October 15, 1964

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A diary entry written by Patience Cleveland that discusses her acting career, her book, “The Lion is Busy,” and her personal life. The entry is dated October 15, 1964 and is written on white, lined paper in black ink.

Transcription

Kruschev no longer head of the U.S.S.R.-

A day that was lost until about 3:30-Got up + felt so sick I went back to bed. Truly fragile. No mail. I read a mystery. Slept again. Ate some sherbet. Peter went out to buy Bromo Seltzer + we learned about Khruschev- End of an era. The stock market shaky. Big political upset too with Walter Jenkins-a Johnson aide for 12 years arrested on a morals charge (the 2nd it developed) Oh lord + what a bad time for this to happen. At 8:00 tottered to my feet-Peter had been changing rugs all over the house-looks good. We went to Janie’s to watch Estelle on Kildare. She was fine + looked absolutely heavenly. Show a little slow especially at the end (tried to call her but she wasn’t home-Jane home about 10 + we went up to Price St. + then to Burl’s coffee shop for dinner. Peter called Andelson today + must call him again tomorrow at seven. He called Frank Overton-had long chat-they’re building a house somewhere. Frank told him to call John Conwell who casts his series but when Peter called Howard Rubin he said J.C. already knew him. Oh well-ho hum. Timmy called us to ask us to dinner tomorrow. Richard called person to person for Wallace Gunn + we talked with him a little over the operator-we decided he was just trying to tell us he’d gotten there-