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ponding numbers, I don't get my colors all wrong. So you'll have to use your own judgement about the coloring, but I did want to hear it all described."

It was a great pleasure to work out the color combinations for that man. Afterward, I wondered often whether he took guests through his home and said, "How do you like this pattern of magenta and Guatemalan yellow?"

The Stock Exchange Building duly came into being with my draperies part of the decoration. They were a great success. At the opening, I moved as unobtrusively as possible through the crowd of men and women, eavesdropping for comments. I was particularly interested to hear what the men said. Their remarks told me that I had hit the target.

This was a great break-through for me. Thereafter, architects began consulting me in numbers, Gardner Dailey, Bill Wurster and Tim Pfunger, of San Francisco,