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And the doctor came in and she asked the doctor for a cigarette. But the Germans were still there. And after she woke up and she talked to him. Where she was. And she told him Auschwitz. And then she collapsed and said, you are a doctor or. And she said, well, ever since that day. And she said, you can go in and wash yourself. Give it a bath and give it food and sit down to the table. Since you have such a fine menace, you know. And she said, uh, what were you doing there? And she said, I don't know. I was a student medicine. He took me there to help people. Anyway, she was there Affectees Days when the Russians came. They want to kick the woman out. And she said no. She said, this woman helped me. To control myself, you know. That's okay. So it didn't bother the woman to let her. Be there. And the Russians came and saw the situation, who the system was, you know. And they took her to a hospital. And the hospital she was staying late at came from Russia came the whole airplane with, you know, from the newspaper or the news, you know, and they stopped to talk to her and they took the whole All started, not so much as she could understand as a Jewish general there in the hospital. And he. He was talking to her. He says, I wish I can go with you. Where are you going now? And she said, I wish I can help you. Anyway, one day she said she was afraid if he were put down in civilian clothes and they catch him, he would tell her she did it. So she said, if you can go by yourself after I leave you in the Haganah. They were there in Poland, in Czechoslovakia, to organize whatever survived, you know, you young people to take him to Israel, you know. And one man brought her in. She still, after Being maybe 2 or 3 months in the hospital. I still didn't recognize it yet. When she came in first, the man came in and knocked at the door. I said, I have a surprise for you. Yeah. And I, I looked at her and she came in. I looked at her. She looked at me and I looked at her. She didn't recognize me and I didn't recognize her. It was 5:00. First of five. And natural. This woman said I had to call a doctor right away. And the doctor said you'd better take her notice that I notice she couldn't eat anything. We had to bake a certain cake and very light food. And When the CIC came in, the doctor said she needed a certain I call the shots. If not, you will die. And the the captain came to see us. He said, Fred, let me check at the PX. He took the name of the shots PX. They didn't need the army. They didn't even have a test. And he sent a liar, a liar, a letter, special delivery to Washington. And he told him, you know what this girl needs. But this woman needed immediately. She got the shots to the CIC. And she. She was interested, too, in her ask questions and to ask questions. And she told him the same thing. They write down all kinds of, you know? They didn't want to bother her too much. She was ready. You should see her six months after she was herself. And she is now in Australia. She and another sister are red headed. And my brother, he will be here. My brother will be here in May. To visit us. That sister that I told you about. She will be here too in her husband in May. Also in May. He came here the 5th of May. They're going to stay for three weeks. And I in so many years after. She's still beautiful. And I had the two sisters in Sweden. One was sick and typhoid and the camp still in Germany. But the Queen left let in. Let in 500. And they took her, too. And they took her to the hospital. A monkey with so much experience, you know, they really made us sick. She was the youngest one at home. She was a really beautiful blonde. The hair up to the waist. The Germans didn't cut her hair off. They said she is the cleanest. The cleanest. You did this the cleanest. A Jewish woman they ever saw. They didn't cut her off the hair. They used to shave off all women's heads. No hair. And she worked in a in a kitchen. The trouble is, she was good for other people, not good for herself. She just could take one soup and that she should eat it. She was in the camp around there. She came in, you know. She eat half of it and give it. Give each one another. That's the way she got in trouble. She got sick of typhus. For three years since she died. A little beauty, but the redheaded older sister. She's alive. She's sweet. And this redheaded sister of mine. She came in from Sweden. She didn't have anything. I am a brother. I have 6 or 7 tailors working. Now I'm a rich, rich brother, I can assure you. I wasn't rich. I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001#t=1.28,441.69"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001/transcript/87325/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_UU:\u003c/strong\u003e worked hard from five in the morning to. Ten","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001#t=441.69,443.97"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001/transcript/87325/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e at night, 11 at night, just cutting and fitting in. It was specialized for just the sleeves, which I couldn't do it anyway, went on. My sister came and she spent three months at a fix. Take it to a dentist to fix it. To eat or not to eat. Myself, I had trouble with my teeth too. Who had cartoons, you know, and they had two cartoons and the Germans and the looking for gold. And they came they all had to stay with their mouths open like