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She was very austere, very aristocratic. I found her very charming and very informed. I shouldn't use the word arrogant, because she was a very polite woman, but she was polite in a cold kind of a way that did not disguise the basic arrogance of her attitude towards people who didn't know anything, didn't care and didn't want to do the right thing. She knew what was right, had it definitely in her mind and felt that this was a very low order of human being that didn't agree with her. She was just as arrogant to Bob Moses, to Henry Bruere and to Paul Wilson as she was to Jimmy Walker. It wasn't aggressive arrogance. It was a kind of an aloof, stiff arrogance. She was very straight with a very straight neck. She was the first woman I ever saw knitting in public, except French peasants. She knit little black silk neckties, which are long narrow tubes which gentlemen then wore with morning clothes. She knit them on four fine steel needles. She would sit in a committee meeting with her eyes riveted on her knitting and say not a word until everybody had spoken his piece. Then Martha, taking her last stitch, would clear her throat, put her knitting down and say two or three devastating sentences, sufficient to put cold water over the ideas of the group if they had not been her ideas. On the other hand, if she had promoted it in advance and had suggested to you that you introduce this subject, when everybody had spoken Martha would put the final blessing