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there for, and I said, “What do you want to do?” and she said, “Let's go up to Scotland and let's see what the distillery looks like.” We went to Glen Livet, wherever it was, up in Scotland, and that Christmas I gave her some stock in the distillery. She was a great--In fact, there was a Texas fireframe for something she discovered--I never knew anything about it--published in some physicists journal. It was a story about a “ frame” that a physicist had developed that was a perfect thing for starting a fire. So she found the guy who made them down in Texas and got one. I put it in here and it worked like a charm, a fantastic performance. I think maybe we've given a dozen of them to friends, and whenever she'd give them to friends she used to give them the fireframe, a copy of the Wall Street Journal and a bottle of Glenlivet. The Glenlivet--The note she used to write with the fireframe was, “You start the fire, then you drink the scotch, and you start the fire with the Wall Street Journal.” She was just full of little things like that.

Q:

Well, thank you very much. I'm very glad we did this.

Stanton:

I'll take you to lunch.

[END OF INTERVIEW]





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