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Helen Angell Fox letters to Bess Peebles Fox, January-May 1944

1944-01-04 Helen Fox to Bess Peebles Fox Page 1

[Jan. 4, 1944]
Tuesday evening
Dear Mother,
This morning about nine the phone rang. My roommates called me, I woke up sufficiently to answer, I found it was Don. He asked me if I'd like to have lunch with him at the Pentagon and I said I would. He also gave me some more dope I'll elaborate on later. I took a taxi out, arriving on the dot at 12:30. I went to the reception desk in the middle of the large concourse, filled out a visitor's card and gave them his number. They phoned, and soon an office girl came down to escort me up, all decorated with a badge that said "Army Visitor - Must Have Escort". I was glad I "must have", as I couldn't have found my way alone. My escort had very high heels on, which gave her a decided list to starboard and made me keep thinking she was about to turn a corner. She was very pleasant and talkative, however. We went by a guard and up a long ramp to the third floor., then around and around and up an escalator and along a corridor to Don's office. He has a secretary (who wants to join the Red Cross) and a desk where the corresponding British Colonel on Transportation holds forth. We visited a little and then Don bellowed "Rusty!" and Russel Neese (Maj.) came in & the three of us went to lunch at the officers' restaurant on the third floor. We waited a lot & I found out all sorts of things I'd wanted to know. Then we strolled around a little and they explained the set-up of the building to me. I left about two, as Don had a meeting then. 
I started a diagram but it is too complex.  Anyway it is a set of 5 concentric pentagons with narrow courts between and an open court in the center.

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[Jan. 4, 1944] Tuesday evening Dear Mother, This morning about nine the phone rang. My roommates called me, I woke up sufficiently to answer, I found it was Don. He asked me if I'd like to have lunch with him at the Pentagon and I said I would. He also gave me some more dope I'll elaborate on later. I took a taxi out, arriving on the dot at 12:30. I went to the reception desk in the middle of the large concourse, filled out a visitor's card and gave them his number. They phoned, and soon an office girl came down to escort me up, all decorated with a badge that said "Army Visitor - Must Have Escort". I was glad I "must have", as I couldn't have found my way alone. My escort had very high heels on, which gave her a decided list to starboard and made me keep thinking she was about to turn a corner. She was very pleasant and talkative, however. We went by a guard and up a long ramp to the third floor., then around and around and up an escalator and along a corridor to Don's office. He has a secretary (who wants to join the Red Cross) and a desk where the corresponding British Colonel on Transportation holds forth. We visited a little and then Don bellowed "Rusty!" and Russel Neese (Maj.) came in & the three of us went to lunch at the officers' restaurant on the third floor. We waited a lot & I found out all sorts of things I'd wanted to know. Then we strolled around a little and they explained the set-up of the building to me. I left about two, as Don had a meeting then. I started a diagram but it is too complex. Anyway it is a set of 5 concentric pentagons with narrow courts between and an open court in the center.