this. And they came with plain pliers, you know, and pull them out. And they took the really tooth with me, and it got infected all the teeth. After the war, I didn't feel good. I went to the hospital. They couldn't find anything. One time a doctor looked at me. He says, Fred, we checked this. We checked this. Everything looks good. Why do you have trouble with headache and headache? They don't feel good. It's just what you went through so much, you know, it's going to take you a long time. And I went to a professor and he said, you don't have any medicine. And this doctor said to me, you know what? I want an X-ray of your mouth and your. Was","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001#t=444.0,529.79"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001/transcript/87325/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e an attraction up until. Here,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001#t=529.79,531.5"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001/transcript/87325/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_UU:\u003c/strong\u003e all the way around. I had to. Pull","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001#t=532.07,536.78"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001/transcript/87325/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e out all the teeth of my original teeth. You have to pull out all teeth. 21 and one day. Then I had a tailor shop this time. They made me right away to his previous orders and just, you know, for the time being, right away put me in teeth and I should look like a human being. I was in the terrace. And having a varnish and Sara Hamilton. And she feels sorry for me. If I would be dead, they can feel sorry for me. Anyway, we we went on and I had a tailor working for me and his tailor had a brother in Australia, in Australia. And he sent him out an affidavit to go. to go, and I actually went and had a letter from him the next day. He didn't have enough money to buy food for the child. He gets food for the children and he didn't have any food. He was in a camp. And I said to him, put in an envelope, $20. But I said I had the CAC on my side and I was afraid. Anyway, they checked me for four years to see if I come in. He said, why do you afterwards, why did you go out in the black market? You see, there's so many of them. They make lots of money. Why do you have to work? And this was honest to true. I said, I don't have any talent for anything just for tailoring. I can make a dollar with my hands. Why should I go there and be like, Dear sir, you never be a businessman. They checked me out for years. They give me the end. They give me a recommendation letter. But I mean, I am what I am. But they used to come in and eat once, once or twice a week. 2 or 3 of them used to come in. I made him civilian clothes ready to go home next year, you know. And we used to talk. Oh, gosh. I couldn't understand her. I couldn't speak so much as they do. But they didn't understand me. They couldn't speak German to me. And they always used to tell me, Fred, the best country for you is the United States. And I not sure I listened, but the Haganah came from Israel to Munich to organize youth to come up. And I used to make English uniforms for them. They have different uniforms than the American. And I used to work for them, you know. And I went through the doctor's check up to go to Israel, and he said to me that I should not tell you this one said to me, this you would do for Israel more than you can do if you go to Israel. When you go to the United States, you can do more for Israel than you go to Israel. David needed 16, 17, 18 year old kids. But don't say a single word as I said it. I had a pass to go to Israel. I didn't. I said, you are right. Tell me if you need a fitness. Yeah, okay. I didn't go, just tell. I went to Australia and he took me. True.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001#t=536.78,762.05"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001/transcript/87325/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e To","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001#t=763.49,763.64"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001/transcript/87325/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e his brother and his brother said to the other men like this. I like to have it here. He sent me a letter. He'd like to have me sister. No, no. We were nine children. It's just four of us left. If you're not going to separate anymore. It took him a long time. Sent papers for all of them. Not papers, just to fill it out. And later. This has to go through the government. You know, at the time, they got edgy. This time I don't want to stay here in Germany. I had enough, I had enough. Even the Germans used to beg me. Stay. I have lines that are here. They should be here. You know you're going to have work. This is the first time they saw you work. They say you're crazy. I know I came from a city. All the Jews work. They had first time they see a Jew working so hard as I do. Anyway. It went on. And it looks like I didn't hear anything. And I said maybe he could not get for so many of us. My sister got married to a young man and my brother got married. Find a nice woman. And this is two, four, five, 6 or 7. Maybe it's too much for him. He cannot take himself. And one time the captain came to me. He says, Fred, come on, let's take a ride. They used to go to my right. They talk. They took