* s travelling companion not made a stir when the bcardingatair was ^taken away and had a courier institute a search, Hank would have been 3s,ft behind. All of this delay put Larry so far behind on /his drive back to VaJji z~ Malaga toat no .notsi room was available in the town ho' should have ape nt the night and he ^Y;ent_ strai#it through the night--.much too long a trip not t he "broken r/) .1 TIA building at A e airport is interesting and wall planned and administered for the huge traffic they hand] into and out of New York,. y/e were fascinated by a two-thirds size replies af. Michelangelo's Plata displayed by a.Long.Island ?cn~ structien efirpa^y at the edge of the I'M A general waiting ro..om, Its, high sheen and o.ead white surface lcoj.er. Itkf porcelain, but 'tT)e legend revealed that it hai beea cYlpt-rec. from a, block of marble, weighing, half, a ton from the eare quarry as the crigiral-and tee., xour arid a half months, hy -recoil sot ion is that Hi phalange! spert miich monger or. hie* 1, suprcee that proves the advantage. of being a copyist.

r^heve had pretty 'go.cd luck- in lining up i'-e before fyirlffrma spoalara fur

the Off th Record luncheons anqi next week shall distribute"the C^erational Schadmle

for the November 17 luncheon at the Americanafor Barbara Ward. It will be a bu|J?

autumn for me in the office, so I am trying to get along- in "Sectember with the very

inbdr^te replacement cf the toofeh extracted in Vancouver. Also I feel. I should

have new glasses and'hay an appointment''.vith the oculist--a time co-nsur.in;: trip.

up to 165th Street, vhsro .1 am prepared to have Dr. Spalter tell m that I to

live with the imperfect loft eye vision. On the happier side of tats clinical re

port ifcie bdihjg weight ,taking day^ I have -regained the eeverel rov.rc.s I loot orer

the threat c* having to move, rjj office. Dr. Bosnian probably wonft relent on" Her

irjy.rctiAn that I must weigh more, but. new I do not hove to face her xh four- pounds

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bladder operation kept Mayo from supervising planting of their Tuaoa-

Idpsa ;garden in the spring. When she was here she told m that in desperation she

bought an annfull of plastic zinnias and stuck them in a bed at the edge of the

lawn. Since, neb en friends admire "the effective nlariing of zinnias" from the

hous*, May* route a little and says "I* disappointed that thev dbn*t seem to grow-

any taller." and changes the subject.

Now T i^ist wrcte to the Commissi oner of Internal Revenue, who is not giving

me full credit for a 1963 overpayment which I asked be credited to this year. All

this was firefPllv

in June in a verv genteel letter of explanation. He 1

paid no heed a^d still asks for a, larger than he is entitled to payment on Tuesday.

I shell mark today*s letter--"For the attention of a human not for a computer. *

September 20, 1964
There may not be n iasuo of chitchat next week as I am going to Stony Brook , on Friday Last weekend the transition was made from white rurse to black and strawhat to velvet then we had a few days of "hurricere-in-the-offing" humid heat when one does not know what to wear, Between that, returning travellers and radio outpouring* {college and Pro football, the America Cup races, crises in \ristnam, Cyprus & Malaysia, on ton of school boycotts a^d election charges and counter charges) my inability to keen Up is evident. Confusion is confounded by the tendency of my watch to gain ten minutes a day and my mainstay clock t star* every four dave I

Wednesday night Lucile, my char of over 20 years, telephoned with one of her re

curring financial crises. Thursday ahe eeme to the office to nick UP a sis week

advance from mo vHile X was on a long telephone conversation and got her envelope

from Marciana She turned up Saturday morning when I wee at the typewriter instead of on Friday and in the course of the inevitable "social" conversation she admitted

she had arain forgotten that Friday was "mv dev" and revealed that roses she had

bought from a street vender near here a couple of weeks ago had kept V9ry well. What

does one do with such irresponsible blaeks? Unless she lied about" the need of money

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"tb landloud less than the full amount for several weeks and the

crisis was caused by his lack of patience and the "pay-no or get out"threat, (He is

gouging his tenants, doing nothing for them while waiting for a chance to sell the

property for new construction and plainly contributing to the.horrid social and

snr.itarv situation in Harlem,) To add to the irony I only discovered this weak that

pjrt ex -up rse::.al situation is rooted in the acts of the Constitutional Convention

;e.ore the Declaration of Independence was written 1 The acceptance of the concept
of a plurality of humanity theory"--** kinds af human beings-ona 100% human and

the other 3/5 human . This was the compromise agreed udon by the Constitutionel

convention when it hogged down over the Horth insisting that Negores should not he

counted for the purpose of representation in the future House of Representatives

because the South had previously claimed slaves to be property not people," One

wonders what the seventeen signers of the Declaration of Independence -ho cwned slaves

were thinking when they signed the "all men are created ecruaV etc bit,

Fridv night I

* friend from Tula-, Lmoele Lemon, en route from Eurone after

r. most six months visiting her son and daughter-in-law at the American "Embassy in

. rague, falling in love with Greece and the Greek Islands especially Mvkonos whore

she painted hertily until she got a telephone call frcito Tul#a vMeh led to her selling

her home, exploring Italian hill terns from Rome to Florence, both those she knew ar.dTM'

others#. Upon arrival her "small" bag disappeared with her address book and such.pur

chases as sne was carrying with her. She was amusing despite her oncoming job of

moving and her uncertainty of whether her future residence should be a house or an

arartment, Hers was the last home to be sold in a blook to be turned into a hure

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Tuesday Vera and I lunched together and last night I went UP to her for dinner

and a continuation of her adventures in Russia, Afghanistan and India from vhich. 3he ias just returned. In Russia 3he essentially was a eigbtseeing tourist and as such

in the hands of TNTOURIST to the tune of $30 a day entering through Leningrad

and leaving via Samarkand with all the intervening races and culturesof Georgians, Ukrainians, Uzbeks, etc. She verified mv feeling that as a nation the Russians pro fired with the spirit of exploration and colonization which we Passed thrcu^i so long ago. No time to ask if she thought they would go "soft" *hen all the currently ooen sraces hd bean conquered by agriculture, mines, factories and pebrle. Even as

visitors of 30 years age she found little to buy in the way of gifts, though she did bring me an attractive silver rin oroudlv bearing three enamel green trees"as super-

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Such a lovely sunny and windless afternoon that I have organized myself on the back terrace, at least as a starting place* The effect of the drought here is not so apparent as closer to New York. The large oaks and eonnifers with deep roots have maintained their green, a few maples have begun t show yellow but most va rieties continue green as do the willows* Young trees and shrubs suffer, but there is not the browning off and leaf loss I noticed for the first 30 miles out from New York*. Alas, the foxglove, Thyme seeds from Vancouver planted a month ago clearly do not relish this clima te and results are small and spa rse* The latter does not surprise me as Zeke, the cat had a splendid nap in the soft earth wherd I planted* Diane and Jay are coming for dinner with Fred*s girl Sharon who drove down from Saratoga yesterday, where she is a senior a t Skidmore to stay with the newly weds for the weekend* Bill may not be with us as he is at the Fair today. He is on Cloud Nine having drawn one of the singing leads in "Guys and Dolls", the November High School production*

Tues day I trekked up to Spalter a nd finally know that while my right eye is fine, there is permanent impairment of vision in the left* I had come to assume this, and feel better to ha ve confirms tion* At least I do not have cataract nc>r glaucoma* He indicated the relation ship between thyroid and eyes and applauded my assumption tha t it would be wise to work on gingering up the thyroid, which has always been on the minus side* Despite two dental appointments next week I plan to
get a persoriptidn for Proloid or something newer and better*

It has been a very social week* Monday afternoon to the newly decorated ballroom of the Hotel Astor for cocktails* They have recon stituted the gaslight era decor of the original ballroom after a very bad fire with too many large crystal chandeliers and la rger than life male figures supporting the balcony while felmales hold small sprays of still more lights from the second balcony* Both figures very whit and gold leafy* Perhaps it will look better in six months. Neither Fred Nunes nor ###$$##$ I had every seen any of the other guests nor cared to see them again* One attractive blond girl in a raspberry suit was licking the ciga rette habit by smoking a briar pipe with a rather long black stem. Tuesday we went to the Overseas Press Club to meet the Netherlands Councillor of their Washington Ibabassy--a nice tall man with cha rming manners and English* Here we knew a lot of people and met others* I went from there to 60th Street for dinner with Maria and Hank, who were in from Oak Beach for the night -- a good idea as If G-ladvs were to really hit us it would ha v been tha t evening* {Fortuna tely we only had a couple of days of peripheral winds and hi^i tides and eastern Long Island only got the outer fringe of the real otomr*} Apart from Ma ria's excellentdinner, and the chance to admire the big canva ss she had painted on an island in Buzzard* s Bay--at lea st six children with a weird assortment of pets including a tame raven against a background of a tidal river and marsh--we had fun try ing out the best place for # a gift from the King of Morocco. This * beautiful thick white rug, handmade of wool, has a design, which seemed very French in feeling* They both looked very well and it was good to see them after almost seven months*

In a^mad moment in June I asked, two women from London about whom (E

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Brilliant sun yesterday for the football fan3, du?.l 3kv toidv viuh pro iso- o" rain* Thursday.the- long'--awaited breaking of the drought carte with die t*a 0 ;,_n ^.oc. "We need two inches of rein, not drops two inches apart." With humidity at 99/. xfei's* mild beginning end. heaw drizzle changed from time to time v0 very heavy showers* The unwary were drenched at lunch time. By late Friday afternoon thallasi liver Drive ' we flooded and when First Avenue was clogged with the usual flight of trucks getting out of town for the weekend, a fire broke out on the demolition scaffolding on the comer of 49th Street. The fire apparatus screened end howled for five minutes trying to break through the bottleneck, while windows filled with interested spectators. Finallv the extension ladder truck got in place end slowlv erected the ladder, an operation I had never observed before. To my great disappointment no man 0. iir.oed up. Soon the smoke disappeared and we had to conclude that they had gone up the ten flights inside the building. No doubt traffic unsnarled in half an hour--I did not have to
supervise that!
It was "Take Care of Me Week". The dentist, who died a month later, did something to my lower jaw in June which lead to the extraction of a tooth in B.T5, and^set in motion a sort of "For the went of a nail a shoe was lost" sequence which culminated Thursday in a new lower bridge^^combination of my own teeth and thsirs. Tomorrow morning I go for a correction of the "bite". (The bill alms will follow.) Friday morning I went to Gerry Wilmot*s new office for my flu shot and thyroid discussion since she and I have had experience in this area before. She gave the Perscription for Proloid, which we hone will help the vision without decreasing my weight. The supply house had not delivered the injection, so 1*11 have to go back for my Aot--what a bora. Her new office on 67th Street is not as convenient to reach from here as it v;ould have been from 64th Street. To implement the place near Brewster, she and Penny have bought a c cooperative apartment in 75th Street with which they are very happy. In the pro cess of tapering off Gerry now only works 13 hours a week. What a lovely life.

Monday morning I caught up with the death of James G McDonald, who was the

head of FFA for my first seven years there. He left to be Heague of Nations High

Commissioner for Refugees coming from Germany (Jewish and others). After he had arrang

ed for the resettlement of hundred of thousands he resigned in 1935 issuing a warning

to the world of the threat of Hitler. Later he was US High Commissioner to Palestine

and then became our first Ambassador to the new state of Israel. After almost three

years in hospital unable to read end with impaired mentality his death was a release

to him and a relief to his family. Mrs. Henry Goddard Leach, a long

member of

the FPA Board., knowing,that I would go to the funeral Tuesday afternoon in Bron.?/,.,lis

asked me to drive'tr: with her. "Than the car arrived at 85th .Street, the gag" 8"umjj-

broke. She tele hpnecl ashing me 't.o. get up th ere instead cf being fetched

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most amusing taxi driver, who introduced himself as William Henry Tobin, I arrived only

> minute after the Leach chauffeur had produced a replacement car.^ Hence we left 35th

Strest when we had. planned to leave 45th and got to the church 25 minutes early.- (Yes-

terdav Aunt Mary explained to me that the Reformed Church of Byonxvill is a descendant

of the original Dutchchurch inside the wall of New Amsterdam. With the choir fews

in the chancal, the altar fail and six beautiful stained glass7windows instead of reredos it looked to me like an Episcopal Church, except that there was nothing tc uneel

on 5 The minister must have known McDonald long and well as his ''address'.^ ms

excellent. We were both glad we went and glad for each other's company, j-

ashamed to say that 7 really had to struggle with Dale "fyUer, FPA Executive Vice -President, to get a notice of sympathy and recognition of a, "Founding Fatner into

the Tip.es. It' *s laid that Fuller is an atheist, but clearly does not rate high on

knowledge of the fitness if things

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Lov/ell Thomas amused me on Wednesday) when he declared Liei Ericson Day credit
ing him with beating Columbus here by hundreds of years# Nevertheless the FFA worked on the 7th as it will on the 12th, Actually the day off wo had on the Friday *>e^re Labor Day takes the place of this Monday and by working on Veterans Day we have off the day after Thanksgiving# Heedless to add? vf all like the four days at a crack,

Lee Regal called no Jun&uy evening and had dinner with m3 at the Cosmopolitan Club

Monday telling all about the houaeparty at Larry's where he and friends

Hoi'.an .

overle/rped. Poor Larry feels the house incompletely furnished) though ha ffr.r-ajsd to

sleep j" feed 'and play bridge with hie three -greats*' .Personal-/ it seems more .satisfy e~

tory to fill in the gaps as need is demonstrated or the exact rxght oeject ..urns up

rather than have full blown perfection at once, He? ..'m still movang lamps about and.

sp far have not gotten around to buying any furniture I rather had in mind, ;Last weekend

I actually hung new curtains in the bedroom and the fiberglass half curtains ixt t i kitchen, bou^it in June* I discovered that the sales cleric was a poor adde end made
the sl&es slip for a dollar extra X) Lee liked the 30 by 40 living room with fireplace--

the same chimney serving another in Larry*s bedroom and everything about the house, X

learned -that olives only have a crop every other year so now be a# cauliflower) etc,

will provide a cash crop this season, I am very jealous that the pair o* oxen plowed

while the guests were there. Their responsiveness to the drover's sligrtest touch

withhis long wand fascinated ne as I watched them go through the street in Yelea-L alaga,

Tuesday Lee flew up to Rochester to see a friend for a couple of hours and was enek^rited

with the beauty of the autumn coloring.. So much so# he told rue Wednesday) that another

time he would flew ea3t on short hop flights which would be low enough to enjoy the

scenery* Thursday he set off for San Francisco by way of Florida*

Wednesday 1 took a long luncheon with Maisie as we had two years to eaten up on. We took our coffee in the delegate's lounge and then went to see the Chagnall stained
glass memorial to Hajrmarekjold and those who lost their lives with him in the iUr-oan j^lane crash, It is andlafcorate syi&ciie- dons more as a painting that with the conven tional "stained glass" technique. There is a lot of vibrant blue Tdiich sometimes puts at a disadvantage the more delicate colors and great variety of small laces# figures and animals* We fell into conversation with the guard# vho carefully explained that the entire U N staff had contributed to the cost and plainly he felt a deep personal involve ment, Incidently more and more of the Security Guards are being armed with revolvers, where jujutsu training au4 a small "billy" was depended upon. When Castro came two years ago a~d u-a armed bodyguards swarmed all over the place# the Secretary-general began rethinking the policy* Maisie and Jim now have 11 grandchildren with two more expected in Janusary. They and the five sets of parents drop in and out of the house at Crozet to the intense delist of the wonderful ancient black Jessio, who later re peats the conversations she has Tdth them to Maisie endlessly. The peach orchard AS gradually giving way to delicious apples, which should provide a more stable crop, Jim ia fine, but in retirement busier then when he went every day to the U of la, ^Medical
School \ Thursday afternoon Maisie came here with her hostess from 144 East 36th St, for drinks and to inspect my apartment, Miss Stott, who was a classmate of Maisie1s mother at St* Agnes, ha3 been in her apartment almost 50 years. No longer can she soe
the clock at Grand Central nor the East Fdver but would not dream of moving* Maisie warmly approved of this place* I hope Aunt Mary will too# when I bring her here for
the first time after luncheon tomorrow.

ifhen a new nation comes into being we send two happy birthday gifts. That of the President to the Head of State is fixed--a very large silver desk set, The peopletopeo|>le is subject to negotiation. In the most recent cash of Malta they wanted a Pro fessor of Public Administration. Sensible, but does one "gift-wrap" ? I have settled
the menu# napery and other details with the iUoericana for the November 17 luncheon.
Special advance reservations are already coming in# but what we hops wixl be a dosage
beuino next week. Starting the 14th I'll seldom havs a Wednesday available for lun cheon--*as the Off its Record series gets under way --I already have 11 of the 16 speake,

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Last Sunday Aunt Mary gave me a beautiful 64 inch gold chain with 19 well cut pala sapphires with "X want you to have a memento of lie". Her father gave it to her about 70 years ago and I made her promise she would let me lend it back to her should she ever develope a desire to wear it again* Yesterday I wore in three loops across my chest when I went up to play Spite and Malice with her. It was a dreary day of 99% hu-> midity with strong gusts of rain and wind, which drove many leaves off trees.

Wednesday we opened series A of the Off the Record Luncheons with Richard Gardner, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations talking about trade* He had spent months in Geneva at the UN Trade Conference and explained hew 77 have-not nations formed a monolithic bloc. They were well disciplined and voted a solid two-thirds majority for their own interests against the US and other "rich Nations?. It creates a new North-South alignment as a diversion from the East-West struggle for power. Privately Dick told me our Delegation to the oncoming General Aseembly would present a resolution on opening day, November 10, demanding th$t nations in arrears on their assessments must pay up* Although UN membership is a treasured assest and status symbol of all the new little nations, they could vote against this, greatly embarrass the US and begin the end of the UN. I suppose he knows that in the summer TJ Thant went t Moscow and failed to persuade Mr. K, to promise a payment from the USSR. Although the World Court has given an advisor:/ opinion that member nations must pay assessments, the USSR base their norn payment on a pretty firm legality founded in a weakness in the Charter leading to mis understandings about the power of the Security Council versus that of the General Assem bly. Pronouncements in the last two aays indicate that the USSR foreign policy will not be changed by the new team.

My head reels from the impact OJ. the Jenxi^s scandal, the overthrow OI Kbafushchev, the slim victory of the British Laoour rarty and tu detonaiiox of im .Chinese atomic bomb. Too much has happened in too short a timespan to realize all the implications, T have not nad time to find out anything about Leonid I. Brezhnev, the new party leauor with title of First Secretary nor Alcussi w **sbygj.!i, the Soviet Premier. Were I a Russian I would suspect future dif ficulties arising from two men who might not always see eye to eye. As a non-Rus3ian it will be amusing to follow the machinations of defaming the once all powerful Mr. K. I It will also be interesting to see how Prim Minister Harold .711son* s Minister of Technology Frank Cousins as a leading "Ban the Bomb" exponent will handle his duties as head of Britains atomic energy,

Isn't it nice that there are now 22 African saints? The Uganda language being what

it is I Aiall be curious to see their uswu3 and whether black Roman Catholios will prcmp-

ly giy them to new babies, all arcurid the wcrlcU The Pope*v encoming vi'p'.t, brief though

it is, to Bombay fascinates me* It again makes me fsel that Robert Morris had some sort

of second sight

ho wpcte "Trie Shoes of the Fisherman" even though this trip is in

a different direction than the one he projected. At least seclusion in the Vatican as

an historic pattern has been broker --first to Israel and now India,

Thursday afternoon I went to the Overseas Frees Club at the invitation of the British Information Services to follow the Election returns through direct radio and TV feed line from London, Although the polls had been closed.for an hour ai:d a half Then I arrivsd at Si30 it was clear that little would be known for hours. This gave mo a chance to chat with P$u2. '"right and his wife and other members of aissi&ff. As the recently appointed hew Director General of BIS here, he can be very important to ne. I have.already.laid hW on as a December speaker for .the GT.U They had interesting exhibits of the campaign .postera of ail oarties, of which the Conservative seemed the best to me. By 7i3C I was exhausted and came home*

On Friday Looe Dewar*s carents, Nan and Ralph Baker, lunched with me at the U.N. where we followed the routine I used with Maisie Cash, It was nice to see them in their crowded few dave he-.* before they start driving back to Vancouver in the new car thsy picked un in Windsor, Ontario. It developed that he was an Annaoolis graduate of 1920 and recently taken Cartadain citizenship* Nan clings to her American.status.

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If this sheet has a distinct marcel wave it com*3 from hsvinj? remaned in the machine

over lone, Bv starting Friday evening I have the quaint notion that I may finis,, ne

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before the end of the month. Fairly early tomorrow X go to Martha and Clove for overnight.

I have not seen Martha since the 23rd of May though Clave did meat my piano from^Vancouver

the end of July while she was in Texas. Somehow this has seemed a long hard week m t ya

office and everyone wee dragging around todav, acme of ue too tired to vMn out rromotly.

Today I met Vera for a eandwioh at the DH end had the fun of exchanging news end views
with her and also showing her a bronze head of Mrs, Franklin D. Hoosavei- clecovo-e _ t +nV MRj^ie round. None of U like it, but we were interested that it was the g-.it thtTv ^ecciluon for Retarded Children. Big as the tints ie there will soon not be reuan for all "f orasants from various nations and grouos, I have just telephoned dunt Vary
wrn her I shall not be seeing her this weekend. She has not been out much this week nor had any company and bemonns that she left until so late the possibility of going back to Mohonk for a week to see the utumn color. I was saddened this morning to have a ca d ^ from the Fatrick Deans bidding me for e drink on Novemeber 4 with "to sav goodbye--do ccr-ia written on. Of course, I knew thev would be transferred but hoped it would ntt be so soon,

Wednesday saw the initial QTR Series B luncheon with John Badeau, until recently our Ambassador in Cairo, who as alwavs was magnificent. I had not seen him since his return and although I knew hs lest 70 peunds in Egypt during his three years here scarcely recog nized him T*hen he stepped off the elevator and greeted me. Among other things he very affectively made the point that we cannot expect our foreign aid to help people of poor countries to a better way of life and at the same time expect their governments to turn themselves inside out over night in our total image. Since most of our aid to Jie United Arab Republic is in the form of food for which we take their currency at a low price,^ the people know it is "American bread" as our wheat and corn is very different from their o<n. Vfoan en American shipping etrike delayed arrivals the papers reportod that the Rehouses were almost empty. Badeau'9 Egyptian tobr.ccanist aeked "Excellency, is it true that there will be no more American bread?" John is really an educator and glad to be bac, at uoiumbi, but I think he enjoy his three yeers ambassadorship, which was a good one for a nov, re he has spoken Arabic for over 25 yee-e rnd thoroughly knows the area. In connection #ih -the OTR I am plagued now with disappearances of our equipment--the most serious being a 72
CUP electric percolator.

