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Danzig's Young Blood Administration threw its first big party Friday October 17 to celebrate an old Dartmouth occasion in a new hotel with old and new alumni. A good 70 men turned out, drawn by Dartmouth Night of course, but also curious to have a look at the just-opened Statler. It was quite a look, I might note: the decor is that of a set for Crythe Beloved Country, and the hotel spreads its corridors so vastly that our particular haunt, the New York Room, was a cool 440 of zigzag-striped green carpet distant from the bar. Thing like that could be dangerous.
The meeting followed its pleasantly familiar pattern. We hello'd around over our drinks for a while, catching up old friendships and starting new ones: ate late, with Bob Williams '26 and Don Dinsmoor '16 leading songs between courses; and PresidentFrank Danzig '37 proving his aplomb against the hecklers. The College had sent out its now traditional Dartmouth Night transcription, the announcement of the new Webster Scholarships made a wonderful postlude for it, and Bill Adams '34 stumped for Eck Hiestand's congressional candidacy (POST ELECTION FLASH Hiestand's landslide win swept candidate Eisenhower into office along with him). And for our piece de non-resistance, Carl Spaeth '29, Stanford Law Dean on loan to the Ford Foundation, spoke with warm eloquence of his and our feeling for the College. Carl is in charge of Overseas Activities at the Foundation; a fascinating and rather frightening challenge to which his practical idealism is a promising answer. Carl had just changed his pants when your reporter picked him up at home and he found himself at the Statler without a wallet, which probably makes me the only guy that the Ford Foundation has borrowed money from.
The Spaeth appearance brought out the strongest delegation of '29ers since the Dickey Weekend of some years ago Morgan Baker down from Ojai, Bill Keyes, Fran McEntee,Ed Plumb, and Howie Robison. It also gave us the privilege of welcoming such new or seldom-seen faces as Paul Carlisle '23, Neil Williams '25, George Beaton '43, Hastings Arnold '44, Al Meyer '45 from Santa Barbara, JosephGilchrist '50, John Boardman '51 from Camp Pendelton, and Raymond Smith '52.
And though the next names don't exactly makes news, they having been elected to their high estate early last summer, the archives must be informed that our officers line up as follows: Frank Danzig '37, president; Dave Boyle '40 and Bill Eldridge '34, vicepresidents; Bob Purvis '49 and Garth Jones '48, treasurer and assistant; Leon Rothschild '24, secretary, and John Flanagan '49, assistant. The success of their first show presages a good season ahead, so watch your mail for the advance rumblings of Coming Events. See you there.
TO DAN'L'S MEMORY: The Dartmouth Club of Washington honored the great barrister on Octo- ber 24 by having a wreath placed on the Daniel Webster statue at Scott Circle. Shown above (I to r). Howard L. Heath '2l; King Cole 'l9, secretary; F. Lowell Haas '35, president (placing wreath); Matthew G. Jones '23; and George M. Morris 'll, former president of the American Bar Association.
Secretary, 218 No. Canon Dr., Beverly Hills, Calif.
