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Sunday, October 29, 2006
  Wallace Wood: Against the Grain, part 20
Glenn also visited at Rego Park, and on one of these occasions he brought along his fianceé, Eleanor Murray, who was born and raised in Manhattan. “I was working for Maxon’s as a junior mechanical engineer,” said Glenn, “and that’s when I met my wife, during the year I was working in lower Manhattan in 1949 to 1950. I was at Maxon’s for a better part of a year; I started sometime in July 1949, and the following July I took another job. From there I went to General Electric. It was early 1950 that I first met Eleanor on a hike over in the Palisades of New Jersey. We were married in September 1951. I moved out of the New York City area, and I got recalled back into the Navy. A lot of things were happening in my life at that time.”

Each morning Tatjana left for her dressmaking job, work that included making theater costumes for the City Opera, while Wood and Orlando manned the drawing boards — with Orlando alternately drawing and cooking the meals “I was still penciling exclusively,” said Orlando. “He decided that now that he was married, he should move out to the suburbs, and he closed the studio. Out of all the guys up there, I was the only one who continued to work with him in his new place in Queens. His wife would go to work in the morning when I arrived, and we would work all day and sometimes into the night. After a while it got to be too much, so Wally took me aside and explained that he thought it was time I went off on my own. I was getting the feeling I was getting underfoot there anyway.”
 
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