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mother had died only five years before, whom she had been taking care of for a long time. She came back to Philadelphia to take care of my brother, who was three years older than I, and myself and live with my father. They lived together until he died in 1931. But she was the typical -- well, more than typical. She was an extraordinary woman. She was the maiden aunt who came in to bring up the two very young children of her brother. She was a marvelous person.

My father never married again, after my mother died. He never really recovered from my mother's death, and talked about her frequently but could hardly talk about her without a great deal of emotion. This was a very heavy blow for him, from which I don't think he really ever recovered. He certainly never married again.

But I started to say something about the fact that we moved after my father had had his bust-up with Curtis. He was invited in 1915 by his brother Adolph in New York to come to New York. It was a good time for my father to leave Philadelphia anyway, for he had been devastated by my mother's death. He now became editor of a newly founded magazine published by the New York Times Company. It had actually been started at the beginning of the war, 1914, before my father came to New York. In any case, it was owned and controlled by Adolph and the New York Times Company, as a magazine to record the major documents and events of World War One, as they were breaking out. This was 1915 and the war had, of course, broken out in 1914. My father came to New York to take over and to really, in effect, organize and put together this magazine, Current History magazine, of which he remained the editor until his death in 1931. We, the family, the two boys and his