Jan. 19, 1958

Dear Bob,

Your decision to use "MM" in your letters I find most commendable.  I'm sure she and all her
descendents will be ever indebted to you.  This action is another example of the discretion I have found so typical in all your actions.

My intended Winter Carnival date never answered my letter, so Bob, my next door neighbor, a brother, and a Montanan, is fixing me up with someone from home who goes to Smith in Mass.  She'll probably show up with boots, a ten gallon hat, a gun on each hip and call me "pardner" the entire weekend. 

And what "drunken mob" propositioned me over the phone?  If you mean S et al, they welcomed in the New Year, S assured me with cokes.  And I have never been propositioned in my life, alas,

As far as your academy award phone call is concerned, S said in her letter that she was sure J wasn't drunk, and she didn't think I was drunk.  No mention was made of you.  I suggest you avoid the subject of liquor when MM comes up later this week.

The weather here has been wintry, and today is the first time in five days we haven't had snow.  There is about two feet of it on the ground now.

My finals start Wednesday, and my last one is next Tuesday.  Then comes Carnival.

I'll be looking for a letter from you early next week when you can tell me how the 24th and the 25th went.


Tom