Gill, Douglas E., 1964
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Gill, Douglas E. 1964 Honolulu, Hawaii 112 John was there strumming away on his guitar. I wasted the entire evening setting around, bulling, and writing this. Finally around 2200 I started writing many overdue letters. I finally got Larry to have his radio on the one good station and enjoyed Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1. I had given up writing letters and wrote my journal, I then titled all my pages properly and was real giddy and tired when I finished around midnight. They had a Mozart Program on for the past two hours and it was a struggle to let Larry keep it on. At midnight Pete and John returned from carousing so I accompanied them as Pete drove him home in the rented car. I don't think he should have been allowed to drive it since he is underaged and I think there should be stricter regulations who uses the rental cars. He dropped me off by a restaurant on Waikiki. I had a late supper and returned and hit the sack around 1:30. August 2-- I slept late (we all did) but finally got up at 9:30. I went to the Coffee Shop to get a light breakfast. Paul Woodward accompanied me and we discussed what we had been seeing and I deliberately chose a very conservative position, because I really was confused about what we had been seeing. He was real sure and proceeded to lecture me on the field identification of oceanic birds. A rather precocious attitude I should say. I returned with him to his room and continued to discuss with Ken and him. Around noon I went down to Waikiki and had an enjoyable Turkey Dinner. I wrote letters in the early afternoon but was too tired to really concentrate so I hit the sack. Warren woke me up around 1600 and Doug, Warrne, Larry, Paul DuMONT, Dale and I just went out to see the Townsend Cromwell, Warren's At-Sea ship, but it was