switched from 4 to 3 where I've been stuck for 50 years. Here I am a Third and there is no male Junior or Senior. Why don't I move up as WP's 4 and 5 wish I would? Well the problem is that my mother, Mrs. W. P. F. Jr. is very much alive, so if I go to Jr., people will think I'm my mother's husband, and if I go to Senior, they'll think I'm her father, so the hell with it." Speaking before a meeting of Stanford Alumni in Salt Lake City he said: "It was particularly thoughtful of you to invite me because, since I was replaced as President of the Board last June, nobody has invited me any place. In fact, the last time I was invited to speak any place was at a father and son's dinner on the theory that as President of a University Board of Trustees, I could communicate with the young. That was a laugh, since the last time I had communicated with students in any significant number, it had cost the University $125,000 in broken glass. That wasn't all bad, of course . . . I'm in the glass business." Parmer was indeed in the glass business and thereby hangs a tale that tells you a lot about the Fuller family and about P III. For over 70 years W. P. Fuller & Company had been the sole distributor of glass for Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in the Western States. During that time this had become very big business for PPG and profits from the glass business were a very substantial part of W. P. Fuller & Company's total income. Yet for all of these 70 years the relationship rested on a handshake with no written contract. Both parties had absolute faith in the integrity of the other. You don't see much of that these days. It takes special people. When W. P. Fuller & Company was in the process of being acquired by Hunt Foods, Hunt made certain verbal representations that they went back on the day the deal was closed. While these did not personally affect Parmer's position 8