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were in those days - used to be the business mangers of the departments. That's what they should have been and what, I guess, they were originally intended to be. But Sam was no business manager.

The balance of the afternoon I was having Callus pack up Mr. Doak's things. They had quite a hard time to get boxes and things. I just kept pressing them, saying, “Go out to the grocery store and get them if they haven't got any in the shipping room here.” I insisted that all of his things be packed up, that they get the truck and take them out to his house. By nightfall all his things were packed up and in boxes and out of my office. Whether the truck took them out to his house that night or the next day, I don' t know and never did know. I took it for granted that Callus and his secretary between them would know everything that was his. There were a lot of books and papers, little odds and ends of objects, things that people give you at banquets. We all have them. You don't know what to do with them so you put them in the drawer. Those were all emptied out into boxes and packed up and I had them sent out. The desk was emptied. I said to his secretary, “You empty the desk, because that's quite personal. I don't know what he's got in the drawers. I don't want to look at it and I don't want





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