Bud kept getting more and more responsibility and so became entitled to a secretary. His first choice was a beauty, a nice statuesque young redhead that we had to insist not be allowed to roam freely. Every time she walked through the bull pens that in those days housed Accounting or Engineering productivity dropped a carefully calculated 20% with only the too old or the near-sighted still attentive to their work. Predictably wedding bells sounded an early end to the career of Virginia Bell. Bud was always thinking ahead. He recognized early the long-range advantages that would ensue if we concentrated and indeed confined our exploration efforts to areas that held out the assurance of good hunting and good fishing. This policy worked fine when his interests were mundane like salmon, trout, prong-horned antelope, or elk but when he got interested in elephants, leopards, lions, and Cape buffalo, Bev got bitten by tsetse flies and the company ended up with mineral deposits in South Africa. 3.