me up to an office and says, Fred, here is the registration to the United States. I cannot tell you register because this means for us. I'm not forcing you here. You have a chance to register. And if even the laity don't want to go, you don't have to go. Okay. I went to the register and write down everything and asked me if I'm married. I said I was married, my wife died. I have witnessed, yes, I do have witnessed. She died about two weeks before the liberation. Friends came and told me that he can be the witnesses, swaying and swaying and stuff. This was already too late to tell him. Show him the letter. I didn't want to. I don't want any favours for anybody. The letter says everything this man needs. Please give him. He deserves it. And I didn't want any favours. He says that. Show him the letter. I show him the letter and I can see the man sitting behind the desk. And he looked me up from the bottom to the top, and he said, you know, I could read it. He said. who are you to get a letter like this? He didn't say it because I couldn't see what he thinks. You know, give me back the letter after my wife has the letter. And find the CRC. This is who goes to the United States. They check it. Each person. He has to be a one or. Two days later, the consulate. The American consulate calls me. And he asked me the same questions. Where would you like to go? And I said, the United States, I don't know. United States mentions they have friends. They say, no. Do you have relatives? No. You don't have any money. He used to ask in New York, in Chicago or California or wherever. They say, I don't know, one city to another. know that's what he sent me to do this morning. Anyway. And the captain, you know, two weeks later, I already got the papers. But, captain. Yes, sir. Look here. The materials assessment is not for me. I would do something for you. Maybe they will lay off another two weeks. They laid me off two weeks. And this is the end. If you don't go, you'll lose it. You used to take people years. But except to tell us, we are dead. You got a machine you can hand to hand. You got two machines, you know. I got new tables and everything. My sister said. My brother said you're going to leave us. One has to move day every day. Must I leave it in here? hear anything. One has to move. If I would be there, you will be there too. In America, anyway. We did. Uh. I arranged and did like this. If I have to go, you take this. The material was not mine. So people brought you. If you want it. Give him back the material or work it here. We should finish. If you want to stay here, stay? If not because the German people were watching. Soon I go. Are you going to move back in? Anyway, I got this scratch on my arm twice, you know. My arm swelled up and I said, okay, can I go to the United States like this? And I swung my arm and he says, yes, if you have temperature, we would not even want you to go. I have to go to a doctor and go into a German doctor and say, I have a temperature. You know you have a fever. This means I have a temperature, and I have to go to the United States and to check a high temperature. I wouldn't go. And he said, I said, you don't have any temperature. And I got mad in the table and says, you're telling me you have a fever? He looked at me. He was a smart cookie. He said, sir, I have a kind of special itch. I would say that you have. Ten days. I had to go by myself. I went to the United States by myself. By American ship, by army ship. Did I have a rough time with the army ship? Oh, really? I couldn't even eat. I said, come on, eat here. meteor that went so close. You see, as I am here and the waves, I call it the waves hit me back right away. There's no other side to come out here because you're all from one table to another to me. Here. Maybe he can take it. And I went there and he hit me back. Forget it. The need, the need come to United States. I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001#t=763.64,1198.92"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001/transcript/87325/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_UU:\u003c/strong\u003e did not know I was sick. It took me to a hospital. In","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001#t=1198.92,1206.06"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001/transcript/87325/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S4:\u003c/strong\u003e New York or. 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Here was the stone hit, you know, like a knife. Three, four. And that's where you got in trouble. And after I recuperated, they sent me back to the. To I come, not back. They sent me back to Ellis Island from Ellis Island. Took me to the Jewish. Was a hotel there. Who came in to the country to take him there? And later he checked the papers and event and everything, and I was there. I met lots of people. In fact, I met people which I know before the war and and even in the war and said, Fred, let's start a business ourselves. I said, but the whole luggage went to the money already, he said. And the people used to say, don't listen to him. You went through so much in your life, you know, it was so hot this month. Must be in July, so hot in New York in the night. Even worse, I was under a cold shower day and night, day and night. And I thought maybe I cooled off and I lay down on a bed without any clothes at all in the hotel on the 10th floor. Two minutes later, I got sick. I had to take me to the hospital again. Same