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block below 13 East.
About a month later, Jean became pregnant. We loved our baby
Janet, now two years old. Janet nearly drove Jean crazy when they
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walked to the store, which was around the corner on 13 East. When
Jean would come walking back carrying grocery sacks, little Janet
would walk up the sidewalk to the entrance of each house they passed,
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became a half-hour due to Janet’s dawdling!
Janet was real cute about her toilet training. In the morning, she
would wake up in her crib, dry. She would stand up in her bed and call
out, “Oh, oh”. This call would be repeated after ten seconds. If you
didn’t pick her up and rush her to the toilet before the third “Oh, oh” the
deluge followed.
Janet and I had a game we played almost every night. It was
called “Big Bear and Piece of Meat.” I played on my hands and knees
as the big bear. I would growl in my deepest voice and go after her. She
would pretend to be frightened until I caught her and was about to eat
her up. She would then abandon the “frightened little girl” role, push me
away, and walk on in the room. She would then growl to me to start the
game again.
At Ninth Service Command, I had jumped from being the new
guy to being chief of the branch. I had two analysts working for me at
Fort Douglas plus two each in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle
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ous Army installations. We all worked hard. There were 40,000 civilian
employees whose jobs we evaluated. The war was now going our way
with the Russians winning tremendous battles on the Eastern Front and
the Allies having invaded France.
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money was invested in the house in Berkeley. We had no money for
furniture for our Salt Lake apartment. Rulah loaned us $500 from Bob
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back a year later with interest. We also repaid the $1,000 loan from Lau-
rine and Grant. They very kindly refused to accept any interest on the

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