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the War and it was pretty tough. We were at a dinky little hotel. Everytime I go down there I ride by it and look at it because it brings back such pleasant memories. The big hotels had been taken over by the Air Force.

Was your wife always...? I often find that the wives of many authors complain when they go off to the typewriter and write a lot and...

I never went to the typewriter because I never learned to type.

I mean...

Phyllis has been wonderful about it. She is very understanding. The only time she gets angry is when I spend whole days watching football or hockey games on television and putter around the house. I love to putter around the house, and sometimes she grumbles about “a disappearing husband.” Usually she is doing things herself; but when once in awhile she has nothing to do and I'm puttering around, she gets very annoyed. But that usually doesn't last more than an hour.

Oh, we're all this way.

The reason I mention it is that it happened