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be in San Francisco in a few days. This was a few months before the Pacific War brike out.

In these situations, I always brief up as much as possible before the first conference, studying the background of a company and the biographics of its chief executives. The more I know the better equipped I feel to talk with them. At the risk of sounding a trifle petulant, I may say here that art students and young designers often waste a good deal of my time and theirs during interviews by asking me background questions to which they could have found the answers in advance in standard references. Vice versa, when their questions indicate that they know something about my work over the years, it naturally tends to create a more favorable impression.

A reference book told me that an English immigrant Thomas Goodall, had founded the textile mills