(a la Charlie McCarthy.) But, I never let him out. Talk about locked doors where he used to keep me! I got even with him alright. I kept him for ten days locked in that suitcase. Now he knows what its like. But, after that was paid I marched up to the loading platform and cajoled the nice man at the desk out of a window seat because I had never flown before".
The flight to New York was very pleasant. The plane wasn't very full and the two seats next to me were vacant. A little five year old girl named Joyce came across the aisle and got acquainted with me.( I was struck by the symbolism of her name. We flew not far above Forest Lawn where rests OUR Joyce and I couldn't help thinking that last year she too was going to New York for a vacation and a meeting with everyone at Susanna's Resort.) The little Joyce and I became real chummy and she stood there with me and looked out the window she told me about herself and her family etc. When lunch was served her Mother
let her sit with me, we had lunch together, like Mother and daughter. It gave me a very maternal feeling to look after her, cut her meat etc. It was a good auguary for a wonderful trip.
town.
Arriving in New York., I found that Felicity was unable to meet me as planned, so I took the bus into Had dinner at the Airline Terminal and then had the porter take my bags out to the taxi entrance. It was a rainy night and taxis were scarce. A nice gentleman asked what part of town I was going to and finding that it was in his direction we decided to share a cab. Thus I arrived at Felicity's apartment which she had invited me to share and make my home for as long as I was in New York.
Saturday morning I got up early, fixed myself up as pretty as possible and caught a taxi to go down to the hotel where the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex was in session. My part of the program did not come till the afternoon so I had not tried to make the moring session. I had lunch with several prominant members of the Society and with Dr. Burchart of Germany who was also to be one of the panel speakers.
85