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was long before the time of the General Motors strike. However, this indicates why when I heard Lee Pressman was in Detroit with Lewis and Hillman that I had a second thought. Pressman came over. I had never seen him before so far as I knew. After all, during those two or three years we might have seen anyoody anywhere. Everything moved in mobs. But I had no recollection of him.

He came in. I was on the telephone when he came. He stopped a moment at my secretary's, Miss Jay's, desk, and chatted with her. She showed him in. We talked superficially for a while. He said he was so glad to meet me, that he had long wanted to. He did want to tell me how much he admired this, that and the other thing. Well, I've often wondered how old Lee Pressman was at that time, because that was the first false step, although it needn't have been in incurable false step. There's no reason why a young lawyer looking for a job should open the conversation by telling a middle aged lady how much he admired her and all her works, and how he had been looking forward to meeting her all this time. I said to myself, because I've had lots of this in the course of my life, that flattery is something that everyoody thinks he can use, particularly on a woman. There are subtle ways of flattering women. Sophisticated, modern, professional women can rarely be