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Nor Catterall, Norman 8., is Comptroller of the Henry Hudson Hotel, 353 W; 57th St., New York City, so drop around when you are in the city and looking for a good hotel. The Columbia Grammar School is going to hold its graduation exercises in the hotel's auditorium so Headmaster Jack Alden and Nor should get together.
The annual banquet of the Dartmouth Club of Washington was held on April Bth at the Mayflower Hotel. Edmund Freeman writes that he sat with "Chip" Semmes, George Stiles and "Husky" Wilbur. "Husky" is with the Engineer Corps of the War Department. "Zanny" Robeson was ill, as was Don Evans' father, who at present is with Don and his family. They, the Evans, have moved across the Potomac into Virginia, like so many Washingtonians.
Had a long letter from Dave Morey who is evidently supremely happy in his work as director of athletics at Wilbraham Academy. Drop in and see Dave when in the neighborhood of Wilbraham, Mass., and look over his school, especially if you have growing boys.
Harold McAllister Jr. started with the Phoenix Ins. Company of Hartford, Conn, at the home office in that city on January ist upon the completion of his course at the Harvard Business School this year.
Rollo Hutchinson is stationed in Newport, R. I. at the U. S. Naval Hospital. He was at the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia for five months where he was a patienthaving had an operation on his vocal chords. He now hopes to be left in Newport, his "old home town," for awhile. Mrs. Dean Thompson and her family have been in Tucson, Arizona and are moving to California this June.
Larry Stoddard is temporarily located in Queens Village, Long Island, N. Y. at 107-32 Monterey St.
Spring is here and summer on its way so George Davidson is back in Westport, Conn. Winter in Florida, summer in New England every year—pretty soft Leeds Gulick is now in Brookline, Mass. at 591 Washington St "Cap" Avery has changed his address in Ithaca, N. Y. to 114 Delaware Ave You now can find Myron Art Myers at 1144 East 22nd St. in Brooklyn, N. Y. according to a Post Office Notice.
Bill Gumbart stepped into the newspapers in March. The New Haven, Conn. Journal-Courier and Times says: "At a meeting Tuesday of the Board of Directors of the New Haven Gas Light Cos., William B. Gumbart was elected a director of the company to succeed George D. Watrous who died Nov. 4, 1940. Mr. Gumbart was admitted to the bar in January, 1916, and since that time has been in practice in New Haven, beginning as a law clerk in the firm of Watrous & Day. He became a member of the firm of Watrous, Day, Hewitt, Steele and Sheldon in 1931 and has been continuously with the same firm, now Watrous, Gumbart & Corbin. He has been lecturer in Connecticut Law and Practice at Yale School of Law since 1924. Mr. Gumbart was a former president, and now director, of the New Haven Community Chest."
Len Manley attended his first Dartmouth affair since the reunion. Dean Bill spoke to about twenty in San Diego and Len went with some La Jolla men, including Tex Morris 'l2. He reports the death of Ray Bennett's brother-in-law and the reopening of the store. Len has a new address of 1375 Torrey Pine Rd., La Jolla, California.
FROM LISBON, PORTUGAL
An interesting letter from Keith Wood in Lisbon, Portugal gives a new slant to some of the news, but then news changes quickly these days. The letter was written March 18th:
"You mention the censorship possibly holding up any mail or packages. My experience has been that they do not hold up a thing, that is, delete anything, and let everything come through. The real purpose of the British censor is to control anything going to their enemy. If they were working a real war censorship between Lisbon and the United States, they would certainly have cut out a whole lot of my statements made in my letters to my mother in Portsmouth and my family. Of course, they cannot perform a real censorship between two neutrals and although I am in full sympathy with the issues that are at hand and feel that we have finally taken the right step in our helping Great Britain, I do get awfully annoyed over the fact that it is possible that a foreign country can take my personal letters to my family and mull through them at their leisure. Of course, after I get over being mad, and cuss the English here and there, I am with them one hundred percent. I don't think that the Americans would be happy unless they could slam the Limies now and then, the same as they are so happy when they take a poke at us.
"Aside from business, Lisbon is a very interesting place during these rather hectic days. It is more or less the center of commerce for Europe as all the other ports are practically closed to international business. Then, there is the enormous influx of refugees, some with definite plans ahead but the most of them filled with wishful hopes of getting to the grand and glorious land of freedom. I do not know whether you happened to read the article in the March Bth issue of Collier's by Quentin Reynolds about Lisbon. If you did, you had a wrong impression of these refugees. To be sure, many of them have come here with just their clothes on their backs but many of them are here with a pot full of gold. How they got it across the borders over which they traversed with severer than ever control, one does not know but you can see them at the gambling Casino with thousands of Escudos night after night. (An escudo is worth about four cents but twenty-five or thirty thousand makes a tidy little sum to be tossing away while their compatriots are back in their own lands suffering the tortures of hunger, Nazi depravities and expulsion from their homes.) The more that I see of the most of these refugees the less sorry I feel for them. So many of them had sneaked their money out before and were on their way to enjoy it as they left their friends and relatives behind. Of course, I am awfully sorry for the Poles and the Jews and the peoples of the occupied zones where they do not know from one day to another, or one minute to another, what is in store for them.
"However, contrary to Brother Quentin Reynolds, Lisbon carries on as if there were no war in Europe. There is anxiety here naturally as to the outcome and as to whether the Germans will come down through here, but the real loyalty is to England and faith that she will eventually win, especially now, with the aid of the United States. In the final analysis, the Portuguese do not believe that the Germans will come down through here and they are going along about their daily routine with the same spirit as before. The port wine busi- ness is not so good because the English are not drinking as much port wine as before the war, and, naturally, their canned fish business is not so good because if they should sell to their two previous good customers, Germany and France, the British will not give them any navicerts for the shipment of tin-plate from the States to make their tin cans. If there is any down-hearted attitude here it is due to business and not the possibilities of attack from the dictators."
BACK HOME AGAIN
In the Boston Traveler there runs a daily series, "Our Gracious Ladies." Recently Eloise Hubbard Linscott, wife of "Mose" Linscott, and Katherine Wilkins, sister of the Secretary, were interviewed and "written up," the first on account of her work in literature and old time ballads, songs and dances and the latter for her painting and her work in art.
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