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to arrange a most discreet reception for Madame Curie when she came, one that was suitable, elegant, dignified and took note of her personal and intellectual distinction. He could do either one of those. He could arrange for the crowned heads and for political leaders, and do it all so that it was suitable and so that whoever was mayor did not appear like an undignified creature, but appeared a man who was the mayor of a great city.

Walker was more and more social. He invited more and more high dignitaries of foreign countries and this country to visit him. The public reception became more and more and more a factor of life in Walker's administration. Walker was all right at it. He always made himself very agreeable and very pleasant. He would never have gotten off, “You said a mouthful, Queen.” On the other hand, he didn't pay attention seriously enough to details. For instance, I think Walker was mayor when Madame Curie came and except for Grover Whalen's attention to the job, she wouldn't have found Walker as suitable a mayor as some of the others would, because he wouldn't have fitted into her pattern of life and thought. She was a very serious woman, a very simple woman, a very unstylish woman. Grover Whalen appreciated these differences between people, between their circumstances and their significance in the pattern of life. He would arrange for