Herbert Hoover's death this week ha" made ma think so muoh of several friendswho ^

worked with him on relief after Torld War I, including Traoy Philices. The outpouring of.

trdbutes has been imrreseive and it is encouraging that eo manv neons remember hie. ser

vices of 45 years aeo, esoeeially when the world moves so raoidly. Even ax tne beginning

of the 40*s, street beggars asked for a dime. Last night when I stores.

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Deeper beard matched

his oyerooat. His request was "Can you srare a dollar.

October 25...Yesterdav mornih? I fell, on the station stairs and was furious at having

<-)lined my right knee end ruined my stocking. Later in the day my toe began to bo-he. me..

pmioti on" showed the second toe on my right foot badly black and blue, enough to eause^.

C^ye ?o aak1f rt were broken. Although X slept all right it seemed to be a good idea to

uav. Dr. Ploss look at it. Hanpily an ray showed it ell in one niece and^

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to spare it and that "the tincture of time" would clear it UP we departed witn thanks,

the xray did not actually do it good, the certainty thet it wee all right was heJ iul and

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worth the fee. Though I do regret this erisode keening Kartha and me from church.

Yesterday afternoon we went oyer the Throggs Neck Bridge and uo the Ta.conic Parkwe.v "J*'9

lutumn color end soft sun Thine to Rhinebeok, half way between New York and Albany and ha d

dinner at the Beekman AITS, which is called "The oldest hotel in ^0BR ^
*338 a|| - 1700. Washington,Lafayette,and Aaron Burr stayed there "^Jranklin D. ^oseyel^tr^ f*

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No soace left last weak to tell about going Sunday afternoon along Jones Beach, -here I was greatly impressed bythe vast amount of sand which has been purvnad uo. in front of the dunes* It would1 seem imoossible for winter storms to wash across the road and erode the beach, We crossed the new bridge to Fire Island end the Robert Moses nark as this is readily accessible from the Can"Tree Bridge, some of the pressure-should be taken from Jones Beach-"' lie letter has extended -nrk'.nr f iol is and made new ones but should -be harpier with fewer pecole and care- Furthermore the Robert Moses park is closer for those living anywhere east of Freerort and the whole of Long Island is filling up to such an extent that I feel I hardly know it well any more* A few linos back I paused ut>on hearing the advance motorcycles on Third Avenue and saw them sweep by 35th Street at a very fast raceAfter a traffioless interval came the 20 or so advance motorcycle outriders, several black limousines, then President Johnson's -pith the twin flags closely followed by the light colored open car filled with the Secret Service. When I was out half and hour ago for forgotten milk and soon to be need Bourbon I asked a Negro patrolman (our corner rated eight, a nair at each of the four corners) if it was to be 3LBJ and vhsn. As he said that times vary, I realized I should hate sought out a captain but decided from, past ex perience the speed would be too great to warrant hanging about. My bay window has more than ventilation advantages! We have just been notified that the November rent goes to the fourth agent with which I have dealt. Happily, the superintendent 390ms to be staying
on*

Wednesday John Badeau same back for the Series A OTR and Lydia Kirk introduced him. Although I told him he could make the same speech, he greeted ne with the news that he had put together en entirely different one, though kept to the same topic. In seeing him out afterward. I stupidly said I would find it difficult to know which speech I liked best. That would have been a nice line for the letter of thanks, when it is a little hard to tV ank the same <e rson in a different yij two weeks in succession. The mailing house goof ed on the announcement cards for the 28th and they were a week or more late Sn being de livered* fe did not kno-,7 how much food to order when we give the initail number on the Friday before. Fortunately my crystal ball was working well and there was enough for the 930 enthusiastic listeners. Poor Lydia had a cold, eo I took a hand in guiding^the con versation at the Sreaker'S Luncheon, where we protect the poor man from the howling mob. When I asked about the Aswan Dam opening in May and Khrushchev's lehavrier we learned, that vihile gonial be volked li.vt .an old r n. John had braced himself to hear and parry harsh attacks on the USA repeciaily in connection with our pulling out of any financing cf the the dam# There was no such attack and in the middle of bis sreeck Mr. K turned m*n fo^ a ^usei^n fertilizer!! He undid the fine imureeeion made in the first f## four davs bv staving and additional ten during vhich he criticized the Egyptians for n'riembracing communism--the only road to success in the modern world! During his main speech rronheeized the "revolution of the Transistor radio". Japanese are seeing them extensively throughout the Middle East--the Saudi Arabians will only buy the mere expensive one? ~n
which they can he*r the Cairo station.

November 1, All yesterday groups of small boys roamed the streets hereabout, mrn>.

with burxed Tk sr eared on their faces. fiien Aunt Annie phoned about Than-fepivim she

he- hell

-ung at 6*30, Expecting s-me little friends from the neigiborhood she

-a# at?rtled. to find two boys with black faces, one taller than herself. They settled for

her small-child-candy, but after that she dsterrind not to answer the door. The peoplc-an

Rve erne up with a nifty. Mimeographed handbills ware distributed in the school 3 or Friday

asking the children to turn in names, addresses and telephone numbers and ta stay at icrre

on Hallowe'en waiting for a nhone call from the Good Goblin. A v-riet - ox tiirp* aon-%,_ .

V- local merchants would be awarded to the lucky ones t* receive the phone cell* frouan-y

nlenty of adults were kept from making outgoing calls by anxious young waiting for newe.

Everyone in the office *U now se-iouslv concerned at the few reservations recevvau ^ for the Barbara. Ward luncheon. It does' no good for me to remind them.that advice r^in~ ^t itnor that there is no money for a followup in the budget. Perhans a rer : r.der reaching people after Election Day will produce. T,re can only hope.

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While there is not enoughtime to finish this, I could not resist a beginning in the sun on the back terrace before Jim & I have a late lunch and go to see Dianae and I take the 4:17 train home. Two beautiful bright blue sky days--yesterday Molly and I cruised about a bit admiring the clea r yellow of the Norway maples, the occasional still bright red oak leaves. Curiously enough while many of the oaks cling to their leaves they have turned brown. Several willows present a motley appearance --half the sweeping branches are yellow while the rest are green* Last night we went to the high school "Guys and Dolls" with Bill as NicelyNicely Johnson, He was good, singing well and generally throwing him self into the role# The woman who did the origina 1 choreography lives nearby and perhaps gave extra coaching in the danoe numbers, with ex cellent result* The la rgely unmelodic score gave the school orchestra a hard time and were not unfrequently very rough on the audience ears# I am amazed again at the difficult things selected for teenagers to perform# I did enjoy it*
This is the 25th Sunday after Trinity and is not provided for in the prayer book, so who ever made up the order of service merely listed everything for the 24th# The recotr had to explain the error and that in such instances it is customary to use the Epistle and Gospel for the 6th after Epiphany* In leaving I chided him that he had not slipped a "deliver us from drought" into the Litany, which does seem to cover everything* He explained that in the Seminary he had been warned by a very old man, never to paay for rain on a rising baremeter t
The OTR experiment on Monday with the cocktail and lecture meeting was a great success, though I found from 9 a*m* to 8:20 p*m. a rather lo^g dafrv To the delight of the younger member instigators of this attempt to educate their husbands, the men did like it and asked almost all of the very good questions put to Arnold Brachman, The very expen sive follow-up on the Barbara Ward luncheon has born fruit and we should mhaakvee vaerlyitltiltetlbeetmtoenretyh,awnhi8c0h0 iast tthhee oAnmleyriicnatneareosntToufestdhaey,"fbrutonsthoaflflice"* It will be a busy week for me with an OTR luncheon the following day and Marciana leaving for a New Orleans on the la st week of her summer holiday tha t afternoon* Tough because I'm coming along with an OTR eaoh Wednesday except the day before Thanksgiving and beginning to plot and draft stuff for the Janua ry 12th Waldorf luncheon#

Home again and with my dinner inside me* Its preparation was interrupted by.the telephone of Maud Seligman, wife of FPA Honaorary Chairman of the Board, about seating at the Tuesday lunoahon, My departure yesterday was almost delayed by a call from her in hwherst, where they had gone for a meeting of the College Trustees, on the same sub ject'--both of which could have awaited Monday morning. Not only male, but female goons to contend with I But on the distaff, I had a fine early dinner and long talk.with Vera on Friday, It is always fun to exchange news and views with her and hear about the interviews she has and how things move in her NTU academic phase* She lik3d my little story of the week. A couple of years ago the Yemen government 3ant a polite diplomatic message to Egypt begging in the interest of world betterment and middle eastern advance ment for 100 teachers, Egypt complied and some months later received an squally polite
but scmsv/hat more urgent request for fijOGO students*

At this late date' I cut and brought back to town several sprajfi of rose snapdragons

and half a dozen rose buds. It will be interesting to see if the latter -unfold in the.

heated apartment before indifferent -to.pick and

ILonsgawIsnloannedohnasroaadksiildleingstfarndoss*t,'T/MiothllCyh1rs?#.cshtrmyassandtehcoermautmisonwsarsuptoo

across the shopping streets in port Jefferson, v/hy should I expect to ?

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The hoped for opening of the roses did not come off, but they still make a pleasing arrangement. The petals are very thick and from the drou^it do not have enough pliancy to unfold. The sa&pdragon on the other other hand continue to
open the buds up the stalk. The artic winds begining on Friday would have brown ed them off certainly-

By Thursday I had the utmost sympathy for the young man in "Stop the World I
Want to Gat OFF ]i. fa did not reach the hoped for EGO-instead of the desired by the front office 1'200---on Tuesday for Barbara Ward, but without saying anything new or profound she charmed men and women alike. The food was good and the Ameri
cana1 a service has improved, I cannot remember trie last mass meal when crumbs
were brushed away after the meat plate had been removed, yet it happened. Suspect ing that the headwaiter had beon smart enough to assign a particularly good waiter to my table I asked others and found it was done throughout the ballroom, Oan it
be that there is a return to the all but forgotten standard of pride in doing tners job well? Wednesday was crisp enough to sharpen the appetites of the OTP. wor.cn and I heard that the buffet had its moments of questioning whether the food would hold out. ^cr/ev^r, Hhetffe, was enough for three women who arrived 15 minutes after
I had gotten Brig. Can, 1'amuel B Griffith onto the platform* Having read most of a beautifully written introduction he had written to his translation of Mao Tso Tung*s essay on guerrilla warfare the night before I was disappointed in his pre sentation of "Communist China's CapabAities", It was a relief to have four rxm~ bars of the Governing Conmittee say they liked his refreshing frankness* He did lay it on the line that we would gain nothing by recognizing Red China and that Mao might easily look down his nose at "an upstart nation not 200 years old from his pinacle of a 2,000 year civilization and like the British would probably got a charge d'affairs and not an ambassador in return for recognition". On the other hand he warned that with the support of the African countries China would in a year or two be admitted to the United Nations and our continued opposition would do us
damage. The NBC January 12 announcement copy was delayed by indecision on the part
of their top brass as to which correspondents would be brought home. Once more I
find myself breahtlessly 3eeing to the last steps on the Ward luncheon with one lobe of my mind and the initial work for the next. In between arranging an OTR committee meeting and details of topic phrasing and so on for their December meetings. Since there is no rest for the weary X.tele phoned Aunt Annie that I would not be able to go there for Thanksgiving. I not only hated to do it, but found that two other dinners had been arranged. Very embarrassingt I have just phoned Molly that barring
the railroad changing its mind about the threatened strike I would go to Stony Brook
instead for overnight and dinner Thursday, Those sadists in the FPA front office hav9 laid on an administrative staff meeting for Wednesday afternoon. This is the second time they have scheduled things to prevent early departures before a holiday. Since it is about the relation of Meetings to Overall Program I expect to be limp
and depressed by the session.

While I was grateful enough

Thursday*s rein, it made getting a cab to go

up to the Paul Wright's for cocktails at seven difficult, I changed at the office

and stepped in a river getting into the taxi --fortunately my slippers wore under

my arm and my rubber soled shoes on the feet* Traffic was hideous and it cost a

fortune as well as too much time to get to Park Avenue at 73rd St. They are nice

people, but had so many people 'that it was difficult to circulate.

This coming Wednesday Martha and Gleve for a couple of weeks in Portugal and

Spain via Swiss Air and a conducted Melia tour- The first time they have exposed

themselves to being herded, but the itinerary is good and they deserve a break

after the magnificent job done cn the Transfiguration Building Fund drive of which

Cleve is chairman. I am keeping my fingers crossed that while they are within 40

miles of Velez-Malaga Larry can see them and Si ow off t/;e uouse and olive grove. I

feer however that the one day this , might b9 possible he will be involved in going to Sevilla to unlatch Hank from the Casablanca plane. Sad overlapping*

Oh, wha* a day was Wednesday! Having been told at 5i30 Tuesday-1at George Clay had been killed in a Congo ambush, I got to the office little pfter Ss30 to see if the printer had finished the announcements listing him as ."member of the January 12 NBC panel, Of course, the print run had beer completed and was being trucked to The several mailing houses involved. We just cannot a!ford printing another 14,000, In the -ate afternoon it alartea to rain in a serious manner, Poor Martha and CIeve took off for Lisbon in the deluge* it seemed bettor that I come home, have a quiet dinrsr in ny own time and get to Stony Prick about ft30. Knowing that I would never get a tan, I left in time to walk to Pem station hut counted on the 34-tn St, bus and stood in the rafr for 2C - minutes and arrived five minutes after the train h&d left, holly agreed on the telephone that having gotten thai far it would be best to take tne train due an hour later, '"he station was chaos with hillday travellers including many voungsiers with vast quantities of luggage and additional clothing zi other"etuxl drapea i/iiormalxy otef tie shoulder. By the time wo got to Jw.sd<?o t^e rain was horizonal and the platform roof did little to protect us. Feediess to say If "v-as still raining at Stony Brook and we all went to bed after a cup of
hot coff06

Thursday was slightly confusod a* the pcver bad gene 'if*;fr.40 minute*

"nrftt'i frt r*rht w* r.tV'-es

rot cr-- with tie elect;* clocks ~t

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pleaxunt day and we %ad a fihe dinner at a Pert Jef'^ee* hctel, aftsr wlr'ch T.

ecnksd tut vhil Lolly and Jim went to Sunken Meadow and Walked on the beach,

Thev found a marsh duck entangled with fishing line at the end of which was a

half dsad yard long sand shark. Their attempt at rescue wa3 spumed und t. a

duck strvggled off intc the .water dragging its encumbrance. Poor Molly warned

so about the bird that .Friday we went back and were happy to find the shark dead

by this time, but its mouth shewing where the heck had torn cut, we can cn-.y hope

that the duck looBened itself from the line! It was & lovely clear day wifc-i

good vision of the Connecticut shore and we all enjoed this mission of mercy,

I pruned some of the 9V3rgroen and have what couj.d TW.rn OUT to my CAriewftas

greens.

Bill is busy with the load in "The mn who Ome to' Ddrnor" which wiM

be played on Friday and Saturday--if I can get enougi done meanwhile I hope to

co #Ut for. Cf course, I do not pretend to understand modern education and the

theorv that if the pupil is happy he does good work. It doe 3 seem like poor admin

istrative coordination for the school to permit him to take so heavy a role after

failing math, and Spanish in the midterms, Fred, on tne other hand, got t<vc

Hgtgw

the only "AB in the very tough Strength of Materials 0ourae, The^

professor must have been pleased as at the bottom of his addition of the points

on the inside cover of the Blue BOOK ne wrote "Bingo" *

Returning lute Friday afternoon I settled into household chores and ^daressing tne Far Away Christmas oards--so many of which required long.i3h notes as the annual communication, 1fthen the nearby ones are reached the output per hour should be much greater! Something to look forward to. Most of the little eifties ordered by rail hnVe been delivered and this afternoon I hope to est to wraoning. Spinning Wednesday we start CTR luncheons for three successive weeks plus'a committee meeting, enough extra to leave me pretty limp come evening. All this by way of saying there may not be a chitchat next week and almost cer tainly little in the way of general correspondence, Sorry, but mayoe you Know
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Alack-a~da$, by Thursday lad had such a week that I telephoned Molly it would re impossible for me to see Bill in the role Monty Wooley played on fircadwaj ii-. ' The 'an who Came to Dinner"* And then yesterday I forgot to seed r.ul the "brealo a leg " .'9legram However, 1 did sleep yesterday until eleven and today until ten but did not get to see Aunt Mary as I should have* (When we talked on the telephone trus morning she revealed ttet she had not been feeling up to the mark for several days, was better today, but would not have wanted a visitor anyway.

has broken and "there has been much rain this week--an inch^

rare

Thursday alone and mere on Friday# Upstate according to the radio is

badly off with deep snow and icy roads? I am concerned about Aunt Annie as it

is reported that 10,000 people are without heat aid light, I'll call her after

dinner, whicn is almost ready, Also concerned about Fred, who planned, to leave

after work Friday for Saratoga to see a girl at Skidmore College, Hie truck

should get through all right but the two trips will be tiring and take him more

than -the usual four to five hours on the road, From what I can see on the roif

of the now untenanted police station we got a good deal of snow her aftr mid

night, which did not stick in the street,

Wednesday there were the usual alarums and excursions w% h the OTR, but the speaker was magnificnet--Paul bright, the new Director General of British Infonaa-
tion Services in New Yo*k. Four or five years ago he was here with United King dom Mission to the UN and the many friends made then rushed to hear him--a diffi cult audiai ce--made harder by my asking him to talk about whether the Labour Goverment would have a new foreign policy. Answer in a beautiful, constructed, coher ent prsssntation delivered in the best British occasionally humorous manner was early trends do not indicate major change. His wife is an American, who had married an English member of Parliament and after he was killed, in action in .vorld ar II, both the Conservatives and Labor parties in his constituency asked her to "stand" for his seat. She was elected and itater married Fright, Naturally she is happy to be back here, but enchanted that for the first time" in their married .life they have not had to hunt about for a home uon reassignment* (A few years ago the British got smart and bought several cooperative apartments for their top people and neatly scattered them from Fifth Avenue to the East River and avoided setting up a British enclave,;

Yesterday 1 ral?sed I bad failed to order a "giftie" for one oi the great nephewt and wtnt over to Altaian's, where the Christmas red carpet is in place' on the main floor as wall as very attractive decorations through out the store. While there I unlatched the fur coat from storage, as I could only find the "tem porary " receipt, I feared it might be sticky and my honest face mi^it help ; As of now I have four parcels ready for mailing and gotten the overseas cards in the post, and the far west and deep south addressed, sealed and stamped. There are still a good hundred to go and many of them must carry messages, I'm not very keen about the Christmas issue and am U3ing some of the American Music issue which stilkes me as quite gay-

Letter Friday from Larry saying that v had set things up to get Martha and Clever over ?ror Torrertrlfn-s if they would like to sea his establishment at VelezFfclaga -- 30--40 miles act on Tuesday* lesterday a card from Martha that thoy had gone and greatly enjoyed tfte day with Larry and Hank, who had by good fortune arrived on Monday from C. s-blnnce. A card from hir on Friday t >ld- tf seeing his Tale rcomrate, John Sherman Cooper? at my friends the Jamst 'F, Green's over drinks* Small world, Jim is our Consul General at Casablanca and liver in the villa which Winston Churchill occupied daring the World War II Casablanca ConTerence, They asked me to visit them there two years ago. I'd better go before be is reassigned

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The bazooka blast a* the UN on Friday was a miracle of ineptnase. A higher .

trajectory could have carried it to the General Assembly domed roof. If as sus

pected it was detonated by a time mechanism it might have caught a loaded. oA

tender as it fell in the ship channel--at this roint very close to shore and in

frequent use* Meeting a sq aa of police on the -ay to wor* I asked tne captain

mflfco is demonstrating today?" and wa3 answered "We are,'1 Soon I noticed from

my window that the wooden barriers had beon erected in 47th Street and braced

myself for the nerve-making chanting Cubans and was grateful they never appeared.

Vociferous though small in number, comparitively, they were contained on cr side

of First Avenue"at 43rd Street and we saw nothing except tne roving mounted police,

the patrolmen, prepared to control an overflew which, never got to 4*j^d St reet. #i

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motar blast and knew it was FLA had about 10i e^anspity

xct blasting for .?undatiris of ?. leaders on hand for briefing abeut

the UN meeting in our auditorium in the morning, lunching on the second xloor( where

I hostess a table) then taken to the US Mission where one cf the TJS delegates talks

and thanes over to sit in on General Assembly or Security Council session. Alien

they crossed the street to enter the enclave of the UN, the gates were closed and

they were admitted one by one after presenting credentials- They must have been
properly impressed* I am sure 1h e man from Eugene, Oregon who was on my left at

luncheon had a memorable day,

Dense fog in Switzerland delayed kartha and Clave*s take off irom Lisbon on
Thursday so they landed at Kennedy airport nearer five o1 clock than at three as scheduled, They thoroughly enjoyed the Iberian Peninsular , greatly admired Larry's
house and his enthusiasm about his land and the product thereof. A year ago he planted young orange and lemon tress along the driveway- One precocious tree^ produced one orange, so luncheon was concluded with the yarTs orange crop oeing divided between the four of them! The edge of the irrigatioi^ ditches are planted
with beans--also enjoyed as part of the meal, Larry designed a beautiful grille
for the door from the salon to the swimming pool, which also serves as reservoir for the irrigation- The gypsy blacksmith charges by the pound of metal, used so beauty turned out to cost no more than a purely utilitarian and possibly ugly object. Quite by chance they all met a d ,y or two later in the hotel at 'iran&da!

