Arnold's handwriting is closer to print-script than cursive. Later in life he writes entirely in block letters. His cursive was nearly unintelligible. We see him sign this letter "Arn", though his nickname in general was "Arnie".
Virus "X" was an influenza outbreak in December 1947 and January 1948.
The Chocolate Soldier was a 1941 musical directed by Roy Del Ruth. It uses original music from the Oscar Straus 1908 operetta of the same name, which was based on George Bernard Shaw’s 1894 play Arms and the Man but using a plot from Ferenc Molnár's play The Guardsman.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1948 Western written and directed by John Huston. An adaptation of B. Traven's 1927 novel of the same name, set in the 1920s, it starred Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt and Walter Huston (the director's father).
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