Session: 1234567891011121314151617         Page 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940 of 824

angry very easily. Her voice was never loud. Very ladylike, very ladylike, and very attractive. Even into her eighties, she was a handsome woman.

She never remarried?

Never remarried. Never a sign of it.

When did she die?

She died when she was ninety-four. She died about twelve years ago in Vermont, where she lived with my sister.

What have you been able to reconstruct about what your father did during all those decades?

Well, it was funny, he ran away from earning a living. As I said, he was an artist and a photographer; he was in the war and then he was a diplomat. At the age of forty-two--I'll tell you later the reason I remember age forty-two--he became Colonel Behn's man in Europe. Now Colonel Behn was the head of the Commercial Cable Company. The Commercial Cable Company is the forerunner of IT and T. So in your terms Behn was the Geneen of those days, except that Behn believed in the good life and Geneen never did. [end of side one of tape; beginning of side two]

Behn started this vast communications empire and he loved living in Europe, spending a lot of time in Europe, and he was a great