Last Sunday''night my first lovely sleep was broken at ill 30 by such loud

radio bleating that I could feel the sound waves in the living room. 1 telephoned

the man below no asking {or volume control whereupon he seemingly cut it oft en-

tb ly but the damage was done and I did not get to sleep until after two. A poor

beginning for the week and in dressing I quite forgot that the FIA Bosk Center

was giving a "Publication

for Bick. Gardner1'a new book from five to eight,

v&th grtans I went down about 5;20 intending to stay an hour, but found so many

people it was useful to talk to that I stayed until eight. Exhausted I had a bowl

of soup and fell into bed. Wednesday we had Sir Fitiroy Maclean for tho CTR ovei^

flow crowd. Gontrary to all prediction I found him a garrulous old man, but was

enchanted with his lovely silver snuff box and his frequent use of its contents .

He is a snuff devotee because it can be u3ed in church, the House of Commons, etc, where smoking is not indulged in. He did i^ot even sneeze! After my politenesses

to him we had a Speakers Committee which somehow was less than helpful--they all

seemed to be as out of sorts sb I was.

In my private life I sm learning to say "No2, hank ^arris, vii o-i 1 uu. .'lost

anxious to see just phened to see if I would go there for dinner tonight. For

last night I declined Vera's invitation to dinner with her children of whom 1

ni very"fond. Then Molly phoned, she and Bill were unexpectedly in town and hoped

I would have dinner with them after their matinee. My reward was being he? a yaen

unt innie telephoned to bo sure I had not been oaugfat up in the Cuban demonstra

tions'* Further I made great progress on wrapping the little

jp address-

cards* In the morning I picked up my spare spectacles ordered on Lev. w.

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."Depending upon -the continuance of today's snow and the state oi the iiaile this ."ay to in tiro for }B1TY CHRIS 11U> )-v on the ot' or !iii 7r......" 1TF-.# Yhl.l. At an" fate 'X .-pricbfully' report th i I think all the OhrIstyes' , resert-; :.re wrapped excapt a imall item for Aunt Annie, who comas on Tuesday, and a hook for .aiint Mary. Friday I bought lalbraiih's "Tine Scotch" for her and fortunately dipped into it before I wrapped it yesterday, Much too earthy
for her, so tomorrow I take it tack to.the F?A book center and exchange it for the fag '^m^arskjold "Markings" (fortunately they are very 1Anient with
staff).

Galbraith spoke to an overflow OTR audienee on Wednesday and did a good

job, though I fear I still do not hike him as a person* Of course he is brilliant

but to me arrogant and so self centered. It was a rough day as I had a morning

session with the "fpont office to discide the Party Line " for an afternoon

(four to six) meeting of a Board Committee* The latter really did not settle

anything and I ouuld not help but wonder how many of the ten Board members were

impressed with the presentation of a vice president about a project, which is

consented with the management of the United Automobile Worker3.. Yfoile touching

I wish img Lord Strauss had not.said that X kne.v: mere ubcut running big events --

when to -hvr"than, -,,hc to featuro_, hvj much to ..charge," ete. -t ian umy'BQurcl

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apparently takes credit for building the Anierioan Kmbassy in New Delhi while he

was Ambassador there. At Lunch he scoffed at the Bowles moving back to the old

building for their p, rsonal residence, and when T remarked they had found a

"whispering gallery effect." which made, anything saM in the Ambassudcr1 3. bedr om

..heard in r*f:Vs2Y.l 'othel pl.%e h-lbr^ife p*we?h*td' Vd -.rVasnd-. rurld. sorer

say anything which should not be heard by everyone \n

Friday the j-urniture came back and now I feel I have too much since tne

acldition of the red chair* Perhaps it will seem less cluttered when I push

the Christmas Wrappings, the' card addressing eqni

etc. out c.f ox,:;ht at

the moment the living room locks aw if a eycloka.h*d v.-.sited -It, fhurf&uy I

wbt'to'' x r.ecc'otioh at PuVlsi

lie wife qf th-a Avlah vtor - wiEnglish

woman who wore a beautiful sari -- white with large border of Mohamed green-*-

but received with a high ball glass in her left hand,

3etty Day here briefly from Columbus revealed she bad had pneumonia in

Perugia last summer and spent a month in.a hospital in Aomo. Fortunately fia

las Ital Uu and. KbrtiAte?> who \U3 travelling in; lurope piV-'ed bar up aid flew

her home even thou^i Betty was so weak she entered the plane via wheelchair* The

doctor told t* em that it might take a year for-Betty to recover from tho antibi

otics..^- a comf ' rtihg oughi to m y/hen exhaustion, dwscends earlier than ja "Isal

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The week has been enlivened by my dear OTR Sadies decided it was prostunptueus of re .tc have a meeting on January 20 and compete with Inauguration and by a fy streak of bad luek in laying on a speaker for January 13* Unable to get my fourth candidate on 'the telephone Friday I sent him' ?# telegram and said I would telephone Saturday Vfcen his secretary told me ho would be in the. office. X'i^it calls Tester* day tc office liijq hero with one alreedy today leaves me dangling. Copy due to go to press on Wednesday. I begin xo wonder if T enali mve t**e energy to go to ixie
council on Foreign Relations Christmas nsi'Hy tomorrow despite professional gcod it does me to see and he seen there I

December 20, 1964
Depending upon the continuance of today's snow and the state of the mails this may be in time for MERRY CHRISTMAS or on the other hand HAPPY HS\. YEAR. At any rate I pridefully report that I think all the Christmas presents are wrapped except a snail item for Aunt Annie, #10 eomes on Tuesday, and a book for Aunt Mary. Friday I bought Galbraith's "The Scotch" for her and fortunately dipped into it before I wrapped it yesterday. Much too earthy for her, so tomorrow I take it back to the FPA book center and exchange it for the Dag Hammarskjold "Markings" (fortunately they are very lenient with staff)
Galbraith spoke to an overflow OTR audience on Wednesday and did a good job, -though I fsar I still do not like him as a person. Of eourse he is brilliant but to me arrogant and so self centered. It was a rough day as I had a morning session with the "front office to diseide the Party Line " for an afternoon (four to six) meeting of a Board Committee. The latter really did not settle anything and I could not help but wonder how many of the ten Board members were impressed with the presentation of a vice president about a project tfiieh is concerned with the management of the United Automobile Workers. While touching I wish Anna Lord Strauss had not said that I knew more about running big events --. when to have them, who to feature, how much to charge, etc. than any Board Committee. I know this kind of thing only gets the "mad" up with Hayes & Co. To return to Galbraith, he was entirely nice to me when he turned up early at my invitation to use our telephone and had to wait while Fred Nunes yanked me ut of Hayes office. He commented on my window box jungle and seemed human. He apparently takes credit for building the American Embassy in Hew Delhi while he was Ambassador there. At lunch he scoffed at the Bowles moving back to the old building for their pi rscnal residence, and when I remarked they had found a "whispering gallery effect" tfiieh made anything said in the Ambassador's bedroom heard in several other places Galbraith answered "An ambassador should never 8ay anything which should not be heard by everyone *"
Friday the furniture came back and now I feel I have too much since the addition of the red chair Perhaps it will seem less cluttered when I push the Christmas wrappings, the card addressing equipment, etc. out of sight at the moment the living room looks as if a cyclone had visited it. Thursday I went to a reception at Pakistan House. The wife of the Ambassador is an English woman viio wore a beautiful 3ari -- white with large border of Mohamad greensbut received with a high ball glass in her left hand.
Betty Day here briefly from Columbus revealed she had had pneumonia in Perugia last summer and spent a month in a hospital in Rome. Fortunately she has Italian and her sister, who was travelling in Europe picked her up and flew her home even though Betty was so weak she entered the plane via wheelchair. The doctor told ih em that it might take a year for Betty to recover from the antibi otics -- a comfortJLng thought to me when exhaustion descends earlier than I feel it should .
The week has been enlivened by my dear OTR Badies decided it was presumptuous of us to have a meeting on January 20 and compete with Inauguration and by a streak of bad luck in laying on a speaker for January 13. Unable to get my fourth candidate on the telephone Friday I sent him a telegram and said I would telephone Saturday when his secretary told me he would be in the office, Eight calls yester* day to office and horn with one already today leaves ma dangling. Copy due to go to press on Wednesday. I begin to wonder if I shall have the energy to go to the Council on Foreign Relations Christmas jarty tomorrow despite professional good it does ine to see and be eeen there j>

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iUrcVvsts i^ciucirr a ?&iress to r pla?e tie oh3 h i|h xa,s perred .me . almost^ SO fvc. c. 7 have paid the late arriving December bills a^icl a few ccririb"tic2 for 1964 heretofor neglected, To my greta delight I at "beginning a new check book for 1965^ such a help sore tax tine not to b^re tc pork in two checkbooks^

Aunt, jtviv arrived on the Ifcr.d'and was io'cd enough to take over the marketing ''

and preparation of dinner, Thursday morning.Jim phoned that Folly had a- ierrid grippe

and advised UB not to take the afternoon train to Stony Brock, Instead we bought A

Cornish game hen and a steamed pudding for our Christmas dinner .and I had a chance

to lock at my Chrtisrae cards except those with long letters enclosed (these I got

to last night). Christmas was a lovely sunny unseasonably warm day and after opening

presents we went uptown sightseeing and gapping at tha throngs who filled Fifth Avenue

Saturday morning we went to Freeport, where Martha and 01eve had asked us to drive

with the Stony Brook family for dinner and we to stay the night. Jim and Bill were

the only ones to show up for a drink and exchange of gifts. (I've kept track of Molly

on the telephone, she is coming along but spent most of a week in bed and still tires

easily.) The wild goose shooting expedition was tedious because of fog the geesa

could not see the rye field

feeding ground and few came down to be shot before

touching down. However, since they had gotten three I expected one would be held

for Christmas dinner. Not at all# the taxidermist got them to stuff and he keeps

the "carcass" I Vhmt he accepted the job, he sighed and said "Now I have the whole

flock. " Saturday evening they told us of their recent trip to 3ain-and Portugal

illustrated by Clove's colored slideB--a fftsoinating evening. To my delight he had

some excellent interior and exterior shots of Larry1s house, the trees and visw from

the ridge. Sunday after church we went to Fran's for half an hour* The bcy3 have

become charmingly adult conscious and seemed interested in Aunt Annie and me, showing

off fat0rite Christmas treasures, reading short stories, etc. Poor Tom ha8 been

taught that dreadful no?; English which is printed in its own alphabet based on pho

netics. I was happy he could not only read the school book but a stoiy in tradition

al print. The Texas family had sent the parents a tape recording with a special

message as well as tho recorder. In the afternoon Clave d we v.3 b-V to toi.r a

drenching rain, yet when w came out, cf the mid-town tunnel here the pavement wqs

dry. On December 17 Fort Hood offered Glevee and Delli a house on the Post, they

liked it and the movers arrived on the morning of the 18th and they left for an

Officers Club dinner dance from the new home that night. The children have their

own bathroom and David immediately laid down the rule that the parents must have

his permission to use it. The address is ? 5601-2 Lockridge Loop, Psrshing Park,

Fort Hood, Texas. (Zip as yet unknown but sure to be different than the one for

the off post rented house. )

Aunt Annie left New Year's morning in sun and a nasty cold wind. Clouds soon covered the sky and as the wind continued high, I used taxis to Vera*s customary cocktail party. One of her graduate students, an Egyptian foreign service officer on leave to do his dissertation arrived early as did I but he bore a charming arrange ment of greenish orchids against silver eucalyptus branches. Lots of people I was glad to greet and some I have heard about for years and never mat--a editor from one publishing house and a publ5*c relations person from another, both of whom had worked on books of Vera's. I dropped Mrs. Moore off at her hotel on the way home, here as a member of the Nigerian Delegation to the General Assembly. At home she practises law and is Lagos attorney for Standard Oil. Here she feels frustrated at the delay in UN Committees getting on with their jobs and shares my concern for Chief Adebo, head of her delegation, for the stress and strain he is under about his chairmanship cf the crucial UN Committee on Contributions aid his other respon sibilities. I thought it urrtactful to discus? tht 7ss ever election in Nigeria? though I was curious to know if our press is overplaying the trouble they create.

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As they say in the army, today I am "cinfined to quarters" awaiting the delivery of the mattress I bought last Saturday, There is a large wash I should like to do but do not dare go to the basement lest the delivery truck arrive# What a bore 5

On New Year afternoon Martha and Cleve accompanied by their exuberant dog Spanky

drove the 35 or so miles to Bellpott to see what has happened to that pleasant oil

summer resort, the life of which ha d centered on sailing and swimming on Great South#Ba>

Alas, shacks have replaced lawns or the rambling old houses, now dilapidated# Less

than ten miles on the journey home, a man ran throiigh a rsd light ond struck the left

front wheel and damaged the radiator* No nt was hurt and after the police had done

their stuff measuring 12 feet of tire marks## where Cleve had jammed en hie breaks

they were towed back to Freepori. It is a nuisance to be without the ear during re

pairs, but we are grateful

were not Vrt.

Christmas night 'Ayrrt Mary* s cook was taken off to the hospital with % he art attack. Aunt Mr.ry became a refugee for ten aays in a suite in Me,yfair House* She went when she felt like it the block to her apartment with the nurse and kept track of'her mail, but when Aunt Annie and 1 went to call on her after the FPA closed an hour end a half ee.rly n New Year's. Sve, I felt this upset had been nard on her# She now has s new cook and waitress , whom I shall see tomorrow when T go up for lunch#

"MbC luncheon is out of All reasonable bounds despite our best efforts to hold

it within the comfort range. We will.prooably have places set for 1775 --a good 250

more than I wanted* lersonsuiy x nave dissuaded at least 30 people frcm trying to

squeeze in# Between a personality conflict :ln another department of which we got the

backlash and demands for last minute serviced from Kayos it has been a rugged week. Ke

leaves with wife and two children that night for four weeks in Austria* Between NBC

and the eight p.m. flight he is having an FPA beard of director's meeting# M all

.seems pretty poor planning to me. One" afternoon when we were working against the

clock he interrupted to., drag Fr<*. off to se If thoy corld

to TTeiuelberg although

itinerary -and tickets had .all been set at loaot three v/c age. I told

that T

sure d-ere' was runs, but that

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on the tele|&onew Utterly self' centered and ill mannered.

Yeterday over luioa at the Cos Club I pushed liildred into a discussion of iiy replacement in the CTK operation# Iwany polite remarks to the effect that I was irre placeable and the Governing Ccm-itt,ve would not stand for a situation watnoui its current elan, due to airirfble staff work, etc. etc. Deliberately I led her into saying she had not discussed this with Hayes'. Sho suggeated tho possibility of my continuing for aix months longer on a part tips consultative basis, "being paid directly by CT3# To me this was a wholly new idea which J would think about, and report to her when Hayes revealed the terminal date and. what ideas he hod about replacement. In the lata after noon, after trying for 24 hours, I got to Hayes to show him script I tad written for hi.3 use at NBC luncheon. He then anuoQnoed he wanted to talk to me .."we" think terminal should be end of "'ay and with my vacation I would be. carried on payroll terough June, but this .might be dpset if we had our next big event toward the end of May. I proposed that Boyles be responsible for it and I Would be in the wings for advice, est# Then we moved to CTft and he revealed that Boyles was to do that too "with such assistance" as' he naedecU Then I manoeuvered him into saying he had talked to. Kenyan about it and he too came up with the consultative notion, which- I 3aid would have to be done on the premises with my flits and records, resourcematerials at hand and learned they wouldall W moved downstairs. Seeminly my desk would be down in the space I fought against a- few..months ago*. Cf course, no one mentions the orasa matter of how much th-is. "easing the transit ion"would be# AgAin I said I would think, talk to Boyles o\. rv?.r go to have Kenyon see us both before the Crrfi ""oterning Committee meeting on January 27th. T had van more fun this montirf reporting to Kehyon on the phone as I 'had-promised what Hayes hr'd ta.il, especially w'"en .1 ..ulipi in. "curiously enough, he m~.de the ./ a suggestion of consulting role. A& the' memsuit I am amused, unmoved and also undecided#

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With the rest of the frse world I folic"/ the reports from the bedside of Sir Winston Churchill. What a man and what leadership he gave during most critical times. One wonders if he haB an equal in making quotable statements, With inh&bxbants o.. north eaBt U*SA* I also hang on the weather reports. Happily our blizzard did hot run its advertised length and snow ceased here about nine last night, At nine this morning it was 9 o/o, bright sun but high gusts of wind# As I sat in the sunny kitchen having my coffee snow flakes blown from roof topE sparkled before falling to add to drifted spots*

The NBC luncheon on Tuesday requires only my summary and analysis of expenses again st the budget# which must wait until I do those items on the November 17 luncheon S Despits the usual number of people who failed to diow up# we calculate the audience at 1704 "then I arrived at the i/alddrf an NBC sound man fixing the table mikes for the panel told me that Frank Bourgholtzer, who was to have talked about Russia# would not te there* I phoned my contact at NBC# uho admitted it and wondered Jiy I had never been told I This involved a replacing of the front tier of the dais tables, which fortunately I had time to do. Chet Huntley as moderator was naughty in not explain ing this absence and in lett/ing the other ^orrespondants run on so long that there was no question period* He was stupid in not explaining the defection as Russia has permitted the reopening of NBCls Moscow office and Bourgholtzer was en route to his old spot# It is wonderful to know that after eight years my Christmas will not bo messed up with arrangements for an NBC luncheon1#

On Wednesday we opened the second half of the Off ihe Record luncheon serie s with Robert L# feet doing a masterly job on "The Congo and its wider implications" for 250 women* If any of my currently planned speakers fall by the v/ayside I will put him into the other half of this double barrelled group* News of my retirement has now
reached the OTR Governing Committee, or at least the key characters* At ili40 that night I was rooted out of bed to receive a box of beautiful tangerine colored roses from Betty Angell with a note'--"we cannot live without you"* (Having been home from at least six o'clock I was less than gracious to the Superintendent at this delay*} In the next three day3 I have as many conferences on my possible continuing on part time for the OTR luncheons, Such an arrangement has the merit of easing me into "private life" less abruptly, but I shall only agree if my conditions are met.

Friday there was a terrific crowd for the Community Leaders day long briefing on

the UN and I hostessed a table at the luncheon drawing among others Judge Chaunoey Depuy

(only a. collateral branch of the family of his famous namesake}., the president of a

luggage firm in Tennessee and Peter Papadakos and-second wife. He is the president ct

Gyrodyne and she, unlike hi. i obviously born era , .i t *1. younger* A3 . ' ' ./ i 1 '-"'it she was on my r-ghi and told me she had bad a wonderful day on Thursday spending it

all at Elizabeth Arden's, I managed to toss him a couple of orrvor'; iicnal bones# though

"DnpUy sitting across from me and the luggage man took much of my attention* ,&tfe coffee

v.'- had a.n intschedited '20-.-minute speech' by Chief Aclobc ''X<id of the fgerian

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and chairman of one of the most active UN committees in trying to 4M4 solve the finan

cial crisis, which is really political. He is chocolate colored with an Arab nose,

wears a dark brown aba with a deep red velvet skull cap handsomely deccrcf ed in gold#

( 7 he&5 that he is b ring jut forward' as \ -pees *11 tucco -- or to T* 7"aiv*

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I Suggested working a shorter " 3* Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday during early June'j

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and early January. Perhaps I shculd not have spelieu t^-s all out Untj.1 xt is firia

bear with mej please, it is all much in my mixiu*

This weeK i had pictures of the dreadful landslide in B.C. when half a mountain

clipped down across t' e highway 00 fill a valley and push part way up another mountain

and backlash down it. The frighten:rg statement of a geologist about "rotten rock"

and how mountains are always imperceptibly moving gives me the creeps. Too much rain

and / or snow seemingly can start things rolling. In fact since the one between Hope

and Princeton there have been two others in British Columbia --tk9 on at Ocean Palls

endangering 3,000 people where rescue or help must needs be by sea or nelicopxvr,

left

What a useiui word "and" xs ax revealed oy the curious

hana mar^Axi abovel

And xov/ it it is Sunday morning and Churchill has died--I must go in the next few days

to "9ign the book" at the British Government Offices. Our si est continues spasmodically

with only a few inches accumulated, but it must be very heavy to shovel. I have no

ticed that now people use a great quantity of salt or some melting agent. Periodically

all yesterday people scattered stuff on uncleared pavements and after they did shovel

the clean sidewalk was treated. Even doormen could not secure taxis last night kut

buses wero'xv ?"T~tle After dinner Vera and I went up to the eighth floor library

and sat talking happily in that pleasant and unoccupied room exchanging new3 and ideas.

A couple of weeks ago a tenant of j-,152 saw a man on the back fireescap with a

TV and sent for the police. Later I heard the place swarned with parolmen, shots

were fired one man escaped and the other captured. All this happened eboxt 0:30 while

I was here, presumably busy getting my dinner, never heard a thing and am annoyed to

haV9 missed it. We do agree that the coming home from work or going out for the even

ing is a strange time for burgularly. ...The neighbors are all out now ai~ir.g their

dogs in a temporary lull in th3 storm though something blots out the Chrysle r Tower.

