Arnold's Story: January 31, 1948

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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Arnold's Story: February 8, 1945

I remember from my years in Fresno, California, that people there spoke about "having weather" as if it was not constantly around us. One Fresnan said "we have weather, too" in comparison with the Midwest and East Coast, but meaning that it sometimes rained or rarely snowed or frequently fogged up, but most of the year it was sunny and cloudless. (I guess that is when they did not "have weather".) I see Hazel uses "weather" in the same way.

The U.S. Post Office was extremely efficient in the 1940s, perhaps more than nowadays, some 75 years later. Although I see from this letter that they now have home delivery only once per day instead of the previous twice. I suppose that is why she no longer puts "AM" or "PM" on her letter dates.

God Is My Co-Pilot was a 1943 memoir by Gen. Robert Lee Scott Jr. about his exploits in World War II with the Flying Tigers and the U.S. Army Air Forces in China and Burma. The book was adapted as a film of the same name, released in 1945. The Nazarene was a 1939 novel by Sholem Asch.

Ted W. Lawson wrote Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo as a memoir of his participation in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in 1942, which ended in a crash, from which he was rescued by friendly Chinese and then repatriated to the U.S. The book was subsequently adapted into the 1944 film of the same name starring Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson and Robert Mitchum. 

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Arnold's Story: early 1944

This letter was probably from late 1943 or early 1944, but it had no date, so I cannot say for sure. Arnold was at Camp Kohler already in November 1943. Charles Cutler is in the Navy but training at Caltech with other Caltech classmates. 

J. Edgar Hoover on Juvenile Delinquency, 1946, was a treatise on the importance of involvement in the community and the role played by family and faith a child's developmental years.

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Arnold's Story: November 2, 1944

A letter from Arnold's Caltech friend Al Grote:

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Arnold's Story: January 23, 1944

A January 23, 1994, letter from Chuck Cutler to Arnie:

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