Thursday
Dear Pat,
Picked up a time table today. We will meet the Pennsylvania Limited at 9:38 P. M. in Lancaster unless you telephone before 8:30 P. M. and change it. If you want to check your baggage straight thru to Lancaster be sure to buy a through ticket (via Hell Gate Bridge). You don't have to actually ride this route as you probably can make better connections to New York by going into Grand Central rather than Penn Station. You'd probably have to change at New Haven to ride the Hell Gate Bridge route into Penn Station.
The flash pictures I took at the Fair were all ruined because I didn't use a filter. Some jerk told me it wasn't necessary. The ones you took were all good but the ones of the baby roller coaster are interesting to nobody except collectors of pictures of roller coasters. I'm real proud of the shots I took from the RCA building. I bought a filter to use with clear flash bulbs and indoor film. Resulted in some good pictures of the Gazette Halloween party and the Halloween parade in York.
Enclosed are some clippings of your footlight friends. [no longer with the letter] Wassa matta? Haven't you carried any spears lately or is Scoop St. Lawrence falling down on the job?
Did you see where the movie version of Guys and Dolls has dropped three songs (My time of day, Marry the man today, and the thing Pat Rooney sang) in favor of three new ones. I think they're nuts for dropping the first two. I saw your friend Robert Frost on television the other night. Milton Berle appeared on the same program. That ought to raise Frosty's stature in academic circles.
We've been so busy rushing around to all the grand openings of the new stores in York. We have so many supermarkets in York now they'll have to sell to each other's employes [sic] to stay in business. We opened the Colonial Shopping center week before last, Weis Market and Food Fair last week, Acme Market and Joe the Motorist's Friend today. Tomorrow The New Easter Market opens by Joan Shive's house on Memory Lane and Saturday McCrory's selfservice five and dime opens in Sears shopping center. Even Monkey Ward had to get into the act. They opened a catalogue order office again down on Beaver Street. Big deal.
Mother says hello, how are you, etc. etc. etc.
See you soon.
Love,
Dad