1938
Dan Cupid and the chief of his reproduction division continue to furnish a substantial proportion of the month's news items. Herm Holt writes: "Just for the record, offspring No. 2 arrived July 30, 1946 .... a girl. Name is Barbara Jean Holt. Our other daughter, Carol Lamson Holt, is now three and a half." As to his other activities Herm says: "I've just completed a four-reeler entitled Scout Trailsto Citizenship; five months in production. Spent the last six weeks rushing through 23 states shooting backgrounds for it. Will be released next summer. Warner Brothers will distribute this film, under a different title, in two reels in technicolor." Herm is living in New York. And the stork has also struck recently at Howie Rea. John Drayton Rea was born on October 10. His father is practicing law with Breed, Abbott and Morgan down in the canyons of Broad Street.
William J. K. Griffin, late of the First Airborne Division and formerly known in the fast-moving touch football set on Tuck Drive as Babe, was married on September 28 to Miss Elizabeth Shoumatoff in New York. Babe is associated with Ruthrauff & Ryan in the big city; his bride was in the Spars during the war. Asher Lans' engagement to Miss Barbara Eisner of New York was announced the same day. Miss Eisner was graduated from Walnut Hill School and Hood College and was formerly a member of the editorial staff of TheStaten Island Advance. Asher is now with Coudert Brothers; he received an M.A. from Columbia in 1939 and was graduated from Yale Law School in '44; he has also lectured in economics at Hunter and Brooklyn Colleges of late.
All you people down Manhattan way who may need help cornering toys around Christmas time will be glad to hear that Bob Carson was recently appointed manager of the Bulk Toys and Wheel Goods department at Macy's. I don't know just how all-inclusive the wheel goods are, but I doubt if automobiles are included, so Von Pechmann needn't bother writing for a new car. Al Wolff is a new addition to the faculty at the Junior College of Connecticut. He is participating in personnel work. Charley Brown is practicing medicine in Gloversville, N. Y. Bud Devlin is with Gulf Oil in Detroit. Kelly Hill is now assistant professor of Industrial Management at Tuck School, in no other place than Hanover. Fred Hollingworth is living in Elgin, Ill., but my secret intelligence service has not as yet reported anything else: the dossier on Hollingworth, F., remains empty. Johnny Merder is in the lumber business in Wayne, Ill., and is also living in Elgin. Jack Smillie, now with the U. S. Public Health Service, is at the Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, Ga. Tom Boyan is in Amsterdam, N. Y., but again the super sleuths Hunk and fail to report anything further. (Things were never like this in the O. G. P. U.) Dick Niebling, I think, is teaching at Exeter. Charley Wyckoff is reported to have been at Bikini (remember those atom bomb tests) taking high speed pictures for the Navy and M. I. T. It's amazing the way I pick up all these torrid scoops certainly makes my predecessor's methods look weak; his spy service was so ineffective that he had to resort to pure fabrication, bordering on libel in many cases, in order to make copy, and he never had any news less than a year old. He never did report the Japanese surrender.
I ran into Fran Belcher in one of Concord's leading hash-houses this evening. He filed a good report on the activities of various people in the Boston area. Fran is claim agent for the B. and M. in this area, but his family (four children, which certainly makes most of you other people look awfully ineffective) is forced to remain in Melrose, Concord being plagued by that same housing shortage. Speaking of children, he pointed out that Jim Cotter is the father of five fine lads and lassies, which just about makes him THE father of the Class of '38; Johnny McLane is still in the running, with four, as is my informant. All of which makes me retract my recent statement about the air in Chicago. Parker Brownell is working in the legal division of the B. and M. in Boston now, and Fran also reports that Charley Wiggin is doing some pretty extensive dairy farming at Chester, N. H.
A recent letter from Happy Hoby Rockwell says that he expects to be getting back to the States sometime this winter, after spending four years down below, in the land of the samba. Art Soule recently moved into a new house in Needham Heights, and I figure that anyone who is able to promote a house these days must study the stars. Art is the Boston manager of the Spentonbush Fuel Transport Service.
I have been advised that William G. Paull was killed in an airplane accident this past summer; an obituary notice will appear else- where in the MAGAZINE.
That's about all for this time. I hope you all have a most pleasant holiday season, and it obviously will be that for everyone who had to spend the past few away from home. Strange and alien soil—or coral, or mud—is no place to be on Christmas Day and it isn't particularly exciting to receive pulverized Christmas cookies about the middle of May. If statesmen and diplomats are at a loss to find reason for insuring a worthwhile peace, which some of them seem to be, I submit that observation.
And a Merry Christmas to all!
Secretary, 4 School St., Concord, N. H.
Treasurer, Suite 1160, 208 S. La Salle St., Chicago 4, Ill.