Guess Irll stay in today unless I go to Aunt' l*ry in tie aftern-on,

January 2d, lv65

Several people have been indignant when I suggested that Sir Winston* s tenacious clinging to life and the frequent bulletins by his physician have perhaps turned voters minds to this great Conservative to influence the byeelection vote against Labour. The result so enfeebles the Wilson Government as to make great complications for the world. I find it all very interesting specu~> lation, based in part on the evident working class people interviewed at the Hyde Park Gate vigil. New we have President Johnson in Walter Reed Hospital paying the prioe of the Inaugural hoop~de~do. One can well understand that he needs a rest of more than his throat I

I was to have gone to Vera/s for dinner, but she has just telephoned her cook is ill, so we meet at the Club after I suggested we each, fe d for ourselves in our respective kitchens. We do have a lot to talk about and I had been looking forward to an evening together. It has snowed pretty consistently since I was out doing the marketing this morning, but if eabs are not available buses are handy. "F&lstaff" is not one of my favorite operas , but being the Metropolitan^ offering this after* noon I have listened to it while doing other things. Like most Verdi it is noisy
and evokes loud applause. It is quaint that written in Verdi1s 80th year, it has less of the melodic auality which was his trademark ,

The three conferences re the future of the QTR as well as my own have gone
amazingly well this week and I have been informally assured tiiat my conditions will be met, Is soon as the OTIi Governing Committee has been through its Executive Session I should eithsr lave a letter or shall write a memorandum pinning dovm the agreement-- unless it all somas apart on Wednesday* It will set forth that after the beginning 01 June, the VIA administrators have no claim on ice but that I continue to liave my current office for the period I am working for the OTR, who will pay me half salary for five or six months after the TPA statutory 0 working days vacation has expired.
I suggested working a shorter day Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during early June* Lat9 August, all of Gepteraber, October and November and polish off with early December and early January. xerhaps I should net have spelled this all cut until it is firm, bear with me, plesoe, it As all much in my mind.

This week i had pictures f vhe dreadful landslide in B.C. when half a mountain

slipped down across the highway to fill a valley and push part way up another mountain

and backlash down it. The frightening statement of a geologist about "rotten rock"

and how mountains are always imperceptibly moving gives me the creeps. Too much rain

and / or snow seemingly can start things rolling. In fact since the one between Hope

and Frinceton there have been two others in British Columbia --the one at Ocean Falls

endangering 3,000 people where rescue or help must needs be by sea or helicopter,

left

What a useful word "and" is as revealed by the curious

margin above! ...

And now it it is Sunday morning and Churchill has died--I must go in the next few days

to "sign the book" at the British Government Offices, Our sleet continues spasmodically

with only z few inches accumulated, but it must be very heavy to shovel. I have ao-

tieea that now people use a grert quant ity of salt or some melting af.ent. I eriodically

all yeeterday x>eople scattered stuff en uncleared pavements and after they did shovel

the clean sidewalk w&e treated, Even doormen could not secure taxis last nigh$ but

buses vera available jftor dinner Vera and I went up to the eighth floor library

and sat talking happily in that pleasant and unoccupied room exchanging news and ideas.

A couple of weeks ago a tenant ef

saw a man on the back fireeseape with a

anc* sent t or the police. Later I heard the place swaraed with parolmen, shots

were fired one man escaped and the other captured. All this Happened about 6j30 while

I was here, presumably busy getting cay dinner, never heard a thing and am annoyed to

have missed it. We do agree that the coming name from work or going out for the even

ing is a strange time for burgularly! ..^The neighbors are all out now airing their

dogs in a temporary lull in the storni though something blots out the Chrysle r Tower.

Guess I'll stay in today unless I go to Aunt Mary in the afternoon.

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CI eve were good enough to drop roe off thi fteraoon- an the way yo

make a visit encw delayed for a month,to take not* of Jim Colby' IvrtVty and tie advent of a grandchild. Hie babe is called Page, for Martha's sister fco was very kind to the young father wher. he was a student at Hi Citadex. As articiapt sc. xc reB cold about 10 degrees at Fraeport.with all tha rhododendron leaves drooppmg
mournfully< Highways clear but walking difficult with piles of sleet povered sri* and lawns unbroken sheets of glare ice. After church this morning Martha ana I w*art to 'see Fran and the boys, who were filled with the joy of skating yesterday mth their father and his great friend Father Jerome, home from his mission parish in Korea for
Tand accelerated course in Chinese at Yale. Picturing Father Jerome skating in a sou cane asked what he worn and was disappointed to have my vision of the billowing skill shattered. (Cleve was breaking in a new team of collection counters at the c ,urch and did not got home for luncheon until two o'clock.) I was grateful yesterday to see the

Telestar bounced pictures of the Churchill funeral and lato some special HEC tilm

D recessad on the jot which flew it was from London. The able Dave Brinkley commentary

*as bettor than that of the video tape of the early phasee and the Satellite pictures

and voicing. Having missed tne Kennedy funeral, the troops with reversed arms were

new and interesting to me. The Navy detachment

pulled the flag draped ccum in

the long march in good closed rank formation, thougi did not marhh with the feeautxfui

precision of the various Guards units. Every time the poor pallbearers carried the

coffin with the many stairs to be

negotiated one could see the concern with

which thay executed their difficult asigriment--ei$it young men to earn- tre le ic.

line! 500 pound casket usrmounted by the Order of the Garter on a velvet pillow and

covered with a Union Jack which sometimes seemed to blow across the face of the left

iron bearer. The Duke of Norfolk did a splendid job, though it is quaint that a Roman Catholic is charged with ceremonies so frequently involving and taking place

in Anglican Cathedrals'

It took Fred Nunee and me an hour to sigr the Condolence Book on Tuesday. It

and Monday were warm enough to melt much of the result of over 24 hours of sleet, snow

and freezing rain of Saturday and Sunday. The authorities did a first class job and

we. are braced for the next show, which may come >te tomorrow. It was funny unen people

started to unlatch their parked cars--snow that had been laboriously removed 'frev j

ddewalhs was returned, and. that vhich had been pushed from the cent' of

street

ov the plows was thrown out in *he path of one^ing traffic* Malvina Uhffm^n, ths

sr.'l t?eae, wrtched fii *re cf her windows'cross the stro-t while I loofcet br from

my side. These 8-turds y and Sunday storms certainly cut into my weekends- with- the

self imposed task cf supervising the snow plows and the clearing'of sidewalks.

Vera Dean did P magnificent job at the Y/echriesd-v lunchecr, treating the audience

As a group of friend3 with whom she enjoyed talking, Yet slue gave plenty of informa

tion and set minus working with new perspectives. The Governing Committee x .....c^atel;

foliovirj delivered their respective reports a' .v-cvided to th m and aft or an 18

inflate ""xecutive Session recalled me to n round of

i i

ado clear to

me that tney o greatly rexieved. .at the prospect ox having me continus^to take cure

of them while breaking in Chuck loyles as'there eventual "handmaiden". :In oourie of

'time l A.At -y' -Arter or sosthing and hope I

find, it necahsir^ to

too :.::v

at )termind to free mysolf from those hih"3 1"1, t v ia

at a .AtSsrif1 and %hb last minute demands for nonsensical rrbaiishi-ha, opiir cue, und

re.,Qrts from the boys in the - "front office's Mqunvhilo, adventlsonntc:. hat$ appeared

in" the TOES of apartments offering more than I have hero for less - including 24 hottr

doorrlan service. All of this makes ma wonder if I want to explore moving lata this

simimer or seek a new lease here, I certainly would rather move than sign u nsw lea sis

n increased rate, vrhioh is rh.ji tne iana|em$>t s ' ~

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ns .1 An immediwto hdlilu ' to settle ,n'f nwn alhi'.rs \

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T% -rctadkog seemed tc have been instant!^ ^ ITJ , ; b^ ^ 'of ^rifey^ ' '

to -no burrow on ^eidu;/, to no on.*. surprw- ^, nd*-A- ,.; ft

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dinner I have wanted to do nothing but crawl into my o.u and sleep .

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t desireable to use a-icu-sr aiua .. "*

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meet in my left dye vietn .rem '-aring lrc-i^

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with fat cpafts lushing upweru and pu Aere there was not.urr to .eo . ^

swaming in the front door and down

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carried uowerd tcca c floor and 'f of ^ tenant cou-d -

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rdrrott and monkev time, caused by stupidity

building would cost times when trash ean and cannot

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w,Uding code requires burning between seten a.m. and ..

seven*pm Then while us*ng the vaeuum a screw fell^out

tix

mechanical skill was o'clock I discovered

taxed to that the

put it 8 refrigerator

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needing to be done had been aoocmr. is..e

. t^ - noticed had fallen and all was

tC-?6t f0l 5C bSy'tf^el th^UZ in another nutlet to see if the repair I riebe ZhinZ, pres.am,bly the two kitchen outlets are on the e^o circuit as the
refrigerator. Cep|ications of modern life .

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s home with five paperbacks

February 13, 1965

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Borrowings for this endeavor--typewriter from Molly and Bill's bed room where the sun pours in. First good Saturday we ha ve had in almost three months and thank goodness the air has lost its 98% humidity of yes terday. The trip out in the morning was weird, there was seldom more than 800 feet visibility and often less* Trees were especially lovely silhouetted in delicate tracery a gainst the gray backdrop. Northern slopes well covered with snow and covered with pa ttern of brown dead^ ]eeves where snow ha d melted. .Later Diane and J"aj7 a re coming for dinner and also Martha and Oleve will stop on their way ba ck from Southold to

eat roast beef with us.

Tuesday I went to the Cosmopolitan club for luncheon and to hear Lydia Kirk tell about the changes in Moscow between 13 years ago when she left after her husband's ambassadorship ended and her gSgf with her son currently stationed there. Becuase of uhe pss the Kohlers had her stay at the Enbassy instead of being in the modern apartment where her son has two apartments thrown together in a wing available to to diplomats. As all Russian women work and few Moscow families have more than two children, one apa rtment was not big enough for Mr. & Mrs. Roger Kirk with their four children. The four year old youngest child goes to the apa rtment house kindgarten, but unlike the Russians who stay until the working pa rents get home, he leaves midday, not taking kindly to the two hour rest period to which the docile Russians submit. The cessation of the constant fear of a visit of the police was the most apparent legacy of Mr. K. to the populace. The next most imporant was the greater a vailability of housing throughout the country. This includes Siberia, where a city is being constructed on stilts over the Perma Frost. Her son would migrate to western Siberia as the land of the future were he a Russian. She noticed little change in produce in the ma rket and when she asked about why all the apples were sma 11 and speckled was told they had plenty of insecticide but no appa ratus for spraying it. The fashion show at Gum's sounded dreary with drab mustard* and dull greens and browns predomina ting. Yard goods run 13-30 a yard for wool and $85-30 for sleazey silk, fur is used only for essen tial colars and hats, the rest being exported.

Wednesday we ha d former US Ambassador to the Philippines William Stevenson for the OTR speaker. A delightful man, excellent speaker who managed to say very little most pleasantly. He was Mildrec Kenyon s idea and she was to be at the little luncheon. (Mrs. Laurence Rockfeller was introducing.) At 11:30 I got a messe ge from Mildred's secretary reporting "something had happened and Mrs* K. would not get to us for lunch but would come for the speaking, at the last minute Ellie Lamont filled in at our Speaker's Luncheon table. Then a message was given to Marciana, who failed to relay to me, that Mrs. K. world come at 1:30 if at all. She turned up a t 1:50 with the news that her lawyer hu^sband had broken his leg en route to office and insisted that she go through with a dinnerpa rty of 18 without him. She did her duty by Stevenson and had some lunceh while I saw him to the downstairs door

Also on Wednesday I received a communication frcum the city Rent & Rehabilitation Office offering me the right to rebut the landlord1 s affidavit. It appears that he is trying to get through a rent increase* Needless to say X responded with an affidavit of my own \ A c o rming letter from Patricia & Patrick Dean being delightfully humble about the assignment to the Washington Amba ssadorship and reporting they had just spent a couple of nights a t Ga rsington. The Wheeler-Bennetts a re now
en route to New York. I suspeot on the Queen Elizabeth due Wednesday.

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February 21, 1965

We did have a fine tims last Saturday with Martha and CI eve, Diane and Jay joining us for dinner, which we lingered over until after nine. The Freeporters felt they had to get along, Jay retired to television and perhaps to doze and the rest of
us clayed Hearts until one. It was a scramble to make the eleven o'clock at the Caroline Church, but Molly, Jim and I did and returned to find Fred and Bill consuming Brunch built around considerable servings of French Toast. The red gowned girl choir looked
very effective against the white wainscoting and sang well with the new male organist, who is more skilled than the reotor's wife. I found the afternoon wind so penetrating that I only cut a few sprays of forsythia, which is already showing tiny splashes of yellow in the swelling buds. Saturday-was a lovely cold sunny day and Jim took me to
Old Field Club on returning from an errand. It must have been a very new gun club trap shooting as disk after disk fell without even being nicked and only one or two were truly shattered, by a good shot.

Paul Wright spoke Wednesday to the other half of the OTP on "The Changing Scene

in Britain". The next morning his wife Babe phoned to ask me to a cocktail^ Party on

the 24th. She is American bora and works along with her husband in a most effective

manner. After the death of her first husband in World War II, she was ask8d to stand for

Parliament in his place, won the election and was the second American woman to become an
M.P, the first of course being Lady Astor. Thursday, X discovered ho / bright I had

been two weeks ago in declining the raouest of the Pacem in Terris to taks over the

management of their luncheons, by going over to the Hilton for the luncheon and most of

the afternoon session. Poor Fred Nrno*, whom I had nominated as rr standin worked 14

hours a day last Friday, Saturday any Sunday in tothi cfcros of too many people first

unable to make decisions, then issuing mandates to ths wrong'little group of workers

without inform*rr" ether involved people in their ction. At one point someone decided

they had all the reservations they wanted and so they just would not open the Monday

and Tuesday mail t The food was good, the service slow undoubtedly be-cyse mere people

were squeezed in than planned for by the kitchen and there was no speaking program. We

all adjourned to another room to hear Paul-Henri Spank read a dreary mms. in French.in

competition to simultaneous translation by a woman, then the deputy chief edltcr of.

I ~hv?cK mounted the rrdiuiri to deliver his Russian speech while a man did the translation

for us poor English speaking members of the audience.* A .20 minute recess was then de

clared while a penal to djjyt with-Military Confrontation,'Nuclear Prollfe?tion, Csrrany

and Berlin yero collected. Vyce-Premier of Belgium Spaafc served as a poor ckai'nr.anICanna:i,

Termer TM, blbyssa.dor to-ths USSR was raagnifioent and followed by Carlp ickmld, vice--

* ;' i t of the

Bundesi-yj

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Communist Perty fascinated me in his attempt to exrlain ideology differences. T rllked out

on Robert Buron, chairman of the French National Productivity Committee in the interest of

getting back to the office to sign mail. Ths whole program was filled with luminaries

rr.d must heve cost the Center for the Study of Democratic Studies a very great aum cf

money. Fred has just called me and reports that he is still rlive, but never in his life

has he so completely spent himself. Robert M. Hutchins> chairman of the Center and the

Convocation sounds like an autocrat of medieval days, terrifying his staff into incompe

tence, snatching the spotlight from his important guests and then retiring to the balcony

to hold hands with his wife.

Yesterday I went to the T/aldorf for ths annual forum luncheon of University
#omen to hear Vara Vfefct of necessity had to listen to a long winded chairmen rnd three or four other speakers. Vera was first class and clearly the darling of the audience. It wa fnn to have a close look at Rise Stevens afcel vhear what I already knew about the Metropolitan National Opera Company from my fine firei row table. Ollie Randall talked vesv sensibly about retirement and ths opportunities it provides for contributions to i">* oorauunit" and the notion. The ever shrinking work week' is providing more llesure time to ell *ge rang*" and the wise or stupid use of tV.t time will irvt hp Increasing
impact on the world and the usefulness of reonle as they attain retirement. Interesting
i.der. Alas, she sli'oped aw before I could thank her but I did have a word. during luncheon ...it is too long since we have talked. But now, a few basic steps against income tax preparation*

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Februfcrv 27, 1965

Perhaps if you listen attentively you will hear "The Tales of Hoffmann" on my radio above the tanning of the typewriter this afternoon. (What a^itv Offenbach died before this, or^bably his finest pwr* was produced -- in factillness overtook him before he revised it. ) At any rote it is nice to have pleasant things to distract one from the hideous position v/e
are in over Vietnam* We certainly "leaped without looking" about ten year age *nd how it re ever dreamed that we might succeed where the French failed after years of bloodshed, shore ther Vd the advantage of having taught many of the oeorie French and some of them had learned
th local tongues. Thank goodness the funeral of Malcolm X has been achieved withaut incident
fcodav, bu4: T shI1 bre*the more easily wn^n the Black Muslims complete their annual convention in Chicago. Wht tb rest of the ovulation does for protection while eo many nolice are en gaged in watching over the Negro factions is a large auestion. Sines thst fantastic nlct to
dynamite the Statue of Liberty the Liberty Bell and the Washington Monument was sriked, I have been edgev, It wa so monstrous that I felt it must be an embarrassment to decent Negores and made a point of * civil personal gesture to the nine on th FPA. staff--switchboard opera tor, assistant bookkeeper* secretaries and offic bov . However, curious a 1 wws about
bheir attitude toward the dynamite plot, the Ma^coTr X murder and ub90ruent violence I hve kent my conversation on the weather and such.

Tuesday ard Wednesdpv there was a conference in which I me not invplved FPA, but
eve* with wt ny advowee notice filled in at the Tuesday cocktail rarty, the Wednesday lun cheon and the final session whan the guests, some of whom had come from as far away as
Seattle because we raid half their travel, derated aarlv. It -vs me chance to talk with
o good manv men and women with whom I had worked quite closely in the days of the Sneakers Bureau. Wednesday I changed at the office and went to the Paul Wrights to meet Stewart, the second in command at the British Embassy in Washington, He and his vdfe are both de
lightful and it was most thoughtful of Baba Wright to both invita^r me on the phone and
then have a "to remind" card sent, as Stewart has been Charge d'Affairs rt the British Em bassy in Peking and we are always interested in those who have actually been in Red China. .riile I m on the social life, its tete-a-tete dinner wi+h Vera tonight and lunch tomorrow
uni Lery (Ton rany of the desk and household items wi>l.l be scamped again this vtek I) ...The Metropolitan he.3 gotten to the second act, can you hear the Bacarolle (sr.?) ?

On Thursday I got on demand a copy of the Memorandum of Agreement between the OTR % FPA

concerning my post retirement Part time and have had an initial conversation with Chuck Boyies,

he 3 training this is alt. in aid of. I feel free now to clan my summer and am awaiting some

figures

the travel agent requested almost two weeks ago. No point in discussing shoer

speculation except that I cling to my determination to have two months out of the office--

June to mid August. This week a belated Christmas gift from Eleanor Brewster, acopy of

just published "Oxford, Courtier to the Queen". This cheers me that a spinster older

than i i uroduce a book even if the publisher was two or three months late/ in getting

it out. It is a biography of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, brought UP a Royal Ward

in the ho^e of bir William Cecil (later Lord Burghley). Oxford, hereditary Lord Great

Chamberlain of the Realm, was at an early age one of Elizabeth I* s favorite courtiers. It

seems evident to me that Eleanor also fell in love with him and while claiming not to spends

much of the book in showing vdiy she feels that Oxford wrote the plays and sonnets the -prld

attributes to W. Shakespeare, whom she always refers to as the Stratford man. In the intro

duction s i e a*ks how,if the later were really th9 intellectual he must have been to write the

wokrs credited to him, it is that in his Will becue-t" 5ng valuable re*l estate, gold rings

and a bestead, he mentions not a single book? Nor did the Wills of bis two dau#).ters or his

granddaughter contain be uests of books. The Paragraph ends with "Thy, van Elder William

Brewster emigrating to the wilderness of the New World onlv four years after the depth of

Shakespeare, in 1620, brought AVer more than 200 books on the Mayflower X" thile fasOin td

by the book, I was disappointed as a mutual friend nad told me about it on New Year Day,

leaving u/ie impression xh.rt "Eleanor's boy" was her owrn ouite recent discovery. This was
blasted by her credit to J.T. Lctroy's "Shakespeare Identified" published in lr " - adding

Oxford to the list of contenders--Bacon, Marlcw e and Darby, I v/cn*t bore you with more of

her arguments,.though several are plausible, mereV admit my curiosity in the period is re

kindled end I olan to red "Elizabeth and Essex", Partly because Oxford was presiding over

Bie "ueen sans^wSjg*^ ^qsex +;0 3e?th but also to see if Strachey caught or t ^seex having seen

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March 7, 1QB5

(The day ^e started landing two Marine Battalions in S. VietNam)

March entered with four beautiful dry and sunny davs, inducing a general p+^td of spring fever, which was doused by torrents of rain and sprinkles of snow on Friday# Since this was forecast to continue last night and today I wore my raincoat when leaving for another Saturday night dinner with Vara. Again we had a delicious dinner and a fine exchange of news end views in front
of en op9n fire and I got home dry#

This has been "Return the Borrowed Book Week" instigated I assume by the rublic library, which suffers increasingly from the careless, the forgetful and the vicious. Evidently the drive produced little result. One more manifestation of the mess we are in. Between the" City Board of Education firing Dr. Olvin Gross as Supt, of Schools at $4.%00# a vear. the Republicans suggesting they will nominate a Democrat member of the police force to run as thier candidate for Mayor against Wagner and the ongoing fight between Robert Moses and practically everyone over the World Fair it is hard to keen uo with things strictly at home!

Wednesday we had Robert West for the other half of the OTR. He somberly made the point that the US had lost the high reaolve of the Kennedy administration and had made the Tshombe thrust to Stanleyvili possible, thus stacking ourselves with South Africa. One wonders how long it will take our Negroes to catch on this racial dvnamite, or can we find someway to slar down South Africa and its segregation policy? As Part of the training of Chuck Boyles in the ways end personalities of the OTR I had invited him to lunch with West, Ellie French ( an FPA Board member and MY Commissioner to the U$T) vho was presiding, Betty Angel! (vice chairman of OTR Speakers Committee) and "P.M. " Hayes (wife of FPA president). He failed to arrear and this was a bad combination for him to forget, next time I suppose he will have to be reminded I This week we are going to have three ti^e consuming and probably boring Adminstrative Staff meetings about Programs for next year, which I cynically exrect will be a farce. I shall brace myself not to doodle too obviously.

