1943
NEWSMONTH The Magazine of '43 Significance
MILITARY AFFAIRS: As Uncle Sam continued his rearmament program, four more '43ers were reported in the armed services. They were Naval Reservists Duke Dushame,John Milburn and Smed Ward, and Marine Captain Charles Longfield. After 20 months in the Pacific as senior medical officer on the USS Whitley making a survey of the islands held by the United States in UN trust, John left the ship at Tokyo in July. He was then assigned to the staff of the Naval Medical Unit at Tripley Army Hospital, Honolulu. Capt. Longfield is now hanging his service hat at Oceanside, Calif.
PRESS: Newshawk Dick Barkhorn is with his old newspaper, Newark News at a new address, Elizabeth, N. J. From Tokyo comes word that Nobu Mitsui has been given leave from his job with Reader's Digest (Japanese edition) in its new modernistic building, 1, Takehira-cho, Chiyoda (pronounced the way it's spelled). He is planning to come to the United States this tall to act as interpreter for his father-in-law, who is being sent here by the Japanese government to study U.S. legislation connected with transportation. Nobu also hopes to look up classmates in the large cities he expects to visit. Not reported, was whether or not his attractive, English-speaking wife Tamiko will accompany him. Last spring, Publisher Svellon Brown of the Providence (R. I.) Journal-Bulletin dispatched Journal Staffer Herb Harrigan to Britain and Ireland to write a series of 15 articles on wartime scenes revisited. While in London, Herb visited University of London and Fulbright Scholarship students Ed Bock and John Reps in the Bock flat. Also on hand for the bull session on "little magazines" and their contribution to American literature were wives Constance Reps and George Ann Bock. Present, but. not taking part in the discussion was Bock's two-week-old daughter Ariel. (Reports Bachelor Herb on Ariel: "She had what seemed to be an excellent disposition. I don't know how much she weighed, but she seemed to be normal baby-size.") The Bocks and the Repses are thriving on British climate and ration books. Ed told Herb he expects to finish his work on a doctorate in time to return to the States by November. While in London, Herb tried to contact Professor Cox, who was spending a sabbatical leave in Britain. The latter, however, was searching for a house where he could find some non-Festival peace and quiet outside of London. Of the Festival, Reporter Herb wrote: "It's a good show, all things considered." Returning to Providence in June, Herb spent his weekly two days off during the summer helping to mow the lawn at his brother's place in Moosup, Conn.
BUSINESS: While Defense Mobilizer and Ex-General Electric President Charles Wilson (hon. LLD, Dartmouth, 1950) wrestled with the nation's economy at the nation's capital, two '43ers moved about within the GE empire. Labor Relations Expert Bill Burr trans- ferred his operations from the GE branch in Bridgeport to a GE office in Trenton, N. J. Also included in the move were wife Geraldine, daughters Susan, 4, and Geraldine, 2, who transferred household operations from Milford, Conn., to Yard ley, Pa. A GE man since he was discharged from the Army Air Force in 1946, Jim Crawford is a salesman for the lamp department. He works out of 570 Lexington Ave. in New York and spends nights and weekends in Springdale, Conn. One-time buyer for Sylvania Electric in Boston, Joe Hurley is now a purchaser for the Crosley Division of the AVCO Mfg. Corp., Cincinnati. Joining the swelling ranks of '43ers who have left journalistic endeavors for industrial relations (see Moseley, Bill and Wolbarst, Rod, in October issue) is ScholasticMagazines writer Herb Marx. Herb joined General Cable Corp. in its New York headquarters. Says he: "I have been wanting to get into industrial relations work for some time. My work is divided about evenly between personnel work, labor relations (mostly training now) and editing the company's house magazine." Herb is the editor of two books for H. W. Wilson Cos., American Labor Unions and The Welfare State. Former Gotham Salesman for the export division of U.S. Rubber, Larry Noble is with the same company in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Personnel changes made last summer by the Southern New England Telephone Cos. (not to be confused with the New England Telephone Cos.) saw BudSilverstein named assistant manager of the Middletown (Conn.) office. Formerly he was directory methods supervisor at company headquarters in New Haven. Bud started with the company as a commercial representative in the New London office and also worked in Hartford and New Haven before being promoted to directory methods supervisor in January. He, wife Phyllis, and three children plan to reside in Middletown. From California comes word that Standard Oil Engineer Palmer Wright is now working in Richmond and residing in El Cerrito.
EDUCATION: Aside from the proper place for football the big question on many U.S. college campuses this fall is what effect will the draft have on enrollment and student morale. While the size of the shrinkage of student bodies was not as great as some educators were predicting last winter, one observer inside a U.S. College, Syracuse University English Instructor Bob Bradford, reports on undergraduates: "These kids, in case you forgot how old you are, were born in depression, grew up in the war, and have come of age in a time of the most skittish peace the world has seen. They have had experience in meeting a crisis. Fellows still worry about leaving college for fear they will never come back after their service and girls worry about the husband shortage. War, in spite of its nearness in both time and directions, is still largely seen in dramatic terms. The young fellows just can't believe how undramatic for most participants the whole business is." A press release from the Ford Foundation-financed Fellowship Fund for Advancement of Teaching which came to our attention recently listed as one of the recipients of its awards a John Middendorf 6f the Columbia University English Department. Although John's plan of study was not indicated, generally the fund pays the recipient the equivalent of his annual salary plus tuition and travel fees he may have if he uses his year's scholarship to study at a university. In Lynn, Mass., former Boston University Guidance Instructor Jim Doucette has been appointed guidance director for the Saugus (Mass.) secondary schools. On the side Jim is working for a doctorate in education at Columbia, from which he received his master's in 1947.
SPORTS: Aside from the play-for-pay performers, probably the name of no other sports figure was more prominent in the N. Y. Times this past summer than Yachtsman Bus Mosbacher. Nearly every Monday edition carried news of another victory on Long Island Sound for his craft, Susan.
AGRICULTURE: Tony Farrell has moved his farming operations from Wayland Wood Farm, Lyme, N. H., to the Upwey Farm, Woodstock, Vt.
THE PROFESSIONS: Law-Natick Lawyer Lee Romanow has an office post at 141 Milk St., Boston. Dentistry—Tufts-trained DougKipp has set up practice in America's first summer resort, Wolfeboro, N. H. MedicineDr. Sam Bullock has moved from his hometown, Washington, D. C., to Philadelphia. Also in Philly is Dr. Bill Schumacher. Formerly an intern at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Dr. Bill Regan is now at the Department of Surgery, University Hospitain Ann Arbor, Mich. Dr. Chet Solez has finished his work as a resident in internal medicine at the VA Hospital in Batavia, N. Y. He, wife Janet and Kim and Wanda are living in Narragansett, R. I.
TRAVEL: Dr. and Mrs. Fielding spent a few days in Hanover during the last of August.
MISCELLANY: A batch of address changes —Underwriter Bill Allman from Hongkong to Singapore. Former University of North Carolina student Bill Bulloch from Chapel Hill to Lyndhurst, N. J. John Earle from New York to Los Angeles. Storeman Dick Lansburgh from Greensboro, N. C., to Baltimore. Hanover-Williamstown-Paris trained DrexGodfrey to Princeton, N. J. Seward MacDonald from Philadelphia to his hometown, Albany, N. Y. Mergenthaler Linotype-man BobPinto from Long Island City, N. Y., to Dallas, Tex. Turell Van Petten to his wife's hometown, Fall River, Mass. Chemist Fred Woodward from Plainfield to Scotch Plains, N. J.
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