Dear Rosetta:
Took a ride today. The countryside is blooming. The peach blossoms are out and they are beautiful varying shades of pink. Some have a fuchsia-purple color. The pear trees are smothered in snow white buds. It is certainly a sight to behold.
Went to the movie in town yesterday and saw Frank Sinatra in the "Man with the Golden Arm". It is a violent, terrible, stark melodrama, excellently acted. Frank Sinatra was good, as usual, but Eleanor Parker and Kim Novak were excellent. The street accent necessary to the parts may have come easily for Kim Novak, but Eleanor Parker did a wonderful job with hers. Robert Strauss was effectively repulsive but there was another fellow, whose name I don't know--played a dope peddler--who was unusually good. The theme music keeps sticking in my mind. I have a feeling it is very good music.
Tonight I shall go to the Officers' Club and take in some good music. Tony Pastor is appearing tonight. I shall eat at the club--probably a steak, and watch the elite meet and greet. I wish you were here tonight.
This week we are required to write a thesis. At least that is what the director of instruction calls it. Actually, what he really wants is a 500 word composition. The subject is supposed to be about some phase of Military Police work, with which I have had little or no experience. I pointed this out to Capt. McDowell, the class director and he said, "What are you worried about the way you write." He said that actually what they are interested in is the literacy of the writers rather than the subject matter. Obviously the last composition impressed him.
Received a short letter from Mr. Chack in which he informed me that "things are about the same." I was delighted to hear this and shall answer his letter forthwith with the comment that things here are different.
Lt. Rosen just walked out splendidly replete in the new Army Blues, a magnificent uniform, somewhat like the Civil War Officers' uniform with massive epaulets and huge stripes of gold braid. It stood him $140 not counting the cap, which is $35. Actually, he should be wearing a cape, which is called for, but that costs $95 simoleons. The cape is a blue matching the uniform with a satin lining bearing the color of your branch--blue for the infantry, scarlet for the Artillery and yellow for the Military Police. I have never seen one, but they should be very effective. The uniform is worn with a white shirt and black tie. For formal occasions a black bow-tie is worn.
Miss you terribly. Shall we ever allow ourselves to be separated again? I dread the thought. . . .
My Love
Buddy
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