In those days, all the academic staff gathered together for lunch (a substantial meal supplied at a cost of 25 cents) in the Institute dining room. Dubos took special care to see that all of his team met the personalities of the Institute. On different days, he would move with his group from one table to another and initiate discussions with whoever he had chosen to sit with that day—Gasser, Goebels, van Slyke, Stein, Rivers and many others— so I met a wonderful group of medical scientists, which of course was just what Burnet and Keogh had planned. Periodically, Dubos organized dinners at various ‘ethnic’ restaurants near the Institute, to which all his postdocs would be invited, along with scientists from Cornell University and the Public Health Research Institute, to discuss tuberculosis. I remember particularly Walsh McDermott, Jules Freund and Bernie Davis.