1921*

This new order of things is O. K. by your scribe, but with the reduction of 33 1/3% in space allotted for news, effective this issue, we have been forced to adopt the controversial lifo policy on inventory. In a word, it's now last in, first out with '2l news material The big stories this month center around several dinners. First came the N. Y. Dartmouth Lawyers dinner on Jan. 22. Bob Loeb was the first to report, writing that he attended the shindig

"but was the only lawyer in our class present, so far as I know. I saw a lapel tag on the table for Dink Miller, but if he was there I did not see him. Jack Hubbell was also there. Prexy Hopkins' speech was one of the best of the many fine speeches I ever heard him give."

. .. .Dink Miller states that he had a reservation but at the last moment was unable to attend. He received a glowing report on the proceedings the following week, however, from Jigger Pender '97 Dink also reveals that Cliff Hart, Ort Hicks, Tray Higgins, and Herm McMillan, in addition to himself, are serving on the new Exec. Comm. of the Long Island Dartmouth Club The second dinner was the annual affair of all N. Y. Alumni, held this year at the Hotel Roosevelt on Feb. 19 with a bang-up crowd in attendance. Unfortunately for him, your scribe was out of the city at that time, but our own '21 Secret Service was turned loose with the following result in the form of a list: Howie Anger, Bill Barber, Corey Ford, Cliff Hart, Ort Hicks, Tray Higgins, Jack Hubbell, Rex King, Al Laffey, Frank Livermore, Bob Loeb, Bandy Lowe, Oky O'Connor, Bill Owen, Dan Patch, Hoy Schulting, Doug Storer, Bill Terry, Abe Weld, Ernie Wilcox. All reports indicate a grand evening for everyone.

WASHINGTON: March 5 saw the annual dinner of alumni in the Nation's Capital. Our class put on such a spirited demonstration of loyalty that '21 ran away with the attendance prize in a walk, topping every class at the dinner with a figure of 1 a—read 'em and weep (that you weren't there):—Ike Chester, Russ Goodnow, Val Grundman, Ort Hicks, Dana Lamb, Frank Livermore, Jack Means, Dud Robinson, Nels Smith, Charley Stickney, John Sullivan, Bob Wilson. And right in there, every minute, was Cliff Watson '22, although we wouldn't count him officially when it came to winning the prize. Detailed story of dinner elsewhere in this issue. But nowhere will you find recorded the off-the-record '21 cocktail party thrown by Ort Hicks at the Lee Sheraton Hotel immediately preceding the dinner. This was really the highlight of the evening, and the thanks of everyone present go to Ort, "than whom there is none whomer" when it comes to both Dartmouth and '2l loyalty Harland Manchester authored "The Magic of HighOctane Gas" for the February issue of Harper's Art Higgins writes from Chicago that there's no real news in his move to 120 South LaSalle St., merely that the Accident and Health Dept. of Aetna Life Ins. Co. decided to move after 30 years, "so I just went along with them." The latter was probably a wise decision, for Art is supt. of the dept Ray French writes that he's taking a radio operator's course, "so I expect to be of some use when the time comes for the Army or Navy."....

Larry Nardi forwards a dandy "foto" from the N. Y. Sunday News for Jan. 25 showing Lieut. Earle Carder, U. S. N. R., and other "reporters" gathered around their chief in the Public Relations Office, Third Naval District, 90 Church St., Manhattan. We read with interest that Lieut. Carder, "a naval aviator in the last World War," is in charge of "fotos."

TRIVIA: Your secretary's wife has re- cently been elected vice pres. of the Roselle —Roselle Park Girl Scout Leaders' Assn. . .. .With what he hopes will be viewed as pardonable pride, your scribe announces that he recently has earned and been awarded the B.S. degree by the Trustees, "As With the Class of 1931." In an un- guarded moment we mentioned this (rather casually, we thought) to Oscar the office boy. "What's dis B.S. mean, chief?", was Oscar's reaction. All rational explana- tion falling flat, we finally hit upon the idea of ending it all by explaining that we were now a bull-shooter. To which came the rejoinder, "Why d'ya use dat word 'now,' chief?" Our only apology for Oscar is that he attended Columbia and his I. Q. is nothing to write home about. Another item about this department concerns your scribe's removal to Wash- ington, Feb. 18, where he is with the W. P. 8., Div. of Industry Operations, Bu- reau of Industry Branches, Industrial & Office Machinery Branch, Pulp & Paper and Printing & Publishing Machinery Section. Probably, however, we'll be in a different Industry Branch before this column appears, so no more space will be devoted to the matter this month. News items for the present should continue to be addressed to Roselle, N. J Take the mike, George:

Secretary, 718 Drake Ave., Roselle, N. J.