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for me in the radio days. She knew company policy on editorializing when it came to the news and things of that kind, and alerted me to problems that I could get into and make some judgment on.

Well, you recollected earlier in this memoir that she also helped you with the development of the little black box that you put on the back of sets, too.

Oh, yes. Well, that was when I was in graduate school and I had to keep records on the placements of these little timers. So I'd bring them in in the evening, she'd open them up, take the tape out and spread it on the table and she could decode it. Obviously, we did those things together but she did a lot of that. When it came to my thesis, or my dissertation, I was so dog tired, trying to teach and finish my course work and write this turgid piece of--in compliance with the regulations. When I got to the last chapter, which was a summary chapter, and I was just so tired and it was due in the next morning, she took the bull by the horns, wrote the final chapter, typed it, and when I got up in the morning it was all piled up on my table and--She was, as I say, a very remarkable person.

But she was not ostentatious about it at all. She did all kinds of mechanical things in terms of woodwork, hats--She must have done, or left in the closets, at least forty hats that she had made at various times, and they were so beautifully crafted. I never wanted to have her dispose of them, because I always said, “This will give you a record of what we went through in terms of style.” She also was interested in her personal handbag. She never believed in carrying a big handbag. She had a very small one, and she had a little leather man on Madison Avenue who made her bags. She would design them and have him make them for her in various fabrics. There was hardly anything that had to do with cooking or clothing