Noted Townies of the Past and Present

Defined & Described

IN THE APRIL issue your reporter took the radical step of including in the list of worthies sketched for your entertainment a female figure. Little did he realize the consequences. Curious readers want to know whether Hanover is totally masculine today. Are there no belles besides those installed in the chapel and library? Who guides our social "Don'ts and Do's"? Are the boys content to follow the forciblyexpressed dictates of Ma Smalley?

A year ago the answer to the last question might have been "Yes, I guess so," but today a revolution has occurred almost South American in its brilliance and color. Two beautiful, gifted and ruthless beauties have come to Hanover and taken the town by storm. They are the Neidlinger twins.

Somewhat over a year ago they came with their father and mother to live in the old Fairbanks house next door to the Graduate Club. It was a quiet neighborhood, the abode of clergymen, professors emeritus, and Nathan Lord's descendants, with a background of laboratories and the College Park. Now it is a rival of the Inn corner and the cab stand, at least from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Here the twins reign supreme. One is four and the other approximately the same age. Both are howling beauties and to the casual observer identical in appearance and manner. A faculty tea or luncheon may open with the question "Did you hear what the twins did yesterday"? So let's tell:

Sally and Susan love to ride around town in the delivery wagons, occupying the rear end. When Harry Tanzi stopped his truck to deliver a package of celery he found all the leaves had been chewed off. The twins said, "Leave it, Harry, no one eats the leaves anyway."

Sally and Jimmy Campion are good pals and play together regularly. One day Sally couldn't go to Jim's so Susan decided to take her place. When both are together Jim can tell them apart but when separated he is lost. Susan played rather demurely at first and then proceeded to bedevil Jim the rest of the morning. Didn't like any of the games they had enjoyed so much the day before and finally left in a huff. Jim's faith in human nature was wrecked. His old pal Sally had gone back on him. But Susan had had a great morning and returned to her home with a beatific expression of complete satisfaction although she had left a wrecked home in her wake.

But sometimes the shoe is on the other foot and the Boxvler incident is an illustration. Patsy Bowler had a brand new baby sister of whom she was inordinately proud and didn't hestitate to talk about most of the time. The twins stood it as long as they could until one morning the milk man came and was ordered to leave an extra quart of milk. "Do you want to know why?" the twins asked. "Sure," he said. "Well, Mother is upstairs sick and we have a new baby sister." Just what happened when the twins had to produce the child of their romance, we don't know.

The best place in early spring for a grand informal slide is the steep lawn in front of Bartlett Hall. The other day the twins were rolling down with innocent expressions and oblivious of wear and tear, timing their bumps to the refrain: "Teacher, teacher, I declareI've forgot my underwear." Old fashioned girls! for who could detect such an omission in present-day feminine attire.

Sally and Susan are social leaders and in the days to come you will hear more and more about them. Lord help the guileless swain who elects to spend a morning in innocent play at the Neidlinger home. He slinks home with clothes ruined, spare change gone and an inferiority complex which requires mother's loving kisses to restore.

The new church is our latest architectural exhibit but just beyond it is our greatest human exhibit. The Dean has a troublesome official family but we prophesy he will be as busy at home with Susan and Sally and their older sister, Mary, all of whom combine to maintain the social leadership of our once quiet New England Village. Many are the hearts that will be broken, in the homes of you men of the 20's when your boys reach Dartmouth College. Don't say we didn't warn you!

"The Twins" With some assistance from their father, Dean L. K. (Pudge) Neidlinger '23, Sally and Susan and their older sister Mary created a piece of snow sculpture in celebration of the Winter Carnival.