 of cancer in 1968, and he was only 52 and had had cancer for some 15 years. But I wasn't aware of that. I was a child, and my mother and father made the difficult choice not to tell we children of his illness. And he worked what were late-night, nocturnal hours, and they decided that it would be better for him to live separate from us, and he moved into an apartment on 73rd Street between 2nd and 3rd.