1928
Myles Lane was sworn in September 17 as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, one of the most important jobs in the whole field of federal prosecution.
For attorneys who make good in it this job has often been a stepping-stone to federal judgeships, as in the recent case of John McGohey who won the conviction of the 11 top communists. Myles' immediate predecessor, Irving Saypol, resigned to run for the New Supreme Court with both Republican and Democratic indorsement.
The New York World-Telegram and Sun said in an editorial, "The New United States Attorney has good reason to feel that out standing diligence and success in his new posi- tion will be almost sure to advance his career ultimately still further. Though he is now an interim appointee of the Federal District Court Judges, his. special experience and strong Democratic backing make it pretty cer- tain President Truman will make the ap- pointment permanent."
Chris Norman, manager of factual publi- cations of Standard & Poor's Corporation, New York, since 1949, has been appointed vice president in charge of editorial production. Chris joined the organization in 1935. One of his sons, Edward, is a sophomore at Dart- mouth.
Jack Rose, our peripatetic Hollywood movie producer, is giving the Navy the benefit of his experience, and is now in the Audio Visual Department, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md.
Eddie Flanders of Manchester, N. H., was in Colorado in September—called Dr. FrancisReynolds in Denver and found he had just missed out on a Dartmouth picnic.
Jerry Pitts is now assistant national sales manager of Nestle's Chocolate Cos., 60 Hudson St., New York. He has been on the West Coast three times this year for a total stay of 16 weeks. Young Jerry is a student at the Wright Technical School in Stamford, Conn.
Arnold Van Benschoten has returned to his home in Providence, R. I. Except for 45 days' leave in the United States in 1949, he has spent the last four years in Japan in connection with Military Government. The first ten months he was in the Government Section of SCAP, helping devise laws to effect the decentralization of the government. Then he was assigned as Legal-Government officer in Kure and later in Nagoya. In the latter place he was in charge of promoting democratization of all governmental agencies in an area with a population of 9,100,000.
Van says,
"As long as Japan has a fair semblance of prosperity it detests communism. At present the threat to democracy is the old-fashioned bosses and bureaucrats getting back into power. Things to watch are the fate of the American-sponsored Land Reform Act, the Police Law (setting up local police instead of one strong national police state), the Local Board of Education Law and certain labor laws.
"I just missed seeing Si Warner in Gifu, Japan, in June. We had both gone down to see the place made famous by cormorant fishing and the manufacture of paper lanterns."
Van expects either to take a job in Washington or return to Japan as a civilian with the Air Force.
Larry Kenney has moved from Glens Falls, N. Y., to 624 Abbottsford Road, Kenilworth, III.
I had cocktails with Bill and Fran Cogswell at their apartment in New York in September, two days after they returned from their tour of Europe. They had a wonderful trip and were enthusiastic about the many advantages of renting a car.
A postcard from Wat and Eleanor Dickerman from Berchtesgaden, Germany, says, "Herb and Mimi Sensenig met us in Wurzburg and helped us much with both business and pleasure. Munich was like old home week. Besides Herb and Mimi, we ran into German Raab in a restaurant; he was a pre-med student and ski instructor at Hanover in 1928. The next morning Bill Harris came over to our table at the Excelsior Hotel, and we also saw him down here at Berchtesgaden for four days. We go from here to Turkey."
A letter from Bill Harris also reports on the '2B reunion in Munich, and his travels. He spent part of the summer making a color motion picture on the capitals of Scandinavia, then went to Germany. He was in Berlin, including the Russian sector, and found life there a tragedy of fear. He says he was glad to leave for Frankfurt. Bill opened his winter lecture season in San Francisco early in October at Town Hall, and will be filling engagements on the West Coast for the rest of the month, then back East until February when he leaves for Egypt and Turkey to take more color pictures.
Bud Ranney has written a very interesting 98-page book called Cleveland Zoo and has selected a lot of wonderful pictures to illustrate it.
Paul Amiable is with the Danbury Advertising Agency in Danbury, Conn. ...Art Vandenberg has taken a leave of absence from his position in South America in order to edit his father's papers. He is living at 316 Morris Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. Red Myers is now the American Oil Co. distributor for the Elmira, N. Y., area and has greatly expanded his business in recent months.
Eleanor Wheatley writes that '28ers might be interested to know that Ed was brought back to this country from Burma in November, 1949, for final burial. Because he met his death in an airplane crash it was not possible to identify his remains, and therefore his remains and his comrades' were buried in a common grave in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo. Eleanor said she is very grateful to all the members of the class who wrote her.
Chuck Bruder returned recently from a business trip to Europe with his boss, Mr. Milton Lightner, president of the Singer Manufacturing Co.
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