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Werner Janssen, according to the AP, did his bit for the relief of Finland by conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in a program of music by Jean Sibelius, noted Finnish composer, on December 29. The news service said that proceeds will be sent to Sibelius in Helsinki for distribution to families madehomeless by warfare. Janssen and his wife,the former film star, Ann Harding, aredonating funds to defray expenses of theconcert Jumping from coast to coast (this column is prone to do that) we find in New England that the Granite State representative on the Republican National Committee, Robert P. Burroughs, of Manchester, is receiving scads of publicity for his activities as a member of the exclusive Executive Committee of the Repub. Nat. Comm. This group has swung into action for the 1940 campaign and is all set to "go to town." The monthly prize for the best '31 photograph or clipping submitted goes to Ned Price, member of the law firm of Musgrave, Oppenheim, Price & Ewins, 905 First National Bank Bldg., Chicago (we over-looked getting that address in last month's issue) who forwards a snappy cut from his city's Daily News showing the aforesaid G. O. P. leaders "swinging" into action. Our vote for the snappiest-looking "swinger" goes unequivocally to the gentleman from New Hampshire.
The College late in November sponsored a seminar on Inter-American Relations and invited no less a personage than Ellis Briggs to come to Hanover to open the four-day festivities. The N. Y. Times reported Ellis's talk in a special dispatch headlined HOPEFUL FOR HEMISPHEREBRIGGS AT DARTMOUTH FORUM FORECASTS BRIGHT FUTURE Picking up the HeraldTribune on December 31, your correspondent learned that Ellis OrmsbeeBriggs, acting chief of the Division ofAmerican Republics of the State Department, will discuss collaboration of theAmericas over WMCA on Thursday at1:15 P.M. from the luncheon of the Advertising Club (N. Y.) John L. Sullivan also crashed the headlines from coast to coast recently when President Roosevelt appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Sullivan is described by the press as a former Manchester, N. H., attorney who comes to this office from the post of Assistant to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. There's no predicting where Sully will end up.
Continuing our personally conducted tour of rogues galleries, newspaper morgues, and whatnots, we come upon a nice four-column cut from the New RO. chelle (N. Y.) Standard-Star which gives us pause. Here we see depicted, true to life in every respect excepting that he seems to have all his clothes on, that ex-natator Roger Parkhurst Bird, coal tycoon, radio warbler, and now the big splash of the Larchmont Community Chest Drive. Our undercover agent reports, in an affidavit accompanying the pictorial evidence, that the drive went over the top with something to spare. Which is nothing less than we would expect from an undertaking sparkplugged by the jovial songßird From out Fort Dearborn way comes the news that Bill Embree has entered that boy of his in Deerfield (Mass.) Academy for the coming fall Johnnie Herbert has removed to 72 Kirkland St., Cambridge.
Here's that long-overdue report on Charlie Gilson promised you. Chas. writes he is still with Metropolitan Life—"title, Contributory Supervisor, whatever that may mean or imply. I am with the group insurance division and although Chicago ('735 South LaSalle Si.—Ed.) is my resident city, I manage to hit most of the four corners of the country during the year. As for family, I still have a very swell wife (exDorothy Jenks, Smith '22) the same one I started out with 16 years ago. I have two boys, Charlie Jr., age 15, in high school in Evanston, and Ben, age seven. Both the boys were entered for Dartmouth soon after birth, just in case they should happen to want to go, and I have recently been informed by Charlie that he is entering Hanover in the fall of 1942. Recently Bob Wilson was in town and spent a Sunday out at the house. He, I gather, is doing well with the Associated Grocery Manufacturers of America."
Roy Pollard has turned his back upon Manhattan and returned to the old home town of Proctorsville. When asked for his occupation-to-be in that lovely Vermont village, just a few miles from Hanover, Roy waved his hand magnificently and said, "Simply say I'm going to be a merchant." ....Kemp Fuller must have found his way out of the Pittsburgh smog in the not distant past, because Tracy Higgins writes of having met Kemp recently at a shindig at the Waldorf in N. Y., having something to do with marketing. Kemp is the Manager of Market Research for U. S. Steel with headquarters at 436 Seventh Ave., Pittsburgh From Henry Palmer, Akron, chief chemist of Xylos Rubber Cosubsidiary of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.: "We are the largest manufacturers of reclaimed rubber in the world. At the recent meeting of the American Chemical Society in Boston, I read a paper on 'The Chloroform Extract of Reclaimed Rubber' and on November 17 at Providence I expect to give a paper entitled, 'The Automatic Proportioning and Blending of Liquid Chemicals in a Reclaimed Rubber plant' before the American Institute of Chemical Engineers." When Hank wrote, on November 13, he was "laying a plan or two on being in N. Y. at the time of the Stanford game"; later we learned these plans materialized but unfortunately Henry and your reporter missed seeing each other Herrick Brown followed up his recent successes in football reporting by being sent to Hanover to cover the Cornell game for the N. Y. Sun, a major assignment for a major newspaper and therefore a real tribute to his ability (recently uncovered) in that phase of newspaper work. Writing his lead after the conclusion of the game kept Herrick in the press box until after the field was deserted, which hampered his reportorial activities for this column. He did manage to see a few of the gang, however, particularly on the homeward train, where he visited as far as Springfield with the special-car occupants from that city represented by '21ers Hank and Peggy Cook, Dan and Marion Patch, Sandy and Myrtle Sanderson, and Cory Litchard.
Your scribe reports he is now connected with Hendrick Manufacturing Co., as salesman at the N. Y. Office, 30 Church St. The outfit manufactures perforated metals of various sorts and has its plant at Carbondale, Pa. Since your reporter is in the office but little, giving you the telephone number means almost nothing. But for what it may be worth—BArclay 7-1428. Let this correspondent know in advance, if possible, when and where you'll be in N. Y Take the mike, George:
THE SPIRIT OF '2l
By GEORGE L. FROST
IN FEBRUARY, 1919 At the annual exhibition of the Camera Club, A. R. Steiner '21 won second prize for AnOctober Sky, "which depicted waving cornstalks against a stormy cloud formation.". .. .The sophomore-freshman basketball game aroused much interest. The game was won by '21 by a score of 21-20. Said The Dartmouth: "The excellent floor work and basket-caging ability of Bolles and the defensive play of Murphy featured the 1921 team play. Schulting displayed his usual aggressive Work which aided materially in the sophomore victory. Playing his first game as a member of the 1921 five, Chamberlaine at center merited his choice for that position. Prince played his usual consistent and effective game on the defense."... .Towards the end of the month 50 Outing Club enthusiasts (now called "chubbers") entrained for Franconia Notch, where they proposed to climb Mt. Lafayette by the Pemigewasset Trail on snowshoes, and, after roping themselves together, to pass over the Knife Edge with the aid of ice-creepers. "They will then climb Mt. Liberty, returning to the Profile House by the way of the Flume. Creepers will again be necessary when a party ascends Mt. Cannon and climbs over the icy cliffs to view at close range the famed Great Stone Face. Men who bring skis with them will have an opportunity to use them on short trips in the neighborhood of the Profile House." Chubbers of '21 were Briggs, Densmore, Fowler, Herbert, C. P. Payson, Price, Trainer, Wells, and Wilcox.
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SPECIAL NOTICE: A 1920-1921-1922 Combined class dinner is slated to be held Monday, March 11, at the D Club, New York, 30 East 37th St. Write down the date and place now. Details to follow in next month's issue.
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