1934
Wasn't it the Governor of North Carolina who said to wasn't it Vice-President Marshall, "It's a long time between five-cent cigars?" .... or wasn't it. Anyway we say now it's a long time between issues of these here fivecent columns. Proof positive is a clipping from the Times date-lined South Orange, N. J., and reporting the marriage of Miss Christina Higginbotham to Grove Blood on February 15. Why Land o' Goshen, it was only last month that we were talking of their engagement! Dat 01' Man Tempus, he jest jets right along, don't he now? Well, the happy couple at this stage are undoubtedly settled in their new home in Bogota, Colombia, where Grove is with W. R. Grace & Cos.
And when it comes to babies shucks we never will catch up on that tally. Seems as if each time we try to take stork of the situation, why zip-a-dee-do-dah! and there's another revision. Got a couple of new ones right here, in fact. On the letter-head of Cleveland's Curtis Key Company comes the following note from Sid Wisch: "I am afraid you will have to revise all your attendance figures for the last reunion. There was a litle girl there incognito. As a matter of fact, we did not even know it was a girl until January 26, 1947. Kathryn Jo Wisch will never attend Dartmouth, but I am certainly looking forward to the time when I can bring her and her sister to a reunion." And an equally welcome word from DickPoisson, besides mentioning the birth of their second daughter, Margot Elizabeth, on October 23, 1946, goes on to report a recent move from Washington to New York. Dick adds "but don't expect to stay here too long—depending on business. Right now, am trying to strike out for myself See Charlie (Doc) Mills quite often, he being right down the street from us at the Post Graduate Hospital on a two-year residency. He's married and has a daughter."
Another guy who's married and has a daughter is recorded by Bill Scherman who writes "Forgot to tell you that during the little conclave we put on in Cleveland with the Council on World Affairs, I was walking down Euclid Avenue one frosty morning and of all the 1,300,000 people in Cleveland I bumped into Dr. Kirk Spitler, and wangled myself an invitation to his home for dinner. Swell house, charming wife, Eleanor, pretty little daughter, Barbie. Didn't get a chance to get to the weekly Dartmouth meeting there, but I did call Dr. Jack Fish to say hello, and found that he was heading for a new post in Atlanta, Ga. If Dick Loughry sees this I hope he won't be sore—l found him in the book and was just going to call him when something which seems so unimportant now got us all excited, and when I got back to the phone it was 12:30 A.M."
When it comes to hopping around the country we guess that Harry McCann is one of 1934's most active. Harry is a salesman for the Sanforized Division of Cluett Peabody & Cos., based in New York but traveling far and wide. Lives in Lynbrook, Long Island, with wife Mildred and children Barbara and Joseph.
A really long-distarice trip was recently chronicled in the lively little Dartmouth Club of N. Y. News as follows: "J. S. Chollar (that's our lad Jack), export expert for Packard Electric Shaver, back from Near East and mildly amazed at the variety of electric currents served up along One World's highways." The same columns yield still another '34 travelnote: "Robert S. Webb (N. E. Air) flying from Boston to Detroit was held overnight by snow. He represented Boston in National Squash Tournament there."
The Dartmouth Club incidentally was the scene of a dinner for the New York area '34's on March 6, with some twenty gents in attendance: Walt Blood, Harry Brague, Bob Brown, Mac Collins, George Copp, Em Day, Orv Dryfoos, Bob Engelman (011 a buying trip for Spiegel's, the Chicago dept. store) Fran Ford, Bill Gilmore, Art Grimes, Dick Gruen, Al Jacobson (who as N. Y. regional expediter is working on plans for another such affair to take place May 7), Bob Kolbe, Will Maynard, Bob Mann, Harry McCann, Les Reeve, Bob Reynolds and Bill Scherman.
The Engelman mention reminds us that two other department store chaps have been heard from recently, pair of Mikes. Mike the Menchel says, "Came out here in April to buy house-furnishings for our (Gimbel Bros.) Milwaukee store great city, nice people, good business, etc." While Mike the Joseph, of James McCreery & Cos., New York, says, "Finally recovered from reunion. Saw Mel Gunst when he returned from Philippines."
And now cometh a couple of icemen. BudClabaugh is with the Dry Ice Service Corp. in Cedar Rapids, lowa. Phil Eckels is in Atchison, Kansas, with the Atchison Ice Cos., Inc. Phil, who boasts four offspring (two girls, two boys), reveals an interesting war-time activity: "Remained a businessman but added blisters on my hands doing car icing for the railroads. Managed operations at the Government's Natural Cooler Storage (a 500,000 sq. ft. lime quarry artificially cooled and turned into a cold storage for eggs, potatoes, rice, etc.) from September '44 to December '45." Sounds like the deep freeze to end all deep freezes, Phil. Brrrrr!
Meanwhile in not-so-tropical-either Bangor, Maine, we have Ed Cowie, working for the Atlas Plywood Corp. And Tom Cass draws his pay-checks from the Container Corporation of America in Philadelphia, lives in nearby Radnor, Pa.
Getting warmer, we come to Link Daniels who has opened up his own real estate office at 24 Sunny Isles Boulevard, North Miami Beach. While Wendy Williams reports, "Recently returned to NBC Hollywood from NBC San Francisco as program sales manager and assistant program manager for Western Division of NBC. Have tuxedo. Will travel."
Hollywood and radio ease us into advertising and a note from Gail Raphael: "You make it hard for an old Huckster like me. It all adds up to eight years with Lord & Thomas as copywriter, chiefly with account work on the side. Then the Navy where I spent 38 undistinguished months in Washington with nary a medal or a citation. However the Navy did give me a wife as the beauteous Mrs. R. was formerly my Wave assistant. In my spare time in Washington I got to turning out an odd magazine piece or two, some of which were bought by Coronet, Post, Digest, etc. Finally in November '45 back to advertising, with Ruthrauff & Ryan in New York."
Bob Brown received one more title over at Editor & Publisher the other day when he became vice-president. He retains his previously held position of editor and is a mighty active fellow round and about the Fourth Estate.
Well this looks like all we'll have room for, gentle readers. Except for one final seasonal suggestion. When those old April showers come your way you jus' let a smile be your umbrella, y'hear?
Secretary and Treasurer 110 Fulton St., New York 7, N. Y.
