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night and with a reasonably limited delay, the magazine came out looking as if we really were terribly smart.

Going back to the Guild for a minute, what you were discussing, despite the fact that it was spiked with this political pressure, were mostly normal wages and things that--

Wages, hours, categories, what work should researchers do or shouldn't--

Researchers?

Researchers was always a sore subject there, because they were made to work indecent hours, I mean, very long hours. They probably weren't paid as well as they should be, though they were paid better than most writers were on newspapers.

In the 1940s, the researchers were all women at that point?

They were all women, so the feminist issue was also involved in that, i.e., why only women are researchers? It's an outrage; you're obviously taking advantage of us women. It took twenty years before we got male researchers after that.

But you're recalling, that obviously was through the years an issue, was it, do you think in 1940?