1944

These hooligans in the Mid-West think they invented football before the Russians, and just work a dyspeptic sneer at the mention of any school east of West Wheeling. Of course, now that Penn has proved that the Big Green is" on a level with Notre Dame, life might be bearable.

Jack Corroon was out in Cleveland on a convention recently and found time to grub around Buff Crawford's wine cellar while they re-fought World War 11. With the first frost in sight, Buff and Frannie plan to leave for Florida late in October.

Don Campbell is at Middlebury College, an instructor (and head o£ department) of American Literature .. . up to, but not including Trumanism . . .and elsewhere in the fields of higher learning, John Kimmey is instructing in English at the Virginia Military Institute. ... Major Dick Paul is teaching Military Sci- ence and Tactics at T.M.I.... and Ed Roewer has got something lined up around Reading, Mass.

George (Tank) Bruce reports that he and Helen have a new little daughter Anne Cowan ... the Tank is assistant to the president of Muir & Co., Adv.. . . Horace Blood's wife Gene is now on the wide Pacific en route to Osaka, Japan, where they'll set up housekeeping for a spell. Hose Craig is at last report about to be awarded a cluster to his discharge button, should be back in Dayton any time now.

And while in a military vein, Jack Jenness picked up his railroad tracks "someplace in Europe." ... Walt Price is sporting oak leaves (gilt) out in Hawaii.... Capt. Nick Manitsas is with the Office of Army Attache in Europe . . . and I'm pleased to report that there has been no news of any more recalls. Of course, we'll still have to worry about Mickey Mantle.

Irl Rose takes the romantic spotlight this month with the news of his engagement to pretty Susan Barr of New York City. They're planning an early November wedding. I had kinda thought that the rascal was ball and chained long before this.

Bob Sunblad, the New Haven jeweler, reports that hardware magnate Freddie Page is still holding down bachelor quarters . .. probably waiting for the prices of diamonds to come down. Reporting on the major developments of the past annum, Bob modestly (and sadly) points to a 20-lb. avoirdupois. His 4- year-old daughter Linda should run that off him this winter.

I've just received the sad news that JoeLarimer Jr. died September 19 at the Chicago Municipal Hospital. I have no further details at this time. Joe was with the Dealers Transport Company. He is survived by his wife Helen and his parents.

Dr. Bill Brewster is now at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. ... Dr. FredRankin has hung his shingle in Akron. . . . Dr.Dave Spenser is pushing pills in Sandusky... . Dr. Brad Campbell is specializing in Obstet- rics and Gynecology in Salinas, Calif.... Dr.Jim Deakins has set up his ambulance just off the Pennsylvania Turnpike in King-of-Prussia, Pa.... Dr. Dick Wilson is with the Dept. of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philly.... Dr. Dave Merrill is out there with all the movie stars at the Los Angeles County Hospital... the good Dr.Long, of course, up in Frisco.... Dr. GeneZins and his hypodermic syringe in Millburn, N. J.... Doc DuVal a neighbor in Ridgewood.

And then to run over a few more place- ments. ... Bob Kendall is out in Virginia City, Nev., a mining engineer for the Isbell Construction Co., voting on the free silver ticket this year.... Fred Harrsen is a New York Research Consultant making his home in Princeton.... Bill Ferguson settled down in Denver.... Rev. John P. Brown, officiating at the Grace Church in Newark.... DickJones specializing in Commercial real estate in Boston ... while over in Syracuse, real estate agent Dave Parks takes anything that comes a10ng.... I guess we have already spoken about the last of the big oil men, HalJamison in Texas and McGregor Barbour in Oklahoma.... Al Rose with the Bell Tel. Labs in Murray Hill, N. J.... Don Smith, a NYC advertising account exec., making his home in New Providence, N. J....

Dick Bradley is a research assistant at the University of California.... Dick Pleasants down in Washington managing a platoon of Arrow Shirt peddlers.. .. John Stephanson covering Detroit for the Yale & Towne Material Handling outfit, hanging his hat in Grosse Pointe.... Perry Craver is with American Airlines at the New Haven Municipal Airport.... George Cusack is now managing about five different plants for Liquid Carbonic down in Mexico.... Vernon Genn is out in Berkeley, a partner in the West Coast Engineer and Equipment Co.... and FrankWest is up in Frisco, an underwriter with American International Underwriters, Inc., ... also out there on the coast, Flavel Beattie is legal-eagling in the insurance field... all of which brings us back to Yonkers, N. Y., where Big Mike Costa is in the wholesale produce and apple products business.

Among the recent weekenders in Hanover were the Art Peglers, the Craig Macßeths,Dick Revenaugh and Art Saul about ten times.

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