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wet wig is something else- the whole bit comes off. So after my swim I just left the cap on and walked back to the hotel. The swim was refreshing but the water is almost luke warm and the waves being broken by the coral reef about 1/4 mile out were very weak and small and all in all it was much like going into a big bathtub. Of course if you want to lie on the sand and get brown, thats the place for it but for swimming you'd do as well in a pool.

Tuesday nite I went to bed early because Wed- nesday morning was "P" day. I was due to give my paper at 9:30. I was there and I gave it. The paper as written for publication was 18 pages long and I had to cut it to ribbons to squeeze it into the 20 mins. alotted. There were so many papers that they asked it to be cut to 15 mins which was pretty difficult but I tried. I had had prepared and mimeographed at Foundation expense a number of copies of the paper and had mailed them to the hotel intending to pass them out before I spoke and thus let the doctors follow the charts while I talked. Unfortunately Uncle Sam with his usual efficiency didn't get them to the hotel in time so they could not be passed out. So I told the audience this and said that any who would be interested in a copy should give me their names after- ward and I would send one to them. Quite a few did this and made complimentary remarks so I knew that the paper itself had gone over all right. That being the case and the acceptance being good I decided that I would chance going with the group to the outer islands.

By this time all accomodations thru the conven- tion's own travel agency were gone, so I went across the street and told them what the conventions program of flights, dates, times and hotels was and in 30 min- utes they had me booked into hotels and planes that were almost the same as the group. So I followed them all over the islands and was part of the group all the time.

Wednesday night was the farewell banquet and lil' ol' Virginia was there in a green chiffon cocktail

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