1921*

Harland ("Manny") Manchester, our man of letters, continues to turn out magazine and newspaper articles. Last summer and fall Scribnefs published three of his pieces, a profile of Grover Whalen, a survey of the "confession" magazines, and a survey of the farm magazines. The one about Grover Whalen was so good that it merited inclusion in a textbook written by two professors of journalism. Manny also had an article about Dr. Rudolph Diesel, inventor of the internal combustion engine bearing his name, in the Toronto StarWeekly dated February 11, which was summarized in the March Reader's Digest. Inquiry of the author elicits the following additional dope: "I wrote a biographical article about William Dudley Pelley, Fuehrer of the American Silver Shirts, which, as you know, is a sort of fascist chowder-and-marching club. This appeared in two installments in Ken, for February 9 and 83. The piece about Diesel which you saw condensed in Reader's Digest is probably the best thing I have done, since it's the first adequate account of Diesel's life and work which has appeared in English I have also done several articles for Country Home, dealing for the most part with scientific developments which have a bearing on agriculture. In the March issue I have an article about some newly developed hybrid poplars which grow to marketable size in eight or 10 years, and which may turn out to be of great value in reforesting cutover and hurricaneswept timber lands By way of relaxation, I investigate forgotten murders and write about them. Several of these articles have appeared in the magazine For Men. By way of extra-curricular activity, I put in a lick now and then for the American Labor Party, and am a contributing editor of The Guild Reporter, organ of the American Newspaper Guild.". . . .You will recall that Manny left newspaper work in the fall of 1937 and transferred the scene of his activities from Boston to Manhattan.

Roger Wilde has been appointed national contract manager for the Simmons Cos., with headquarters in Chicago. He formerly was local manager of the Cleveland territory, regular-line selling. This is a grand promotion, placing Rog in charge of all contract sales for the company. The new addresses of our treasurer are Simmons Cos., Merchandise Mart, Chicago; and 680 Hinman Ave., Evanston Also promoted and moved to Chicago is A 1 Laffey, new sales manager of The National Provisioner, the magazine of the meat packing and allied industries, 407 South Dearborn St. The Laffeys' new home is at 443 Hill Road, Winnetka. A 1 formerly was Eastern manager, with headquarters in Manhattan Jack Sercombe writes a grand letter from his law offices in Portland, Ore., telling, among other things, of the arrival of a daughter, Jenifer, on December li. Jack is very active as secretary of the Oregon State Bar Association and partner in the firm of Gilley, Humphreys, 8c Sercombe Ken Smiley was the keynote speaker for Dartmouth Night scheduled by the Alumni Association of Eastern Pennsylvania; this issue of the MAGAZINE closes a trifle early, however, to secure adequate comment from spectators. Having heard Ken speak before the same group, in the past, your scribe knows he did a swell job.

A story (with appropriate photograph of the lady in the case) in the Salem Evening News tells of the engagement of Elizabeth Gardner Chase, of Danvers, Mass., to Sumner Augustus Perkins, of Newark, N. J. "It is understood that the wedding will take place some time in the spring." How about some more definite information, Gus? .... One of our champion press-clippers also sends a New York Times photograph showing United States and Brazil officials exchanging notes in the trade pact announced early in March; among the bigwigs is Ellis O. Briggs, acting chief of the Division of American Republics of our State Department Emory ("Corb") Corbin is selling office supplies and equipment for G. A. Cadwell Cos., New Britain, Conn Osborne ("O. C.") Ward—also known as "Bump"—supplements his report published in this column last month. In November he was promoted from field auditor to field supervisor by Beneficial Management Corp. and placed in charge of a group of offices in Pennsylvania. One of his first moves has been to change his headquarters office from Scranton to 1206 Deposit & Savings BJdg., Wilkes-Barre. The residence address in Forty Fort given you last month still holds good.

