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smart, human, friendly - just the sort of man you'd pick out of a crowd of a thousand and couldn't keep your eyes off of. What a man! What a career and what a future! He's a lawyer, which of course is the required background for such a job as Chairman who guides the Company in its outside relations, while the President largely guides its internal workings.
The banquet program was designed along the idea of kidding us that there were a long list of long winded serious speakers and then gradually relieving us by one by one eliminating them. When they got to Phil Reed, who presumably was the piece de resistance of the show, Bill Merriline said, "Mr. Reed will now give us his address." And Mr. Reed said, "My address, gentlemen, is Rye, N.Y. and that's the name of the town." There was a male impersonator of Dorothy Thompson who brought down the house, describing among other things how Mr. Andrews took her through the U.P. locomotive and how she "was impressed with the extreme simplicity of the unit, an example of Research that keeps General Motors at the head of the field."

And now comes a note of something that [[underlined]] might [[/underlined]] prove to be the herald of the biggest thing that's ever happened to me yet. Eddie Gunn was sitting across the dinner table from me and said, "Craton, I want to see you later." After dinner he sought me out and took me out on the front porch of the hotel where we were alone. He said, "Craton, when you get back to Erie, you want to work hard, keep your head up. You know what's going on out there now. I can't tell you anything more but I've seen organization charts.

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