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Lailah is coming to work for Porter-Eastman Byrne, Laugh, boy laugh! I had done such a good job building up a legend of the child wonder that she had no trouble at all in selling Charlie Byrne. He is all a-glow. Lailah certainly has a convincing line of lead-ins to million dollar businesses. Ho hum! My wife thinks I am in danger of becoming foolish over this bobbed-hair, and is fussing about it. She thinks I haveunderlined become foolish. M and L definitely split - M effected a temporary peace with his wife after a hell of a time - and now there is a re-approachment. L asserts that she is firm - that she is going her own way - but there is no doubt that she has a terrible yearning. M is tired of the water which the senator ever and anon sets to boiling, or rather stewing - and talks of swinging off into a sideline of special editions for newspapers a sideline in which he has a promis- ing start. Will he do it? The positions he has gained in his present place mean much to him. Don is playing around. Off a gin-game agin - Finnigan - with Lois. The only time when he is "hard" is the two or three