1941*

And again this month. Nick Blood, an Army Air Force instructor with new first lieutenant's bars, was making a routine flight with an enlisted man near Waco Field, Tex., on Sunday afternoon, January 31. While they were coming in for a landing, the plane crashed about a mile from the field. Both were killed.

If we seem to pass over this too swiftly, it is not because such things have come to be taken for granted—it is because the thoughts that come now have already been said. When they have been said for one, they have been said for all. They are not made for repeating. Each of us can realize now, unspoken but just as deeply, what we had to put in words before. Add Nick's name to the others and remember it.

From Tim Takaro, a postcard with the authenticated information about Jack Brister. He quotes a letter from Jack: add to this the dubious fun of being blown up in a mine, suffering as a result only a punctured ear-drum which maddens only because it keep me here (in the hospital) rather than where I was useful and learning."

One rumor which came to me from Dick Hill, in New Caledonia, I am glad to spike and hope that it stays spiked. Dick said he had been told that Jay Baker was killed in the Solomons, but that is what Mrs. Jay has to say on the subject.

"Jay Baker is not missing in action as far as I know and I'm sure I would be the first to know it. .... The last letter I received from Jay was written Dec. 29—he was in a hospital somewhere in the South Pacific with malaria, and he said that he expected to be interned in bed for another week or so. So I can't understand how he can possibly be lost unless it were in the bed clothes. It was the first time he had slept in a bed for five months. I'm hoping he may be on his way home for a rest because he said he was in terrible need of a lot of sleep."

Patty also reports a slight change in the nomenclature of your class baby. He was originally listed as Bruce Harriman Baker, but from now in he will be Seth Harriman Baker. Seems that as soon as Jay found out he had a son, he wrote home to rename him Seth—after Seth Fitchet, of course, who was Jay's best friend at school and is now at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. I hope I've got it straight now.

The younger generation is gathering rapidly. An anonymous postcard, in from Tulsa, Okla., accuses me of misstatement in the January notes wherein I said Baby No. 3 was Clayt Koelb's. Error is admitted. He was Boy No. 3—in the aggregate of both genders, I've lost count momentarily. Anyway, the card informs that Pete and Shirley Coombs acquired Pete Jr., on November 6. Full information is available on the birth of Sandra Lee Rodes to Dusty and Edith on January 29 at San Diego. Sandy is described by her doting father as "another beautiful blond in the family." (We also assiime that the Willis heir has long since arrived, but nobody ever told us, and that's a hint.)

Social Notes from All Over, Visitors toWashington Division: Hank Frechette in for a week-end, in the process of exchanging his job with American Steel and Wire for that of an apprentice seaman Lt. Jim McLellan, down on business as a Medical Procurement Officer in New York City. ... . Fred Begole, on the way home from visiting Hank Gunst and awaiting induction into the Navy after Harvard Business School graduation.

And here we go as usual. Engaged: Aviation Cadet Bob Davidson USNR to Elizabeth B. Flather, of Washington, D. C. (strongly suspected to be George Flather's sister); Frank Nye to Margaret Werner, of Hudson Falls,'N. Y.; Dick Olmstead to Barbara Jean Andrews, of West Hartford, Conn.; and Ensign Stew Steffey to Euphemia Hare, or Pittsburgh, Pa.1

Married: George Morse and Elizabeth Bateholts, of Niskayuna, N. Y., on Dec. 26; Ensign Jack Bowe and Barbara Shackelford, of Kansas City, Mo., on Sept. 17; Ensign Johnnie Naylor and Jean Buchta, of Webster Groves, Mo., on Dec. 9; En; sign Dick Baillie and Marion F. Eldridge, in Miami, on Dec. 31; Lt. Hank Gunst and Virginia Martin, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Lt. Bill Cashel and Marie Leyendecker, of Pelham, N. Y., on Jan. 10,; and Ensign Don Ross and Betty Boardman, of San Francisco, Cal., on Jan. 16.

And lastly, here's a blanket invitation from Tinner Gordon: "Even though I am not likely to be in Omaha long, my family etc., are here—there is a big house—my family likes parties, and if any of the boys get sent to Ft. Crook, Neb., they would do right well by themselves if they gave a call. It would be a quick way for them to get acquainted in Omaha."

STILL SCORING SUCCESSFULLYGus Broberg '4l and John Masterson, of Rochester, N. Y., are greeted by Joy Hodges,screen and stage star, at a recent basketball game between Navy-Pre-Flight and L. I.University. Broberg, who was high scorer of the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball Leaguefor three years at Dartmouth, has completed primary and secondary Navy CPT courses.

WITH THE KING'S ROYAL RIFLES Lt. John Brister '4l has his hand dressed atan advanced British Red Cross base inLibya while awaiting transfer to Cairo.

Secretary, City Room, Washington Post Washington, D. C.