1938*
FROM ART SOULE
After surviving the endless red tape that accompanied a three-months' siege of the fictitious oil shortage on the Eastern seaboard, I feel ready to tackle anything, even into trying to crystallize an article out of the sparse tid-bits of news relayed to my Long Island hangout by Sergeant Von Pechmann. Baron, incidentally, is still stationed at Fort Jackson, S. C. now known to his barrack-mates as "Sarge," and judging from the varied stationery he uses for his letters, he must be getting around plenty and looting the lobbies of all the best establishments south of the MasonDixon line. He's still waiting for his Army discharge to come through before changing his allegiance from the Army to the Naval Reserve. Secret-Agent "Odo" Reno completed his preliminary F.8.1, training at Washington and Quantico with flying colors and recently stopped by for one day in New York. He was heading out to San Francisco to ferret out subversive activity and his advance agents had contacted "Wimpy" Archibald who is working in that fair city, knowing full well that Arch would be the focal point of whatever subversive activity there might be in that area.
SEEN AT THE YALE GAME
Squeezed the budget a bit to get up to New Haven. I always make a special effort to get to the Yale game because you invariably run into lots of guys you never see any other place in the men's room outside of the Bowl. Had a nice visit with "Dink" Donovan who is tied up with the Army in some way or other stationed at Boston but he was very secretive about the whole thing. He looked plenty husky and if it's the normal Army fare that has fattened him up so noticeably, then the stories I've heard about the tough life they lead can't all be true. If anyone tells you that he's in as good shape as he was when picking a dime off the hurdle-tops in Hanover, don't you believe it; it will just be a ruse being circulated by the Army Intelligence Service for which he is a stalwart operator. Saw Dick Holt who reports that he is still very busy lease-lending it for Pratt & Whitney in Hartford. Luke and Betty Nims came down from Greenfield, Mass., where Luke is showing the home folks a thing or two in his capacity as purchasing agent for the Miller Falls Co. and reports that "Skinhead" Hosmer is still leading the life of a country squire in Syracuse, selling insurance to anyone who ventures within half a mile of him and not yet called up by the Army becauses they apparently have an over-supply of search lights. Bill "Jughead" Thomas was seen herring-boning his way up the main aisle of Portal 30... . reports that he is still with Johnson & Johnson as star gauze-and-bandage man and some wit behind me announced that he must have been trying out some of J. & J.'s new plastering material that afternoon, but I didn't believe it. Clarke Mattimore was in evidence trying to squelch, in his best Vogue manner, all rumors of his projected romance by taking Bill Thomas to the game as his date. Caught a glimpse of Jim Briggs scurrying through the crowds with some gorgeous creature in tow, but didn't have a prayer of catching his eye. Also "Chunyah" Slattery was on hand, scanning the crowd for somebody with a canoe to whom he could sell some marine insurance and with an ever-ready hot tip for the sixth race at Jamaica. The fact that he's in the staid old married class and a rising factor in the N. Y. Daily News didn't prevent Duckworth from sporting his cust omary latest creation in the sports cap line.
SWEET LIGHTS AND SOFT MUSIC
An exceptionally heavy list of marriages and engagements this month so I'll get right to them: Sam Wakefield joined the ranks of the Benedicts on September 27 th in Minneapolis taking "Muggsy" Atkinson of Minneapolis and Pine Manor as his partner in crime; the old recluse, Clarke Fletcher and banker Morrow Peyton were attendants. "Peyt," incidentally, has recently announced his engagement to Betty Eastman. Herb Bayer closed his big deal with Miss Dorothy Jane Shrenier, an alumna of Edgewood Park School, also on September 27th at Harrisburg, Pa.
