Hazel is still reading The Apostle, by Sholem Asch. The Seventh Beatitude is Matthew 5:9, which goes "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God."
Although Arnold is still a first year student in Harvard Medical School, he is taking classes at MIT. (He will eventually earn a PhD at MIT in 1956.)
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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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Apparently Arnold sent them Paul Bunyan's humorous pictorial map of the United States Depicting Some of his Deeds and Exploits by R. D. Handy. Laura's Land of Make Believe may be the 1930 map by Jaro Hess. Sholem Asch's The Apostle, 1943, was a novel based on the life of Saint Paul.
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Hazel writes again with family and neighborhood news. I am not sure who Dolly's Johnny is. She gets married during the war, but to a guys named Lee, not Johnny. The Apostle mentioned in the post script may be a 1943 work by Sholem Asch.
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