one? No, it's another hospital. An animal hospital now for three days and I'm ready to go. Let me out! No, no. Right after I'm through. I came back and said, I'm sick of it. I saw in the morning how the people go to work. They don't go. Do you walk around and see all the people who were going to work too? And the people would run, knock him down and step over him and let him lay. I said, what kind of hell is it? And I came to Des Moines and it took me 26 hours by train. I was stressed out. I had plenty of suits. I got half a dozen suits. I got top coats, shirts, shoes, everything. And nobody noticed. I'm a I'm a greenhorn, you know. And I took 26 hours and I thought this. How hard is it to the conductor? How far is it? Aren't you worried? Adam and I came, I tell you. And I have to change the trains from New York to Chicago. From Chicago? It's supposed to. Do you know where they are? They're supposed to pick me up from the train and put me on another train. I get off the train and don't see anybody. And he was standing from a distance. They were waiting for some greenhorn on his back. He was recognized a greenhorn, you know. And I was in a gray suit, a straw hat, you know, in the summer. And I came in to the station. I said information. Information. I read the information. You know, Germany's information. And I got out, and I came from the orchestra. Somebody's supposed to pick me up. She said yeah, yeah, in German. They are there. They are there. Didn't you see them? I said I didn't see him. Say, you sit down there and take a few minutes to be back. It took about 15 minutes to sit there waiting and they came back yard. We haven't seen we didn't see him. And they said, here it is. He said, yeah there is. And you know, he's supposed to have a rucksack and a bag and sloppy dress, you know. Anyway, they came here. I two newcomers were already here. They picked me up about late in the night. I was just pooped out 26 hours on the train, and I hadn't prepared something. The lady opened the door and I came in and the friends. But they picked me up and she said, where is your friend? But she came in and he come and said, here it is. He looks better like an American. In which way? up to that. Stop. I'm not sure. I stayed there and the next day had to go to the Federation to. I came to Federation and he asked me if he needed any clothes. I said no, he needed shirts and shoes. And I said no, no, no, he needed money. I said no. He looked at me, where did you come from? Germany. He says, my girl, everybody comes from all over. He says, and he don't have anything because I had a tailor shop in Germany. That's a different story. It took me out for lunch. I lost my best friend and the day was already a tailor waiting for me. I don't know, how do you know? Tailor? Waiting till I came into this Italian tailor. You know, downtown on Walnut Street. They had a beautiful, beautiful store. Day, he says. I had so many tailors and everybody tells me, you're new comer, she said. Everybody tells me they are tailors and you don't even know what that means. I didn't say nothing. Well, if you want to try it, it's okay if you don't. I don't care. But he says, looking at you that you made this suit. You say, yes, I did. Same story, you know. The men Spiegelman says. Show him the letter from Ahmed I showed him here. I don't worry, I don't need it anything. And looked at it. I said, would you like to try it tomorrow? He says, no, I have to relax a few days. That's what I did. Later I went down town and tries to give me a pair of pants. I made him a vest. I can hear him in Italian. He talked to his tailors, you know. You know. And later I told him, you know, I don't make pants and I don't make vests, I make coats. That's what I end up making coats. But I heard him. He used to hear me. He used to advertise about me. I got the best in the Middle West. The tailor just came from Europe, and I didn't know it. I worked the whole day. The radio wasn't here. Mhm. And, uh. And the people start asking. People start to come in to see who this tailor is. The one that says I don't want people to disturb me here. He says, Fred, the people here are so nice. I know they are nice. I said, But I'm working. He says, staff. I came to greet him, blah, blah, you know? He told them that I'm the best in the Middle West. And in a way, I used to make lots of clothes for him, for himself and for his wife to send out clothes to New York. I used to make him, and he knows that I'm not going to work for him. I just want to see how the United States is made. Make the garments lighter than in Europe, you know. And I already had in my mind. I met a few girls that I met somebody, my wife, you know, somebody introduced me. She used to work in a bank 18 years. And I went to my national bank, and I used to work from the work on the street. And I went by a Jewish grocery store. And he always likes to talk to me, you know. Jewish man. You must talk to him, you know. I got acquainted with him. If I don't stop one day. And there was a Jewish man working for him who picked me up, and he said, what's happened to your friend? Where is he? I miss him. He's not coming in. I used to come in. He used to talk to me. He used to observe me where I go, like he had spies. What I'm doing in the morning. I got acquainted with the boss right away. I came in and I didn't know how much I paid for the bus. I had to walk two blocks. And then he told me how much, and I can't. I said, hey. He says, I know this