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Grace Davis said to me, “Charlie Hook doesn't know what he's doing. He's just gone crazy. He'll sign anything. He isn't used to this kind of thing, Frances. He lives a very sober life in the Middle West.”

I just nearly died of laughter. I said to Will Davis, “Do you know what these ladies are saying?”

“Oh yes,” he said, “the girls just think it's terrible, but it's no worse than you thought it would be, Frances.”

I said, “Yes, it is, because I didn't expect that Charlie Hook was going to lose his mind out of this situation.”

I'm not implying anything immoral or improper by all this. I'm just saying that Charlie Hook, who led a godly, sober and righteous Presbyterian life somewhere in the center of Ohio, was being dragged around to night clubs and things that he probably never heard of when he was home. He wasn't the only one. I forget who the others were. Gerard Swope, Bob Watt and Will Davis weren't doing this. They had their wives along and she didn't take them out dancing, although she asked them to come. But she took everybody else out doing things. She got the people on the British Board to do things with her and to take her places and was, according to Mrs. Davis, “sheeky,” asking