Jack Hurd writes in the following vein about his life on Hanover Plain, where he is assistant professor of English. "First: Work. I am now teaching in three courses: one in European, English, and American fiction, in which we read a novel a week, have two lectures, and one recitation—there are four other instructors, because there are large elections; one in representative English figures, which I give myself to some 30-odd students; and one in freshman English. Consequently, I have over 100 men, and, like most of the men in English, I am never through but simply go to bed when I cannot read any more Second: Recreation. I play squash once a week with a community group against undergraduates and professors and once a week with Jim Campion (who beats me) or Charley Widmayer (who beats me) or Ralph Burns (who beats me). I don't play accurate squash, but I play with wonderful expression I ski when I have the time, which is not often. Of course I know all the bumps and fissures on Oak Hill; there is good reasoH why I should. Once this year I went to Lundhugel in West Hartford, but the tow had broken down; once to Woodstock; and once to the new Cannon Mountain Trail, which is magnificent, and once to Bradford, which is a paradise for the mildly daring skier."... .The foregoing is offered here, not only because of its interest, but also as a model of how everyone in the class should respond when called upon by this column. Thanks, Jack. Your line about never being through but going to bed when you can't read any more is reminiscent of the life of class scribe: he writes letters and records biographical data, but never seems quite to catch up; usually he goes to bed when he can't write and record any more.

William E. ("Bill") Johnson of Nashua is going great guns, we hear, in the life insurance business. How about a letter full of news, Bill?. . . .The sympathy of every one in '2l goes to Tom Staley, who lost Elsie most suddenly on January 24, and to 11-year-old Nancy, who is thus left motherless. Tom writes from Kansas City that Elsie was a graduate of National Park Seminary, Washington, D. C., was reared and spent her entire life in Kansas City, and was the very wonderful mother of their little Nancy. . . . .George Harris pens a snappy note from Springfield, Mass., the home of Merriam-Webster dictionaries, promising to drop in the next time he makes Elizabeth. Hope the rest of you will do likewise; better still, come over to the house, in adjoining Roselle, of an evening, when we can have more time to chin.

Gos Halsey, the prominent counsellor-atlaw of Peekskill, N. Y., writes our energetic treasurer to the effect that he "should like to see a reunion in which our class participated with the classes of '2O and '22; one in which we might renew a little more fully the conditions existing in the days when .. . and have that reunion spread over a period of say weeks." A swell idea, Gos, and a wish in which we all share El Harper writes a grand, long letter, listing in detail the members of what he terms "the Harper clan" starting with Jean Edith (14) and running through Barbara Bruce (12), Helen Elizabeth (11), Sally (9), Thomas John (5), and John (3). "All hale and hearty," pens El from The Oxygene Cos., air conditioning equipment, 131 State St., Boston. One lusty cheer for El!.... Dick Hill comes on the air from Manchester (14 Webster St.) to say that they "had their fourth arrival, a son, September jB, 1938, Arthur Eastman, named after his greatgrandfather, who laid the first cable to England from Rye, N. H." Nice going, Dick. .... A number of other equally interesting letters are of necessity carried over to next month's installment Take it, George:

THE SPIRIT OF '2l By GEORGE L. FROST

IN APRIL, it) 18 The Dartmouth ran notices of positions open to those wishing to do patriotic work during the summer, such as manufacturing arms, parts for armored cars, steam turbine engines for destroyers; working in coal mines; and working on farms The Third Liberty Loan Committee included E. O. Briggs, F. A. Ross, W. S. Ege, E. B. Harper, J. V. Hasbrook, R. D. Mallary, D. B. Ruggles Jr., P. G. Sanderson, M. Y. Cole, C. IC. Litchard, N. W. Crisp, and D. F. Ryder. Typical slogan: "Bond buying shortens the war. Will your young brother head for Dartmouth or for France?"— Horace GibsonPender. Freshmen brought bonds to the value of $5850 In the final track meet of the season, '2l was successful over the other classes, as it had been in previous meets. Sanderson, Kerlin, Ferguson, Brown, Manchester, Exnicios, Beers, Chamberlaine, and Kelsey showed speed, strength, and agility "Vegetable" (Tom Groves ' 18) ran a column called "Garden Truck" in The Dartmouth. One of his offerings was—

Our College Rag (Any Night on the Campus)

By our own Irving Berlin Sweet Rosie O'Grady, I'm a son of a gun for beer, Weep no more my lady, Where do we go from here?

