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and the world would pour in to make their required call. If you didn't go, you were committing a social faux pas and if you did go, Bess didn't really care.

I remember one occasion. I came up in the elevator for one of these occasions and looked at my watch. It had been announced in the paper that she would receive from four to six and it was one minute of six when I got into the elevator. It was just six as I got off the elevator to go into this suite. The elevator was full of people who were going, and there were a lot of people coming up in the next elevator. As we came to the door of the suite, she was saying to the man who had been sent by the manager of the hotel to run this reception and tea, “It's six o'clock and close the doors.” Then she saw me and said, “Oh, hello, come in.” She liked me and we were friends. No everybody came in with me. As we came in, she said, “Now, close the doors and don't let anybody else in.”

I said to her, “But, Mrs. Farley, there are people waiting downstairs to come up.”

“It's six o'clock and I'm not going to see anybody else.”

That is political social manners - so long as anybody wants to call, if you're in politics, you should





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