January 21, 2005

For Keep's Sake: a Chairman's Files

By WARREN GOLDSTEIN

I'd been putting it off for months. But we needed the space. We'd done our homework: His widow had taken the books she wanted; she didn't want his papers.

So one morning a colleague and I steeled ourselves and slid open the top drawer of the first file cabinet belonging to our late chairman, retired three years before, dead from cancer within months, the man who had pulled my cold inquiry letter from a pile nearly five years earlier.

Because of his instincts back then, I now had

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