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AMONG THE LILLIPUTIANS 57 During preparations for the circus picture Mr. DeMille sent Henry a note, reading Get me data on a man Heeding to death. The script called for a transfusion scene in the melee following the train wreck. Henry replied with a 3-page report. The boss said it was too long. "Boil it down to a few sen- tences/' Henry complied, listing merely the four types of blood. "I see youVe just got four types here/ 7 said DeMille. "Yes, the Moss classification of blood types probably is the most widely used," Henry pointed out. "It divides human blood into four main types or groups." "I want a fifth type, something rare," DeMille said. Henry returned to the books, came up with a learned paper on the RH factor, placating the boss by explain ing that with RH and the four types there was little left in the field of blood. One day, the sage Noerdlinger drew reflectively on his blackened pipe. His mind ran to the ebb and flow of history within the bungalow. The impulse of the moment inspired him to a memorable paraphrase of a classic remark: "Between Mr. DeMille's purpose in time and God's purpose in eternity there is an infinite qualitative difference." It was Henry's duty to keep an ear open for Mr. DeMille's sometimes overly enthusiastic comments that happened to per- tain to matters of record. Once, when telling about his trip to Russia, he observed that "Mrs. DeMille and I went 3,000 miles down the Volga River." Naturally this concerned all of us, lest a newspaperman check up and find that the boss had added some 700 miles to the Volga's official length. Henry told DeMille by discreet memo that the river had a length listing of 2,300 miles. DeMille ignored the trifling difference. In time he began referring to their "4,000-mile trip down the Volga." In his chats with visitors and the press the cost of research on a picture might rise from $10,000 to as high as $100,000 in a period of a few weeks. This drove Henry to worried calcula-