language. What's your name? Where you came. Naturally. You recognize right away. I greenhorn, you know. And I was dressed up nice all this time since I was a youngster. My father took care of me. Anyway, The people already know me in the past. What's your name? Fred. Fred. Hi. Hi, everybody. Hi, Fred. Where do you work? Downtown Hamburg. And this went on every morning I came in. Fred, how are you? You know, because I still got the American menace. And so a woman came in, and I sit, and I got up and gave her a chair. Everybody was laughing. I don't know what it's like for me, but I know the gentleman came in. I got up and gave him my seat and asked me, why are you laughing at me? He says, Fred, he don't care. He can sit here. Doesn't make any difference to women and other women. If you find a sit, sit. But how can you sit in a woman and an older woman or an older man? I mean, even my young woman. I got up and give her the seat. He says, I'll tell you in the United States, don't worry about it. And this went on, and I made friends right away. In fact, this one I came at the first time I started to organize. The all newcomers got together and I asked the main man, Mr. Williams, you know, for the Jewish Community Center, we had a Jewish community center on the main street, and we used to get together. Some of them came that were men, you know, I didn't want to get married in Europe, did not want to get out, and I didn't want to, you know, I met this young lady. Took away. But I came in in 1949 and 1950. I got married and I had my daughter. The tall kid is my son. That's me and my wife. She came to the United States and I. And I had a Part of a trip has to be has to be in between time. I came to the United States two days later when I left Germany. The papers came from Australia to go to Australia and I was already here. 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I had this tailor working for me. He had a blood clot on his vein, and he had a little trouble. And when he came there. The doctor said, oh, maybe a year later when he came and the doctor said, oh, no, it takes two minutes to cut it out. They give him the sleeve. He didn't. They didn't check his heart or what? The poor guy never got up. He was 31 years old, a wife and a child. And not show she nor me. She wanted me dead. Because of this, I didn't want to go. She was a beautiful woman. In fact, she used to invite me to the camp. Feldafing was a camp for the Jewish people. Each one had a family, had his room. And he invited me for a Shabbos. And I came by train and I came in. There was a full room with women. Girls? No. Not that. Didn't think nothing about it. And the next day I went to the train. Like the next. Not the next day, you know, after the Shabbos dinner, it was already dark. And I went to the train and the whole gang came with me, you know. You know, I went to on the train and goodbye. The next day when I came to work, he says, what did you think? About back to what we know. The old women were waiting for you. I said, no, I don't want to get married anymore. No, I didn't do too bad. No, my wife and my son is 25. My daughter is 30. Just got a 30th birthday. And","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001#t=1962.09,2075.54"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001/transcript/87325/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S3:\u003c/strong\u003e I. Have to graduate from college. This","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001#t=2075.54,2081.33"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001/transcript/87325/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e is his. This is my son. He got no moustache. He still looks young. Yeah,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001#t=2081.33,2087.36"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001/transcript/87325/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S5:\u003c/strong\u003e he looks a little bit older. Oh,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001#t=2087.57,2089.19"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001/transcript/87325/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e yeah. He's 25. He works for Arthur Andersen. He graduated as an accountant, and now he works with computers. Where","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001#t=2089.19,2100.95"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001/transcript/87325/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S5:\u003c/strong\u003e did he go to school? 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And I asked what kind of books they have, and he registered, and he up to the end, he was there to school. And he made every year a Dean's list. Yeah. Arthur Anderson came there before he was through in college and took him. He had 2 or 3 for office, But the army used to make the airplanes, and he went there and he said, it's one of them. No, the other is a mishmash. He says, that's not for me. He's really an organizer. Everything he does has to be so and so. Yeah. And here I started after I got married. Can","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001#t=2102.69,2192.41"},{"id":"https://ijhs.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1537/collection_resources/163719/file/298001/transcript/87325/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S6:\u003c/strong\u003e I get you a cup of coffee or some beer or something? 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