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was having my breakfast at the old Black Cat; by that time
they'd changed the name to the College Inn and moved the College
Inn down to the corner of University Avenue and what is now
13th Street. I was seated at a table all by myself and going
over my notes for the first lecture, when a woman came in and said,
"Why, hello Angus, I heard you were going to be back." I looked
up and I didn't think I'd ever seen the person. I have a fairly
good memory, but I don't ever remember having seen that person
before. She said, "This is crowded in here, do you mind if we
have breakfast with you?" Well, I sort of did mind because I
was going over my notes, and I looked up and here was this
girl. Immediately I said, "Why of course, sit down. Glad to
see you." And she brought coffee in and the girl was Myra and she
asked for a second little carton of cream for her coffee.
P: What was Myra's name?
L: Doyle.
P: From where?
L: Tampa. I said, "Here, have mine. I don't use cream in my coffee."
She says, "Good, I hope I have breakfast with you lots of mornings."
I still kid her about that being a proposal. It took me about
a month before we became engaged.
P: One month. You were a fast worker, then.
L: Yes, I was a fast worker.
P: As compared with your earlier lovelife.
L: With myearlier lovelife, yes, and we were engaged for a year
and we married a year after. But, at the end of summer
school, I learned that. .
P: Excuse me, let me just interrupt here a minute so I get the record
straight. You were married in Tampa in 1938?
L: No, I was married in South Carolina in 1938. Myra's father had died
in the meantime, and her mother had gone to live with a sister
on one of the Sea Islands in South Carolina. The sister had a
big family and a big home, a big plantation, and other things up there.