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gentlemanly. But there was an uproar in the hotel when we first started eating corn. Disgusting, revolting manners! What do those people think they are? [laughs] And so they lived in Rapallo right through, I guess, to the beginning of World War II and they moved to Nice. He died there during the war. No, he died before and my grandmother died there during the war, I guess it was. But we went to Rapallo on vacations.

Going back to when I was in Switzerland, what else did I do? Oh, I was a boy scout and I went camping every summer up in the mountains, which was great fun, except that one of my duties as a leading young scout was to go up as a member of the advanced party, and the job of the advanced party was to clean out the ground floor of the chalet that we were to occupy. The ground floor of the chalet that we were to occupy had been occupied by cows for the previous eight months. It was so bad that the scout master even gave us to drink some alcohol de menthe, which is a slightly alcoholic drink with a mint taste. That was my beginning at drinking. No, I guess my beginning at drinking was in Bavaria because I used to drink beer when I was in Bavaria at a very early age. But, of course, all German children drank beer. It wasn't considered to be a form of--

Depravity.

Yes, depravity. It was just like Italian children, French children all get wine with water.

Did your mother in all these years, she was a beautiful woman,