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editor-in-chief!
No, I mean after--
Oh, after--
After he died, yes.
I have no knowledge. I would think she might have, yes. She probably wondered why she wasn't, matter of fact. Then there was Hank, of course.
His son by his first wife.
Yes. He had two sons, Peter and Henry the 3rd. And Peter had the wisdom to go off somewhere else. Oh, he also had a brother, Sheldon, a younger brother who worked there. What was his name? He used to be--I forget--he was on the Guild negotiating team with me--a nice fellow. But he decided--oh, I think at the end of the war--that he wasn't going to stay around at Time Inc. There was no place for anybody who was a relative of Harry's there. And Hank, the son, made the mistake of staying there. And he turned out to be pretty much of a disaster. We tried and tried to build him up--maybe we tried too hard. We gave him quite a number of very responsible positions. And he flunked them all--in part because he had an alcohol problem, in part I think because he had a father who was a very domineering person and had never paid much attention to his son, and there really
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