This letter tells of a work detail that Dart was assigned to in the hospital.  The task was sanding, waxing and polishing the “deck” between wards. Dart’s sanding job consisted of attaching steel wool to his feet and shuffling around for a long time. I neglected to mention a tidbit from one of his letters a few days ago: Because of his infected wound, he has nearly no restrictions, except he cannot sit. After a day of sanding on his feet, his legs were throbbing. His hospital experience just gets weirder all the time!

No more news. He misses Dot’s letters, but knows she’s working hard on school assignments.

Dot started a letter while listening to the “Thin Man” and picked it up the next day during study hall.

She understands that he won’t be home for her prom, so she will save all her sock darning until the night of the dance. Her school work is progressing so slowly that she predicts she won’t be leaving campus for the summer until mid-June, so she hopes they’ll have a chance to see each other – or at least talk on the phone.

There’s been a long running discussion about which movie star Dot’s roommate Andy declares herself to look like. Some time ago, she told Dot to  tell Dart that she looks like Betty Grable. When she learned that Dart is not especially fond of Grable, she now says she meant to say Lana Turner. Dot reports that Andy has just bleached her hair to create a closer resemblance.

The store is driving Dot nuts and she is questioning her choice of retailing as a career.  There seems to be a lot that is driving Dot nuts these days. Sounds like a serious case of “senioritis.”

She is shy about meeting, or even calling Dart’s parents, but she will try to gather the courage to call them when she’s in Cleveland this weekend. Dart would love for all his favorite people to meet, even if he can’t be with them.

She wraps up the letter with “That’s all for now, but oh, what I could say if I had time!”