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And we had the salesmen from all the magazines. This was sort of a big sales convention. And Harry was the main speaker of the last night. He had just come back from China. And China was tottering, so it must have been in the mid to late 1940s. So he started his speech about Time Inc. and this and that and that, and that took up maybe forty or forty-five minutes. You have to remember that at a sales convention everybody does a lot of drinking. And here was two hundred men, mostly--very few women. And then he got off on China and he went on for another hour and a quarter on China--just not what we all needed at that particular moment. When he finally, finally ended, we all got up, and cheered walking backwards. [laughters] And as we got to the door there was the wildest rush to the bathroom that you've ever seen. But Harry had no sense that he'd been talking for two hours.

Q:

You reminded me of something. What about LSD?

Heiskell:

Oh! That! We had a dinner at the Pierre, I think it was. And he was giving a big speech--I forget--maybe it was when Donovan was made editorial director--

Q:

Well, it had to have been in the 1960s if it was LSD.

Heiskell:

Yes, yes. It was around there. And he was talking about Time Inc., and talking about the modern world, all the things that were going on, and how everything was changing. And without any preamble that I can remember, he said that he and Clare were taking





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