June 30, 1945

Dear Billy,

Mother received your letter of June 25^th this morning. Pretty snappy service, eh?

It’s too bad you aren’t permitted to wear summer uniforms. If the weather over there is anything like it is here, you’re just going to melt. According to the weather report which I just received over the telephone the temperature at the moment is 89° and it’s going to 95° this afternoon, which I wouldn’t exactly call cool.

I got a new permanent on Monday night and am I glad. My hair had gotten pretty long and was all sort of hanging down on the back of my neck and it was pretty hot. I now have what is known as a “feather cut”. It’s quite short and all little curls.

Mother and I saw “Bloomer Girl” as I told you we were going to in my last letter. It was very good. As I told you, one of our tickets was for the right side and the other for the left side. However, it worked out very well. The usher noticed that the tickets were not next to each other but I told her I would sit next to mother until someone else came in, which she said was alright. In about five minutes a lady came in, all excited, with one ticket for the right side and once for the left, so we just exchanged a “right” ticket for a “left” and everyone was happy.

After the show, we walked over to Stouffer’s at Grand Central for dinner and we got there at exactly 6:05. Well, without any exaggerating, there must have been at least 250 persons standing waiting for tables. Can you imagine that? We stood for a little while and then decided we would try the other Stouffer’s on the Fifth Avenue. We figured it couldn’t be any worse. There were several standing there, too, but we were seated in about twenty minutes, which wasn’t too bad.

When it came to ordering dinner, I was in quite a quandary. There were two different kinds of meats on the menu, baked ham and Salisbury steak, which is quite unusual. It took me a long time to make up my mind which to have. I’m just not used to having a choice any more.

Schrafft’s usually doesn’t have any meat at all at lunch time, and quite frequently they don’t have any meat at dinner. We had dinner in there a couple of weeks ago and the only meat on the menu was sausage cake. Bye for now honey lamb.

Let me know if you want anything,

Helen Meehan