My father succeeded… in life and his business. He was promoted by the Metropolitan, the life insurance company until he made a very good near the end of his life and retired on a very good pension. He died at the age of 88 in 1989.

My mother was comme il faut. She was… she took pleasure in doing the proper thing and it was her style. She was… well spoken. My father wasn't ill spoken, but my mother was the one who was well spoken and she had the social graces and she was a very loving mother. She… she taught me how to type when I was a boy. I must have been 10, and she had been a secretary in a law office before she got married and she was an excellent typist and stenographer. And she… she luckily, blessedly taught me to type and I was a kid and I loved learning it from her – she had a typewriter – and I loved learning it from her. It was easy to learn and I could type. But mostly she was there as a… as a mother. She was very active in school affairs, she was president of the, what's called the Parent-Teachers Association for several years and so she knew all my teachers, which excited me. And she had many women friends and she… she had a wonderful life, I think, until the boys – my brother and I – went away, and then she was quite bereft