"Gene and Jim – Steve Blaising, Jim Hiney" 1974 Side 1., 1974

Item — track: 10

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Scope and Contents

Gene first met Phil in 1959 while looking for extra overtime work. He came over in the early afternoon and didn't leave until four thirty AM.
Jim first met Phil in 1961 because a drafter he had assigned to work with Phil left. He was given the opportunity after the first guy had left. Phil introduced himself to Jim after a few days of doing drafting work and Phil invited him into the basement to the lab.
They didn't receive very much funding to work on the fusion project until either late 1959 or early 1960.
One of them remembers receiving a call to come to Phil's house to work at around eleven PM.
They talk about his work attitudes and his feeling that if you weren't enjoying your work you should find a new job.
They talk about his assumption that everyone he employed was very smart and how it was both a good and bad thing.

Dates

1974

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection material in English.

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