Arnold's Story: October 27, 1949

Bill sends Arnold some support in money and supplies.

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Arnold's Story: October 10, 1949

A letter from Hazel to Arnold with family news:

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Arnold's Story: October 9, 1949

An update on his medical studies form Arnold to the family back home:

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Leonard and Arnold's Stories: October 3, 1949 LJN

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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Arnold's Story: October 3, 1949 Dolly

Eldon Wayne Murphy is now introduced as Dolly's boyfriend. 

Dolly has diabetes with complications that prevent her from having an active life.

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Arnold's Story: September 23, 1949

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 Story: September 19, 1949

The New Yorker Hotel is just a block from the original Penn Station but at its rear. I suppose that the taxi stand might have been on Seventh Avenue, so the taxi would have had to drive three blocks to circle around to the hotel on Eighth Avenue. Nevertheless Bill got there without getting wet.

Bill may be writing "borax man" to describe Mr. Kauffman. If so it might be due to a resemblance to someone in 20-Mule Team Borax Soap advertisements or to the 1940 movie "20 Mule Team" starring Wallace Beery. 

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Arnold's Story: September 16, 1949

By special delivery mail, Bill confirms that he will get off the train at Back Bay Station instead of South Station, as Arnold has recommended. Bill will stay at the Statler Hotel. A picture show is what we call a movie or film now.

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Arnold's Story: September 15, 1949

Rev. and Mrs. Joseph McNeill were Presbyterian missionaries in the Church's West Africa Mission. Spanish Guinea is now Equatorial Guinea.

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Arnold's Story: September 13, 1949

The NY NH + H RR is the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, but I am not sure what the Short Line was. The parlor car was a class above regular coach class, probably the same as first class today. Boston's South Station is still in use today.

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Arnold's Story: September 12, 1949

Bill is planning his trip to Boston. He is willing to stay at the Statler Hotel (now the Boston Park Plaza), the Hotel Bellevue or the Parker House Hotel. He always stayed in the best hotels. (I recall his wife Hazel continued that tradition as we traveled with her through Denmark, Germany and Finland in 1970; she insisted on paying all the hotels for the family so she could get the quality she enjoyed.)

Here is one of the few times any family member used a nickname for Arnold — here "Arn" — though later in life he always went by "Arnie".

If Bill saw the Yankees plan the Washington Senators (featuring one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Joe DiMaggio), it certainly would have been in the original 1923 Yankee Stadium.

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Arnold's Story: September 9, 1949

Hazel writes with birthday updates and weather news:

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Arnold's Story: September 8, 1949

In a Special Delivery letter Bill writes with pride how well his business is doing and which of the salesmen cover what territory for the Ideal System Company. He plans his trip to Boston for a visit with Arnold and wants to stay at the Parker House, famous for having invented the Boston cream pie and Parker House rolls. 

From this letter I now understand why Dolly has her mother's name — Dolly was born on Hazel's birthday and was christened Mary Hazel Nevis after her mother Mary Hazel (Wolfe) Nevis.

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Arnold's Story: September 5, 1949 MHN

Charlton Flats is in the Angeles National Forest, about a 25–30 mile drive from Glendale.

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