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So you can imagine how important he became to the entire human race!

There's a wonderful story about Mr. Adam which I heard up at Williamstown, Massachusetts, at a bookstore up there, the Williamstown Bookstore. According to the story, an old lady customer came in one day and asked the proprietor if he had any new books that he thought she might like to read. He said, “I think that you might enjoy Mr. Adam. It's selling very well.” She said, “What's it about?" He said, “It's about there only being one man left who could propagate the species.” She said, “My goodness, is it fiction or non-fiction?”

Talking about the California problems in the Forties, there was one book on your list that I was excited to see. It was published a good deal later, in 1952: Whittaker Chambers' Witness.

I'll get to that in due course!

I'm sure you've got some good stories about that. Boy, I liked that book.

In the spring of '42--I told you Elliot Paul stories-- we did one of his most famous books called The Last Time I Saw Paris, which became doubly famous when Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote that hauntingly beautiful song. Of course, that was when everybody was weeping because Paris had fallen to Hitler and