1937

Those of us who have adopted the lazy habit of reading Time Magazine in lieu of wading through the daily papers and the Sunday NewYork Times will be proud to discover that two classmates are ranked as Big Shots on the Time staff.

The publicity bureau of Time has announced that Wayne Ballantyne is now assistant to the vice president in charge of the Production Department. Dave Taylor's recent promotion placed him in the production research division as business manager. Somehow a '43er, Tom Redstone, crept into the act as Dave's assistant. The whole thing sounds complicated to one who works on a magazine where the staff takes turns sweeping the cigarette butts off the floor every night.

Our old battler Dave Camerer stepped into a good fight in his first article for Stanley Woodward's new magazine, Sports Illustrated. Dave wrote in his usual fluent style on the Arlberg vs. Allais ski technique. That there are many who take the whole controversy with deadly seriousness is well attested by the volume of mail your secretary reads on the subject every day. Dave's article in a few words portrayed the essence of the Allais theories, none of which we have been able to master in actual practice. The stem is still a fine insurance policy' for a married man.

Speaking of insurance policies, Art Sprague sent a clipping from Portland, Me. this week revealing that Pete McLane has been appointed general agent for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.

We are never certain whether or not "The Adventures of the Robert Aylwards" goes directly to the whole class and hence is second hand material for class notes, or if the long dissertations are dispatched exclusively to the Secretary. Anyhow we always read them with mixed emotions—amazement and interestand quite often fight down the temptation to quote them intact. The Aylwards are now in China sitting right in the middle of a Civil War which hadn't reached the armistice stage when Bob's wife wrote from Peiping.

Not only is the military situation rough, the financial problems are serious according to Meg. We quote:

"In the midst of all this our financial problems have been fantastic. We managed to get off without a pay card, so that we didn't get paid for six weeks after we came. During that time the new GY remained stable and we should have been getting things. Then, before we got paid, the currency began to go haywire and it wasn't wise to hold on to Chinese money for any length of time. There was a tough time while we were pegged to the official 4 to 1, while the blackmarket was 20 and over; but finally the Consulate was allowed to go to the blackmarket as the U. S. dollar demanded a better rate."

There is much more to the precarious financial structure to relate. This is enough to make you feel satisfied you're working in Hoboken

Bob Dunham is another of the class in the magazine field. Writes Bob:

"During the war I did a three year stint in Alaska, then after a year or so of Seattle mist, I sought balmier regions and headed for Mexico and Central America where I wandered with the other vagabonds.

"I'll say that if I should ever become affluent enough to own real estate I'll take it in the mountains of Guatemala—a coffee finca. They've got everything, Union-proof, tax-proof and winterproof. (Not revolution proof, last I heard.)

"Among other things I do creative writing, anonymous gems for the confession magazines. Someday I have hopes of working out in the open, however, and inflicting my children without disguise.

"In case any '37's are interested, the latest is 'Burden of Guilt' in the February issue of Intimate Romances, a monthly which I'm sure is on the must list of every Dartmouth family."

"TIME" PRODUCTION STAFF: Dartmouth is well represented by (I. to r.) Tom Redstone '43, Assistant to Business Manager of Production Research; Wayne Ballantyne '37, Assistant to V.P. in charge of Production; and Dave Taylor '37, Business Manager of Production Research.

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