Y esterelay was dedicated to working on the income tax, which did no t %cry wall. The new and so celled simpler form still confounds me, especially on the deductions. In September I decided to sefel a couple of stocks ihere I had. only a few shares for long term capital loss. It seemed, a fine idea at the time but what a Pandora's box that section of the form turned out to be. Letters today must be the briefest to leave time for pursuit of tax, as I should like to go next weekend to Freeport. Bill has a, small role in "The Mad Uoman of Chaillct-| soon, which I should like to see --especially as I fluffed on "The Man who Came to Dinner." Tax work was interrupted yestarda^ when three Con Edison appeared under my front window and loosed a great cloud of steam ^en thev removed a manhole cover to fit a metal rim as "washer" to stop the rattle every time a wheel passed over it. The poor men got v:rT red. ir the face from the billowing steam, which partillv concealed them from view. Perhaps they were not as inert as they seemed, though why they had to cut down the washer to fit appeared inefficient. However, success with the three foot size encouraged them to move a few feet to a largerone and the absence of the metallic clio-clor is a joy. There are eleven round manholes of varying si*e and design in this block and probably as many small souare ones.

Vera and I agreed that if anyone included the action of the last UN General

Assembly session in a play he would be accused of farcical overwriting. It went

like this--to everyone's surprise Albania was given the restrum and tried to force

the long and carefully ayerted USA-USSR confrontation, Saudi Arabia rushed UP and

physAAallw rushed Albania away and started his own harrangue. Not having been recog

nised by the President

Saudi Arbia was out of order, Ethoria beat his desk and

a member^ of the Secretariat rushed the disconnect button on the amplification and

translation system. Until he could be gently removed S.A. continued hie speech but

no one heard. Russia got the floor to make unkind remarks about the USA. Stevenson

was recognised, forgot the Charter article number he was invoking, one of his sides rushed ur the aisle with Charter on separate pages, drooped them en route, Stevenson fumbled-

no /)l0(ij.

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Kirch 14, 1965

Late in the week it turned out that this was not the weekend for Freeoort and hence I was at home yesterda^ morning when Lee Regal telephoned from San Francisco to thank me for a clipping I had s^nt him about the Canadian stock in vhich we both hare taken a "flyer" He gave me news of himself and reported on a recent letter he had had from Larrv. By a curious coincidence at the moment of the call I was working en a tax form called "Equalisation" * tiyhen I bought the 3tock the broker told me I would be liable for 15$ of purchase price if the law was passed as part"of the m&.geire attempt of Untie. 3am to keep American money at home. Being under the impress!tn the bill did not become law, ,1 forgot the whole thing until Thursday the Interna! Revenue Service sent me a notice that they knew about my purchase and who did I think I was not to pay up? Needless to say the check is nor in the mail and I only w*.it to see if they bill me for interest since September!

In addition to the pleasure of talking jro Lee yesterday I had the fun of chopping for seeds at lax 3cbl5ng . Larry wants to try Golden Bantam corn en the slop of the Mediterranean r<f T eldee] #ri fl'iv/or jsfo'i, wh 5 cb. my.. er rr;*v rot; 1"'k his "three crop climate?* T -ished I could remember what did well in Charleston .* Then I went to see Aunt Mary and learned that the nurse had broken her elbow and for the present hps not been replaced# The waitress fills in, but obviously does not do the b^ck rubbing and the ladies maid attentions which Christine had oerformed for about three years. Personally I think it is good'for Aunt :"ury to open the drawer and select the clean slip. She looked well and was, amused that she had been out in the morning to exchange a ~.->ir sh->w* rrd- gotten * ek be-o^e t'te housV'.old expected be ". I rest ; '."ned" rvself f pr -rh'np if she had caught them with their shoes ff p.nd ^eet ur on'the'rosewood furniture destined for the Museum.

Molly came to town for the '!?%%i$r and to lunch with her aunt c;i Wednes

day. On the thircl fittest she caught' m on the telephone. I i to i > jBtouy #

tk 5.s c'rtT t-^vepd ftiz Bill's play. Friday Andre i'hilip t'arnbd up in ' """too

at it11 ef vitality and news as ever. H9 makes his last soesch today in Michigan, flies

back to Paris tomorrow to make hard decisions as to what next. He should be in Geneva

where he is the chief French Delegate at GATT sonfsranee--a dull session which the

regular civil servant members of the delegation are entirely comment. But he has

always been the head French Delegate, never missed at Least partial attendance and

no other nation has had a continuous leader of delegation. Both the Egyptians and

Israelis want him for consultations and he is anxious to go to a tonference in.

Tangiers called by the King of Morrocco for representatives cf all the African!

countries which were formerly uhoer the French, Be has been ihvited to this, alo.

It is oa thing tc tsll the Egyptian and Israelis h# must g* t* Oners, but wublde-

itv

hie subsequent oreeeaee in Tangier* mould puailo if not anger them* He is

thoroughly enjoying thie eozrtre temps and rejeeted ay suggestion that he shwe hie

beard and half his eyebrows as he did during the war then he was a resistanse le ader

in Franse and tailed to London by dedaulle to be in the Government in Exile Cabinet*

He has an unbreakable engagement with eight grandchildren to ski during -their Easter

holiday--the 11 year old bey is good enough to be ready te try out for adaisslom ts

the Freneh School for Championship Training* By that tine it sill be tee hot for

him te take the Cairo sllaato and aoreerer time he did seaething about all his stu*

dents at the university* (A few lines bask the typewriter ribbon breko at one of its

laeler points and had to bo rsplased, The type is so sharp frea 20 years of pounding

that it outs through the ribbon all toe quickly* Fortunately I bought one yesterday*)

Ineidontly I also at qui red Aunt Uary*s full length sealskin esat en the grounds that

it is a greater weight en her shoulders than her Persian* It will be niee for dress

while the skunk eontinuss ts take haek wear of daily use in deep sold* but ay storage

and tare bills will aeunt*

Already it is fun to feel quite irresponsible about FPA long torn plans* Hayos is flirting with a dinner daneo as fundraising devise a year hsaso* It would not surprise a# If Fred Hunts bowed himself tut of the FPA before long*

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March 21, 1965

Stony Brook

What a first day of Spring yesterday was I Before the snow stopped there was a good four inches. Molly, Jim and I had a lovely afternoon in front of the open fire. She got along with her klitting --a jacket for wha t is now advertised as the grandson, I did an elaborate mending joh on the lining of my favorite purse, all too long postpomed. Last night we went to "The Mad Woman of Chaillot" where Bill was a fine "president" with a great many lines, lots of stage business , which he did well and convincingly in a tail coat, high silk ha t and much make up well applied by the Chiaroscuros. As usuaul there was a pa rty for the cast and others involved and we did not s ee Bill again until we got home from churdh this morn ing. On the way home Jim suggested our stopping at "The Station House" for something to eat. Despite full illumina tion including their attractive fireman motif road sign, the front door bore a hastily lettered notice "Closed on a ccount of the snow".
To my pleasure the Cura te delivered the sermon today, but the crucifer's Beattle hairdo threw me. Instead of the sweet little girls in the scarlet gowhs, this was the day for adult women's chotr. No doubt they thought it risky to expect the wee ones to keep still through the Litany. The sermon dealt with moral values and the foundations of this country on the belief in God and deplored the growing inclina tion to talk about "changing moral values" and one set of standards for oneself while expecting a different set from other people.
About the time the St. Patricks Day pa rade was finishing it began to snow, though the tempera ture was too high for it to build up on the street I must have looked like a snow man when after an intermnible wait for the Lexington Avenue bus I could finally get on one well filled with frolicsome parade ma rchers. They were glad enough to have seats, but very critical of the slow pace of the bus.

The OTP speaker tha t day was Sir Denis W. Brogan, who had

caused me two nerve-making-days. He had written from England that

he would be staying a t the Lotus Club and they consistently denied

any reservation for him. I knew that Lady Brogan was in Africa and

became haunted with the notion he was ill and there was no one to

give me notice. What a relief when he telephoned about ten on Wed

nesday to ask if he might bring a guestI By tha t time I had coped

with the need of changing the room for buffet service--our usual

one was being used for an art exhibit with pin board panels cutting

up the la rge space into numerous cubicles. Having just been success

ful in negotiating a cut rate for next season's 16 meetings, I had

to bite my tongue from being as caustic I wanted to be with the build

ing manager for not warning me sooner of this complication

Poor

Sir Denis was still physically on British time and ra ther tired hut

was quite good. He pulled no punches on our Vietnam policy and

warned we might also find ourselves involved in North Korea* He point

ed out tha t a government could survive with troops, but Troops had

to have a government and in Vietnam^ it was more a "Cheshire Cat"

than a government# The audience may not have agreed with all he

said, hut nonetheless like him.

Now it is official 1964 was the driest year since New York started keeping weather records. We ha d 32.99 inches against the average of 42.37. Hopefully we are in the middle of a long drought which began in 1961, What a prospect. Is it the seven "lean" years ?

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March 22, 1965

THE AAGA OF THE SECOND DAY OF SPRING

Saturday's snow was not only lovely but clean on Sunday and some of the icicles long and wonderously knobby. The trip to town was pretty, too. The train waas a little late and I waited in a chill 31o/o for ten minutes for a bus, as taxis stay clear of west 34th Street. The minute I unlocked my door and stepped into the apartment I was conscious of cold. Yes, the riser in the kitchen was without heat. Ah, a tub of hot water always helps, but the bathroom taps gave nothing but cold water.

Next step was to light the oven and put a couple of pans of cold water on the top burners. Ah, keep out the cold, so I lowered and flatten ed the slats. It seemed a good idea to get the bed warm with the heat pad. And probably some extra blankets would be necessary in the night as the inside thermometer stood at 50 o/o in both living room and bed room.

These little physical movings about did not seem to warm me much so I wrapped my heavy quilted house coat over the heavy Spanish suit and still the blood was cold. Quickly opening and closing the refrigerator I snatched out the bottle of bourbon, heated the old fashioned glass with the heavy base and using some of the now boiling water had a hot toddy while
wondering what to do next.

Dinner was in order and even toast would be a hot addition. But why not get some additional use of the hot open? So I mixed up a package of prepared brownies and when the batter was half in the pan, the mixing bowl slipped out of my still semi-numbed hand into the pan, so there was batter in the bowl, on the outside of the bowl and in the baking tin. How clumsy can I be? Needly to say I ate my dinner on the step-stool in the kitchen as close to the source of heat as possible and with my feet off the floor. Somewhaer
along the line I discovered from a man in the hall that there had been a sign in the elevator on Saturday that heat and hot water would be restored on Monday. The longish period of cold had deeply penetrated everything and my makeshift
efforts made only five degrees improvement.

About nine o'clock I had had it, thrust aside the wispy niht

gown in favor of a warmer one, dug out a bedjacket, wished I had bedsocks, and

got into bed with the electric pad and a mystery story. Before I turned out

the light it seemed wise to tie a silk scarf around my head and put the electric

pad on low for the night.

Believe it or not I slept well, but hated to get

out into my chill private world in the morning.

I had hoped to do some work at home tonight, but write this
nonsense in the office to shorten the evening. It is quite possible that again the landlord will not keep his promise of heat today. Tfcis our third dpp of spring has been sunny, though the wind was raw and we hope for lower temperature tomorrow with snow in the night. At least we are warned of such even if we
do not hope for it.

And now I start home with fingers crossed that it will at least be warm there !

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Maroh 28, 1965

Sunday afternoon it almost gone# Ala will be snappy and off ths top of my head# This was Woman*s Sunday at the Community Church at Park Avsnue and 35th Street* Tara van in tha pulpit of this indapandant ahurah affiliated with tha Unitarian Univerealist Association, whieh saama not to hare a arosa in tha antira building and ia turned into a Jewish aynagua on Saturdays (synagogue that ia) Har son Bill and Z supported had along with delegations from St* Jamas Presbyterian Church (Harlan) and young people from a ahurah in Arlington, Mass* After tha sex-rite there waa a Coffee Hour in tha Assembly Hall, A are there ware also two tables sat ap for people to write letters to the Congress about Capital Punishment and tha need for federal interwention in Mississippi* All very well organised, giving a glimpse of tha Coasaienee and Commltftent of these people* Tern's address was good and she pleased tha eongregation intensely if one tan tall from the horde lining up to tall har so and gat in a alias of their own life history# Tomorrow is Term's birthday, but hs die has to tsaah Bill asked ma to join them in a prs-birthday lunaheon in tha Edwardian Room of tha Plasa# We dawddled over food and drink while she unlaxed and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves*

Yesterday morning,defeated to sopying my federal tax, showed the folly of attempting its preparation in hite and pieeaa whan I espied the deduction figure without including a tarn lose# An hour wae wasted while Z went to the office to get another eat of Form 1040, for which Z owe thanks to the assistant bookkeeper for laying in a supply* The copying is somplets and also the 1965 Estisatc# Only the XT State form confronts me and that usually is a snap to work out from the Federal figures#

Thursday Z was aeked to writs sables inviting Prims Minister of India Shastri to speak for ua in June# Ho one in the office seemingly knows about the law forbit ing American eltlsen from "treating with" heads of foreign states, so Z tried to cover us by writing a lsttsr to the Department of State saying that we were working through the Indian Ambassador to the US# He happily ie in Hew Delhi and we did ask him to use hie good offices with ths Prims Minister in our behalf* Personally Z consider this all a fine exercise in sable and letter writing and anticipate a de clination# It gave me another opportunity to say that Shuck Boyle should run the next big luncheon# Later in the afternoon I went to the Eustace Seligman's for cocktails and was fasslnated upon leaving to observe one of the kitchen help scutt ling bask and forth for mpre supplies# Heed Z add that this is one of those "duty" parties tfxere Z make conversation with people about whom I couldn't ears less* But Z had fun with Ellis Lamont and Betty Angell, both of whom wanted me to talk with their husbands and Francis Plimpton admitted that he owed me a letter accepting ay invitation to open the OTR eeaeon in Oetooer* iie loois very badly and as good as told ms that by autumn hs will probably net be Adlai Stevenson*s deputy at the U N* X had aeeepted to go to Philharmonic Hall that afternoon to hear the youngsters at the "Herald Tribune" Forum before they all return to their 17 respective nations# gome premonition prompted me to telephone Wednesday that I could not us# my T.I#P ticket and release my seat to someone on their waiting list* In view of ths fact that ths sable drafting kept me from lunch until two o*eloek when I should have been at Philharmonic Hall I gave thanks to my guardian angel*

Although yesterday and today have been blissful as to sun and temperature, all the women who invested heavily in boots for the winder have gotten additional use of them lately* So nice as $25 seems to be an average price# Thee boots, which run from ankle high to just below ths knee and from somber black in lather, rubber or plastic to scarlet, soft green, dhite and beige have been a constant source of amusement to me# Snail pieces of sued# have been used to give a Harlequin effect and a short haired black and white fur in over the ealf length the most eye ecmpelling* Friday ni^it I again had dinner with Tera, especially good an for over 4 week we kave hardly even spoken on the telephone and had much to catch up on#

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Hooray and Hallelujah -- the Foderal and Stat* Taxes capiata with utintei for 1965 art signed, aaalad and ready for delivery at 3a at* A estimates vera a little trisky sinte only tine will tell how the OTA money mill be paid and earned* Nov I hope to get along with the stuff lhieh has been put aside for "after the taxes" * Ve still vait for the reply from the Prime Minister of India re June, but Xfia about to ash the travel agent to start on an itinerary for leaving New Tork on June 15th for Spain and a return to Nev York from Van-* eouver on August 12*

Martha and Sieve start driving to Texas on April 9 to return by the 28th* ileve has had a very tough winter, but more important flevee has gotten his preliminary alerting that his presenee Is requested in Vietnam by June 15* The aetual orders are yst to be received, but as Dslll will remain in Texas they will have to find a house in KUleen and move before he goes* It is tough as they only got quarters on the Port Hood post ths week before Christmas that the Captain's wife and three children don't qualify to remain there *ile he ie away* Although I have not seen more than Is aves from -the sxtsnsiwa UN planting of daffodils, Martha already has a bowl of them from the first bed to bloom*

Friday night Z turned the apartment upside down looking for a $600 ehaek for Vera, ^ish should have been mailed her dlreet and I had promised to pop into the mail* Sine# Z could not find it hers there was nothing for it but go to the offiee yesterday morning* Z half fillad a aarap basket with stuff from the right hand side of ay desk, where it should have been, before it turned up en the left* Being there Z used the eleetrle typewriter for the note of trane-* mittal to Vara, the aeknovledgemeut to the sponsor at Bueknell #iere she spoke twiee yesterday, and several other Items needful cf doing* The elevator here eonked out again on Friday so it was well to get those things in ths mail without negotiating tha rather bad, twisty 38 steps a second time f

Eleanor Slbeon telephoned me from Charlottesville on Thursday asking for a reservation at the Algonquin for the 9th and theatre tieheta* (She is job pro* surement offiser for the University of Virginia Law Sehool and meets annually with her opposite numbers for exchange of information*) Friday Z went over to Times Square to get tlekets for us to hear John Gielgud in "Tiny Alieo" and was dismayed at the deterioration of that area --more honky-tonk than ever and filled with a combination of Mafiap&ookiug types and degenerates* Z hops ths population in ths evening hours will plek up or Z shall regret not having tried for Urn and Superman" up on 74th Street! The latter was ay second choice, dnee fi&eanor enly said she would prefer a play to a musical, and is very well done* The visit ing firemen however get more mileage out of a well known mate than a repertory east at an "off Broadway" theatre* She alse reveals that the *eelerBennetts arrive ths same day and as in lashington are already heavily bookad for dinner parties here*

Wednesday EUspeth Rostov (Mrs* V) spoke to ths OTR at the smallest audience of the season* She makes awfully good sense end aa she addressee the Foreign Service Institute, and the various War Colleges save the Navy*e speaks well and authoritatively* Afterward X heard that soma woman not involved with taking their children away for tho Spring Heeeea stayed away becausa the word "Trade" was in the titb * Gelly, do Z have to sugar coat topics for theee women? For years Z have avoided the word "economies", but in this material istic world with American industry planting establishments all over the glebe one might assume that ve are increasingly interested in and dependent upon trade* Zn the small pr-speech luncheon she told of ths wife of an American Ambassador Unable to tolerate the paintings for ths Embassy sent from lashington, who bought aanvasa and produced her own tiiieh for no good reason she sailed the "MoKedriek Collection"* When this name was mentioned to visiting Amerisans they Invariably replied "Oh, yes, of course Z have heard ef it and am so gLad to see it#" She must be a good painter as she signed pictures with names lifted frost a US city phone hook

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April 11,1965

ODM again I an reminded of tha old German saying--"April--&e does as aha pleases*" At the moment all three of my umbrellas are at the office and Alia the aina pleasantly this morning, the foreeast is rain tonight and tomorrow* On Wednesday as Z vent to the office in a fine but persistant drissle a few flakes of snow were in the air* taring the evening I heard what seemed to be a lew flying jet and when this was repeated at regular intervals Z wondered if it were an Air Fores maneeuver and went to the window in time to see a great flash of lightening and that rain was falling in torrents and the gutters raging streams* This was dandy as we are now deeply concerned about the low level of the reservoirs and rather late in the day undertaking a massive conservation program, #ileh includes the cessation of washing the streets, of using half as much water for cleaning buses and subway care* We shall soon be a grimey, filthy city*

Marshall Green, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs,

Flew up from Washington on Wednesday for the closing luncheon of this year's 0TB,

and spake on "Coamunist China*s Prospects and Capabilities" superbly* A career

Foreign Service Officer ^ioss most recent foreign assignment was Hong Bong, he

eaid that the diplomatic representatives of nations recognising Red China lived in

Peking in virtual house*arrest and from time to time went down to Hong Kong to

find out what was happening in China* He called Vietnam a mess and pointed out

that the Vietnamese people traditionally hated the Chinese* How Z am busy pulling

together the statistics for the 17 meetings and happy to disoovsr over 500 more

in this year's audience than a year ago. Although I have tied down Ambassador Plimpton

to open Series UA" next October, preparing for a Speakers Committee meeting the

end of the month to approve other notions is oeoupying my time* Meamhile Hayes

is getting edgegr at the failure of Shastri to give a definite answer to our in

vitation for a big lunch son in June end sending cables for another meeting in Kay.

Hie theory ie that if re sen get Ambuss* dor Bunker rn Indonesia and Henry Cabot

Lodge together in Mew we *hf,ll Vv- something and te*ee - rather "o whet" *tai-

tude Jn the event of Shastri in June, After telling the FPA Boawj of Director

in acaf&dwoe^ that the Ford Foundation has made a g**urt of a million dollars, he

goes around blabbing shoot H at cocktail thsHIvii f

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Friday I rickad u* Eleanor Gib--n at the Aleonquin *** went along t* the newlv

discovered Artists and Writer- Restaurant (formerly a club) for dlnnc before going

around the comer to sea "Tiny Alios" Without doubt Edward Albee, the author, has

a m*raifleant cense of drama and John Gielgut and Irent

Worth are eelendid

actere -a *re the othe^ three in tvg c**t but oh mv, what,a ulavf Figuring out

the symbolism he* %$<**% *n "inside* gam- for thoae Tho hav- seen it* The manage

ment provided an insert in th* pro-rem re^mdudng the en-Ivie of oevehietrist

which appeared in the Saturdav Review and Max Lerne-fe column f~em the N*Y* Poet.

Wie-lv Eleanor and Z agreed not to read this* r*svs until th^ r*xt ^T-ntng and

alio- ourselves to enj<rv +>* lines* the T$llet gettinra an'* auoerh acting.

Ruth -nd John Wheeler-Bennett insisted that T lunchJ with them at the Knicker

bocker Club to try th- excellent (jHicrffpjpab.r'd Saturday special. It wee wonderful

to eee thm, he*r th-ir news and clan to be with them at Gar-4n<ton in Julv. Tiro

years ao I feared thrw aright well sell the manor bafore my next trie to Eurooe.

Each year some member of the staff vwtfref s*d cannot be ihola.td and th-y renew

th-ir notion of a fraor Ufa wHh-ut these demeft'** -oblema. They had a ybi-1 in

Washington--the dir-etor of th- Nation*! Gallery gave a luncheon for them and or

vid-d ft "heel f*air f*w John <f 5 V*c a me eequiatioa* h**rv readied for e galled

nd other th4naa of es<o#e*rti interest. John now deel-rag he will never go to a

museum without - wheel chair and thinks of demanding them in reilraod stations too.

