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Roy Goggin - I had often wondered about Roy, his background, education, etc. Roy went into the army at about 16, went to France, was wounded, came back to go through college. He went to Harvard, M.I.T. and graduated from Tufts. He majored in mathematics, expecting to be a "math" professor at Brown. Somehow, he went with the G.E. instead. At college he got a "cum laude." He was born in 1900, of one of the F.I.F. (First Irish Families) of Boston. His family owns a controlling interest in a railway equipment company around here (a French sounding name I don't remember) that makes a certain reverse gear for steam engines, etc. They have also, a summer place down on Narragansett Bay, where he entertains good customers. I gathered Roy is one of the upper crust of the Boston Irish that have been here for many generations.

Neil Donovan - "Corny" is not a college man, having started in with the Boston Elevated, and gradually working his way up through the "hard knock school" plus off-time studies to where he is now. Roy says "Corny" has an inferiority complex because of this background, that makes him sometimes seem "fresh." I know what he means; I have seen Neil working out on "Doc" Millen and Mrs. Knowles in a way I could never quite understand until I got this story from Roy. Now it's all very clear.

"Doc" Millen - Doc is one smart duck, according to Roy, who was badly wounded in the war,