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Show -177- find more time to do his own writing. At the end of the year; he had finished a draft of a novel, and he had done well in his studies; but, even though he could have remained on his scholarship at the Midwestern university, war was approaching, he had two young children, and a position x-jas offered him by another college in Utah? He returned, xuar broke out in December, and then in 1943 he x'jas offered a position to teach air-force cadets at the university of a neighboring state, a position that lasted only one year, until the airforce program was discontinued? He returned to the Midwest determined to complete his doctorate as speedily as possible. He x«as awarded it just as the war ended in Europe? a fortunate time, as it turned out, because within the year universities were flooded with returned servicemen from Europe and Asia. He taught one year in his old college, where his father had been Dean of Engineering, in his home town; but then he received an offer at another university in the Midwest? where he stayed for three years, until 1949, when the university that had granted him his Ph.D. invited him to return there. In 1952? he became the first Fulbright Professor at the University of Innsbruck? It was in the spring of that year that he heard the Stravinsky performan^ in Pans. Even though it began to rain more heavily when he had descended the grade, passed Mill Valley, and come to Corte Madera and larkspur? the Professor scarcely noticed. His mind was too full of reminiscence. Perhaps it had been a mistake, he thought |