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"When I got out of the Navy and had to come into the building world, I found that I was interested in putting up good buildings; and I was not interested in making money. I never had the slightest feeling for making money. I was really tremendously surprised and actually felt very badly about why people wanted to play games for money with me–and this spoiled the whole thing. The money idea was obnoxious to me really fundamentally. I tried very hard to play the game and I was no good at it. I was in this cul de sac. I had made a mess of it.
“A lot of people thought I was very bright with high initiative and all, and they bet on me and so they lost all their money. I was in a real mess. And I had either theme to do away with myself, because I had a new child, and this was not just our first child, but a second child. Our first child died before her fourth birthday–and after a five-year hiatus here was this new life entrusted to us–that my wife and I were to have in Chicago. . . our families were in the East far away when we had this new child.”
