Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Nov. 18, 1943

They go Christmas shopping; there is news from Cairo; the second Mrs. Massotto arrives

Lowell wrote today that Thelma met him downtown and they did some more Christmas shopping, buying gifts for his sister Donnabel and someone named Chuck. They spent $5.05 on each present, the equivalent of $89 apiece today.

President Roosevelt’s cousin Daisy mused on his voyage to the Cairo Conference, and there was a new development in the case of the murdered butcher. The vintage postcard of the Sphinx and the pyramids is being offered on eBay.

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