1944

Perhaps most of you caught the saga of Bob and Ginger Colwell in the October 1 issue o£ Life, entitled "Baby Comes Home." Wonderful pictures of the whole family... especially of the hero, Wee Willie. The article, sub-headed "The First Day is Happy for Everyone and Hectic for Father," gives a humorous account of Bob's introduction to paternal duties, his ability to keep an auto at 20 mph when Wee Willie is aboard, to make a bed, to change a diaper, to prepare a formula and to forego that glass of beer until more important matters have been attended to.

And if you read further into periodic literature, you might have seen in the October 8 issue o£ Newsweek the article about JimBrowning's gasoline cutting torch. Jim's development which makes possible the successful substitution o£ ordinary gasoline in place of acetylene or propane for powering the torch, has given indication that it will effect a g5% saving in fuel cost alone. And, of course, gasoline is more easily accessible than acetylene. The Browning Torch Corp. of Worcester is now in production of the gasoline torch, and has several hundred orders on the books. Looks very good.

Another boy doing well by the Free Enterprise system is Bud Isner. Starting practically from scratch after the war, Bud, with the advice and assistance of his father, built a small bakery in Elkton, W. Va... . Their plant was located within a tight competitive market served by many large chain bakeries. Long hours, hard work and good promotion gave them a foothold. Mr. Isner, who has interests elsewhere, decided Bud could handle it on the solo, and left the entire operation in his hands. And business has gone no place but up ... new routes are being added continually and Bud is now serving retail, wholesale and house-to-house business.

Elsewhere . . . Ted Colwell was recently appointed secretary to the Loan Committee of the Chase National Bank's main office.... Bird Partridge has been named Assistant Sales Manager of the Knapp Bros. Shoe Mfg. Corp. in Brockton, Mass.... Ralph Oberlin Jr. is Assistant Sales Manager of Igelstroem-Oberlin, Inc., in Massillon, O.

Dr. Joe Buckley has been granted a research fellowship with an appointment as instructor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis Rog Antaya, former Dartmouth line star and recently end coach at George Washington University, has been named athletic director of Boiling Air Force base in Washington, D. C. Rog and Betty have a four-year-old daughter, Susan.

Perhaps you have heard about the big stink that was raised when Macy's brought out their own recording of Mac Arthur's "Old Soldiers" speech, in competition with RCA and Columbia, which they carry. Jack Grimm was the instigator. The day following the speech, Jack and John Strauss (cousin of Macy's president and record buyer for the store) decided there would be a substantial market for the recording of the historic speech. They contacted WOR who agreed to cut a record from its own electrical transcription, prepared several thousand copies and delivered the records to the store on Sunday. Next day, over 2000 disks were sold, breaking all previous records for a single day's sale of one recording. Their record was priced at $2.10. ...RCA and Columbia, who did not get their records out until the latter part of the week, were asking .$3.15!

Frank Davis, former director of Public Relations at Davis and Elkins College, has been named Public Relations Manager for the National Gypsum Company in Buffalo ... to get the big guns zeroed in on U.S. Gypsum. Frank tells of visiting with Fred Cohn, Buffalo investment expert. Fred has two daughters.

Louis Schott is assistant to the General Manager of the Bavarian Brewery in Cincinnati. Bavarian's, one of the largest selling beers in this area, is advertised as "A Man's Beer." Actor Sonny Tufts has a lot of spot testimonials on why he likes Bavarian's . . . and if his recent escapades are evidence, it must really be good beer.

Dick Ostberg, personnel manager for the New England Mutual, paid us a visit last week while en route to the west coast on a cross country inspection tour of their branch offices. With 3600 charges to keep contented in these times, he looked surprisingly well.

And for a few placements ... Brad Camp-bell is in Oakland, Calif., a resident physician in obstetrics and gynecology.. .. Architect John Handy is the Arkansas State School Plant Supervisor in Little Rock. ... BillJacoby is manager of the Canadien Linen Company, Ltd. in the Canadian boom town, Edmonton, Alta. .. .Ed Roewer is back in Gloucester.. .. Don Warner, insurance agent, working out of T01ed0.... Lt. Jack Adams, back in the Navy, serving aboard the USSMidway.... Henry Hyde, office manager and sales representative for the Readex Microprint Corp. in Chester, Vt. ... Carroll Story up that way with the A.T.&T. in White River Junction. .. . Don Comes, selling for Armstrong Cork in N.Y.C.... Jack Lawrence, president of the Twinsburg-Miller Corp. in Twinsburg, 0... . Henry Montgomery, advertising copywriter for the Addison-Wesley Press, Inc. in Cambridge, Mass... . JohnnyVandergrift is Editor of the MSTS Magazine in Washington, D. C.... Bob Eshbaugh, an Engineer for the Florida Telephone Cos. in Ocala, Fla. ...Tom Kunau is serving with the Bank of America in Tokyo, Japan. . .. Jim Bertschinger, credit manager for a Long Island City concern, is living in Levittown.

There were some late summer weddings we did not get in last month's report. Jack Buck and Patricia Pattison were married in New Orleans, August 26. After a wedding trip to Colorado Springs and Mexico, they returned to New Orleans, where they will make their home. (I don't know what Jack is doing down there. I thought he was still in Baltimore.) About the same time, Beckett Jones and Hermine Bazirgaii Baker were married in New- ton, Mass. Dave Judson and Louise Katz were married at the Waldorf Astoria in N.Y.C, September 11. Junius Hoffman was an attendant. After their wedding trip to California, the Judsons will make their home in Greensboro, N. C., where Frank is with the Mojud Hosiery Cos.

Fred Brandenburg and Frances Videto of Andover were married September 14. DickMayberry and Barbara Ann Huntley of Rochester were married September 29.

The following got back to Hanover in recent months: Dr. and Mrs. Brad Long, theJohn Jenness', the Jim Woods, the Jim Bodines and the Art Sauls.

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