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[[underlined]] W.J. Davis [[/underlined]]: This man was most famous for having developed the "Davis Curves" of train resistance which we used as our bible in calculating performance in service.

[[underlined]] Frank A. Faron [[/underlined]]: Frank went into the District organization and when I first met him, he was manager of our New Haven Office and I had a lot of dealings with him in the 1930's. Later he became manager of industrial sales in the New York District. What his specialty was in the Railway Dept., I don't know.

[[underlined]] O.J. Gilcreest [[/underlined]]: Oscar also went to the district organization and I first met him on my trips to Philadelphia starting in 1927 when he was handling the J.G. Brill account. Oscar was a southern gentleman but not much of a pusher and he never amounted to a whole lot. What he did in the Railway Dept., I don't know either. It may have been in 1929 that I met him in Philadelphia--at least, I know he was there by that time.

[[underlined]] A.D. Kline [[/underlined]]: Alec Kline went to Brazil on one of the jobs, I'd guess on the substation end, fell in love with Brazil, and stayed there for the rest of his career. He was a bachelor and the brother of Olive Kline, the famous singer of that time. Alec was Henry's companion the evening Henry had his usual pre-dinner martini session followed by dinner at the Mohawk Club and fell over dead at the dinner table. Henry Guy was in retirement in Schenectady then and maybe Alec was too although I think he may have been up here on a visit from Brazil. As I recall it, Alec was a very heavy drinker as I was to learn in a drinking session with him in Rio once. We had him out to the house for dinner here once and he sent Willie a very nice Brazilian watercolor in appreciation, which now hangs in our living room.

[[underlined]] R.R. Kouba [[/underlined]]: Bob went with the IGE and had what I know was a disappointing career with them in their New York sales operation, handling our Erie stuff primarily. I first met him on a Lehigh Valley gas-car job in 1927 along with Frank Sahlmann. Like Sahl, Bob was from Kansas I think, a tall, skinny, drawly guy but he just didn't quite have what it took to be a good international salesman like say George Doughman.

[[underlined]] J.J. Linebaugh [[/underlined]]: "Liney" succumbed to the blandishments of the consulting engineers, Jackson & Moreland, who handled the Lackawanna suburban electrification project, and went with them at a big salary increase to work on that job. But when the project was completed, they let Liney go and he finally came back into GE but it was the IGE, meanwhile having lost his continuity presumably and being a rather tragic figure to my way of thinking although I never knew him well. From what I've heard, he was difficult to deal with and was not too well liked by his associates. He was a substation man.