Dear Diary,
I spent the day today doing practically nothing. I read an Ellery Queen mystery and fooled around with shortwave to see where, when, and if the program Bob was on last night was being rebroadcast. I had absolutely no luck, although I tried about every fifteen of thirty minutes. This was quite a different day from yesterday, when I spent eight hours at Adamson High School, sending ration book no. 3 to several thousand hungry people.
Dear Diary,
Sunset and Tech tied for first place in the city spelling contest today. All four of us (two members to each team) had perfect papers. Adamson and North Dallas tied for second, and Woodrow Wilson was last. Forest’s contestants didn’t show up.
On Milton Berle’s program tonight Berle was supposed to write some gags for Ilka Chase, so he had his writers released from the dungeon and brought into the studio. He said, “Ilka, see that little fellow on the end. He used to be with Bob Hope but he left and came to me.” Ilka asked him why he left Bob, and Berle said, “I have lighter chains.” Now I see why he’s always using so many of Bob’s jokes–he gets Bob’s used-up gag-writers.
Dear Diary,
The front page of the paper this morning made known the fact that Ralph Rainger, the song-writer, was killed in an airplane crash last night. Rainger wrote such songs as “Love in Bloom” and—yes, you guessed it — “Thanks For the Memory.” Undoubtedly Bob Hope will have something nice to say about him next Tuesday.
Adamson played Sunset tonight, and naturally Sunset won. We beat them twenty – five to twelve. However, Adamson is the first Dallas team, and the second Texas team, to score against us this season.
Muriel Windham's Diary 