Alio- Longworth gave a. delightful if VB*r for them of 22--which John ooint out is

the limit of a dinner durin- - ^-rt od of roval

mourninw--merely a

ee'neMenee* He erpl-ude the aeceotanoe of tha Duchess of Windsor -ddinw it would

be so awkward for the Rgv*l Faari.lv to have to acknowledge her over the Duke's cas

ket, as it wgra* From th- C!^ T ~*nt tg Aunt Mary A then ret Mo?lv A BiV fesr #in*ew f

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April 19, 1965

Easter afternoon was for me a Winter Wonder Land with a "f.

snow sticking to every tree and twig

f^^.^Crk'no^topTrailways

hbauds-ciomnmefnadcetd

htahde

lfaoiudr

o0n,thel0s^eaJt"f^ ore8me ea^TIhS e ghth

of tte bus gave a ^^wag such

fine
that

view of the country close to the r ad,

--everv evergreen had a dramatic

the distant moutains were of

^ already in that brilliant yellow they

white accent and several rows *

was etched with snow which gave a silvered

assume just before

S^atmate on the aisle is the first

effect to the gold. breath tag.? ^ fascinating, fuibermore she

woman to be made an officer of boc y

Valley Falls, Rensselaer

uses Trailways on all her trips up to

'York greeted us

County and could point out t is

g Binutes to get home'.' Incicentally

TTJlTnZ

train to Albany in torrents and was greeted there

by more rain, though less than torrents.

::

^ ff ^iorhtheteari?twoids o^thfthreeVhour"seivLe and lunched

** she

iss

we wont north we see what signs of spr^

SatUrday it continued to

Mackinlay entertained us at dm

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mountain to Williamstown, so we decided

look as if there might be

BOing !r t*>

The food was deliCious and

to go to the Country StoreatBurnViiill^r lunc^ ^^^^thlngs to poke

the place most amusing with the

s

t Annie sh0wed me the new

through in the Store. After we put the car y ^ ^ in the Institute of

exhibition of the Print Club, which s

showing of Shaker Furniture and lost

History and Artwhere I also enjoyed *^^specially taken by a lovely my heart to a little laundry stove while ne ^^and drawers for lingerie.

maple cupboard with both compar

(Catherine came to dinner with us and af-

That night "the doctorladies^^t9(? sp<?) . it was great fun.

terwards taught me Shbot the M

communion, was very nice and we

The Presbyterian Church Easter

,

nt on the street we had to stop

greet many of her friends, though

rothers-one a Lt. Com. in the Navy

to speak to people including two nice

^ had a splendid dinner at Hazel's

and the other an Air Force pil

other WOmen doctors. Hazel had

bell filled home again with Miss Mac a

. ..

suoerior lemon meringue pie, wnicn

v

iaterested

and cookies offered on^he bus:

0,, Tuesday I had the wit to order

butterfgy orchids sent to the ship for

, so i nope this little

crossing. John loves a carna

^ chitchat j rambled on so about 'Tiny Alice

offering will amuse them.

dinner at the Artists and Writers,

there was no room for Mftlly and Bill and out din^ ^ ^ rQgional rating competition

Bill had sung "Shalimar as his so

. tQ Town in Time for Baker Street matinee

at RiverheaX'd at 11:30 and then r

gtic> After dinner we picked up their car

about which they were both vei>

^ for Molly, though I did not have

and they drove me home to pickupmy the wit to let them take some books and

YORKERS which now must be toted out. TrM,itt Authority bus, which

However I have just discoveredthere I can get at Lexington AvenuetoHunters Poin

station, which ought to make

getting to Stony Brook from the office a grea

Last

nighvt*

when

T I

finally JTM**1*

*got

home
of

there was a fine th safe arrival

coofllheicstion

of mail-including a letter from Larry telli *

d from Martha from

furniture long delayed by the longshoremen ^ ^trike^a^ ^^^^ ,

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The fret d*~ of DevMvH 8?v*nfl: *!% seems "its later than vou th$nkM, but I*m gird we do not cell it "Summer Time" a* the British do. There Is nothang euomerlike in tedav. *. . *-+ 4n the radiator and a watery sunshine, which will d-ubtless give wrv to rlrin cloud sow minute. Yesterday afternoon the aualitlv or the el rude looked like snow, though one knew the thememeter would have faU before we had anything other than rein. From 12 to 5 on Friday we had a fin-' downreur for which most oeo^e were not orsoared. I had arranged to meet Vera for a sandwich end eonvcvir^ion at the UN and cennilv entered through the oubMt entrance to avoid two bleeps in the wet* The whale <n l#bb~ m* a mees of kiddiee on Easter vacation trine, then to ay dissmv the Delegates area wa filled those who had b-en attending a oonferenee I had written off ae unim portant; Vera was fifteen minutes lata, an extraordinary eeeurrene-, beeauee of raff**- tNHcn T firnllv felt 7 Had 4a Ta ;,w- n yn '"*&* Oenfieldf mv deer e*f friend who ie head of State Department Security in New York* He aw there to take ear# of Moro, the Italien Prime Minister Fanfeni, the Foreign Minister wh* was formerly Prime Wnieter end aeked hen I wee going to be doing another dinner* I Vuldrft reeiet saying we had invited ShestriW Just then there was a stir from the Leungs end U Thrnt and hia luncheon gueste ee~e toward us, Vr end I stood aside to let them pass only to discover they were stooping to admire eve-" a ional gift on the wall, so I souttl-d off to get my rainc-ai from the checkroom biren sto?s with a orirate amusement that Heeds #f State are ahown the same moseies end Quotations from th- K---=n I include on my wivmtslv conducted tour,

Tuesday Chuek Bowles and I took Milton Br*wn, my sontact man at NBO to at Le 0--fd.ee for-erlw Malmaison so they could becom* acou-inted end I bow mvself out of the January 13, 1966 lunch-on at the Hilton. How lovely to know with that transfer that mv Christmas this ysar will be mr own after eight years of struggl ng with the NBC luncheon when I want-d to he doing my cards and gifts

Frider night Hank had to go to the Yale Club for the elase of 1923 annuel

dinner, ^hioh wee a great success with 50 turning uo to be reassurrsd by two Yale

football eosohes %f the fine materiel for next years teem, Maria and I had dinner

and a good talk before he joined u. At last they hare WM persuaded the people

in the studio next to theirs at 60th Street to more, so Marie will no longer hare

to trot down to Madison and 50th Street for he- elaases, Since the New fbeten

-

Hotel, which awns the adjourning building where the classes -re currently has sold both properties for the ereetion of another big office building. Demolition

eheduled to begin as soon ae the Fair doses in October* They have beenl>ekimt

for soaee rigorously as the 60th street neighbors bars been extremely dift-Lcult *

Marie is well out of the Madison Avenue studio, on shich the owners hare been urn-

willing to do anything for sometime. In the Friday rain the great skylight leaked

o that tha ballerina model had to MOT* and aoreml of tho suplls got great aooty

drool on thomeTortunately it n< a small elan ai at laast on# ouoil had

baon arfyiaed by tho dootor to atay at home with a ahill takin on Hiuradae when

the building EST* no haat until Maria railed a fun to the effect poopla eould not

paint in coat* and gloyea I Hank fnls tho Fair hat gotten off to a good atari

arm without ny anietano*. Tha laritation for tho Opining Day Onrnmonina ha waa

SOod enough to hare aant to ma waa much lna oratanioua than laat year a hut on Monday I returned the resulting tioket back to him. The offiea being much too un-

oertain for mo oven to pl-n late ette'n-on tkeoff much 1* mAddey abeano* to

hear V.P. Humphrey ^lli Brandt*

ftlec on Friday Haves, not without encouragement, told Bumker that

it is now UpessiVe to put n a May 12 luncheon for Mm. The

is that

Bunker has cocl-d hia heel in Washington for a week without the President ceei%

him and receiving hie report on the special trip t Indonesia. Cfeuek Bcyles had

suggested that we

miwht get - ercrd for Banker ifhewould eye-k onRumblt

?nS-utbc*st AM."Tnp- ww are back in the finger nail chewing uncertainty e*-ut

H*nrv Obot I,edge en Jufc* 1

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Maw Dav* 1965

lA*n.ricleth&e**fu*nrd-ceoAatwfiothrosuttourmagberella

r to* coat V buv a couple

I went ower tfaie morning of summer cotton

t*-

ther ddaent.. When th- store fiV-d un, I was home to do . lt of -OAtm jA.

on> of whieh -ore ticked eff, Bran -e ny ceeele here and in England Ewas

Aliened ^ *t*k b th* death of ^d Murws ^iom I knew when he f* 9t c*- - _

w York fresh f r t e # . r M '* heed the Nrti<nel Student * * * * * * * '

Te,-e rd+h the IxaPMfe - International Education ate tt en CBS, *ere he

,

beceme famout. lhen he wait to London I gar- him several

"**2?!Uw

inC udine one to Judith Lirtowel with Whom *ube--u-ntlTwert 4h Elite I feel dn*ratelw errr for hie wife Jnet? who ha don tI*

?w5 -to^T de-'he inhis family end here In the pert five veere ate h,, been o courageous about hi* th*'** w**r battle with cane -r a

CT T teethe and

-E- returned. T-ed-w t-m UB. with-utenr

SsrjnsKrsrczis^Masssesasi^asja^swsg- ,

_ %Atfhmvm -hie* haw- filled our n*we for !*

*Tral fff wee***

more in late May- (The owner has been sent. +o France and his wife re _

until th"*r ?-"ght*r finishes the high school term#)



Kith the lteet uohaaral in Santo Somineo. It 1 Jus+ ss "T^*,

cut oft,ho orooosea luncheon o nMar1 2 ^ U a e o * h * t

aasador to the Organisation of American

"'^'w proposed te -

settling that mess for aom-

^'^hop^he'^puWican

Henry Cabot Lodge who declined from Saigon

^,u aCC#pt. This" time

and Democratic Seantors fr*m New York (Jawits and

. ;

fueling this a

at least Boh teDondjdj^wmr newest TM

we MOST DO SOMETHING. Offic

iiiCMW SKrt Wore and only plan to be inf eoffio.thatw.ek

part timfworking for the OTR. Should th.

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needed I hay. a mind to hold them up for a juicy per diem.

MrT18,e

Sunday morning. Letter, this week. Larry', .lire trees hare let, of blooey

aenndthheisenthewerPhaaunldSmcaursltestatdeely

alr^
abateon

^mrofroroe.eeSWBf'teehec

aPs,nktiileletednbywhtehree itrteom

precedent ed .old and beery **.J-J

STiSSttf new boat to carry

house ted been opened for e s ring

,

oil to tte Morth. For two and a half hours tee

. mm*

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txhn..

n.o^ r holding

her
ud

leee

t>i three months eld eon ttile the eilot ***-.

a landing without

f. vTM";8^;4i3:.r.; ^J-<- --- -' m trying
injury

to "to

get th. wheel. paeeengere but

do f or .ldig;

Srou^h7ut D^glae,

eoasidera1ble jground. UeuallT tvtre

*

when I hay" us-d tt. Wonder how the* beh-yed.

-

Th- OTR Sreekera Ceewrittee meeting wert al,,w on inwitdwr s,.eskere; It m*d y. that Gelbreith for th- other helf of the m^ber-

of J. Kemeth to
^ ^ ,^,ring in the

tAhetlaangtriecendeU-^th"Bl-sducUe*u"s**f "*tw.<sw~eevks.

il,a*te -

.antde

eothearrgged

us

*80. for plelsed

aextptteensersattieea

Boston in addition to hie honorarium. K*rciaa an

P

abl, 7eo wtth

m_eiom.bership freromaewtahloesaerewhrootlhlionsge ianre.e.naobt to be in town ^nex* wwiiunter often aeeem-

by names of friends they would like to hare inwited.

7HC bully, DUy ~bicy

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From time to time I telephone an old friend of Any Dowar's whose latest contribution is that Khrushchar is responsible for our wwathor**ho said ho would eontrol weather and oreate deserts shore he wished starting the proeess m ich we are now undergoing* Certainly we are hawing plenty of variety* The 99 degree heat on Tuesday browned off the UN daffodils and brought out the laggard flew$$~ ering sherries in a beautiful burst of deep pink* I enjoyed them when I went over at luaeh time to see the UNICEF art exhibition) largely the work of members of the UN Secretariat and interesting because of the large number of nationalities par* tiepatlng and the range of style and subject* By Vednesday afternoon women were wtarlnf furs and one man appeared ea 35th Street in a tep coat heavy enough to pert a velvet collar*

Last Sunday instead of our usual hour long telephone exchange Vera same here for a drink and we west to a nearby Chinese restaurant for dinner* Monday after the office X took several books and a handful of ay office sweet geranium outtings to Aunt Mary* She levee the eeent of the lattery which keep in wetter for several weeks* The former included "Pauline--Napoleon*s Favorite Sister" written by Sir Pierson Dixson #ille Ambassador to Pranee and living in Pauline's former residence -- mow the British Embassy on Faubourg do St* Honors* The Wheel or-Bennette gave it to me --a Christmas present which they never got around to mailing*- an interesting combination of the exploits of Pauline and the power struggle both cf the family and Europe* The* X went on to the Cosmopolitan dub to return hospitality to a woman from Vaneouver***MiriaiB Morton, an American born widow who lived most of her adult in B*(V, is new travelling as far as a US base in Stuttgart looking up cousins, Known and unknown, to decide which ones oho leaves her money to*

Wednesday en the way to the effioe X had the picture taken and applied for ay now passport, #iich arrived in the mail Friday morning**a slippery bluish grey cover instead of the easy te grasp green one* The process of Issuing has been speeded by the elimination ef sending te Vkahingten and no doubt computers or othsr electronic devisee* X de net like its number (F228605) only appearing in perforations which are hard to decipher and yet have to be entered on so many landing permits, etc* New I must arrange for the vaccination and shots which have alee expired* The tickets are ordered but flights act yet confirmed, nor am X euro where X shall base in London* Xt is however definite that Mary's youngest daughter end her husband from Ban Francisco will be using the apartment for three weeks or so in July* Various oddments must be relocated to leave them drawer and hanging space and if possible eliminate a couple of boxes still sitting in cornsrs*

Invariably on Mother*s Day X think of Clove's class mate eoBsoanding a destroyer during the war underteok in the Homing Service to suggest the crew write to thoir mothers* Little did Stout realise how hie admonition would fill the warireem that afternoon with letters te both aethers and aethereimlaw all to be censored $

The FPA has received Senator Javito* acceptance for June 8, but cannot get an aye, yet or nc from "Bobby" Kennedy* All X can do is point out that we have passed the date of mailing announcements with any hope of getting a decent audience* The proponente of this program think 1,500 will flock in* X Aall be officially retired by that time end do not plan any active responsibility for it, but it does keep us all la a state ef uneasy uncertainty* A state X know from experience is both frus trating and exhausting* Meanwhile X heard on the radio this morning that both our Sonata* s will be in New T ork today speaking about/ something or other and read in yesterday's TIMES that the two Kennedy j)Senators will be at Runncymedc on the 14th with Mrs* JFK and her two children #ien Queen Elisabeth unveils the memorial to Prcisdent Kennedy* It will be quite a do speeches by Prime Minister Wileon, former Prime Minster Macmillan and a response to the Queen by Dean Rusk* Stall I ley en a trip to Ruimeymede during ay all to brief stay in England?

A W A f y r M

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May 22, 1965 Stony Brook Molly's typewriter - thanks

Last weekend in lovely weather Aunt Annie and I did errands and called on Aunt Ma ry Saturday. To Freeport Sunday morning where Clevee met us and showed slides of his family, the house on the Post and the one to which they move very soon, all taken by his fa ther. Texas has made the children grew, David is taller than Laurie and Chuck looks Like General Eisenhower. They all have lots of personality and will be a hand ful for Delli to handle while Clevee is in Vietnam. The departure from San Francisco has been put ahead to June 10. He is in fine form and good spirits, though will not know exactly what he will be doing or where until arrival. His orders vaguely indicate tha t he will be an advisor or instru ctor. Later we went to Fran's, where Molly, Jim, Diane and Jay joined us. It was a lovely afternoon and a fine buffet meal. The pink dogwood was at its prime, azaleas, carria japonica, tulips, etc. added their own notes of color. Monday Aunt Annie did her own errands and met me for dinner at the club, where we had our drink and later coffee on the terrace. Tuesday she and Clevee each started for their respective homes.

The Samuel P. Hayes dinner pa rty for me tha t night was something. Invited for seven, we got a round to eat dinner at 8:30. Poor "A.M." as Mrs. Hayes prefers to be called put a ten pound roast of beef in the oven at 4:30 but probably forgot to put on the heat as about eight o'clock she consulted Mildred Kenyon and me about when it would be ready. Meanwhile we were having drinks and a variety of shrimp, dips and stuff. Finally Sam poured a dark hot liquid into cups and handed them about the living room to Houston Kenyon reclining on a chaise longue with crutches at hand, Mr. & Mrs. Irwin Sanders {he is from the Ford Foundation), Louise & Bill Maddox (he was assistant to General McCoy at FPA before he went to world war II and then did U.S. Foreign Service until a couple of years ago) and Bob McDonald (a newish FPA vice president) to balance me at the table of ten. The initial course turned out to be consomme happily--I had had the notion tha t maybe AM and her pa rty maid had decided to skip the meal and he was serving big cups of coffeel The very good meal was cli maxed with mousse chocolad (a little too stiff, but very gelcome to me). When Bill bowed over A.M.'s hand murmuring it was his favorite, she re plied she had made an orange cream thing, but it seemed too thin so had whipped up the mousse -- too bad she had not combined the two and frozen the surplus for her next party \ When we left Bill said he would get his car and come back for us. Bob McDonald suggested tha t he and I walk to corner for a lungful of air and get a taxi. We did, and after he followsd me in announced tha t I could drop him at the corner of Second Avenue and 57th Street, where he would be only a short distance from his apartment. You react, I'm afraid I might be caustic.

Returns on the June 8th luncheon begin to come in and I have been invited to sit at the Head Table. The painters have been busy in the corridors and some of the offices leaving the usual smell, which congeals my brain, I missed it for several hours on Wednesday by going to the Life Extension people for the tests. Presumably I get the report next week. Friday morning I went up to Gerry Wilmot for my small pox innocculation and begin the process of getting my back put back in line -- right hip two inches off and has been causing me trouble all the time she has been in Turkey and meandering around the Greek Islands on a yatch chartered ty five friends. Shortly before I wanted to leave for here there was a sur prise birthday pa rty for me--two cakes with candles and green and white and blue decoration and all the "little people" singing Happy Birthday when Don Dennis led me into the conference room lighted only by a dis creet number of candles. The front office gents were all at a conference so it was nice. Tonight Bill & I are "honored" at a family dinnerparty at a new restaurant--"The Fife and Drum", ^is birthday was the 19th".

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May 29, 1965

Dinner last Saturday at the Fife aad Drum was delightful* As w droT# up Garo-

line aad Stevie Johasoa appeared and sina they did not have a reservation our table

was enlarged to nine* Fred had been scraping the batten of his boat* gone to sleep

only to wake ihen the sun set and the eold wind ehilled him* However, he/ arrived in

time for roast bsof and a sweet* Sunday we went to the Port Jefforeon Marina to see

the wtaer taxi,

which will be Bille summer oooupation **- hauling people from

to wharf to nooringe in the large harbor* Ihen passengers return they toot and he

flashes out to fetoh then* As is too often the ease I overbought snapdragon* petunias

and verbenna plants and had a great tine getting some into tho rook garden and the

rest along the bgek of tho rose bod and a seed bod* Unfortunately the foxglove seeds

fro* Vancouver were la the state of furry rowe with plants too tiny to be moved*

Tuesday afternoon at the FPA Board of Qireetors mooting* Eustace Seligman made a lovely speeth about mo bofort asking the Board to past a fine resolution of thanks and then gavs me a very handsome Tiffany wrist wateh* I was overwhelmed* but have been told that ay response was graceful and graoious* Juet before the meetiag ended Brooks Eneny nadt another statement about tho uniqueness of tho FPA mooting# and my work in getting the speakers for them both in New Terk and aoross the country* After much hand pressing sf those who wore not staying for dinner* I whipped up to my offlse to chango ny dress and bask to devote myself to Brooks* having hmird that ht was seas#iat miffed at not having been asked as formsr President to make tho presentation* With tho arrival of tho Associates for eosktails and dinner we were almost a hundred and I was glad of an excuse net not to mill around and make conversation* After dinner John Gates* the senior Latin Amerlean Advisor at our Mission to tho UN told about Santo Doming in his inimitable journalistic manner* To hear his talk no one would guess that h# has boon in our diplomatic service ever 15 years I Between what happens down there and in Washington and in the Security Council* the position changes every hour on the hour and although ho had worked for tho last throe weekends and the stack ef "Contingency Papers* (points for Stevenson to make la the event some other Ambassador makes a statement re a given aspect) frows higher and higher one got the feeling he/ had a briefcase full of papers te go over after the meeting* His wife had to go to their ceiifs boarding school for some do so their very great friend Mrs* Danny Kayo m betituted* (Little people in tho office agog the next day when I asked if they wish to shahs the hand that had shaken here*)

May 31* Friday night Lee Regal called from San Framciseo to aay he was going te be motor ing in tho East with hie eoueim* probably would nod got to Now York* hoped is tee mo in Vaneouvor and messages for Spain and Holland* Saturday I awoke to unheralded rain* a mast welcome sound* but the wet kept me from doing most of what I had planned $$$$($$ before meeting Molly after her matinee for an early dinner* It was still bright day light ih en I got to Martha and Clevevs and so had throe days to view dovolopoaents in tho oncoming peonies* their magnifleast iris, the lupines of #ilsh only tho purpls have survived* the elia>iag rosea not as far along as the bush* coral bells* bleeding heart* yellow lillles* and flowering shrubs* All had chsa god with the brilliant sun of yester day and today when X cant back soon after breakfast bwaring net only iris and syrlnga for me but two small mimosa tress for Don Dennii* Naturaully I an getting some things done this afternoon but as usual net as ouch as "en tho list"* Yesterday we had a fine time with Fran and the two youngest "boys while the others were with their father at the "Mats'9 doubleheader*The Freeport school situation is new being complicated by the new ly arrived Puerto Rieans and Cubans* who must be taught basic English* It is curious that wyandaeh has turned out te be a solid black eonsiunity* unhappy about no whites in their four schools and trying to bo redistriotod to have their children mingled with two high income* highly advantaged culturally districts and two others predomiaatatsly white* As PTA representative on the Freeport School Beard Fran hears a let* They mi have "Operation Head Start" in Freeport and although not oven of kindergarten age* there is some talk of having Johnny ge as they want seme culturally advantaged children ae leaders* Gerry gave me my first typhoid diet Friday A approved the smallpox an*

