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opened for a little while
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The Denner opened in 1942.
I never had anything to do with Donner Laboratory or
their people.
How separate were the two?
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people it seems to me that they were run as strictly
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They wera, they were both under John Lawrence's control,
I think.
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Jones became his man.
Hardin
Hardin Jones started out at the
Crocker Laboratory.
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atudtes weren't, I thought, adequate.
He just wanted to
do his own thing.
Did you have any dealings with him later on in life,
when he was established in Donner Lab?
No, none at all, really.
Going back to the opening days of Crocker Lab.
John
Lawrence, of course, was thereguntil Donner Lab was
opened.
And Hamilton was there from the very beginning?
When John moved out of his office in Crocker, Joe