Mrs. RICH. This was a joke. When I called him from Massachusetts, I
told him when I hit there I would have 4 bucks in my pocket. It was
rather a kind of a joke, actually. I said, “Here I am.”
He said, “Oh, no; I told you not to do it.”
I had talked to him previously on the phone. So that was all right.
So he called in one of the patrolmen. And they get the Black Maria,
go down to the bus depot and get my bags. And I had called Associated
Press. I have many friends around the press world. Being in public
relations, I would. And this Brice someone or other said, “You can go
and stay with my wife for a couple of days until you get settled.”
Three o’clock in the morning we start punching doorbells, with the
suitcases in a Black Maria, trying to find Ann, and I couldn’t remember
the last name. So the next day they send up to pick me up and help me
find a place and job.