Mrs. PAINE. It was not power steering. But it has no clutch so that
makes it a lot easier to drive.
Mr. JENNER. It is an automatic transmission?
Mrs. PAINE. It is an automatic transmission.
Mr. JENNER. Describe your automobile, will you please?
Mrs. PAINE. It is a 1955 Chevrolet station wagon, green, needing paint,
which we bought secondhand. It is in my name.
Mr. McCLOY. But automatic transmission?
Mrs. PAINE. Automatic transmission; yes.
Then, in the later lessons, I think there were altogether three with
Lee----
Mr. JENNER. Have you finished with this lesson on the Sunday morning,
was it?
Mrs. PAINE. No; it was a Sunday afternoon and I drove back to the house.
Mr. JENNER. How long did the lesson take on the parking lot?
Mrs. PAINE. Oh, 20 minutes, perhaps. I will say of him that he set for
himself tasks; a good student in the sense that he planned now I am
going to back up this way and I am going--one of the problems is to
turn around and go the other way on the street. In other words----
Mr. JENNER. U-turn.
Mrs. PAINE. It is not a U-turn, no. It is a narrower one to head in
back up and go the other way and he would set this problem for himself,
how to do it, back up and do it, and set the problem of backing up,
driving, going back, I mean. And set himself a course. I was doing
this, too, but I was interested in the eagerness he had and his desire
to achieve; desire to do this and do it well.
In helping himself by setting up these course plans, you could almost
say.
Mr. JENNER. All right.
Would you refresh my recollection of the date this occurred?
Mrs. PAINE. My letter is dated the 14th. I say, "I taught him
yesterday, Sunday."
Mr. JENNER. Fourteenth of October?