Arnold's Story: January 27, 1948

Arnold's youngest sister Laura writes a thank you note for his Christmas present. She had made cookies and sent them to Arnold. Laura had gone to the Rose Parade and wrote that she had seen Bringing Up Father, a 1946 comedy, based on the comic strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus. Hazel says instead that they were to see a different movie, Life with Father, a 1947 comedy adapted from a play of the same name, which was inspired by the autobiography of stockbroker and New Yorker essayist, Clarence Day.

Lillian Emery Havens Wanless was married to Dr. William James Wanless and published his biography, Wanless of India: Lancet of the Lord. Canadian-born Dr. Wanless was a Presbyterian medical missionary who founded and led a medical mission in India in 1894.

The ROAL club is the Reserve Officers Association Ladies club. 

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Mrs. Harry Sloane Coffin might have been the wife of Henry Sloane Coffin, a prominent Presbyterian minister, president of the Union Theological Seminary, and Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (there were at least two Presbyterian churches in the U.S. at that time due to a split during the U.S. Civil War, but they merged in 1980s). If so, she would have been Dorothy Eells. 

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Arnold's Story: January 12, 1948

I am not sure of the address or street mentioned below. There is a Marquette St. in Albuquerque, New Mexico, so perhaps this is where Hazel went to bear children (for Arnold and Dolly — Leonard arrived unexpectedly early while there were still in Bluewater) or else her family lived there before she married. 215 North Edith may also be in Albuquerque, too, though it is now an empty lot, so maybe the old house was torn down after 1947.

Some language has changed in the past 70 years: Hazel says French fried potatoes rather than the current phrase French fries. And she writes motion picture camera, where we would now say movie camera. The trend is toward shorter expressions.

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Arnold's Story: January 2, 1948

A newsy letter from Hazel about their Christmas and New Years holidays:

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Arnold's Story 1948 Boylston Medical Society

Here we have 1948 invitation to join the Boylston Medical Society of Harvard University. 

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Arnold's Story: 1948 Snellen Chart

A Snellen eye chart from 1948:

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Arnold's Story: 1947 Harvard Medical School postcard

A postcard of Harvard Medical School, circa 1947.

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Arnold's Story: December 23, 1947 PM

Hazel writes Arnold a second time the same day with some items she had forgotten. (Madison refers to Pat and Len's apartment in Madison, New Jersey.)

I include a scan of the interior of the envelope because of its handsome photo of Yosemite's El Capitán

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Arnold's Story: December 23, 1947

Family preparations and plans for Christmas:

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