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May 8, 1946
Dear Mother and Daddy,
I've just come back from a music lesson, and for once I really had quite a good one. I had to play a piece for memory and thought I would never get through it, but I did twice. When I left she seemed more pleased with me than she has in a long time. Over the week-end I saw a movie, "The Seventh Vail," which inspired me to study very hard in my music. That movie was the best one I've seen in a very long time. I would certainly try and see it if you are able because it's more worth seeing than any movie I've seen in a long time. It's any English movie, but has been playing at all
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of the theaters. It's about a girl who was a concert pianist and became a psychological case. The music is by the London symphony orchestra and is just beautiful.
I finally got back my English test and I got a B on it. I've gotten a B on every test I've taken this quarter. I had another little German test today, but I don't think I did too badly on it. I havn't had any in public law, and I'm just holding my breath until I do, I'll certainly be gone then.
As usual I had a very nice week-end. Bob came down in the afternoon and we went to a swimming meet between Stanford and Cal. We won 55-19, 19 is most points that any school has yet gotten off our swimming
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team. Our swimming team is supposed to be unbeatable by any college in the country except one, so I guess we have one good team. After that went to the baseball game between Stanford and U.C.L.A. U.C.L.A. won 9 to 6, but we won the baseball game with them before. I went out to dinner with Bob and then came back and got ready to go to a dance the Nu Sigs, the other medical fraternity were given. It wasn't a very good dance, but I did have a nice time except that I got awfully sleeply and though I'd never get to bed. The next day we went on a little picnick with Kay and Bill and another
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couple, Janet [Issmun] and Chris [Hwang]. We had a lovely time; it was an absolutely beautiful day and there are millions of wild flowers out. I had to come back early though, because we had a supper at the house and I had to help fix for it, it was really fun getting ready for it. It was a delicious supper, Bob said it was a perfect meal for him and I guess it was there wasn't any vegetable, just fruit salad and potatoes, and cold turkey and rolls, and ice cream and cake - When I think of it now my mouth waters. All the girls asked someone and we all had a lovely time playing around afterwards.
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I'm afraid that John Fulton has changed his mind. He came over on Monday night and asked me if I'd have dinner with him on Tues day. I asked him if he thought he ought to ask me and he said no, but that he wanted to anyway. So I said that I would. So we went out to dinner last night and had a very nice time. One time during some conversation, Sally or Ruth told him that I grind my teeth in my sleep, so last night he brought me a little rubber cap for my teeth, one of things prize fighters wear when they fight. You should see it on me, it looks just horrible. I might wear it with the hope I'd quit except
