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P: She was a very good prognisticator.
L: It was a month before we became engaged and we were married a
year later. Then a little bit later I was offered the position
in the General College. Later transferred to the Department
of History and Government when they were still together.
P: Angus, if Twere listing important events in 1937, I would list
the fact that that's when you and I first met, in September of
1937.
L: I can remember you in class and I remember handing back your
paper one time. In those days we did not grade out papers
individually. I think it may have been the first year that
they gave objective tests and I thought you were not doing the
best work in my class, frankly.
P: It was that Huberman book that threw me.
L: Oh, was that it? I guess it was the Huberman took. Do you
remember reading that book?
P: Sure, it was the first year that Leo Huberman's book was used.
L: I have the book. The first year. .it was the only year.
P: It was the only year that it was used. I have my copy of Huberman's
book.
L: They stopped using it a couple of months afterwards.
P: I remember.
L: That's always been a mystery to me as to who was responsible for
that book and how they stopped it, but I protested the second day'
I saw it. I didn't protest, but I just told Manning, and Bill,
and John Maclechen and Woodward, we all had lunch together on the
campus, and they were told that I had been reading that book, and
I said, "That's the first American primer." That's a textbook in
Communism.
P: Don't you think that maybe Bill helped select that book, perhaps
without realizing that that was the emphasis?
L: He may have, yes. Now, he told me that he talked to Dean Matherly
about it and Dean Matherly says, "Well, does Angus look under his
bed ever night to see what's there?" He may have, but I wonder who
selected that book. Wally Attwood may have, he was head of the
department.