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#151 Navy #3247 (Mil. Govt) FPO San Francisco Tues 27 February 9:20 pm My darling: No letters from you today, though I did get a couple of book sections, a Review of the week, a copy of Life (Jan. 15 - funny how they come in backwards), a Columbia Alumni News (done reading) and an I.H. Quarterly for autumn ’44. I enjoy seeing the last-named occasionally though it gives me as ever that uncomfortable feeling of a forced atmosphere - it oozes so with brotherhood and pious hopes. In an article entitled “Our World” written by Pardee Lowe in India, he speaks of an English formal dinner at the Imperial Hotel in New Delhi, attended by people of various nationalities - “and finally there was an American who was adept at speaking Japanese.” I wouldn't be surprised if that was Howell Breece. The enclosed snapshots are not very good but I'm sure, as the first available, you'll be glad to get them. They’re of the pay line, of course (taken about 12 Feb.) and do not show any civilians I know particularly; the Navy men in the jeep are Ensign Newsman Ladabouche of the Supply Corps (here only about a month), a rather crisp, pleasant guy from Niagara Falls (6’5”) and a Seaman 1/c named Allen from Louisiana. Sometimes I sit in the jeep while [pg 2] Ladabouche, standing, pays out the money; this time it was I who happened to be standing. These snapshots have no connection with the ones I took a week or so ago (and which I don't expect to get back for about another week). Incidentally, one of the Nisei from Hawaii with 5 or 6 cameras from home has written for 2 of them, and if they can be sent he says he will sell me one. It takes 620 film, and you might start picking up some of the latter on the chance that I do get the camera. Whether I do or not there's something else I’d like which would increase my chances of getting prints made; 2 or 3 packages of 8”x10” printing paper (whatever finish you prefer). I understand that it's much easier to get in the states than film is, and ca be swapped out here for developing service at times when money is no object. There is an article which would interest you (get it if you can) in the Christian Science Monitor Weekly Magazine Section for Jan. 13th - especially a part about two-thirds of the way through. The j.g. who's mentioned is a Boulder colleague in Charlie F.'s class. Curious, your mentioning “The Pacific World” in a letter I received the day after picking it up [pg 3] in Reinie Hurtzburg's tent and looking thru it [belongs to his roommate, an amiable guy (commander) who expects to come over some afternoon soon to take snapshots of the civilians - I'll try to get one or two…photography and flowers are his hobbies, and their tent it surrounded with several varieties of hibiscus plants - also saw my first outdoor poinsettia (Coach says they have lots of them in California)] I would like to read it but it seemed to me too slight a book to buy. Have just glanced through your last seventeen or eighteen letters to make sure there wasn't anything urgent to answer - tomorrow night just another note because I have the movie responsibility (English class tonight), Thursday night free. Hope you get my last few letters quick like a rabbit! I love you Warren
