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“...A lieutenant met me at the train in S.F.
with a staff car and drove me to the airport...
Friday morning I was processed, getting
another medical examination and vaccination...
took two nembutols and slept two hours...
A couple of good looking flight nurses came up
and sat on the edge of my bunk...
Mildred Rathbone came along and asked me
to her apartment for highballs...
After dinner at the hotel, Henry Mahn asked me to
come to his quarters and play Whisky Poker...
served cherry brandy...
went out to call on Floye...
They had Bourbon...
back to the hotel for the Willey’s cocktail party.
They had Scotch..."
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bed right after dinner and read Esquire until I fell asleep.
This evening, I am going with Mary Pflueger to Kit Carmon's for
cocktails and dinner. Tomorrow noon, I am going with Floye to
Lum Young's farewell luncheon to his son, who has been inducted.
Lum serves the most wonderful Chinese food you ever tasted.
Have
been invited to another party for tomorrow evening, but I declined.
Enough is enough.
While I was at the Visiting Officers' Quarters I have mentioned,
I was sitting on the edge of my cot looking at the floor, when
a
guy stopped at my door and asked what was the matter with me.
I
said, "Nothing." He said, "You look blue." I replied that I
was
not blue, I was only waiting. He said, "Come down to my room
and
wait. I have a bottle Spanish brandy." I had never seen
him
before, and couldn't tell his rank, as he wore only a pair of
under-
shorts. But I went along with him. He turned out to be
a full
colonel in the Medical Corps, on his way home to Camden, N.J.,
on
leave from the jungles.
On a table in his room was a full bottle of Green River Bourbon,
pre-war, that he was taking home to his wife. After we
had dis-
patched most of the Spanish Brandy, he gave me a carton of Camels
and the bottle of Green River. Such are old friends in
war time.
I keep thinking of the wonderful times I had back there with
all
of you. They are very pleasant memories.
Am writing Dorothy to thank her and George for their many kindness-
es to me. I shall tell her that I have written you all the horrible
details of my life since I left and that rather than write it
all
over agin I am asking you to let her read this letter, if she
cares
to. Same for Jack and Jane.
All my love to all of you.
[signed in blue pencil]
Papa
Is your Phone State 456667