1912

It was foreseeable that someone would throw Doc O'Connor's hat in the Presidential ring. That has now been done and by no one other than our own Joe Richards in a letter to the "People's Editor" of the Boston Traveler. In doing so Joe recalls the nostalgic recollection of the "election" of Doc as "Mayor" of Hanover on Fast Day our Senior year. But let Joe express himself in his own inimitable style:

"Now that we stand face to face with the barbaric theories of Karl Marx, shall we call Gen. Mac Arthur back to be stabbed by the commentators and political hacks, when he is needed at the frontier of democracy to hold in check the Jingoism of both the right and the left, where they are less than half conquered ? .... If we must have a military man as President, let us have one who has had his political experience among us, such as a Parkman or a Truman. If we need a diplomat, why not pick a Harvey H. Bundy? If we need an able politician with a clear record, who could be better than D. BasilO'Connor, former mayor of Hanover, N. H. ? If we need a student of economic and social science, who will not need a brain trust in the White House' there is William N. McNair of Pittsburgh. If there is one thing we do not need, it is blather."

When Dutch Viets was in Minneapolis the latter part of February for some talks at the University of Minnesota, he had a nice chat with Bill Middlebrook who still regrets that his business duties at the University of Minnesota kept him from attending reunion at Hanover last June.

Jimmy Cleaves' daughter, Gretchen, whose married name is Mrs. Thomas W. Jackson, just before Christmas presented Jimmy with a grandson, Jimmy Jackson, who is now enrolled at Dartmouth in the Class of 1970. So reports Big Jimmy.

An advertising trade paper recently reported the following which was no more surprise to Lyme Armes than it is to us:

"On Sunday, February 1, The. Boston Post, New England's most widely circulated morning newspaper, increased the price of its Sunday edition from to and on that very price-raising day enjoyed what is termed by circulation men as a 'clean sale' .... a 100% sell-out.

"That sell-out by The Boston Sunday Post was virtually as newsworthy as 'man bites dog' because traditionally when a newspaper, or any other commodity for that matter, ups the ante, an at least temporary sales recession results.

"This merchandising miracle by The Boston Pest was produced by a carefully coordinated and powerfully concentrated advertising campaign. Two weeks before the price increase went into effect, the Post promotion department touched off a multi-barrelled barrage which penetrated the newspaper's entire market.

"This successful all-out advertising program was initiated under the direction of H. Lyman Armes,Post promotion manager."

In George Dixon's syndicate column "Washington Scene" he recently called attention to the fact that on May 26, the House Committee on un-Amercan activities will be ten years old, saying:

"The committee and its works are popular now. But it wasn't always thus. Probably no adjunct of government has been so pilloried nor its members held up to such contumely, ridicule, and anathema. All but two of the original members have been virtually driven out of office by the character assassins."

He then names Harold Mosier, who was then Democratic Congressman from Ohio, and now counsel for Glenn L. Martin, as one of the six original members of that committee.

In acknowledging to Lyme Armes receipt of the notification of the Memorial Book gift to the Dartmouth Library in memory of BillFlint, Mrs. Flint wrote:

"I am sure that Bill would have liked immensely the memorial book project and I do too. Bob, my son, will be as cheered as I am by this project, the happiest thing that has come to us this winter. Dartmouth played a memorable part in the lives of all the Flints and the years Bill spent there were almost the happiest in his life. I am glad you remember him with affection."

Mrs. Vern Greene is an active worker in the Disabled Veterans Hospital Service at Boston and her picture with a fellow worker appeared in The Boston Sunday Herald, on March 14, showing her dispensing cheer to a veteran at West Roxbury Veterans Hospital.

Mort Kyle recently drifted in for a call on Lyme Armes when Mort was in Boston on the trail of Caesar Young to get measured for new spectacles. As Lyme remarked "Time Marches on—Caesar had to give my own lenses a boost a few weeks ago."

Carl Dean, with his wife and son, and PikeChilds were March visitors at Hanover Inn.

Some recent changes in addresses to keep your Class Directory up to date are as follows: Commodore James E. Boak, Box 4347, Chestnut

Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. . , . Lyle D. Chase, 324 Bates Street, Detroit 26, Michi-Roy

S. Frothingham, Suite 626, Sheldon Building, 461 Market Street, San Francisco, California.

Royal ]. Haskell, Extension Service, U. S. Deparment of Agriculture, Washington 25, D. C.

Charles F. Thompson, 1203 S. High Street, Denver 10, Colorado.

In the April issue of the Reader's Digest, there appears a condensation of an article in American Mercury by Bob Dowst entitled "Why Horse-Players Die Poor." Bob says that he is one of the one-tenth of one percent of those who bet on horse races who make money at it, which he has done for the last twenty years by virtue of a lifelong study of horses and the mathematics of betting, as a result of which he has averaged a twenty percent profit on the money that he has placed. However, he says there is no way for anyone who has not made horse-race betting a career to avoid losing and his advice to horse bettors is not to expect to make money and except for the small percentage of bettors who make a successful profession of the horses, racing is just a form of entertainment for which you must pay. For many years Bob has been an outstanding turf analyst. For ten years prior to the war, he selected winners of the Kentucky Derby for Esquire and, of necessity, was required to make his choices months in advance of the race. His record, however, beat that of every public selector in the country, picking three winners, five seconds and two nonstarters out of his ten choices. His book Straight, Place and Show is the best-seller for horse players.

Those who attended reunion last June will remember Pike Childs' attractive daughter, Lynda Elizabeth, and will not be surprised to learn that she was recently selected fourth place winner over thousands of entries in the Wild Calendar Girl contest sponsored by a national movie magazine. The name of the contest was taken from the title of the picture in which Ginger Rogers will next appear. She is proficient in outdoor sports as well, and at Colby Junior College she was the winner of the girls' downhill ski championship and was a member of the tennis team in her first year. She was also president of the outing club at Colby.

Secretary, 120 Broadway, New York. 5, N. Y. Treasurer, Court House, Dedham, Mass. Class Agent, Box 199, Owego, N. Y.