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In fact I got straight A's. in all the 14 ½ credits - even Wren's Far East, so there weren't many history MA's in that class.

  I can't understand why I never heard from Stone. I wrote a short letter, requesting the use of his name as reference & asking about schools & living conditions in N.Y.  He offered to recommend me for an assistantship at the U. of Michigan so surely it can't be that he was insincere to that extent in his compliments of my work. Either he's as unreal as Fiedler or else something unusual has happened - illness or something. I wish I knew what the score was. What do you think?  right margin   Was everything he said a well-intentioned lie?
  I saw the write-up of "Cherry Orchard in the Times & wondered if you had seen it. Was it as "refreshingly free of traditional encumbrances" as they said?
  Did you meet Shelley Winters?  How does she compare with Monroe?
 I've been looking for classified adv's in the Times here & it finally dawned on me that that section is not mailed to Montana. How provincial can we get here!

[[[left margin]] Aunt Laura invited Doug & me, there arrow- Lodi, Calif. for a few months' rest but I won't need to go, I'm sure. It's nice to know I could, though. Makes me think of Frost's "Death of the Hired Man"- "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."