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June 6, 1965

1

At Vera^ very slot dimmer Friday Maria amd Hamk war# added te Vera* former

chief helper at FPA --Owen Crowe amd my ox-assistant Fred Nunee* At the last moment

Bill Beam had to go te Washington, alas* Not because he has just been notified of a

bequest and will learn later what two-ninths of the residual estate (in addition to

2,500 pounds) wA|l some to9 but beeauee he knows his way about socially Fred sent

enough pink and red peonies and white snapdragon to fill two large rases* By strange

fate Gwen, he and I will all be in London at the same time* It will be awkward not

to try to join up for at least a drink yet we shall all hare much to do in our re-

peotire eireles* Meanmhile we all speculate on the possibility of transferring pounds

to the U*S# ete Fred is quite prepared te buy a site little old oettage not too far

from London, rent it part of the year and hare it for holidays*

Yesterday morning the office handy man, probably listed as "custodian" brought ay four drawer file and three heavy parcels of framed pictures down to ae I had planned to hare him tote back icy ten year old Nan Sehling planter and a carton of FPA old publications diich I certainly do not want now and are probably out of print and hence of some use there* However, Dennis used a stumble-bum NvinoN as helper, diem 1 found so unattractive that ay one idea was to get them off the premises* The file rather clutters the entrance foyer, but I wonft give it closet space nor have it putting the living room into imbalance* Already I have gotten a lot of folders tucked out of sight end Aen I come back will pare at least a third out and make additional storage space for writing paper and such supplies*

Also an inaccurate reply to a query about ths waterproofsd travel coat I want led to yet another fruitless trip up town* It is new elear to me that this type of coat is available in the late summer and early fall market* One more thing postponed

The Gemini flight is stupendous* I hope tomorrow I can see on tho Carnegie TV a part of tho rooutry proooee* The radio roports and nowspapor pictures seem to mako tho
whole thing a Nfun and games" affair for tho two men in spaee and their families* I am grateful that there ie no chanoo of Now York woloomo for thorn next Tuesday dien we will have about 1200 people to hear Henry Cabot Lodge at the Americana--traffic is bad enough without a parade! I'm to sit on dais between Emile Soubrey, FFA chairman of the board and C* Douglas Dillon, until recently Secretary of Treasury* I agreed to sit there in deference to an apparent desire to A ow me off as having toiled for FPA for so many years and lived to tell the tale* My efforts to be less centrally placed so lar to no avail* Tomorrow I hope to finish getting out the thank-you notes to the over 40 Board members who chipped in for my watch* This is just one more time taking operation added to the many items I had not planned on* Result --I feel a little the "Alice in Wonderland" protester that I run as fart ae I can only to find I'm apparently standing still* Among other things there hat been a sudden spurt in "moonlighting"* It will be pleasant to
have my oenmissions drifting in between October and next June, but I'd rather not
be plotting delicate nsgoiating letters just now*

None of this exaotly squares with my easy surrsnder ihen Vera phoned yesterday morning to ask me to go up there again to eat the steak vhioh had been ordered for Bill and then go to the Theatre* I'm gLad I did as wt had a fine time and ma I learned during dinner die had had an emotional upset in the morning and was better off to have sympathetic audience and distraction* We both found "Baker Street" utterly delightful* The sets were excellent and ihe sophisticated use of color in costumes moet pleasing* It is ourlous to have a "musical" without tuneful melody and people who do not have singing voices % No matter, it was the greatest fun in the world and we enjoyed ouraelvea enormously*

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June 13, 1965

We cry for rain, yet yesterday and today havs b9tn sunny, not too hot and with kind of wind whioh dries the already dry land. Tot I road in tho paper that in Quebec Province, #iere the govorament is testing rain Making devices for ths control of forest fires, there seems to be a combination of natural and artiiioial rain to such a 0 degree that people protest# Farmers present bills for millions in crop damage or loss? Aile mothers want reimbursement for doctor bills cowering the treatment of ailments stemming from laok of sunshine on the kiddles#

Tearing up the rests of almost 39 years with the FPA is a hideous

operation* The apartment 0 is littered with things I want personally

and those I may need should the suggested History of FPA ewer be under

taken* All these must be stashed away t* leave a moderately tidy place

for Helen Margaret and Herbert Rosen, who will arrive on July 1 for three

week* er sa, Also I must leawe some notes for them as to where they will

find what and how to work the gas owen and refrigerator* Goodwill Indus

tries come Tuesday morning to carry off a lot of stuff I haw boon trying

to giwe them for months# Everything takes longer than it should and

is done at aem#ne else's Treasure in tMt? Of oourse, I have made

soma difficulties myself by delaying taking sheets and pillow easts to

tho laundry# It now takes five "working dove" to do them, Saturday,

Sunday and day of delivery to shop exoerted* The dry cleaner who did

sweaters, blouses, etc. returned a child,s rod jacket in my bundle--so

on a horrid, humid afternoon I had to trot that back to them. Yesterday

I had ? note from Ge~ry*s secrete.r"" explaining

had failed to get

the yellow heelth eard signed for the last two injections. Why she did

no* telephone me Friday, 1*11 never know, Wiiv their curtailed work week

this may be tricky

it means n unr!aimed trip to 67th St reet-

These are only a few examples* but enough o* t>*s nonsense*

Last Tuesday almost 1,200 peole heard Henry Cabot Lodge make a much better soeeoh than I had dared to hope# WE had a greta many radio and TV people and practically no results* The head table was made miser able bv their lights, but I put on my dark glasses before Hares made few remarks about the rcord I had made and asked ~e to take a bow, which was accompanied bv the plaudits of the multitude, Ji rould havs been kind if someone had tipped me off in advance # Ther made aboQt $13,500 on the luncheon and are very hanpy. During Xunoheon between Emile Soubrey, hair^ men of FPA Board and ? Douglas Dillen I had a pleasant, time. It 4fd nt ^ seem polite to ask the lgtto t*H ex^oU* hov LBJ oasef bim out of. - being Secreto'-w ef Treasury. Sine# he had also been our Ambassador to Franc I enquired if he had read Pier## Maen*s "Pauline" written in the British Embassy. He had net and was glad to know about it and then told how the-US had boncrv^ another of the el d houses or Faubourg St. Honor* for the Ambassa dor's residence. After the deal had been made the British Ambassador tele phoned Dillen asking if we knew that everv night trucks were leaded with inertels, siairreilieg% +. from our new house, Dillon got onto it and discovered that under French lew an wn*r can remove anything he an tear out. Endl* 1-w uits followed,, hir* +he law war sustained. Replacement in these pre-Emrire houa are iwnoaaibie, e now the building is ueed by USIA. I must visit it next time I go to Paris.
Glevee left Tuesday and sped out of San Francisco on a 707 Boenig MATb flight) Honolulu, Wake, Qu e, Manila and Saigon. I eusoeot MATS do net provide beautiful stewardesses to pamper military tr*vel!ers but I hope had good leg room- ... This afternoon 1 go to Aunt Mary, who did not sound very sorr on the phone, dew# is kiadlv seeing me to the Terminal Tuesday# There may be more postals than letters for the next two aonthe, but loll be thinking of ou anyway.

0ft.Hefty, 7yc/

3uno 1 KL- G1iv:

1065 jL.i 3't. V :l3S-t ,1

Clove vr- kindly saw i.e sf? or.' the lutho'iaa flight with --^awhat

msro turlulancs" than I had ever experienced on * jot. The passenger on v.^-

right never shcwei for the .thervrlss capacity plane. -After &_ good

I. leaked, at the movie,"Fluffy" long enough to say I n, :;

'

put' on my eye shield and got a couple of h.u-.rs oie^p. /e fI A chel'^aga time at Madrid vh.ro I pMasd oustome and sort ny luy^lfJ?hf , t k plane, confirmed the flight, ticket, ana had some breakffst;ihtvipg sieg -

through the TWA serving of coffee and rollS), CRS^ht5rt of^tbmioui-^e'far

out *y snail supply of pesetas a:.a relaxed in coo Ok>o p* ^ fi't*^iln-h t '

'Madrid was hot. Ih.fact" arrive.1 at Malaga roved tnere

a bOiral

wind which l..st'twp days, tarry v.as at the airport-entrance, we .quickly

.,4-

mV. ...

t-.hfi rit^ rnJ viere off t Malaga to corn.im my o-3pu.ruuro-

rises at six to help pick the tomatoes ana anon aoo.. Pick to market with the mule driver in t,ie two oi.moas .w-neluo _.---t . So far about five tons have been shipped with tnree _msro woens. uo _ u ong|e S oro t ** 500 vines. Felix is back theoretically with tne household shoppi~0 k Wme t^ge? lur bgakfast. The char comes about ten and is st the moment

teffjirj: to wash :iy gr.eeh; tiled fleer--she seemingly doet> .--. oijsfl-cr _ ...

avory"day and the laundry. Complication --her total < e-.ess, whicn caiuoct

be coped with by notes as she is,

course niiterate, yes connect- b -

--rriase to the Mayor. Paco, the farmer iifrfirffc class um *ill soon mVv

th his wife, infant''daughter and four sons_into. the four

with the land--a great event as they currero.ly liu fp gff roon l

5^-- .

f her parents.

'

I think Larry looks very well and bears. up -breaol; u Ji'.Of0, " d^-n-v p-ipr^encies ' which are soraotiEias crises Work en tne new .-Auil pro
:j! y fg n cnsivcly but meanwhile a generous ndghbor who recently

.t n? .wr^i-t nored three tines in the past year. Attention in uhG^p^wu o.w Ts rshas vest"!"" 1 proved t.,,e ct> . tion f tneolive croes, tner^-is a acm
mmm jU-tha-beanstalk qualitj-to the way the new citrus and otner fruitJ$|> n-
orarir The geraniums around the terrace surrcunci-a..0 the tn.se oit h |
fli ioi

"floors;
Of course,

v/e

live

on

Spanish

meal

hours

and

have

tea

er^pMMw

len-na.do,

after, the seista,. S6 far I have done a vast amount..of sleeping, so.-.,,

lost then-sense. of polluted lungs -and begin, to feel more enero0uic --

witness this letter.

Friday was Corpus Christ! a ,,moril holiday ^ckginatihgin^a reliCic^s
procession at 7:50 Id by the recently conPirmed-c-boys tft -whifee urur;,g

with considerable gold braid, girls In a-varict. of long full^-irtcc. ...-u.-

dresses then came thelarge elaborate silver center alt*? p_-c- fr - -- parian church followed by the priest and sovarni rows ci town^ghxtwiv.

ircludinp- the Mayor in his uniform of -leader of ^ tne^Iqc-aI FaicU^ist- |r p

(very impressive) and then a coupl.) dozen Criiardia Civil, whoih I . y 'hats recSntze in dress uniform Inatoad of their usual bxac:c patent W^vi naas

jh a d b o t t l e d o r a n g e d r i r n : . . . . " 3 b y G o c o C o l a o f ^ p u i n a l .

directly across fron the. temporary altar erected cdLc^ ho



cloistered nuns- convent. her. group arrived in front of the temperar^/ altar b ^riEo _ theli six red gowned alter boys scurried about all but tripping up

r
<^ atip'ahd

s t e p ladtsr enable he priest to c"rry it to the temporay one for a few jo.ne^x. .ceioxo

June 21--continued

> -_

mej&ent' when ;hha: sput an caught en the- filler filagree edge as he started

down the. ladder. Fortunately he mst have felt, the tug before he w&$

further down and spared a six t.o eight foot' fall. : The street at this

point had.:ban strov/n with small oleander twigs ...I ther greens,. but net deeply enough to cushion a fall 1 We sat quietly for a while to let the

} i-ess of people clear the Plaza, before starting back to- the finea.

June 22--never intended not f inishi;ig 5 jso n day, nor f giving into

a secc: d

Sunday, afternoon we went ..through the vlllageand.up a hill

L,o nave tea with an enchanting Scots v/oman. She and her French husband

have settled here after owning a large coffao plantation in Kenya at o,000

altitude. They are really too old to accomodate to a 'complete 'change of

locale..ana are . very lonely ..acre. It was not only a great pleasure to meet

her, see scuothin0 of the vegetation on their. hillside-, but an. act of grace

to postpone., ti'ie luncheon here designed $$ to introduce :r.e tc then:.' The hus

band- "AyIriaf" had to nave something done about their-car .registration in

Gibraltar. Because of the ourrent poor relations between 'the..Spanish,arid

the British 'administrators of "The hock1', tic dr. .ffhitr ot Id c_p hn

the car to .the border while the master took the bus into townI Ho has been

there since last week and may finish the .paper work and servicing of his

broilirtts ..i --i 11 ijj.'. . c./ i _iy c i.i 3 e uiiwiij.j. uj jtja

usa s u '..uijiiv

...aj. u-nhum--.

exumio hps; f

^ bb'f >run ait -ly

-

'ukg only occasion

ally coning out ui.ih a Swahli .' and. . ^rrj-.o m. - " bb.i r'd.bg ; '..hi .

ring

r uoclh Fla loner s ess '. > i -- p1 ;3 L.i-,rly i'r b:^ our evening . .air

afterward, Thar 3 is atrip to "Meejfi prejact 31 md s'& L't. goes. (I have

helped Lurry sorvfe ' 3 h ; ire'ndrl lioon -- p-n-bly to keophthe co .f char fro.,

using single bed sheets instead of 3 uble ~

' h . r , - - :;J-

. --the 'sets ' to *03 used at special, guests.luncheon- I'm..: the

wide vamty for ordinary .'use, lly ...iv exoas.6 f h the delay In -r-oi.^; .

bxi&'t I did an inordiuato, un>r_h f Very V ur":LK.ul cey. Ihg f r

'

as b,

A

c, t

June 29* 19Q5 Si Oliver do Janet

k borrowed typewriter should not be criticised and at least

,

this Royal has an msa&eeded accents#

American keyboard but leaking at ngr

and yeu are last effort

Inetresaulbijseecitt^AStS

pro-*

<\j vid* acre oddities than I realized 1 (-Interruptier to receive tiireugn

'the grille of my bedroom Window overlooking the peel# an offering ^

tendar sweet smelliac sheets fro:a la&on tro^s fross race, hie Sxzo, *

high check hones and eyas ask him leek almost Chinese* T * whole ^ A&dulusian area o>: ntaino the most fascinating ethnic strains resulting

fran successive conquers r peaceful migrations.} As much mere thaa

half ef the 50 milllea population is agricultural (it used to b 80^

hut Spain to has suffered from the rush to urban centers;-# 1 xee~ unis vieit gives me considerable Insight t the people. ^ Alas, it lis net a

dsmatirsnT" HhCSryi in ylfs4H3.aga the Layer and all toe Town Council are api-elnted and represent the Falange# although Franc bates tna* Inel~

dently they rule a dosen nearby towns r mere accurately small vwagea

vi went t eae of them tiuudityyat>ut dusk t see tueix' Iwir* sot up by shore* There was a circus# Ferris Wh*>l*-pwered by men and women *

sheetinp galleries, Tusbela# XiBSimerebXe stands all soiling t-e sweets and a dance floor with two 0m,;> arches fcras Actually v;ie dane*.ng

hor was less interesting than that ef a group of teen agors w studied

into wen I Insisted we pass between two fishers1 houses be see tne hasp

beach and the tiny hedeterranean waves breaking en to wry fino sand

mixed with many small stones* These kids were realty nave fun doing &

combiratien ef folk da3.ee w~th Twist r ether modern var-ation* dtepping

at in places en the way heme for email glass f whit wine and cits ef

& special area fish eaten by the genteel from toothpicks# we decided net t eat more than same fruit at heme* (At the secure place i had a plate

f another distinctly local inch long fish# fwtuaatcly served w~th an

oyster fork er an hour would have bean spent consuming the thousand or

so fieh*

The Flamenco evening was a riet--the show scheduled for 10:50

mad complications with cur dinner* At seven we went to a now hotel

at trie sea for an orangeade# before we left a man and *ufe ware na

t Join us ismash11 delaying our arrival here ier a nigh tea* nut whan

we reached the village it developed that the Troup .- gives an unpre-

dieted matinee at 7ISO, s the evening performance was delayed until

11ISO* It had been arranged for us t stop at a new ;3ar before tnpy t

busy for a special beja Blanche -- almendo and garlic grouse; ina

^

requiring the precision ef naming mayonalse and serven in a stamped wli e

vices with Ice a: d two red chevies* I*d rather sip it with a apoen tnan

&&X9 it* This was followed by brmdy. La Kelson del Sonde is la.*&

collar f a small hotel and very imaginatively decorated with old wood...

pitchforks * x hews# a great variety ef ancient weapons including a small

orass cannon no doubt left from the Battle ef Trafalgar, Id coins ?*"*

to. all hung en the white walls between the original heavy beams, very

popular with the young around midnight* The performance in tho Bullring

Shore the elite sat on folding chairs in the ring ^d thoothcrs ia t^i

circular tiers of ce-ent. Our performance began aibout 11*45 wi^irfttuer

buxom women dancing on the raised temporary stage wearing tme full iieun-

oed skirt and progressed through soles# duets and a comedy team. At the

S*ISh& ^srzsfft Th*^r^ latermissien about 1:10 we decided tnat having

Ui0

w

the star, to so home. Six o'clock would emae all to ason T ? * /?

ii anrrFylamteolndeemseintghiantgIbmahdadncerveeartebdeena msoernesateivo-ndubyt mtioelmrel.rg a ooup^o Jofrcjig?i ^r-

ets'though no en noticed when in the bmt Spanish s.mnasr I ate some^

slaelatveedfsuurnfBleolwlearud4s.eodict9 iIst siuschhaardretloaxreedliaenvde rtei-sattfualwautamnosxprehmerete.^day I

Frances J. Pratt Addresses
June 15 to August 12, 1965

Tues. June 15 Wed. " 16

Lv. Kennedy Airport, N.Y., 8:30 p.m.

Arr. Madrid

8:25 a.m.

Lv. "

11:30 a.m.

Arr. Malaga

12:50 p.m.

Address: El Oliver de Janet, c/o Harris Velez-Malaga (Mai.) SPAIN

Tues. July 6

Lv. Malaga Arr. Madrid Lv. Madrid Arr. Amsterdam

1:40 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 5:05 p.m. 7:50 p.m.

Address: c/o Mrs. L. F. J. Mahlmeyer Bussumergrintweg 40 Hilversum, The Netherlands

Fri. July 9

Lv; Amsterdam Arr. London

12:00 noon 1:00 p.m.

July 9-13 Address: c/o Lady Wheeler Bennett Garsington Manor near Oxford ENGLAND

July 13-22

c/o Lady Listowel 9 Halsey Street London, SW3, ENGLAND

Thurs. July 22 Lv. London Arr. Winnipeg Lv. " Arr. Vancouver

3:05 p.m. 6:10 p.m. 7:10 p.m. 8:50 p.m.

Address: c/o Mrs. C. F. Harrison 1872 Fulton Avenue West Vancouver, B.C. CANADA

Thurs. Aug. 12 Lv. Vancouver Arr. Toronto Lv. " Arr. Kennedy Airport, N.Y

9:15 a.m. 4:20 p.m . 6:00 p.m. 7:3Q p.m.

TWA #900 Iberia #461
Iberia #462 KLM #362
KLM #125
Air Canada #853 Air Canada #811
Air Canada #8$o American # 726

POSTAGE: 15t per 1/2 oz. to Spain, Holland and England or the special 11< air folder. Allow four days minimum. Canada rate same as U.S., allow three days for air mail.

Garsington Manor--July 10, 1965

This lovely^madet'ir?Italy hy courtesy of John, who has left me in
h h utiidT while he rests prior to our goin g to a cocktail party given t A m i !,V l l e v f a m i l y of h e a r f o r t u n e . We have a i l been t o t h e Pete at Chisselhampton and done the best we could, John naving made our

successful "strikes"

abandon*" JWQS?.

rithrL^Their clever driver greeted me as soon as X

through customs yesterday and whxsked me heie xa the B e h i n d e o r

o v e r 5 n h o u r o v e r a w o n d e r f u l n e j . - h o t o rS t e r n s in a r o u t e I h a d n e v e r

Castle and then by woodeJ

U Ch

dahlias and masses of other

travelled before.

The roses, aexpniug,

coid. (fchis morning I

fhl oawd earns

ahroeu rbiena ut ht ief urlods ee sgpa ridteen, c u. xt t'i n g . off+, ^de a dd ^bbl ol oo m. ^s

and

n e v e^ r g o t

to
at

r^zrjsii

53 Century monastery dovecote .

-&"S

<
-

tU6faLtLStIratL?crew fent'out\o'1hrp.!Se erdje .gathered

at the^ gate^t'was announced that

J* ^elay and^finally Iberia

custom of the country # ^ie

b TM * j^drid , where we arrived 20 minutes

haafdt etrom"ybofrlriogwhatnl eAfvtenfiodar At omeotaekt edaums

(it *had

soee emeedm t h aet

dt wtoa

hours
rdir

l
e

ayo
ss

v? )e

r

s h o u l d b e e n o u g h , but ..J I O c o u l d

-

After four hours of stnading m li.

city terminal I became the guest T

fast at the N acional H otel on*'tn

Prance flight to_Paris and AlSdam

finagling at the airport and the

, f:;r

nigh*, dinner and creak -

del T:,rado. lest mronin^- Air

nossible moment Finnair confirmed

M ary and Franz met"me at the airp ort

kfiook meeoh togtheir Arming iouse through such wet greenness as had

and took me oxi

a day in Holland and

not been seen by me lor months.



hat for ten hours on Tuesday

although I had started frash, we*.rx g m,

varioue officials was

with the attendant uncertainty and

,eakfast i n my room and again

wearing. I slept well in ^drxd, ahd TO o.Lea

transfer i n P aris and

started refreshed, ^ ^ s i n e f f ^d been promised .confirmation either/

at6the hotel or surely at the Madrid airport in the morning.

