1938
Dick Francis and I just came off a bivouac, and if you want to see the last word in nothing at all, you should see the Buddha with a moustache. Lew Williams left here before I was able to get in touch with him. Promotions Lt. Charles Mock, Major Em Marsteller, Lt. Herb Loring, Capt. Phil Beatman, Lt. (jg) Clint Pickering, Ens. Schuyler French, and Capt. Ed Kirby. Ens. Jack Stein is aboard (censored).
A 1 Bliss is a lawyer in New York with Irving Trust. But how about this for a spectacular announcement? On January 20 arrived William Talbot Mosenthal 11, tipping the scales at nine pounds two ounces. Father doing well, I presume. Jack Lutz at last hearing was at Camp Murphy, the Signal Corps School at West Palm Beach, and from there expected to go to Holabird Depot at Baltimore. Said he saw Miles Prentice, who's a first lieutenant, Air Corps, and a navigator on a B-26. Carl Hecker is with Headquarters Cos. at Camp Murphy. Lt. Herb Loring is assistant chaplain at Garden City Army Air Field. Fran Worcester, Lt, USNR and Nancy Cole Broas were married in New York January 7. The doctor and Charlotte McDuff announce the arrival of eight pound, thirteen ounce Diana Lewis as of October 17. Mac interned at the Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, and has been appointed resident at the Lying-in hospital there. Dr. Jack Smillie was married December 25 to Ellen Saxe Arnold, Evanston, 111., is now a first lieutenant, and interning at Massachusetts General. Jack Mcintosh is now a jg, and Gil Small is a captain. Major Jack Fitting, somewhere in the Pacific with a Marine Fighter Squadron, and Dorothy Westhead, the Miami "zoom" girl, are engaged. For a while, Jack was a flight instructor at the Miami Naval Station.
Lt. Jim McGovern USN and Gloria Farnham, Long Island, were married December 4, and if I can ever find time to get to Jacksonville, I may get to see them. Jim is an instructor in advanced operations at the Naval Air Station. Carson didn't tell me this, but the Mrs. Robert Carson is the former Barbara Rounds. I wondered where Carson had been that he could meet any women, but it's the same story of Macy's men and women sticking together. Mrs. was an assistant buyer there, after an interneship at Colby, Wellesley, and Coburn Fashion.
From the "Man About Boston" column comes this: "If any of Dartmouth's class of '3B think they know William Barrett, juvenile lead of 'Ramshackle Inn,' the Zasu Pitts' starrer at the Wilbur, they're right. He changed his name from Blees to Barrett because no one would pronounce it carefully." Still in Italy is Jim Briggs, with the AFS. Did I tell you Dave Balmer married Elizabeth Donnelly the second of December in La Jolla? He did. The January 1 issue of The NewYorker contains an article, "Reporter at Large.... Italian Street Scene" by Jack Whelden.
My correspondents, who a year ago, used to conjecture about the end of the war, seem almost entirely to have given that up. The boys in the Pacific and in Italy are all unanimous in their belief that the whole business is far from being over. I'm sorry I can't tell ypu that our reunion is going to be next month, but we'll have to wait for that. These articles seem to get briefer and briefer, which to some of you is probably good news, but the reason for some of it is that those of you who write give me stuff that's censored or unprintable, and the rest of you don't write. Take Reno, for instance; I can't tell you anything he says. I'd try and relieve the monotony by grabbing hold of an occasional guest editor, but everyone seems so tied up, I hate to impose. If anyone wants to take a crack at an article, let me know. Happy Valentine Day and St. Patrick Day to you all.
Secretary, 41 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y, Treasurer; 1743 Q St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
