the moment bought a plane ticked for Washington.

In an hour I was at the airport "lost and found" and quick- ly spotted my belongings. My explanation was that I had left Washington hurridly after a party and did not remember my luggage until the plane was well on it's way. I knew I would be back in a few weeks so I fig- gured on picking up my things at that time. The clerk accepted my story as it was simply a matter of paying storage charges and I was on my way back to New York. You can well imagine the reunion with the prodigal "Bobbie" that night in my New York hotel room. Another time in Chicago it wasn't so easy. Be - fore the clerk opened the bag I had to describe the con- tents. I could visualize just how everything had been packed so snugly in place and he was incredulous. He could not understand and wanted to know why I had such a wardrobe. My explanation that it was to be worn for my own pleasure left him completely non- plussed. However, since my identification of the contents was so perfect, he let me pay the reclaiming charges and fortunately didn't call the police which I was afraid he might do.

The problem of safe storage was always with me. For a time a locked wooden box kept under a bench in my laboratory served this purpose. When a trip was at hand, a suitcase would be surreptitiously spirited out of the house to be packed after hours and deposited in a locker until train or plane time. I make it a practice to either take a taxie or drive my car to the terminal and park it for the few days I would be gone. On returning home the reverse process took place end- ing up with the suitcase back in the storeroom.

On these trips I have always insisted on a spacious room with ample mirrors for who is to see and admire but my alter ego. I even go to the extent of changing rooms if the one first assigned does not meet my re- quirements. I have on occasion even changed hotels for the same reason. I have also learned which hotels afford the type of privacy I want. Those with a key clerk on the floor are frowned upon as are those where a chambermaid is popping in an out at the drop of a hat. In all the larger cities in the east I now have my favorite and ask for and get just about what I want in

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