The

Mahlmeyers

garden

x 1

.t ,

i oveiv lo.

Much use made tnis yeai m begonic-.. until dinner time, later we

tuberous and otherwise, _Ai terjtea w,eta.i .

. (The Hews

saw ' the news on TV ana Lucitth Ball and I

% leared it had

chowed a plane crashed neai G.-xor ,

barley field less than three

lone directly over the H anor to orash^n a barley

-i oo/ awav This afternoon m the ope^ning

wpre killed.) Thursday

8i4e"to 1?^ a moment of sileneoe xor the 4 < &rou,-d the garden with

morning the rain stopped long enough xor .

, Amerfoort to see the

i t s marvelously thick and well kept lawns.^

one of Crown F r in-

tQrue.enrs .M Srlm .S-.mJ ml" -44.-J>*r' M t S
n oat \hV o^cMi hmi - rie^r-n$v o r i ^ n a g a i n s t h i m e

1--A

/?ss A?*e^

fr*K-cx,^tociy,.

Jii..- l? ,196b

9 H&lse^' 3t
London.) 8# 3

1 es ss: di n wauf4nn ra llv outdid itself in variety of entertainment.
0n

** r -annoysJ^fts^eLivo'^^autUuI g&t&s tnf,t Shr^'uM 1 8 hale hidfosit^ith wings built in differnt

f.^t hv 5?MMiw generations. The entrance hall leaders to two

fiiahts of marble stairs and the great hall, .share trays of

chswoaSeond cane"s circSLted fraqueatiy. In front of the huge
fVrp ni- re xfb a low oar taol# -lieie jwhu ariiu *,s obtainable.

The people did not much interest me, but the beautiful paintrugs in

is drawing roo:a did, also the vista its windows cave of the yeivet

lira )I n- a d plantings fronted by beds of roses. The private cnapei

V is vera old and most interesting with a stall cross on the altar sad !nificent DslnUa* m lieu of seredos. She f-aily sit in ancient

.

raws alone the side walls and tnere is a balcony x trie ser-

"?'f Pw! Bto- rld at The Bear, a very old coaching house, in Woodstock

flr'di *r

1 monday night Geoffrey Hawthorn was inducted as the

X+.-t-r* f f' rrlii t iii a aost drastic cenODiy s viesr s wsi-

den John"seemed responsible for all arrangements from the Bishop down

to aeatins eight Brownies, a tawny owl and a brown owl (who turned out

to ce Girl Guide leaders) and fifty parishioners from Woolwich (Hector s

"r_r__S.r p oSr tJw o f.)t hei mp r.e stsw i v e e e raoitaoo,n. y c - o n s i2 s t e d of Jt ug "c l"eir iHcla l'Sp roo! crayon roing to the Sooi, where the Bishop put the Hector's hand on the doorknob thus giving him the church. t. late Sorraan Tower where the Hector gave aT^88rt^f"^r^ J",u bell r^oe 6iguiX.yiu6 uis acceptance a tue par ran. wltuiw^ru. we .n

.ant to tra Vuiaj

t^rMottor*'tsSi^^tTtrswure

rector of Lambethparish Church, the

flighted to have

toosn as Jsther ltnnB

tslrad of a possible trip of the

an industrial i#risu net

-n them. fox yesis

Siennas TthoethceoldU.ban.dIwehat

weayt.ti

" eoth

Holland and fSnglvnd is 8" i. ? only wonted an hour

almost too sharp contrast to the sun cutting dead roses at Garaington ana

~p y fM minutes pickin_ sweat I .weBa.y

the IUxisss bedroom. BU ....

in^nd am 6ls*

morning I ca-se up to Ivw" "" 11 y*A"

,0 oac<. to

to

.Ar.laii.'ennne.rir.s.

lionuJ,vuVuouViliAtvtvhehVjid''M sstv hnnm*ieewwsw

hhweooeusu<es*e is:^ uh^artmaiinotgooTouftjI*

c onfess that the guest the"room II hbaed at" ttrhiee

tofsaa S* Ej2lST5iS* Si'tS j room is a little 8^f^eior dinner lauxsuay, very pleasant and we wen on

Htghthonoraole toUlitt"B

take on

*** NOW to tea.

n

/Wo, K*C^C^SbZTt

""at Vancouver--July 8, ISM I

dless tary for the use of the typewriter! *!*!? -tn siting caused

by a j-oacel strike which had begun the day I arrived bare, ironic to

leave a telephone night operator strike in ..ondon making^it imjmrnsiole

to reach Eva in last aebourne or make a call for Aunt

Those

numbera did not answer when i tried during the days and then in the even

ing the -trunk line" operators did not answer, me flight was Jong but

interesting and I ws fbrturnt* in,having tre window seat in t a front

economy row. v first stopped at Prwstwiok, ear Glasgow, where 1 co"1**1

stretch my ie :s end get some fresh air with e fine vie* cm .;>isa bralg

(.-eddy's Milestone) at the mouth of tie Firth of dlyde mere we'took on

mDsLuoeocuewhmgeelrdafsttuioe^flsobracenfdhMiaOfscorkoedet,nveolaIalnncdctrhlreeulndcdaisnrlpgeo*ctckdsaeaktoyecf.sh)feidcoIert

tea from Ayr oh ^tookto was clear enough to see floes. iie"?stern lower tlj. wltr snow and beautiful emer

ice or water in atches of snow

tie and

iwceee.bayIsh.avLeabqruaidtoerlwoasst

letsrasckimopfrewshseinveth. eiyt

I fed

cut wehnd two meals end three snack (tea, coffae, orange juice, sandwiches

aindt/roierdcotcokslleese)p,serbvutingevsenatayleablsatc.k

It was eye shield

did

not

help.

*t l_nnip fc

Ciatnawdaisa9n8c8uEstdoemgsreiensVaandiraftinleeeatne9w0ahiurmpiodritt,ywrleeannwhile we took o

a rew a new^

rr-ew or the thorougl.lv cleaned piene and became e different ill.u-.t nu._tei

Of domestic quality and it ws s impossible to buy ^iSS'SS. Msd d*iin-ndear ser^vveedrthbeeltweesesn?i'&-inanrlrpievgedfinid n CVaalngcaoruyver* eonne,vminut'e late e-Ui gef(tMti.n,,g a fair view of the snowy locates. tjjr breekfest was brought me in hono

at ten, and at ISJ50 we had chicken pa,,rika and a huge berries so with the in flight feedings X was too well fed on lhursdey. /hfialt aa about 11 u*e. wren i go* to bed here it wee V e,ro. i-riday

mornli by my Londoner* watch...e long day! Mary 1

in a "good etch", he sends tie car on luesday and hr. da., fur ua to gc

over for luncheon. Currently tie drug to daisy the advance of ierkinson

d seeae is being witlJield and l is speech is very limited, i. am happy

about tne current staff-ci suffeur-houseman, cook-housekeeper, re8

and

an<i t is well

10 other nurses
cared for. In

vho cone la for shifts. tie seems very content between tl eat trips we have had visits irom fcary

*

ftiweoldd.augIiti.rm.a"fiudn'titnolrgorouu.thatnidesr,sWSue nda. y afternoon and see alt the X pl*ea-

aura boats 3C'tti.liig Jnci.c ir:

sun?: - c*

London weather continued to he more cloud tl an sun and Tuesday 1 got t i. aioane Square by a rip roaring thunder storm, wr ich mcluaeo a ,. hall lltflb only ..art of toy errands done 1 scuttled across aing s

rtoad in ti.e'first lass-than-peltlng rain to t e cab rank *"^ 8?

*

with wet a. ota and damp sk'rt after being aarrooned in a bookshop .ot . < i.

an nour. Judith nad me Included in '****

wahwS&

tfon riastlork-e." estate'"wtth total*. ^l. ^oqu.t bowling

ntarviiexsig arritvoedLOt bhvt

mtorraniinngt o

fhruonmg a r yDaayctcoonm.p a n i e d1 bjy

A

i

m

a

l

4
;

ataa(lttrb

AAuus^trrlenn

m.ad) arid Juditn's two grandsons. Deirdre and Johnny Orantley sre w aa y

flying to Vienna, ***** tne two parties Join forces and go on i aton nil very eomfrilieat.d end seemingly of considerable interest to ti ress, which ring Up for details, of which J^^b s auns -ply non-

coflSBunieatiwe, yet a Story appeared to the annoyance of nord Orer.tley .

September 3, 1965 First issue of Chitchat Volume

I have come into the office on Friday, when every one is off on the four day

Labor Day weekend, because my own typewriter is behaving badly and 1 have been so

remiss about -writing*

I could not be sorrier but after my lovely holiday life

has not been easy* Aunt Annie with Martha and Cleve met me upon arrival at Kennedy

on August 12, took me and the first class mail Martha had been hoarding to the

apartment* On Saturday I went to Freeport and we all drove after lunch to Stony

Brook for Martha and Cleve to sign papers on and for us to see the Cape Cod house

they suddenly decided to buy there for weekends until Cleve's retirement three years

hence. Then we went to see the New Baby, born while I was flying to Spain and who

is not only darling but seems physically very advanced for two months, After a fine

cookout at Molly and Jim's we went back to Freeport* Monday I returned to unpacking,

etc* and Tuesday to the office. This was the beginning of over two weeks of high 80

temperatures and humidity several times hitting 99--perfectly hideous and complete

ruining me. Somewhere along the line, possibly on the London Vancouver flight, a cold

wind hit a hot body and I tightened up both nerves and muscles of ray whole ribcage

resulting in spasms of horrid pain, Gerry Wilmot has been working on me and gradually

the mess is clearing up (Dr. Scanlan is on holidayXand last Friday when I asked Gerry

how she would like to hospitalize me under an oxygen^ the proposed delay. I am better

and have stopped taking Bufferin every four hours and think that in a few days life may

be worth living, By the weekend of the 21st Aunt Annie had progressed to Stontfy Brrok

and I joined her there, before she came back to spend a few days with me* Both last

weekend and this I am staying quietly at home doing very little and hoping for continue

improvement* Matters have not been helped by the landlo.dreturning my September rent

check saying that I am now in line for a new lease at an increase of approximately 25/0,

As I simply cannot face a move and all it entails I shall try to negotiate a m#nth o

month arrangement or a year lease at 10 to 15% increase. Ah, me.

Now for a high light of holiday-Spain was made delightful by Larry's welcome to the

marvelous new house. It is red brick whitewashed (to the horror of the locals who

feel if you use expensive brick you should show them) with red tile roofi. The e y high ceilings and insulation with tiled flLors make for coolness, the huge salon runs the length of the house and has light from three sides, his bedroom in one corner while

guest room in another iare separated by the two bathrooms. Kitchen in one corner with

a single bedroom next and the entrance along the front side. Every morning the 3 to 3,500

tomatoe vines growing in two made terraces east of the house were picked and cnin to town by an entrancing boy with a mule cart on six foot red wheels. Thanks to care

the olive trees do well and if their fruit can be swelled with autumn rain should bear

a good crop* Main preoccupation was progress on a new well being dug by four miners .

The people live so cloase to their needs that every afternoon about six, the miners appeared at the house for the dayns wages, the char and Paco the farmer were also paid

daily

Felix, who does the cooking and is generally useful for shopping, etc lives

intie house and is not part of the daily payroll. The current drought is the worst

in 18 years and it is a miracle that the tomatoes could be irrigated to the poi.it they

wereofsuchsizeand profusion as to be "scandal" in the market. Also there was water

fer the citrus trees which line the new road up to the house on the ridge, so they do

well

night we went to a "fun fair" at a nerby fishing village, another to

a Flamenco program in the bullring, made several visits te Spanish speaking families $

nnd went back and forth to the hilltop home of a Scots woman and her French husband, who ..i rQGe,,+lv had had a coffee plantation in Kenya...delightful people, My plane was
late out of Maiaga so I had to be the guest of the airline in Madrid overnight (a horrid

production costing me a day *f my visit in Hollalud) where I finaaly arrived via Paris

and Finn Air (of which I had only recently heard) on to Amsterdam.

weather in Holland and England cold and wet and I began sleeping under at i KI i . rnrsinrton was very busyTM"the mest interesting was the .uista rector in a irost interesting ceremony. At one point the Bish.p took
him to the door placed his hand on the latch symbolizing giving him the church, then toey all marched to the early Norman bell town and the rector gave eight lusty pulls ^tacLrhis acceptance of the charge. ....Sorry, time also runs out, mere an.ther day

(\ ft to $ taAy (

Lz^uj

September 10, 1965

This is probably more an act of grace than a communication. It is 95% humidity and I decided after being gone over again by Gerry tfilmot that I would be more comfortable in theoffice than at home today. Also I got to worrying about the seeminly good possibility that my first OTR speaker would flip it seemed well to try to confirm him or take steps for e replacementtodayrather than agonize all weekend about it. Gerry sees improvement in the depth of the "knots" alone m v spine, but joins me in distress that greater progress has not been made XodL I goi a shot of B-12 and some tonic pills. Tuesday I go back to her in the morning and in the afternoon have an appointment With Dr. ocanlan. Meanwhile I'll no doubt have my ups and downs.
The Rent & Rehabilitation Administration tells me I do not have to sign a lease at^n increase. At the moment I am stalling on any natation with the current manager of the building. /Monday afternoon a notice appeared in the elevator regretting that there would be no service all wee*, so gently I go down and uo once aday. Meanwhile Fred Nunes has given me the chart of a newbiuldin,, at 301 East 22nd Street with a very attractive layout, which he thinks will give me more space at less money and a 24 hour doorman, two passenger elevatorsaswellas a servcie car-available November 1. Maybe over the weekend I 11 go and look place over....the plan is nice with southern and eastern exposure.
At two o'clock in Sunday James Hyde Pratt, III, will be christened at the Caroline Church in Setauket. It saddens me not to go, but at present al activity iscut to minimum. Martha and Cleve will go. Aunt Annie cannot as gh0 is at Pigeon Cove, Massachusetts*
At the appropriate times last week I was glued to my radio to hear the emergency meetings of the UN Security Council. The India-Pakistan crisir seems to be the most appalling nonsense in the world, but to me very scarey. It is tough that Goldberg has had to be President of the Council this ^h' ' has scarcely gotten his feet under his desk and is not yet supported by his new team? Stevenson's deputy Plimpton is that man 1 had for "eOTBopeningHe told mo back in the spring he was very tired and might not be at the Mission come autumn^ He is stiU there helping in the transition but 1-ving very soon. I understand that Marietta Tree and Williams have actually pushed off. ret Goldberg was fit class in his handling of the crisis meetings. I was touched at some of the gracious things said about him in the Saturday meeting especially
the Jordan delegate.
Marciana will soon be back from her lunch and I really haven*J the wit to
write anything of interest. Sorry.

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October 3, 1965

AT HOME Again

A ouiek r-rert te update and explain *rw ew.Tiang

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continued te treat the knot, in ny back and ear- shot. of VxtaminrB-12.

When Dr, Seanlen r.+"-n-d *P Sept. 14 X rieUed her ebbing the toy Life

Eiten-ion eardiagram and other reports. (T^eae ehowld her. b en "** d

in June, but I -a- Juat too busy before X 1- t te fit her in.) She d 9+ 14V. +>. Teelation in the eardiagram and inetted ae bee te hare a. ntha

n the 15th, Whereueen she tal-ehered Mtdtown Hospital for a room, gar. ae

an order alio for a series of cardiograms and general orders inolud ag" HM. Vifr-" eisn on the door. Although she wilted me to g* direetly there,

I HAD to o home te oaek, ohene CI-re and the effiee to reoort ay change of

l-ele. Taxis eased th transition. The order alio res heeded Aeute Corongry.

(Vera Dean, who returned fromEurope witha lthy c o l d i s ^ with ae thsi 5e-nl'r le - little edgey due to the recent and sudden tenth

of her husband with hear*,) Th. -No Tiaiters- we. at my

half a d.*a rl- from the effiee from floeHng ir U

"B their

luneh hours. A wariety of blood testa and the sorts, of to sondueted and on the 25th I nas allow.d te walk no mush ill ished in t

eorrider, on th. 26+h I nut en my clothes ard .sent a

wYt- for "

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S*nlan dropped in lte in the afternoon and "signed me out for

t,moving Stto 2. I wee lu.ky in that the damage to the blood resole

feeding a heart muole eerreeted themcelres and the repeated pictures were

idotiol. lt i. doubtful if w. are ar.ry able te tell juot when th...

ressela .legged, at loot I H eannot got aay d.fialtlro orefoeeional word.

It is not nee.ssary for m. to resign th. OTR Consultancy", but am adriced

to work from ten to three (instead of four) o'clock on my three daye a week

whan I go bmek to a* te hurt #. rent before dinner*

On the 27th Clews brought me down from the hospitel (Fred had late Saturday afternoon and earried the two large pete of ehrytaptbemuns,. white, the other y.llo, a etoll.r on. of Aflean riolet. and the of magarinea heme for m.) at 11 e'eleok. By noon Marthaarriw.d te.ee t. my lunch and made Aunt Annie's bed. She arrired about three-thirtywhil.I
resting and eaon after t.a Martha left. Sin., than Aunt Annie has atood

erer me-eat-to-mouss, producing wonderfully rarisd meals Y'Y teTelr -hip that I taks restoeriods. Wednesday we started short walks in lorely weather but Friday ihere was ablessed rain and I stayed ia, ordar.ag a sma

< telerietons the telephone a littl# nftar tan a.m., *bi*b ** . . by It 30 . Wa bar# Just saen the Liberty Island ceremony of the new imigra tien bill and a good doal of the pr-lijaarr nreeentatiens for the Pope s wieit.

Last night w. went ur te Tern's for a ouiet and delightful^ dln""

a apet a? trouble getting a eab at 9il5. Trafie was heawy as th^W rl s

Fair waa hawing ae big a daw that a warning was broadcast all

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Margst and Nui

iVmm. edlialteUlyZaZf" te.r h(ilaardrewfetc.teikon.) t..T.em.ohrirmew we shall do eg od YdarYl foYr ewweiwni gg and certain'* wet le ewe the cnighborhood. The Police Deoartmen warn* not to expert anw d-liweri.e, not to encourage sailers and urge the

B r.-ssrsrs& +c.arr_yATt1lrunwlc^h.ufmrmomuheor6c-ndcrmacdat sienvtehrealcdaefleitveerriiae.s te the hoshp*i"ta?l* Lbutt lUamrglely

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ge Thursday and then have four daya oft* But shall be guided by her I

Ti|C, Jyu*y, jLwvxy,

October 10, 1965

The television was worth the orieo If onlv for the oowareee it gave us of the Pore* visit on Mender* Beginning with th* arriv-1 at the aimort we missed verv little right through the visit to t*e Vatican Pavillien at the Wrid*s Fair en route to the departure from Kennedy* (I must confess that deerit# deliberate mieting ef Bill Meye**s briefing to the areas tn
the Papal-Presidntial semrersation and some of the etudio panelsard reruns of things we had seen lire, it was a tiring day.) We were interested in
the alteration of the Pepets expression and manner immediately after he had perforaed seme duty and had only to greet and bless erowds or groups. The sold wind distressed us on his behalf and we eould only hope that he borrowed some woelies, if he had not brought his ownl Since then I hare not talked to anyone who had seen him or followed the TV oorerage who was net filled with sympathy and admiration for his selflessness throughout the day. Apart from the ererall problem of security his determination to appear personally before overflew crowds in several smaller meeting rooms at the UN and speak to them, sometimes in French and sometimes in Italian, were last minute additions to the program. They did delay departure for the Chureh of the Holy Family, across 47th Street from my offieo windows, and must havs saused UN Protocol and Saeurity some anxiety,

Tueday we went up to Seanlan*s offieo for the eardiagram in the morning.

Superficial examination seemed to satisfy her, however she was going to

take it to Midtown in th afternoon when ehe called on a ^atient to compare

it with their collection. Since she did not telephone in distress X assume

all is wall. Tomorrow I go again and shall hsar dsfinitsly and I hope be

told I can go to the offieo Tuesday, There have been a couple of good rains

this week and the reservoir is aetually up a little for a change, Monday

while we were shivering for tha Pope in 43 degrees ws dissevered that we had

neither heat nor hot water. This situation continued until Thursday about

five oxeept for a few hours on Tuesday late afternoon, Then X^ihiaK the

Suntr uedd the heat generated by the incinyrattr f*r heting. Three calls

to the laaMflttsrd ware

ef^ Vr * vi#t s?.l:1a to be the answering

service each promising to have me called back* Eventually I called the

Health department anc filed a complaint about lack of heat and the Build

ing Department about hot water.

Todav Vera Joined tie ft? $'veheon at the Coge.eptln 4am Club, Terrace *f t^e Drawing room wae gay with rats of yellow ehrvsanthemums and daopled with a?mrhine while we waited* The table on the dining room terrace seemeJ a good ids-, but *hen the sun left and the wind sor?.n~ h, I we*t down and go*
o^r ooatc. Bv t^e time we left it was sprinkling and we were gratef"! to the de-r&* for catching a. taxi. The TV has kept u* informed on LBJ^e eneratien and warned that on the eye of Columbue Day Yale was going to release proof that rear Chwi.**r me* not really the discoverer of America. Asian made in 1*40 satisfies the* 4hat Lief teen had been to North Ameriea 490 years bofore *
Columbus. No doui$ lvT*' Yeyk XI'1 have ihs t*aditiAnal paifedt *?vrihtless 1

October 11, To Scanlan this morning* Last waek*e eardiagram was O.fc, -r"I ait to try the office tomorrow. But have to have another EKG next Monday. Aunt Annie olanc to stay until after that is done. Cal goes today to the Kenneston Hosnital in warietta for a prostate operation tomorrow. Wo pray that hie surgery a~d reo every will go as smoothly *s that of th* Prssidnst,