Bill writes to his son Arnold with a $100 check enclosed. We see mention of an excursion to Portland, Maine, back in late September, when Bill visited Arnold in Boston.
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A letter from Pat Nevis to her brother-in-law Arnold. Pat Quits smoking in 1950, but Leonard does not successfully quit. When I visited him in his eighties, he was still sharing a cigarette with his second wife Lucille in the afternoons.
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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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Bill writes about Arnold's expenses, travel plans, Leonard's studies, vacation in Los Vegas and he Grand Canyon, the trip to San Jose and San Francisco in June, and his growing business. He is especially proud of his new car, a Lincoln six-passenger Coupe.
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Armistice Day was November 11, but Veterans' Day has overtaken it as a national holiday.
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Leonard writes Arnold that he does not appear to be scoring high enough marks to get into medical school at the University of Southern California in his pre-med studies.
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In his fifties age-wise, Bill is at a sweet spot in life where his business efforts have worked out extremely well, so that no longer have financial worries at home or at work. His family is staying on top of their health issues, they have renovated their house in Glendale to be a "modern home" and the family can now enjoy the good things in life.
His company moved from 136 Liberty Street around the corner to 6 Church Street, into a building that no longer exists on account of the World Trade Center complex.
Like his younger brother Arnold, Leonard wants to got to medical school but is not confident he will get in (in part due to mediocre grades from college before the war and in part due to challenges from his current undergraduate studies). Bill urges Arnold to give Len a pep talk to encourage him.
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Arnold's letter to Cliff and Jean Cummings go returned to him:
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