Arnold describes his Thanksgiving meal and company as well as his medical studies and summer plans.
He and a date saw the 1942 movie The Man Who Came to Dinner, starring Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan and Monty Woolley.
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Armistice Day was November 11, but Veterans' Day has overtaken it as a national holiday.
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Arnold has finished at Children's Hospital and is now spending two weeks in obstetrics at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Hazel reiterates Dolly's engagement news. The family likes Wayne far more than they ever did Lee (whom they found suspicious in his outrageous lies of wartime valor).
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Dolly surprises everyone by getting engagement to marry!
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Bill sends Arnold some support in money and supplies.
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A letter from Hazel to Arnold with family news:
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An update on his medical studies form Arnold to the family back home:
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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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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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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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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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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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