taking th« Ifevg too^ and would hev* come ov#r if 

 they hadn't been reading the Neva already. We 

 always read the Hews and the Bulletin at the 

 saae time • 



dilbi You said that he had many friends. Was he aetive 

 in organizations? 



Oogginst Hot so isueh in formal organizations, but everybody 

 liked to invite him to their homes* He was 

 interesting, and also his visiting made copy for 

 him. X aean he would pick little, overlooked 

 subjects. I have an article he wrote about my first 

 wife* It's called ** Advice is Cheap.** She was a 

 house builder. She had started as an art student 

 and took up designing sofa cushions. They sol4 

 so well they had to be lithographed, and she rested 

 from that business and built a house and sold it 

 before it was finished. She went on building. She 

 was talking to John one tims. He asked her how she 

 aecon^lished things. She said, "Well, I always 

 went to people who were successful and asked them. 

 I found that inatead of feeling competitive, people 

 liked to tell you how they succeeded." She'd go 

 right to another contractor or painter and ask him. 



