Arnold's Story: August 23, 1950

Leonard writes Arnold on a billing machine at the Ideal System Company office. 

Philip Wylie's book might be Generation of Vipers, a critique of contemporary American society, including Christianity, with numerous reprintings.

Leonard's sailboat is dubbed the Pixie. He tells a lively story of 

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Dolly's health appears to improve and they are optimistic for a recovery.

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Arnold's Story: December 9, 1944

Hazel writes from Glendale, California, with family and neighborhood news.

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Arnold's Story: August 30, 1944

Hazel reports that merchants are anticipating the surrender of Germany soon, but it does not come until May 1945. In this letter Hazel enclosed a newspaper article about a brush fire near their home in Glendale, about a block uphill. Their property on Mountain Street stretched from Cavanaugh Road to North Jackson street, with the house on the Cavanaugh side and a large patio and fruit orchard on the Jackson side. (In the mid 1960's Bill Nevis divided the large lot in two, built another house on the Jackson side and sold it. They sold the original East Mountain Street house a few years before 1968 and moved to Whittier to be closer to Leonard and his family.)

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Arnold's Story: May 26, 1944

Hazel Nevis writes on May 26 with news from the neighborhood families. Arnold Nevis also graduated from Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale, so presumably he and "Johnny" Eggleston were classmates or else they knew each other from the neighborhood.

John E. Eggleston, Glendale News-Press

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