Neville describes coaching Catherine to imagine her producer praising her designs; he says the producer's treatment changed within twenty-four hours, and that he later asked her to stop working once he could support her.
Date (happened)
1945
stated · probable · preferred
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 009)
Reasoning
The same lecture (nid 1469) also dates her retirement to 1946 (passage 540575), so 'left the Music Hall' cannot be held at certain independent of that account.
1945
stated
Why
She had worked there eleven years as a costume designer.
Reasoning
Neville's first-person account directly assigns Catherine's departure from Radio City Music Hall to 1945.
1946
stated · probable
Reasoning
This is a direct statement of a year for the same milestone the event title names ('leaves the Music Hall' / retires), but it contradicts the existing certain 1945 claim taken from the opening of the very same telling ('back in 1945, when she left the Music Hall', passage 540571). The packet gives no way to tell whether 'left' and 'retired' name the same moment or two distinct steps, so this is filed beside the existing claim as a flagged contradiction rather than a confident correction, at probable rather than certain.
No date
relative · possible
Reasoning
Neville dates this only relative to his own marriage ('almost two years after we got married'), which fixes an ordering but not a year. No marriage date for Neville appears anywhere in this packet, and it is not among the permitted corpus anchors, so no absolute date or bound can be derived from this passage alone.
No date
relative · probable
Reasoning
Neville dates this only relative to his own marriage ('almost two years after we got married'), which fixes an ordering but not a year. No marriage date for Neville appears anywhere in this packet, and it is not among the permitted corpus anchors, so no absolute date or bound can be derived from this passage alone; recorded at probable to reflect that this is his own direct statement, softened only by his own 'almost'.
before 1968
bound · probable
Reasoning
Neville recounts that his wife stopped working once he could support her and had not returned to work; the completed change predates the lecture.
Told / reported
16 July 1969
estimated
Reasoning
This lecture is where Neville recounts his wife's departure from the Music Hall as a past event; its own delivery date is corroborated twice by independent methods (catalogue plus a separately read chrome byline), both agreeing on 1969-07-16, so the telling is dated to that day at the ceiling the delivery claim supports.
23 July 1968
estimated
Reasoning
Neville tells this story about his wife during this lecture; the lecture's delivery date is certain on two independent grounds (a chrome dateline and a separately dated advertisement), so the telling date is 1968-07-23.