This morning’s mail brought me a letter from a friend who is here tonight. He said, “This, if you can use it, you can tell it to anyone. I decided to go the ballet, the Royal Ballet. Well, I didn’t send my check in when the announcement came that they were coming to the city. I should have, but I didn’t. Only a week ago I decided, well, there’s a certain party I want to take. When I made my decision to take a certain party, without getting the tickets, I invited the party. Then I called a friend of mine who’s a junior executive at the Hollywood Bowl, because in his capacity he could get all these things, and he said, ‘Oh, easiest thing in the world! I’ll get you a pair.’307 ¶72