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Right.

And he quickly said, oh no, he'd just been waiting to hear from me, and what did I want to do?

And I said, “If you still want to do it, I'll do it. Merry Christmas.” And that was it. Never talked title, salary, terms or anything.

I walked out, went home and told Ruth that I had the job. And it was up to me to make the announcement. And when I went to my first stockholders' meeting in February -- The stockholders' meetings at that time were attended by very few people -- maybe a dozen outsiders and four or five insiders who had some technical role to play, like lawyers and accountants, and so forth. I went into the Board Room. We held the stockholders' meeting in the Board Room, it was that small. I went into the Board Room and the General Counsel--

Was Paley there?

No, he wasn't there. The General Counsel was an outside lawyer by the name of Ralph [F.] Colin. And Ralph came over to me, very friendly and said, “Well, are you all set?” And I said, “Sure. What do you mean?” “Well,” he said, “You know Bill isn't going to be here.” And I said, “Well, who's going to chair the meeting?” And he said, “Well, didn't he tell you? This is your job.” So in less than five minutes, I was pressed into being chairman of the stockholders' meeting. No big deal because this is long before the likes of the brothers that go to the meetings today and this crazy woman that runs around to all the meetings. They