Arnold's Story: July 31, 1950

A sympathy card from Arnold's friend's mother Vera Cummings. Carl Cummings' nickname was Bud.

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Arnold's Story: May 22, 1950

Arnold stays in touch with his deceased friend 's mother, Vera Cummings. 

May 21 was "I am an American" Day, honoring naturalized American citizenship. It started in 1938 spread nationally by 1940. Later it became Citizenship Day and moved to September, being renamed Constitution Day.

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Arnold's Story: May 19, 1948

Hazel's brother Ellwood Wolfe, his wife Rubye, and their children Jane and Walter stop by for a visit on their way home from Sansum Clinic in Santa Barbara. Bill and Hazel frequent mention going to this clinic for medical care. (The Sansum Clinic specialized in diabetes, so both Bill and his daughter Dolly were regular patients there.)

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Arnold's Story: May 13, 1948

A letter from Vera Cummings thanking Arnold for sending roses remembering her son Carl's death four years earlier. Carl was a close friend from high school in Glendale. Vera Cummings gifted a Limoges china plate to Arnold and his new bride Newlin several years later, in the 1950s. Someone in the family may still have that plate, although some twenty years ago it was dropped, it broke and had to be repaired with glue, so perhaps no one opted to keep the damaged plate. (The Cummings home at 813 N. Central Av., Glendale, is now a real estate business, the neighborhood having been absorbed into the nearby business district.)

Vera Cummings' description of Hazel Nevis arriving home with her hat on is accurate. She always wore a hat and gloves, well into the 1970s. Hazel was a notoriously bad driver. Her daughter-in-law Lucille said that she was indignant when accused of bad driving. Hazel always got into her car and adjusted the mirror first thing, then of course she checked her lipstick and hat and fixed her gloves. And generally without looking in the mirror a second time she would back up. One time she forgot to put the car in reverse so instead of backing out the garage at 501 E. Mountain St., she rammed the car through the wall of the garage. It went partially through that wall and stuck out the other side, on the second floor over the patio. 

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Arnold's Story: March 8, 1948

Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) was an American Reformed theologian and professor at Union Theological Seminary. Rev. and Mrs. Alison Reid Bryan were Presbyterian missionaries in India.

The 1948 musical My Romance, with music by Sigmund Romberg and lyrics by Rowland Leigh opened in October 1948 on Broadway, was an adaptation of Edward Sheldon's 1913 play Romance. This performance would have been an out-of-town tryout before the Broadway opening.

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Arnold's Story: July 24, 1944

Arnold has recently received his commission in the Army Air Forces in Technical Training for radar and now moves on from Yale to Harvard for officer training.

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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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