Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Nov. 21, 1943

They address their Christmas cards; grand jury probes butcher murder case

Lowell went downtown this Sunday morning to get a second tetanus shot. In the afternoon, he and Thelma addressed Christmas cards together, and that night they saw a movie at the Prytania Theater. The card above features a Scottish terrier, a popular motif because of President Roosevelt’s personable (and much photographed) scotty Fala. President Roosevelt had to leave Fala behind when he took his trip to the Cairo Conference, but the dog was in good hands with his cousin Daisy, who was keeping him with her own scotty Button at her home in Rhinebeck, New York. She sent FDR a sketch she had made of the two dogs curled up together on her bed.

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