Bob Pollack pulled himself away from his fourth year work at Cornell Med and on September 6th was married to Miss Phyllis Joyce Addison of Victoria, British Columbia.... I always thought there was something to that Bundles for Britain business. Dick "Moose" Francis has found the answer to his moose-call and has announced his engagement to Evelyn Davieau of Cochituate, Mass. and Katy Gibbs '38. Jack Russell won his first big case since leaving Yale Law School and announced his engagement to Miss Betty Kixmiller of Chicago and Smith. Bill Moss engaged to Miss Estelle Elizabeth Clough of Warren, Pa., and New York City. She prepared for admittance into the 1938 ranks by attending Harcum Jr. College and American Academy of Dramatic Art. Ed Griffing married to Miss Elizabeth Jane Hoffman of Brooklyn on November 22nd. Belated announcement of Hank Molloy's marriage to Mary Margaret Meckel way back last June and Frank Cannel married to Mary Louise Clarke of Woodstock, Ohio, in the same month. Bill Lansberg got his M. A. at University of North Carolina and is teaching there and working for his Ph. D was married during the summer to Eunice Walmsley of Hartford and Mt. Holyoke. Ed Korn, working with Johnson & Higgins in New York City has announced his announcement to Janet Murman of East Orange and Ernie Foss has pulled the same trick on Jane Hosmer of Ithaca and Smith '39-
"THOUGH 'ROUND THE GIRDED EARTH THEY ROAM"
Johnny Johnson was recently back in this country on a short furlough from his job with Gulf Oil in Africa, but since has returned to make sure the natives change their oil every thousand miles. Paul Feakins, stationed in Lima, Peru, with the Grace Lines is setting out on a good-neighbor of his own. Bill Norcross stationed at Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, as an ensign in the U.S.N.R Bud Fox with the 130 th Infantry at Camp Forrest, Texas and Len McChesney a sergeant in 56th Field Artillery at Fort Jackson, S. C that's the same camp where Von Pechmann is and at last reports the Baron hadn't even heard a note from that hot trumpet of Len'ssuch is army life! Bob Emlem was recently released from the Army because of a broken hip and has gone back to his home town, Germantown, Pa., to take up the insurance business.
SEEN AROUND NEW YORK
Hank & Charlotte McDuff are providing their usual genial hospitality for all visiting '38ers while Mac goes merrily on his way in his third year at Cornell Med. Bill Mosenthal continues to pull down all the desirable honors in his fourth year at the same institution and has received an appointment for his interneship at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. Bob Foley, of Barrett Cup fame, is going back to the scene of his former triumphs and has an appointment for an interneship at Mary Hitchcock in Hanover. ... it will be handy to have "The Chief" available for those headaches at reunion in 1943. Sheriff Gordon is completing his fourth year at Cornell Med and is rapidly becoming an au thority on baby-snatching. You see him at parties keeping his eye on the various expectant mothers with an eye out for future business. Whitey and Tommy Mays are "roughing it" in their newly acquired country home in the woods of Greenwich, Conn., and their latch-string is always out for passing '3Bers in typical Mays style. Warren King is struggling with a belowpar Garden City High School eleven and has taken up the Dodgers' cry of "Wait 'til next Year" .... he married a Garden City girl last June and has settled down to enjoy plaudits and jeers that go with a high school coaching job, succeeding in getting more than his share of the former. Pat Gorman, now living in Rye, N. Y., has been "Lucky Striking it" all up and down the east coast for the past few months. Muff Davis in town for a day telling about his job with the Navy in the Publicity Dept. which consists in taking the knocks out of Knox's press releases and getting around generally in Washington, D. C. George Dana is in his final year at Cornell Med and rumor has it that he will make one of his co-workers at N.Y. Hospital Mrs. Dana before leaving these parts to interne in the Middle West.
The ribbon on this machine has given out and so has the news, so I'll pass the ball on to next month's guest news-gleaner with yery best wishes for a
MERRY CHRISTMAS ANDHAPPY NEW YEAR
Secretary, 41 Fifth Ave., New York City Treasurer, Conde Nast Publications Graybar Bldg., New York, N. Y.
