1934
Remember that notoriously profane parrot who regularly had its cage covered on the Lord's Day? And who suddenly was thrown into utter darkness on a Monday afternoon as the minister appeared at the front door? And whose comment as the reverend came through the door was "Damn short week?" Well, this has been an abominably short month!
Not that we intend to open with weeping, and wailing and gnashing of false uppers and lowers over the lack of news that comes next month, but we are almost rendered wordless by the absence of any travelogue material. We not only didn't go anywhere, but we were probably the only ones in the U. S. who didn't see mamma kissing Santa Claus.
Of course, you can get into a rut in this department when things start off too easily, but you usually suddenly wake up to realize that you are not supposed to be John Cameron Swa—, or better, let's say Will Smith: (INS), and that you're not here to weave any magic spells, but just to dish out the '34 news.. And how could you start it off any better than to point out that:
The WE ONLY KNOW WHAT WEREAD IN THE PAPERS Dept. says that... Laurence T. Herman, effective January 5, .1953, became retail advertising manager of the Chicago Daily News. Herman, 39 (young, isn't he? Ed.), now living in Highland Park, 111., has been with the News 17 years, and formerly was in charge of department store advertising.. .. John J. Gordon, secretary of the Brooklyn Museum for the past six years, has been named curator of paintings and sculpture. Gordon was formerly associated with the NYC Museum of Modern Art....
The Electric Motor Repair Cos. of Waterbury, Conn., has set the pace in a revolutionary operation by becoming the first firm in the United States to rewind a 500 hp motor with new insulation and new redesigning of coil. The insulating materials consist of glass fabrics coated with Silastic rubber. George L.Thomas, manager of the company, with his engineer-in-charge, have made it possible to add this latest innovation in electrical motor rewinding to Waterbury's long list of "firsts" for industry.... Cameron Day, formerly with McGraw-Hill Publishing Cos., has joined the news department of Printers' Ink .. . and Richard W. Banfield has been elected a vicepresident of Niles-Bemont-Pond Cos., West Hartford, Conn. Dick has been with this company since 1936 and has served as assistant secretary and treasurer.
And would you believe it now, but only 20YEARS AGO this time ... Dartmouth swimmers broke three records in a meet in which the record-breaking 400 relay team was composed of this same Banfield, Jim Ballard, Ley and Willie Leveen, who turned out to be the individual star by also breaking a record in the 220 free style .. . and the ranking squash players of the College included Art Noble and Ed Davis ... Dartmouth editorials were deeply concerned with such diversified topics as "Technocracy" and the hysteria following the death of Ernie Schaaf after a boxing match .. . fraternity ski trips were being led by A. L. Wood and R. C. Goodman of '34...
Swede Lindstrom gathered in one of Dartmouth's two first places in the N.E. Track Meet at Boston Garden ... a Claremont Beer Baron leveled an arson charge against a Lebanon Vice King in a dispute over Villa Pansa George Gitsis offered "individual supervision" to Carnival guests .. . Carnival messages were printed from Ella Boole (WCTU), Huey Long, Dorothy Dix, Billy Sunday and Warden Lawes, among others .. . and as a Carnival windup in the classified ads "Lost-Jade earrings near Robinson Hall."
VITAL STATISTICS ... "Sorty" Thomas offers a very reasonable explanation for missing his first Secretaries' meeting in 15 years, viz., birth of a third daughter, Wendy Lou, on August 18. ...Bill Gay reports from LA on second child, girl, name of Lorrayn, born May 17, which he considers par for the course for any Alto 111. Bill tells of demonstrating this latest model to Jackson and bride who stopped in on honeymoon .. . another boy, fourth child in the family of Torn Beers of Kenilworth, Ill., born July 31 and called Dick. Tom reports he and wife enjoyed dinner with wife and daughter of Bill French in Milwaukee though Bill was in Chicago at bankers' meeting ... Joe Bender, who has moved across the state line to Canton, Mass., checks in with daughter Caroline, born October 26 ... and from Denny Meigher, who should know, we hear that she and Steve have a fourth child and second son, Timothy Allen, born June 29. Denny reports a move to more spacious.quarters, unfortunately still in that place in N.Y. which is so hard to spell, a move in which the Meighers received immeasurable assistance from Ike Powers who dropped in on them on his way home from summer camp at Pine Camp ... all which should give you fellows a rough idea of the production that's being turned out in other areas.
From the address changes this month, wecan garner enough information to let youknow that Dr. Stan Bloomfield has movedfrom private practice in Lowell, Mass., to theBurroughs Wellcome & Cos. of Tuckahoe,N. Y,... and that Counselor Hank Rigby, lateof Glendale, 0., can now be located at 2712Steele, River Oaks, Houston, Tex.
Digging just a little deeper, we find that several very fine fellows —a category into which we can very easily fit anyone who goes out of his way just a little bit to make this task less tasking have taken advantage of that virgin white territory on the reverse side of class dues bills to let us know that.. . BillSheffeld on September 1 resigned from the New York Law Department of GE to return to Garlock Packing as assistant to the President and that he and Bunny have become farmers in a small way on RD #1 , Palmyra, N. Y....
the Okey O'Connor who is not Maury now owns and operates the Valley Motor Cos., a Ford dealership in Hanover, Pa., is married, no children, but does have a black and white cocker spaniel in whose behalf he is considering making an attractive proposition to the new Veep's "Checkers" ... Phil Glazer, traveling the deep south, is m-m-m-m-mighty lonesome for some Danmouths and requests some research which gives us a little lead for the future.. . Dick Fowle tells of the beauty of the north country around Thetford and Littleton (that is, naturally scenic) in which we are all interested, and of his work with the federal government in old-age and survivors' insurance, in which, in our youth, we have so little interest... and we've been saving this for awhile, but Bill Gilmore says,
"Had an interesting vacation this summer. Had our truck set up so we could sleep in it and then started for the northern part of Arizona. Spent two days at the Grand Canyon and then headed down to a little Indian town at the bottom of the canyon. It was a 14-mile trip on horseback and there is no other postofiice in the U.S. where the mail travels as far on a horse . . . then headed for Flagstaff and the all-Indian Pow Wow. . . . Got to know an old Zuni woman who spoke no English and got a real nice Indian turquoise ring for Norma. . . . After that headed across the reservation and the Hopi mesas. Stopped at Old Oraibi which is the oldest continually inhabited community on the North American continent. . . then up to Monument Valley where we wandered all over and managed to see many old cave and cliff dwellings. Got to know a few Navajos who are wonderful people but very poor .. . would like to pass on to them any old clothes anyone can send me . . . that ended the vacation . . . got home to campaign for the state legislature but didn't quite make it this time."
And as the sun fades into the West but that's travelogue stuff again, isn't it? Well, you might put it this way that there is just so much space in this MAG and that those young fellows to whom, some years ago, we passed on all we knew and who have been staggering under it ever since, are entitled to space, too, so help yourself, '35!
A STEP UP: Laurence T. Herman '34, formerly in charge of department store advertising on the "Chicago Daily News/' has been promoted to the position of retail advertising manager. He has been with the "Daily News" for 17 years.
Secretary, 12 Berwick St., Worcester 2, Mass. Treasurer, 13 Parkman Rd., Reading, Mass.
