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AMONG THE LILLIPUTIANS 55 us, "and there's one thing I won't stand for, and that's for DeMille to look foolish." It was his way of saying we had better be careful that DeMille did not say anything reflecting discredit on DeMille. One of the staff people most concerned about this was a tall, deep-chested Swiss named Henry Noerdlinger, who withstood with remarkable poise the burdens of conducting research for DeMille. Around the lot they called him the sad Swiss, but the principal strength that endeared him to his close friends came from the fact that Henry did not fall prey to the mes- merism within the bungalow. Born and educated in Switzer- land, Henry was a monument of intellectual honesty, innately kind, and fearless in leaping the hurdles set up by the boss. Henry's office was within earshot of DeMille's office, thus facilitating communication. The process was one of the most familiar in the bungalow-DeMille opening his office door and in a voice that boomed down the corridor and into every cellu- lar office-'What is the Taj Mahal made of?" The rest of the staff didn't stir; when the sentence ended with a question mark we knew it was Henry's to worry over. Henry kept an academic tongue discreetly in his cheek when the boss split the air with such historical teasers as, "Henry, did the women in Samson's days wear a bra?" It was often a matter of regret that Mr. DeMille would insert into the script customs and events of a bygone era with- out first checking with Henry. Of course Delilah had to be shown in a bra and it was up to Henry to look into the books for something that would justify decking out the girl so fetch- ingly. Himself an old hand at research, the boss would not take no for an answer when he had his heart set on showing how something really happened back in the darkness of history. Henry felt he could not wrongfully hypothecate history, so having produced evidence in a dozen books that did not sup- port die boss's position, it was up to the boss to make his