1934
Rightfully, this month we ought to come in like a mean old lion. Instead, though, we're going to simulate a kindly old stork,, and deliver news of a few additions to the '34 family which while not so very recent appear so far to have gone unrecorded. Back on January 5, 1946 the Bill Cunnings household in Bethlehem, Pa., welcomed James L'awson Cumings. That makes it two boys and a girl for Bill, who is still with Bethlehem Steel in the Raw Materials department. Then on August 29, 1946, the Warren Schmids said howdy to James Simpson Schmid whose arrival equalized things at his parents' Scarsdale home with one boy and one girl. Warren is with The Linde Air Products Cos. in New York. Next, on September 18, 1946, down in Houston, a new full-back checked in at the Dave Hedges menage in the person of Daniel Kuldell Hedges. Meanwhile Dave is currently doing the blocking for Danny and his brother Davy through his position with the investment security house of Moroney, Beissner & Cos.
Latest target of that chubby little chap wearing naught but a pair of wings and a quiver full of love-tipped arrows is GroveBlood whose engagement to Christina Higginbotham of South Orange, N. J. was announced January 7, 1947. Grove is with W. R. Grace & Cos. at Bogota, Columbia.
Still other announcements, of business doings, have reached us by way of the public press. We learn for instance that PeanutsDavies, President of J. Clarence Davies, Inc., has extended that fifty-eight year old Bronx concern into the Queens market, buying the J. C. McCormick Real Estate Cos.; and in BobBrown's bible of the newspaper arid advertising field, Editor ir Publisher, we see that ChetBirch has been appointed vice president and account executive of Robert W. Orr & Associates, New York ad agency. Still reading the papers, but sliding over a speck a la gauche we find a sports columnist on the DailyWorker who has breathlessly discovered that Al Kahn, co-author of The Great ConspiracyAgainst Russia, is a former Dartmouth Athlete. "Get the files of the New York Times round '33 and '34," says he, "turn to the sports pages and there it is: 'Red Kahn Sweeps Three Events in Track Meet.' Kahn is still very much interested in sports, particularly track and boxing—but just as a spectator. 'You can't keep running around the city,' he says And by the way, he'll be one of the speakers next Wednesday night at the Lenin Memorial Meeting in the same Garden where young Red Kahn of Dartmouth skimmed over the hurdles with flying spiked feet." Ah there, Orv Dryfoos of the Times, maybe you've got a promotional tie-in there: how about a campaign keyed around the theme "All the News that's Fit to Re-print?" Matter of fact the D. W.'s little dip into the past makes for plenty pleasant recalling. That poetic red-head really could zip, couldn't he?
A note from Hank Pierce advises, "Am back at my old stamping ground of Life Underwriting with Mass. Mutual Life Insurance Cos. in Indianapolis after three and one-half years in Army. Good business, plenty of work and wee bit of fun is all I have to report." DickWells is commuting from Cedar Grove, N. J. to N. Y. U. where he's winding up a course of sprouts in radio production, a field which he expects to enter momentarily. Phil Glazer writes that he's still struggling with his new cosmetic business in Memphis and asks for the whereabouts of the Fishman twins, JockoStangle and Moe Frankel. We have addresses for all these but they seem pretty non-current. Anybody got anything recent on these lads?
Couple of guys we have caught up with are Ed Davis and Ed Klee. The former, besides being the only gent we know who holds a Certificate in Prospecting from the University of Manitoba has covered a powerful lot of ground since 1934. After the Canadian gold fields period, Ed became involved in everything from greyhound racing in Massachusetts to dock-builder foreman for Merritt-Chapman-Scott in the British Isles. Is at present "in Chocorua, N. H., contracting under name of Norwood &: Davis and concentrating in the manufacture of cement blocks and allied products. Cement and concrete work our specialty, but will figure on any job from trucking to sanding roads." Adds that he saw Mac Thomas upon his discharge from the Marines. Ed Klee, who left in '32 later attended the College of the Pacific, Stanford (where he got his A.8.) Chicago and the University of California. From 1936 to 1941 he was engaged in insurance, tile sales, social work, real estate and venetian-blind sales. Owned a waffle shop then until 1945 and is now trying to get a building for a restaurant. Could those lads write books!
Mention of books brings to mind DaveBeasley, whose The University Society, Inc. in New York has been publishing 'em for years. Dave and family are living in Ridgewood, N. J. Steve Briggs is another guy who has been hard at it for the same employer ever since gradua He is now Export Manager of the Out- board Marine & Mfg. Cos. of Waukegan, Ill., and also Assistant Manager of their Gale Products Division. One more long-termer is BobWarner, with the First of Boston International Corporation in New York. Bob commutes from South Norwalk, Conn.
Nice note here from Jack Dineen who is back at the reins of the Hampton Beach Casino on New Hampshire's coast after four war years as a special agent of the F.8.1. Ran across Don Mahoney in the same capacity in Washington. Jack explains that the Fourth of July week-end was the busiest one in a season that broke all records for the Casino, which accounts for his absence from Reunion. He's now taking it easy in Marblehead, Mass.
Also taking it a bit easier during the winter in preparation for a hectic summer is HarryEspenscheid who would like the price of cattle to subside so he could add to the stock at his Teton Skyline Ranch in Jackson Hole, Moose, Wyoming. A different Hole, Wood's, on Cape Cod was the starting place of another interesting Odyssey. Dr. George Engel was a researcher there at the Marine Biological Laboratory back in 1934. Since then he has been an Exchange Research Fellow—Physiology at the All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine in Leningrad, a graduate of John Hopkins University, School of Medicine, an interne in New York, a Research fellow at Harvard Medical' School, and connected with the Peter Bent Brigham and Boston Psychopathic Hospitals. Next came a two year stint in Cincinnati with the Cincinnati General Hospital and the College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati. Here, as at Boston, George was concerned with both medicine and psychiatry, a two-fold interest which has carried over to the University of Rochester, School of Medicine, where he is Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Psychiatry. Among his nine or more medical societies is the Eastern Association of Electroencephalographers, which should constitute the acid test for our linotyper.
Meanwhile, Dr. Harry MacKinnon who attended the same college of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, is now in Dayton, Ohio, where he is engaged in private practice as a neuropsychiatrist. In March 1945 Harry was awarded a Bronze Star during the scramble on Luzon.
And now, from up in the left balcony we hear the cry, "I have 3, Baby Doctor." And sure enough here are two of them (well, baby delivery doctors anyway): Ed Bishop and MiltFabricant. Ed's private practice is limited to obstetrics and gynecology, in the Philadelphia area, and Milt is Resident Physician in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Hahnemann Hospital in the same city.
And so, having run the gamut from babies to obstetricians, we come to the end of another set of notes. Before closing though, we might refer to some strictly lower case intelligence in the insurance press hereabouts to the effect that this reporter appears to have been named a v.p. of G. H. Jackson Company, which certainly smacks of nepotism if we ever saw any. Perhaps too much celebration is the reason why, at this juncture, we go click! and out like a lamp. Tune in again next monthsame time, same station.
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