the niels bohr one sticks out in my mind. and figuring out the liquor closet kind of thing, but, my mother having this military background, she was a natural to organize things. >> so how did she communicate with folks when it was time for a cocktail party? did they send notes around? >> i have no idea. >> was there a telephone? >> oh, yeah. mm-hm. >> was it a party line? >> i don't remember that it was. we had party lines in maine, but i don't, i think that was my first experience with a party line. and once my mother was permitted to go and visit her father back in massachusetts, and my sister and i both wore braids. and she said, can you braid the girls' hair, and my father said yes. and she laughed, and he said, i guess it was knitting i knew, not braiding. so i don't know who braided our hair. but pigtails were the way to go. and we had some really nice teachers. i think the school was set up by a chicago -- i don't know whether it was a private school, a lab school, something like that. but they send a whole batch of te