Nov. 19, 1941 (Wednesday)

Norfolk, VA

Am preparing lecture on air fighting and types of German planes. Purloined another box. My fifth. Poor old Peter Paul Tiskie — the carpenter — also, one of the seven dwarfs — is going mad building boxes — the faster he builds them, the faster they disappear. I suggested that he will some day be famed for his boxes — “Boxes by Tiskie” — just as “Violins by Stradivarious.” Wigelius, “the clown,” is putting on a consistently good daily show.