Dancing in the moonlight, As the backs go tearing by, Moonbeams shining drank last night, The green floats forth on high.

Mary Ann McCarty, And we'll give her three times three, Dinah's quilting party, Sailing pals we'll always be.

I wish I had a barrel of rum, Oh honey bless her name, Mammy, Mammy, zum, zum, zum, For her we fight for fame.

Late Bulletin—Ort Hicks flashes that the slogan of his class agents this year is "Keep 1921 on Top." He adds that it will save the College and the agents both energy and expense if you will indicate on the first mailing your intentions regarding the Fund.

Fund Contributors for 1938

Contributors: 291 (119% of graduates). Total gifts: $3,728.50 (104% of objective). ORTON H. HICKS, Class Agent.

1921

Alley, William M. Anderson, Arthur V, Anger, Howard C. Ankeny, DeWalt H. Auger, Roland Bailey, Charles R. Bailey, Russell Baker, Ingham C. Baker, Ralph G. Barber, William H. Barker, Nelson W. Barnes, Richard M. Bartholomew, Chas. L., Jr. Barton, Robert R Bassett, Clarke D. Batchelder, Roland C. Bateman, Leon W. Bean, Kenrick C. Beaudoux, George W. Belknap, Paul C. Benton, Frederick E. Bird, Roger P. Bishop, Everett C. Bixby, Willard W. Blesh, Rudolph P. Bolles, Haroli A. Bornman, Frederick D. Bowen, David C. Bowers, Sherwood G. Brailey, Allen G. Braman, Harold F. Breckenridge, Harold C. Briggs, Ellis O. Brown, Herrick Burroughs, Robert P. Campbell, Hilton R. Campbell, John C. Carder, Earle W. Carmody, George E. Carver, Norman F. Catterall, Alan D. Cavis, George C. Chamberlaine, Harry Chapman, Ernest H. Childs, C. Randall Clark, E. Vance Clark, Warren P. Clark, William H. Cleary, Homer J. Codding, William A. Cole, Maurice Y. Conrad, Edwin O. Cook, Lovell H. Corbet, Clifford C. Cosgrove, Francis J. Crisp, Norman W.

Cutler, Gerald E. Daly Robert T. DeGroff, Durward S. Densmore, Seth A. Derby, Robert W. Dickinson, Mason A., Jr. Dodge, James B. Doran, Wilbur K. Dunn, Allison van V. Duryea, Arthur W. Ege, Warren S. Elsasser, Robert W. Embree, John W., Jr. Faunce, Laurence S. Fisher, Ellwood H. Fleet, Clarence C. Fleming, Justus M. Floyd, William H. Folger, Joseph 8., Jr. Forbes, Neil F. Forman, George C. Foster, Francis B. Fowler, William P. Frederickson, James F. French, Raymond L. Frost, George L. Frost, Owen C. Fuller, D. Jay Fuller. Kemp G. Gaffield, George D. Gardner, Elmer V. Garfein, Jacob Garland, Harry B. Geilich, Harold D. Gilbert, Arthur W. Gilson, Charles P. Goodnow, Russell J., Jr. Goulding, Lorin D., Jr. Graydon,John F. Green, Alfred M. Griffith, Thomas H. Gruenhagen, Dewey F. Haight, S. Furber Hall, Preston M. Halsey, Edward G., Jr. Hammond, Carl E. Hankins, William E. Harper, Elmer B. Harris, George 8., Jr. Hart,. Clifford F. Hart, Richard H. Hartshorn, Theodore D Hasbrook, John V. A. Hawse, Maynard McK. Heath, Howard L. Helmer, Borden

