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Then once this is conquered, once there is something tangible in this area, you'll have to go on to other fields in connection with ageing: use of leisure time and...

Oh, certainly. That would be fine. There's nothing more enjoyable than the use of leisure time; it's very easy.

Well, I think that is it as far as the health insurance story is concerned.

Mrs. Lasker, your name and that of your husband is inevitably linked with the very famous collection of modern paintings which you have here and in your country place. I have seen numerous references to it; the art world is very cognizant of its merit and I wonder if you would now say something about your collection, what motivated you and why you went in the direction you did in acquiring pictures?

Well, my motivation was always based on the fact that I have a much better visual memory than I have an oral one: that is, I have a much better eye than I have an ear. I enjoy things that I see more than I enjoy things that I hear. Even when I was a very small child I was interested in pictures and I loved to go to exhibits with my mother, to museums, and I can remember going to the Metropolitan when I was about 12 and being shown the pictures that were then popular like Rosa Bonheur's “Horse Fair,” and “Joan of Arc” by Lepage, and “Washington