July 7, 1954

They took Doris to the hospital this morn but she hasn’t had her baby yet. Billy said he was going to name it Mary Hartline. Staying home tonite. Baked 2 cakes. Wrote to Dale & said I was sorry about last nite.

I wonder what she did to Dale that warranted an apology? They must have argued about the job she wants to take.

She was a cake-bakin’ fool today — that probably put some heat in the house!

So Doris is in the hospital waiting to have her baby. This will be her third child — she and Mildred’s brother, Finis, already have two sons, Billy and Johnnie.

I’m thinking maybe Billy watches a little too much TV, and is at a very impressionable age, if he wants to name the baby Mary Hartline! Mary Hartline is an actress who is sometimes referred to as “America’s First Sex Symbol”.

How disappointed will he be if that baby is a boy?