It was a Sunday and Lowell wrote that they stayed home all day because “Thelm had a bad cold.” (It is hard to come up with a nickname for Thelma, but I guess that’s how you do it.) They spent 21 cents on “eats” and 10 cents on a card.
Though the world wouldn’t know it for some time yet, President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin had the first day of their three-day meeting in Tehran, Iran today The photo of the “Big Three” is from the collection of the Library of Congress. I don’t think I need to tell you which one is which.
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