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His impressive memory did not derive from any ability but rather from skills developed during the 1,000 hours he had spent reviewing the digits of pi for his Guinness world-record run . The 1,000 - mile celebration was meant to help them look ahead as much as behind . More cultural influences were absorbed from his mother , Emma Myer Casaday , who was a talented seamstress ; and his aunt , Ada Myer , a singer and lover of opera and theater who made an independent life for herself in Chicago as proprietor of a team room , and much later , after the death of James Oliver Casaday in the 1950 's , came to live with James and his mother . The origins of the " Ducky day " name came from a prank ; a plastic duck was found in the rather grand water pond with sculpture outside the 1440 building . Employee Benefits will enter the Action / Reason on the Job Data panel in PeopleSoft and take the full charge for the cost of the 24-48 month subsidy as of the Last Day of Employment against the CUFS account provided on the Phased Retirement Agreement . In the 1950 's , people who hated Jews and wanted to discredit the Holocaust and anything connected with it , began to publish articles stating that the diary was a hoax . On the company move to the " new " Cray Research Park from the 1440 Northland Drive facility , the first ducky day at the new location was celebrated by putting the torch to the wooden portion of the reassembled sculpture on the island in the middle of Cray Lake . Africa in the 40s : few threats In shaping US policy in Africa in the 1940s , US policy-makers were influenced by two immediate considerations .