1934
This has the makings of a bad month. In Hanover, they're waiting with blue pencil poised, that beautiful stack of notes we nibbled away at last month has disappeared somewhere, and the Yankees are behind 1-0. How can you do much under such handicaps?
Disappearing notes seems to be an occupational hazard of secretaries, what with using them to stuff wet shoes and chewing them up with the policy slips when the cops draw near. Seem to recall, though, a clipping on the life and times of one John J. Dineen and his Hampton Beach Casino which pointed out, among other things, that no liquor could be purchased the whole length and breadth of the beach. That restriction didn't seem to point at anyone specifically, but if they think that'll slow down the "Tiger," they're crazy. Probably couldn't have used much of that story, anyhow, because already we've sounded like a press agent for Dineen and/or the Casino.
Also there was a reminder to publicly bow in the direction o£ "the Copper," his first team o£ Art Leonard, Ace Miller, Roily Morton, Bob Engelman, John Murphy, Al Maiks,Dick Gruen, George Cogswell, Bob Thompson, Dick Emerson, Al Seitner, Bill Carr, BillAdams, Tom Hicks and the rest o£ the gang who came through with that remarkable 100% in the Alumni Fund campaign. You might say why wait, chum, why wait so long, but we wanted to have a little room to spare.
Remember back there when Cleveland still looked like a ball club, we were a little timid about kidding you into "throwing a nickel on the drum" because of a possible literal translation. Literal or not, i£ those 55 guys who gave in 1951 and missed out this year had tossed that nickel, we would have beaten the brains out of all those unmentionable classes many of whose class agents, although very admirable fellows, have a characteristic smug look about them when encountered at various locations in the City of Bahston.
Even that 20 YEARS AGO stuff scheduled for this month went up the flue. The material for it comes not from a crystal ball but from the deep recesses of Baker Library, which means you have to visit Baker Library. That chore is not normally too difficult for a guy who works for the New England Electric System, which had the foresight to locate its power stations and distributing properties at strategic points, but the first football game of the year also affords a golden opportunity for such research.
Accordingly, ye sec was among those present at a very good Holy Cross-Dartmouth spectacle, but the Fordham fellow who was turned into a block of granite by Cavanaugh many years ago and whose affection for Hanover leads him to join us on a yearly pilgrimage, got an attack of sunstroke, or Jersey lightning, or sumpin' and if you've ever tried to move a block of granite, you'll know why the Library was closed when we got there. But how would you like to review what we were printing
10 YEARS AG0.... John W. Knibbs was having a little trouble getting together a column, too. He was on night shift at an aircraft warning post in Montpelier, Vt. ... the Dwyer-MacDonald nuptials were reported as a success by those present.... 2nd Lt. J. C.Davies Jr. was in Norfolk, Va., with First Fighter Command.... Lt. Steve Meigher was studying thoracic surgery in Rochester, Minn.
... Pvt. Hank Werner was a prospect for OCS at Miami Beach and was reported as saying, quote: "I'm wildly enthusiastic about this life. It's really great and I've never been so healthy," end of quote.... Pvt. DickGruen also at Miami Beach ... the decks of the "USS Topliff" and the "USS New Hamp- shire" were once again populated by '34s with Lt. Dave Hedges and Lt. Bill Hartman in Navy School.. .. Lt. Buz Hartman was at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt.... and Ensign Bob M.Williamson, Sgt. Al Hine, Lt. Dick Poisson and Lt. Jack Corcoran were committing matrimony all over the place.
There does seem to be in the Handy-Dandy file, however, a thin letter from Hanover which reports that Mr. and Mrs. Frank C.Heath were in residence at the Inn during the late summer, as also was Joe Bender, from Cranston, R. 1.... we also find that WaltBryant, who for some years has been farming and contracting in Vermont, is now located in Phillips, Me.... Dutch Arnold's mailing address has been changed from the long standing Palembang, Indonesia, to the Stand- ard-Vacuum Oil home office in New York, but whether this means a physical change as of the minute we do not know ... and it appears that Dave Eddy is newly executive director of the Charlotte Redevelopment Commission. Charlotte, N. C.
We find also the report of a columnist for the Washington Post on Al Hewitt's appearance before the local Dartmouth Club in which he described to them the professional actor's career. Clipping is a little out of date, but it's interesting to find that Al has racked up 3000 radio broadcasts in addition to his long runs in Death of a Salesman and CallMe Madam.
But Yogi Berra just took the third strike in the 11th inning and the boys from the Borough of Jackson win 6-5. As Professor McWhood would say, "Woe, woe, woe." This was a bad day.
Secretary, 12 Berwick St., Worcester 2, Mass. Treasurer, „ 13 Parkman Rd., Reading, Mass.
