The main thing is the building of a wall between East and West Berlin, which is going to cause all kinds of political problems between us and the Soviet Union. The “Cold War,” as it’s called, is getting hotter. That was on my mind this morning because I was listening to a story about the “Berlin Wall” on the radio in my car as I drove from my apartment down to Hollywood Boulevard so I could go to a Laundromat. The one in my building was under repair, and I badly needed to do a wash. I knew there was one on Cahuenga, so that’s where I was headed. I also had my Stiletto outfit with me, because I was supposed to go see Barry in the afternoon and planned to change somewhere. But then the day took an unexpected turn, and I helped foil a bank robbery. I think. To tell the truth, I’m not sure exactly what happened or what the thieves got away with. The Security First National Bank is an old 7-story building on the northeast corner of Hollywood Blvd. and Cahuenga. Barry once told me that Raymond Chandler’s character Philip Marlowe was supposed to have an office inside.
