Maker 1960 Journal watch for a couple of hours. The weather was clear or relatively calm. A thin layer of cirrus clouds came in in the afternoon. The movie was "The Violent Men" with Glenn Ford, an above average S--tleitha. I finished R.C. Murphy's Logbook for Grace in evening. Radio communications were no better today. Rumors of contact with McMurdo were proven false + contact with New Zealand was broken. The ice about the shoreline is deteriorating so that the concern is not only in the airstrip but whether or not we will be able to get to the strip ourselves. The record radio blackout in this region is rumored to be 9 days. I believe we are now in our 6th day. Nov.19 Hallett Station, Antarctica. I cannot remember the day in detail (this is being written on the 22). I made a sound of the sherry before hand, after writing the resultant notes. I wandered about the penguin rookery locating pairs + nests, paced off the distance between several of the antenna poles in an attempt to locate the