Henshaw, Walter R. Herbert, John Hickman, Francis O. Hicks, Orton H. Higgins, Arthur J. Higgins, Tracy Hill, Frank R. Hodgdon, Frank 1., Jr. Holt, Walter W. Hubbell, John W. Humphreys, Philip C. Hunt, Erling M. Hurd, John, Jr. Ives, John G. Jagels, Carl H. Johnson, Charles M. Johnson, Charlton F. Johnson, Malcolm F. Johnson, William E., Jr. Kadison, Norman D. Kavanaugh, D. Earl Kearns, William F., Jr. Kelly, Edgar E. Kelsey, Raymond W> Kendall, Robert G. Kerlin, Lewis J. Kernan, Allan B. Kerwin, Charles C. Keyes, Conrad S. Keys, William R. King, Lloyd S. Kouns, Charles W., Jr. Laffey, Alfred W. B. Lamb, Dana S. Lambert, Frank L. Lane, Joseph H. Law, John T. Lawrence, Stanley D. Leonard, Eugene W. Libby, Richardson A. Lies, William, Jr. Litchard, Corydon K. Littlefield, Alton T. Livermore, Frank L. Loeb, Robert L. Loomis, Ralph S. Lowe, Lloyd E. Lowe, Norman A. Luce, Robert E. Luedke, Edward A. Lundegren, Walter T. McAdams, William T. McCabe, Eugene F., Jr. Mac Donald, Robert M. McDuffee, Franklin McKay, Hugh M. McMackin, Carleton E. McMillan, H. George Mallary, R. DeWitt Manchester, Harland F. Marcy, William L., Jr. Marsden, W. Hoyt Merriam, Gordon P. Merriam, Theodore E. Miller, Dayton B. Miller, H. Lincoln Miller, Russell G. Miller, William B. Miner, Reginald B. Mix, Donald G. Moore, Clarence W. Moore, Hewitt F. Moreau, Charles E. Morse, Donald G. Mosser, Harry R. Nardi, Lawrence J. Newcomb, Millard W. Newhall, Philip E. Nicholson, Paul Norcross, Thomas C. Noyes, Hermon B. Noyes, Phillips A. O'Connor, William B. O'Malley, Henry F. Oppenheimer, Arthur L. O'Reilly, Vincent P. Owen, William H Page, Edwin W. L. Palmer, Henry F. Parker, Stanley W.

Patch, Roger D. Patterson, Robert H. Payson, Capron P. Pendleton, Ralph W. Penney, Hugh • Perkins, Sumner A. Perry, William H. Pollard, Roy G. Presson, Harold W. Price, Edward S. Prince, Walter G. Ransom, Howard S. Reichart, Rufus Reynolds, George L., Jr. Richardson, Walter B. Ridlon, Gardner R. Ripley, Hubert G., Jr. Robinson, Dudley B. Rolfe, Richard S. Rood, Francis A. Rosenthal, Paul Ross, Arthur H. Ross, Frank A. Rothschild, Ryland J. Ruder, Ralph E. Ruggles, Daniel 8., Jr. Ryder, Daniel F. Sanderson, Paul G. Sater, Kenneth L. Sawyer, Donald F. Schulting, Herman W., Jr. Schultz, Joseph J. Seegal, David Sercombe, Frederick M. Severance, Otis C. Shaffer, Van V. Shepardson, Ross A. Shoup, Merrill E. Slay ton, Howard D. Smead, James L. Smiley, Earl K. Smith, Donald R. Smith, Eli C. Smith, Harold H. Smith, Nelson L. Smith, Newell C. Smith, Paul A. Sonnenfeld, Theodore Spencer, William H. Staley, Thomas W. Stanley, Gordon S. Steiner, A. Ralph Stickney, Charles A., Jr. Stiles, Charles N. Storer, Douglas F. Sullivan, Carlton V. Sullivan, John L. Symmes, Chandler W. Taylor, C. Jay Taylor, Everett B. Taylor, Frank T. Taylor, James W. Tenney, Benjamin, Jr. Terry, William E. Thomas, Kenneth H. Townsend, Maurice B. Trainer, David W. Trull, Harold A. Valentine, Andrus T. Vance, Joseph A., Jr. Van Cleve, Carlton G. Vanderveer, John D. Varian, Wilbur C. Walker, Hastings H. Walker, Joseph A. Wallick, Guy Ward, Osborne C. Warner, Addison W. Welch, Victor S. Weld, Lincoln H. White, Stanley W. Wilcox, Ernest H. Wilde, Roger C. Wilson, Robert F., Jr. Woodhouse, John C. Worthen, Horace M. Worthington, Lyman Yeaton, Kenneth A. Youngerman, Alexander

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