Arnold's Story: April 28, 1944

A letter from Charles Cutler to Arnie, still training in the Army Air Force at Yale University:

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Arnold's Story: April 27, 1944

Hazel Nevis writes to her son Arnold with local and family news from Glendale:

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Arnold's Story: April 20, 1944

This is one of the few letters Hazel signs as Mom rather than Mother. She puts A.M. or P.M. or Afternoon on her letters, as with this morning letter. RIght into the Spring of 1950 the U.S. Post Office service offered twice daily residential delivery and pickup. The "Legion" cited below is the American Legion, of which Bill  Nevis was an officer.

I am not sure which photo this is, perhaps the one I have listed as circa 1945:

Arnold H. Nevis, circa 1945

Or it could be this one, where he looks a bit younger, which might predate the war:

Arnold H. Nevis, circa 1944

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Arnold's Story: April 12, 1944

Arnie got a letter from his mother about their Easter activities at 501 East Mountain Street, Glendale. The Virginia mentioned here was Laura's life-long friend. After Laura died in 1992, Virginia asked for something special of Laura's — her Picasso. In the 1950's Laura had visited Paris and bought a very small Picasso painting (along the order of 3 inches by 5 inches or less, I never saw it) for $300. At the time it was a family scandal to spend so much for such a small work of art. It went missing during some turbulent times later in Laura's life, so Virginia's request could unfortunately not be fulfilled.

501 East Mountain Street, Glendale, California in 1945 
(with North Jackson Street out of view on the far right)

Dolly Nevis, her boyfriend Lee, Hazel Nevis, Laura Nevis, and Laura's unidentified friend
visit Mt. Wilson Observatory, California, during WW2

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Arnold's Story: April 8, 1944

Roger L. Strem wrote to Arnie from Seymour Johnson Field (now Seymour Johnson Air Force Base) near Fort Worth, Texas, asking for assistance in paying for a pair of shoes he forget to pay for. J Press Men's Clothing had been on York Street in New Haven,  Connecticut, since 1902 and after leaving the York Street location between 2013 and 2019, is back at that location today.

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Arnold's Story: April 7, 1944 Good Friday

Hazel Nevis writes from Glendale to her son Arnie at Yale University in Army Air Force Technical Training Command. Arnie was infamous in our family lore for his standing up to his father at age 16 about not going into the family business — Bill Nevis ran an accounting company and a side business of printing, and he expected his sons to join the company, which Leonard later did. Here we see that he had decided to become a Presbyterian minister after the war.

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Arnold's Story: April 7, 1944 Pickrell

Caltech classmate Don Pickrell writes from Camp Crowder, Missouri, to Arnie at Yale University. Don is in the signal corps. 

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Arnold's Story: April 3, 1944

Two Lauras are mentioned here. One is Arnie's younger sister Laura Nevis, who recently had chicken pox. The other is Arnie's paternal Aunt Laura Mello. Arnie's cousins Wilfred, Stanley and Edwin are his Aunt Laura's children. Ed Mello died the war on February 21, 1945. 

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Arnold's Story: April 2, 1944 V-mail

Don M. Stadt writes from Navy in the war's Pacific Theater about mutual friends, his "butch" haircut, and recent leisure activities.

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Arnold's Story: April 2, 1944 Cummings

Private Clifford I. Cummings, a classmate from the California Institute of Technology, writes from Camp Crowder, Missouri (now Fort Crowder). Apparently both Cliff and Arnie were extremely keen to see action overseas in the war. ETG probably references the Electronics Training Group at Caltech.

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Arnold's Story: March 26, 1944

A V-mail letter from Arnie's first cousin, Leslie Hastings Wolfe, Jr. (on his mother's side). Sgt. Les Wolfe was a tail-gunner in Italy during World War II. The letter was posted on March 26, 1944, but mailed to Arnie's former North Carolina address and then forwarded up to Yale University, where Arnie received it at the end of April. (Cousin Les died in August 3 of that year on his return to the U.S., when the plane he was taking crashed on takeoff from Miami.)

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