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in the new museum. This, too, was adopted.

I was somewhat surprised to see so many men from business and professional circles giving their time to the cultural life of San Francisco, Edgar Walter of the Chamber of Commerce, William Crocker, a banker, the architects, Gardner Dailey, Tim Pfluger and William Wurster, Albert Bender, a business man with a deefeling [[deep feeling]] for art and civic works.

Albert became like a second father to me. He was a little old man, weazened, perennially merry. He had twinkling eyes and what I imagine to be the expression of a leprechaun. He was quite short but he went around wearing giant fadora [[fedora]] hats which made him look like a little boy playing grown-ups. His background was straight out of "Abie's Irish Rose," an Irish colleen and a father who had been a rabbi and a great intellectual. His home (he was a bachelor) was like an Oriental museum, filled with beautiful