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editor-in-chief!

Q:

No, I mean after--

Heiskell:

Oh, after--

Q:

After he died, yes.

Heiskell:

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.

Q:

His son by his first wife.

Heiskell:

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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