April 4, 1980: The late Daniel Cariaga interviews Merce Cunningham for a Times feature story. One line reads: "When career over, how do you want to be remembered?"

Note: Several months ago I rescued several boxes of old ephemeral files, discarded by The Times, that were used for reference in the pre-Internet era in covering classical music and dance. These notes are a sample of the contents. Alas, finding a good home has been problematic. The Huntington Library, which has a large collection of Times items, offered a cordial "no thanks." Surely there must be a Southern California library that would be interested in these files. Let me know.

"Lady on street hit me with umbrella because she couldn't get in studio for perfr."

"Dancing is not terribly important. It's important to me. Fascinating if you like it."