November 11, 1958

Dear Art:

I hesitate to take either your time or my own in replying to yours of the
6th, bit I do want to relieve you of any thought of self=reproach a propos
Havley, No harm done at all, He is the kind of man I would like to see
installed in the business service at Stanford, and quite possibly he might
be more use to us, a8 well as all the way round, in, aay, Lyle Cook's office
rather than our om, Anyhow, I'm not losing any sleep about it,

I do hope you get someone with anough authority that I don't have to
pester you about some details vhere our operations may impinge on one another,
I had thought, perhaps misguidédiy, of Hawley aa the sort of person who could
receive unilateral instructions from each of us, and mind his own business
about 143 I can also see where you might be leery about the way this vould
work out,

You are a little more optimistic than I am about the chronicity of your
detail load. but you may have had better luck beth with your secretarics
and your associates than I have, If your paragon of an exceutive secretary
has a twin sister, let me kmow,

Fred Terman called me last night, as you doubless imow, asking me to
investigate Johnson more thoroughly; I gather that issue is very much alive,
and perhaps Terman was seeking my own personal reactioks, of which I have
none at present, He alse intimated that Paul Dety would be a prime choice
Af available, and this I waste no time in seconding, I have to admit I om
thinking rather selfishly of a Chemist personally and professionalgy interesting
to me, rather than the administrative needs of a department I kmow nothing
about . I'm getting busy on my ‘intelligence vork' on Johnson today, I do
kno: he ls very highly regarded indeed as a synthetic organic nan,

De you know Frank Strong at all well? Had you given the least thought
of him for the job-- or do you “ant more af x chemiet's chemist, so to sreal/

I'm still Bebating in my ovn mind whether to try to get someone like
Havley for myself. There vrobably wouldn't be enough score in the job on that
basie to intepost him or keep him busy, but there is enough to be aeserious
distraction, As I've told you before, genetice will inevitably be more inter-
dependent than Biechemistry, which means more minor but touchy situations,
Witnese, e.¢,, the enclosure, but my reaction to which may probably be that
we will use all avadlable resourees for classroom teaching, seminars, etc. ,
but that graduate training is a pefsonal relationship of individual rrofessors
and their students that eludee organization and ‘correlation’, I'm not losing
any sleep about this either - if a training grant means thinking up ansvers
to questiong bike that, it's no unmixed blessing!

Yours sincerely,