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or not?

Oh, yes! You know, my friends at the Herald Tribune said: “You're crazy, going there. That's going to go under in six months!” And I said: “Yes, but I asked my boss where I'd be at the Herald Tribune in three years and he said: ‘If you're very good you'll be making $40 a week.’ So, I make $40 a week now, the day I started LIFE.”

Was there any talk, even though he'd long since been dead when you arrived, of Briton Hadden?

Totally unaware of him.

O.K.

No talk.

O.K. Let's talk about--

The only person who might have said something would be Noel Busch, who was his cousin. Yes.

Start describing what are some of the highlights of what you did in those early years, first as Science Editor and then to whatever jobs you moved on to.