1933
At the present writing, we are engaged in bandying polemics with the Waterbury newspapers which won the Pulitzer Prize a few years ago. Just what the Prize was given for, it is a little difficult to remember, but, as we recall it, it had something to do with matters political. At any rate, our hide, or carapace, as it is familiarly known, has thickened perceptibly in the past month. We are getting used to dealing with batteries of critical 16 inchers. As a result, the subtle and implied criticism of Secretary-Chairman-elect Theriault leaves us gurgling with delight. The contrast is terrific.
Here's a load of his mordant wit: "I'm reading Class notes these days with a new interest. In picking up pointers from your latest effusion, you may be sure that I have circled in red a couple of comments you had occasion to make.
"After so many quiet, peaceful and altogether delightful years in an ivory tower, it is quite obvious that I can't hope to pitch in your league.
"But it's barely possible that when, in a few months, you have lost direct access to your admiring public, I may have occasion to refer to the 'obvious connection' between your glib tongue and the way you make your living. As for the AD house, it will be closed shortly. The athletes will have gone to war, and the only men left in Hanover will be those able to maintain a respectable academic standing."
Doug Kaplinger has been commissioned a major in the U. S. Army. He is stationed at the Quartermaster's base at Richmond, Va. He spent one year at Fort Bragg, where he was base property officer. He was then transferred to Bradley Field, Mass. His wife and son, Douglas Jr., are with him at Richmond.
"An Adventure in Poetry" by Lieut. Kimball Flaccus USNR appeared in the October issue of The Quarterly Journal ofSpeech.
Private J. B. Campbell USMG writes as follows: "I am now in the Marine Corps Reserve, have just finished boot camp here (Platoon 1106, Marine Barracks, Parris Island, S. C.) and will be shoving off this'week for a few days in Philly and then recruiting duty in Vermont. Bad eyes keep me out of combat duly, but I'm glad to have a job of any kind in the Marine Corps. .
"To catch up on my history—after leaving Hanover, I went to G. Law School in D C passed the Vermont bar exams, and commenced the practice of law at Manchester, Vt., my home town, on Jan. 1, 1937. Served two terms in the Vermont legislature, and joined up December
"Finally, but decidedly not least, I was married to Dorothy Ann Tison of Savannah, Ga., at Savannah on April 25, 1942. Since then we have been living in Manchester, which is our permanent address."
Jud Pierson passes along a letter from Charlie Clark, still at the time of writing in New Guinea with the Service of Supply. Jud states that Charlie has three daughters one of whom he has never seen. Jud's news:
"I saw John Manley during the winter when he was working out at Brewster Aircraft in Long Island City doing some checking up for the Air Corps. He is now a captain. "I have lunch quite regularly with Sam black, still lawyering, and I frequently see Rugen who expects to be called into the Army any day now. "I'd like to get to one of the monthly dinners at the Club, but no car means a heck of a long walk home at a late hour after commuting—and I haven t been able to get up the ambition."
Excerpts from the Clark letter: "I am about to end a year in the nearest place to hell that exists on the face of the earth. I'm sure that the newspapers have told you all about the difficulties of fighting the Japs in New Guinea and I assure you that it is one story they can not exaggerate. It's so hot and humid here that the perspiration flows constantly, leather goods mold over night, metal rusts at a terrific rate and everything is moist and clammy We have serious personnel problems through sickness and the command consistently wastes away through the evacuation of sick with no replacements available. If you could be here and see the amount of food and equipment it takes to keep even this small force going,_ you could easily realize what a terrific problem it is. Learning our own problem, I marvel even more at the way Hitler and Stalin have managed to keep so many men going. r
"Part of my trip here was made in a Flying Fortress and served to increase my respect for this most wonderful of all bombers. I would fly anywhere in one and it is my ambition to be able to fly home in one some day. But the best part of the trip was a three-day cruise in a beautiful 58-foot cabin cruiser, romantically named the Shangri La. She had formerly been owned by a rich Australian glass manufacturer and had been taken over by our Army. It was the real McCoy and puts me in a class with Errol Flynn and those other South Sea travelers.
We assume that Charlie is speaking strictly of prewar Flynn and that his shortwave radio has not kept him in touch with the recent convolutions of the California judicial process.
Gene Merkt writes from near-by Naugatuck (219 Cherry Street): "The vagaries of the war situation being what they are, about two months ago, I found myself on the way to Naugatuck, to go to work for the United States Rubber Company in the Cost Department of the Naugatuck Footwear Plant. We have something presentable in houses and if we ever get a priority from WPB, we expect to get a stove and everything. I can't recall when I've enjoyed life so much as in the last few weeks. This business of walking to work and going home for luncheon really has it all over commuting in the City."
Officer Candidate Bill Alden (Sq. 3, Group A, W. 1, A.A.F.0.C.5., Miami Beach, Fla.) writes: "Received with pleasure the latest of the old Mag and it is a pleasure to know that such things still exist in this world.
"I am plugging away at O.C.S. which is certainly no place for doting college professors. I left my job as Assistant Professor at Texas Tech in November. My wife became instructor in French and took over my courses, while my Aunt came down from the East to supervise my 8 months old daughter."
Prof. Alden has certainly given an excellent example of how the manpower problem can be solved.
The following men are in the Army of the United States and mail should be sent to these addresses: Hank Carruth, c/o Brown Cos., Berlin, N. H Lt. W. F.Dowling, 1222 Kemble St., Utica, N. Y. .... Lt. Stuart H. Durkee, Naval Supply Depot, Bayonne, N. J Brett Osborne, 120 E. 71st St., c/o Simmons, N. Y. C Lt. George W. Jacobus, 140 Roseville Ave., Newark, N. J.
John Hunley can be reached at 640 Michigan Ave., Evanston, 111 DayKrolik is a research chemist with the Trueson Laboratories in Detroit where he lives at 951 Whitmore Road John Lacher is a chemist with Mallinkrodt Chemical in St. Louis. He lives at 5 Estates Court, Ferguson, Mo Hudson Stone is a cost accountant with the Waltham Watch Cos., and he lives at 85 Withington Road, New- tonville, Mass.
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