Waclaw Szybalski - John Cairns: A Very Good Friend

And Jim Watson decided that John Cairns would be the one who should; although he was very impressed because he did a very nice experiment he was here postdoc. But I was right in disagreement with Jim at that time because again Cairns was very nice, very good friend, but not fair to take an Australian postdoc who had never applied for grant in his life and never dealt with money to become director here and rebuild it back. But Jim told me that, promised, that if Cairns fails, he would become the director. And then he kept his promise.