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location. It paid me well and I found the men with whom I worked congenial and certainly interesting. I think I would say that that was one of the most important influences in my early life.

Aside from the money and having a home away from home, what was most gratifying about your working there? What was most satisfying? The business end of it, or what?

Not so much the business end of it although there were some rewards in that area. I suppose the most interesting part of it was that I was given a responsibility and allowed at a very youthful age to run my own show, so to speak.

What were your responsibilities exactly, and what age were you?

Well, the age we're talking about is -- what? Twelve to eighteen. I would say the things I learned in that operation I would put on a par with my graduate work. I didn't always have to report at precisely the same hour or remain on the premises until a certain hour. I had a job to do and as long as I did that I was rewarded and given freedom.

And your job was -- when you say display advertising -- you mean by that setting up the windows?

It was everything. We had, I think, twenty-three street level windows to trim. Those were changed about once a week. Some of them less frequently than once a week. We had to trim the windows in the basement. And then they were elevated late at night and put into the final position on the street level. For part of that period I did all the show cards. All