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is living under handicaps now with Zelma in Erie and pregnant and not overly well to boot. Then getting started on the new job is tough - new contacts, a new line, on his own. It's a lot of responsibility. When I see Roy, I wonder if I am too complacent in the G.E. but after all, everyone who works for the G.E. can't be wrong. Roy saw no future, which to him is synonmous with big money, with the G.E. I wonder if big money is everything. Roy will be travelling most of the time, working like the devil, and with constant pressure on him like he never had before. He realizes it. I should prefer the kind of a job I have with a bit less money and more time to live - and incidentally, to write, assuming I make a go of it. But I admire Roy. He's ambitious and he has plenty of guts and all in all he's a very excellent fellow. We got talking about Charlie Reed, how he'd changed - not as exhuberant as he once was. Roy thinks it all dates back to when Charlie was eased out of the Motor Division. Roy says Charlie got in bad with H.L. Andrews because he was very arbitrary or something of the sort when he headed up the application section, and H.L. had him eased out. Roy claims Charlie is now no more than a high class storekeeper in the Refrigerator Dept. I never knew the story before - I wouldn't be surprised if that's the answer - the H.L.A. angle - as I can well believe from working for Charlie at that time that he could have rubbed the Boss decidedly the wrong way.

New York, N.Y.
Monday, Sept. 12. 1938.
Had breakfast on the train with Roy, and among other thing's, discussed Wayne Lynch with whom Roy used to work. Lynch's executive complex and his drag with H.L.A. are famed and I was interested to hear how he got started in the Dept. Roy says Whitey Wilson will do anything for a guy who plays up to him and when Lynch started out in the Urban Transit section,

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