becoming proud as well as being happy when dolled up.

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And that my

wonderful friends, is what I've been trying to tell everybody for a long time. It is not enough to accept ourselves..we must reach the point in which we are proud of having this double barrelled arm to face life with. It means that we can even be a little sorry for those who just haven't found "the girl within". As you probably realized, Marie and Susanna did not have as much opportunity to socialize as much as they would have liked. The cook we had hired decided not to show up 24 hours before the weekend and that left us both stuck with all the work. And so we could only get glimpses of many wonderful friends we would have liked to get to know a little better. Gloria remarked that among the 68 TV's present (yes, that was our official figure, not counting wives and non- TV's) there were six cover girls: Anita, Ann- ette, Lee, Fiona, Denise and Susanna. Gloria tells me she got 30 good pix including 8 candids of the crowd. Says she'll be glad to send sets in color at $8. Anyone interested can contact me and I'll pass the word along to Gloria. But before I forget, let me tell you about the plumber we almost lost. On Sunday Oct. 28, when the crowd had al- ready thinned out considerably, Marie received a phone call from our plumber who lives some 25 miles away. This is the way the phone con- versation went. Plumber: Marie, I hope you'll forgive me but I don't think I'll be doing any work at your place anymore. Marie: How was that? Plumber: Just as I said: There's something mysterious go- ing on there..I just don't like all that mystery. Marie: What are you talking about? What's this about a mystery? Plumber: Just what I said. Just what I said. Just forget about my working for you there. Sorry. Bye." And that was the end of the conversation. However, inasmuch as the plumber is a very good worker and we need him badly at our place, we decided to drop in and see him at his house on Our way back to New York that very same night. We arrived at his place around midnight and proceeded to question him on this 'mystery bus- iness, although I had a pretty good idea of what it might be. At first he refused to go into details, but he finally ended up by telling us that on the previous afternoon, Saturday, he drove in his truck to talk He noticed the huge number of cars parked all over the place and imagined there was some sort of a convention. He got out of his truck and proceeded to approach a couple of ladies who were coming out of the house. He wanted to ask them where he could find Marie. However, as the two ladies saw him, they both turned aside and almost ran away from him. Slightly baffled he turned to another lady who was coming towards the main house. Again this lady no sooner saw him, turned around and proceeded to walk away from him. At this point the plumber was getting peeved. So he boldly approached still another lady and asked her if she knew where the owner of the place was. The lady did not even look at him and went by as if she were

to us.

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