1944

The past ten days have been relatively disastrous, putting on a bakery equipment showin Atlantic City. You take a hard, cold look atthe world after going down there with abudget appropriation and finding yourself,not unlike J.C. in the Ides of March, beingstabbed alike by rigger, hotel managers, common (at $6.25 an hr.) labor, shill, night cluboperator, and even your own trusted salesmenand their swindle pencil. There was one brightlight, however, in visiting with Russ Isner andHomer Bogart. Russ, of course, is a bakeryoperator and Homer, with Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment, is in the wrapping field andindirectly works with the bakers.

Don and Lela Hinkley got back from Europe safe and sound. Despite a close-scheduled, three-week business trip, they did manage to sneak in a weekend at Pompeii, Sorrento, and other spots that Grace Kelly is likely to use for a background. I just read in the newspapers that West Shell has been named president of Montgomery Heights, a 10-million dollar real estate project here in Cincinnati. Also that Bud Coith's wife, Nancy, was again the star of a Junior League Fashion show here. My wife is going to be chairman of the model committee next year, so Nancy will probably hit the runway in an ankle length Yak coat.

Carl Sorg, Arlington attorney, has thrown his hat in the political arena, for a seat on the Arlington School Board. And further in the educational field, Don Arnsdorf has been selected to head a committee for a study of education in the Town of West Orange. Don is with the Board of Education in Bloomfield and will soon receive his Doctorate in the field of school finance and school business administration from NYU. In the newspaper article about him, they quoted Don's views on education. Frankly, I didn't understand it, but any guy who can use words like that is entitled to a knock at the Presidency if Ike can't make it.

Harry Davis has hit the newsprint quite a bit recently. There was a good picture of him smiling in defeat after he and his partner lost out 3 and 2 in the annual Wykagyl memberguest tournament. The guys they played both shot 69s and combined shot 23 under par for four rounds. This all happened a few weeks after Harry and beautiful Ann Herbert of Pelham were married, so he's got a good excuse for not getting in his required practice rounds.

Bucky Mansfield, Philadelphia attorney, is deputy attorney general for the Pennsylvania Athletic Commission and is working with Herbert Levin in the current investigation in professional boxing. Bucky didn't get to Congress with the Democrats last year but will be out stumping again in '56.

Speaking about newspaper pictures, you'd get a kick out of one showing what the up-and-coming young clergyman is wearing these days. The picture was taken at the convention of Episcopal Young Churchmen at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn, and showed the Rev.Don Oakes with turned collar, short sleeved black shirt, black Bermuda shorts, and black knee length socks. Looks pretty up town. Arnold Sanders has just been appointed assistant to the Vice President in Charge of Sales for the U.S. Gypsum Company. If you read that recent article in Fortune about U.S. Gypsum you'd be impressed enough to faint, and then get him on the horn and float a loan. Great Scott!

During my tenure at Dartmouth, I estimate that for every hour I spent studying I spent an hour and a half arguing with John Eaton about the Yankees and the Red Sox. He was for the Red Sox. I haven't heard from John in an eon, but last week, two hours after the Bums "did it." I received a telegram, "MY ROOM-MATE HERE AT BELLEVUE SENDS HIS CONDOLENCES. Signed PINKY HIGGINS." At least John is still alive.

Faithful Bob Colwell always comes through in the nick of time with some news. Bob covers a good portion of Westchester for the Boog in the Lumni Fund campaign and gets to see quite a few of the boys. It was Bob who passed along the news about Harry Davis and Harry's bride Ann Herbert, who incidentally is an old friend of Bob's wife Ginger. In a recent letter he tells of Al Rose out at the Bell Telephone Labs handling patents on developments they're bringing out, also that Spence Baird has given up the Lone Star state for a spot in Centerville on Cape Cod, and goes on to say:

Did you see the ad in the Herald Trib on Roaring Brook Dude Ranch? This is Joe Garry's establishment. It's just outside of Lake George, N. Y., on route 9. I passed by on the way home from Indian Lake in August but didn't get a chance to stop, although I plan to next year. Looks like a great spot.

Fine portrait and article on Marsh Clark in this AM s Trib. That's quite a deal, leaving a vice presidency at Benton & Bowles and now director of advertising for Scott Paper Company. Found that Charlie Fox is no longer with Arabian American Oil Company. Do you know where he is?

Called Pat Martus to find out what Charlie was doing with himself these days outside of working like the devil in his fine market in the big city. She told me they now have four children and that Charlie still spends his summer months training for that annual tennis tournament at Orienta. WaltAcher has bought a new house in Briarcliff Manor, is working for Johns Manville in NYC, and spends most of his time at home drumming up funds for a new church they plan to build up there.

My cousin Ted (Harry E. Colwell, 3rd) has been advanced to the post of Assistant Treasurer of Chase Manhattan Bank at the main office. Looks like he's going to make out OK in the hard-knocks business of banking. In the meantime, I am banging out as many insurance policies as possible in the vicinity of New Rochelle and looking for a good buy in a house. It's getting kind of cramped in our five-room mansion with a family of four.

Just because Bob has been so unusually kind about sending in news, I would feel like a complete slob if I didn't earnestly solicit that you chaps review your life and mortgage insurance plans and then float a da tidy with Robert C. Colwell Jr., 330 Huguenot St., New Rochelle, N. Y. Incidentally, in his letter Bob went into a couple of paragraphs about some of the guys in our class who left Dartmouth early and finished up elsewhere, and still kicked into the Alumni Fund in a big way. To these guys, we certainly owe a special vote of thanks.

As far as football goes, if those Bums in Brooklyn can do it, so can Dartmouth. Wait 'til next year.

In California George Cornell '44 enjoys the beach with his sons Gary, 9, Peter, 7, and Tommy, 3. They are grandsons of Roy Porter '15, Assistant College Bursar.

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