Requested two RCA Service reports and 4 Human Sciences Research papers via the documents room.
Had a lengthy discussion with Joe Halberstein, who brought over the IBM report on a program for a general purpose system simulator — cf. note re: JFN on 18 December. It looks good and I think it should be applied to the Army’s problem. Joe thinks that JFN wants him to apply it to the Army’s problem. I pointed out the correspondence between this and the control problems of large- & middle-sized businesses at some length.
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Rec’d 2 dividend checks from American Security & Trust Co, 80¢/ & 20¢/share.
Talked to Joe Halberstein at length re: the Great Books. He is reading a paper by Whitehead on the great ideas.