1937

Fall, now well entrenched in our midst, has brought with it a rash of business commuting for me, albeit o£ a rather dull sort; it consists of one or two-day stands in Chicago every week or two concerning the present and future production plans of Life magazine. Unfortunately, these trips are so grooved as to program and timing that I have had no opportunity to contact anyone in the Chicago area, for which my apologies. However, I hope this winter to sneak a day to myself to remedy the dilemma.

We can do no better this month than resume with Don McKinlay's letter from Denver. The word on Dr. Will Bennett is that he and wife Betty have three children, Lynn (7), Porter (4), and Laurie (3). Number four, hopefully a Junior, was expected near the end of September, but at press time I had no confirming word. Bill has an excellent practice as an intern and has just moved to a new home about a mile from the McKinlays.

These Rocky Mountain boys must be formidable fellows and are quite unabashed at letting us know it. As if the business about skiing and its implied ruggedness wasn't enough, McKinlay gives us the low-down on Dick MacCornack: "He is a two-fisted contractor up at Boulder... .He always looks fine and dandy and about ten years younger than some of you fat men!" Talk like that does not ruffle us effete Easterners, although it probably will annoy Californians.

Don adds that they expected to see the MacCornacks at the local Dartmouth Squaw Picnic in September. He and Bill Geraghty were also looking for pix or news of former roommate, Don Pease, during the steel negotiations, since Don is assistant v. p. of Industrial Relations for U. S. Steel.

McKinlay was last in Hanover in June and had a short visit with Harry Schultz, and a longer one with President-Emeritus Hopkins, whose personal physician, I have neglected to mention in the past, is Dr. John Milne.

My same wonderful source, our boy from the Mile High Center, tells us that Bill Heroy, who is still in Dallas, is also in the four-children bracket, the last having arrived within the last year. Bill, I gather, is all over the country and parts of the Pacific with his seismograph crews. Not much is seen of Dr.Bill Russell, but he is assistant medical director at National Jewish Hospital, one of the few remaining centers for research in tuberculosis and other chest diseases. Bill has "six or seven" children!

As you all know, Don McKinlay has been doing a big job for the National Enrollment Committee. In that connection he has a couple of pats on the back for Rog Allen on Long Island and Jim Humphreys in Great Falls, Mont. Two years ago, before Jim went to work, there were no boys in the freshman class from Montana. Last year Jim sent eight and this year, fourteen. And all outstanding fellows. This is truly an exciting record for which Jim deserves the thanks of his classmates as well as those of the College. Don many thanks for a great job of coverage. Report to Palmer Hoyt in the morning.

By a flick of the pencil, we hop from Denver to the "Foggy Bottom" of Washington, D. C. There, Joe Kiernan is correspondent in charge of keeping track of bachelors. Periodically Joe gets together with Fink Broadbent and Rog Graves. This year he had them lined up for a golf date at Virginia Beach, but Joe chose that time to fall in love with a "girl" who is otherwise undescribed, except for the fact that she was returning to Italy early in September. The golfers thereupon ceded the field to Miss Italy. Joe tells me that he had played in an invitational golf tournament with Rog in Detroit at Lookmoor Country Club. No prizes won, which was just as well since most prizes were bikes and such like which fathers would have more use for. The report is that Rog is still as charming and considerate as ever, despite the aura of urbanity imposed by the practice of steel salesmanship for Bethlehem Steel. Rog has one distinction shared by few, if any of us - he made a hole-in-one while playing golf with his boss in August.

As for Broadbent, I understand he is as philosophical as ever, a Comp. Lit.-Philosophy major having had a lasting effect. However, I am told that this intellectual bent tends to concern itself in the main with the subject to which the late Dr. Kinsey devoted his major efforts. During work-a-day hours, Fink is a successful plumbing supply salesman for Briggs Mfg. Corp., covering D. C., Maryland and a part of Virginia.

I had reports that Paul Olson took a respite from the law this spring and went to Europe. Paul sent me a letter telling about the things he had seen and the places visited. The trip was pure vacation, which is the way to travel, and Paul ran into no classmates along the route. He had, however, exchanged greetings with Fred Vogt, who is with Price, Waterhouse in Düsseldorf, in the hope that they might get together, but this encounter never materialized.

After a few days in London, Paul was off to Paris to pick up a Renault for the grand tour. First, a trip through the Loire valley, viewing the spectacles of the chateaux country. Next, to Switzerland, via Germany, with headquarters in Bürgenstock. Arriving around June 1, he found the receding Alpine snows and the flowers magnificent. Then on to Florence before proceeding homeward via the Italian Riviera and the south of France. Paul spent the last week at Beaulieu-sur-mer, near Monte Carlo. Princess Grace was reported in residence, but a tete-a-tete in Monaco was not included in the price.

I was interested in a follow-up on Dick Cooper, since there was a possibility he would go to the Republican Convention as a delegate. Dick replied as follows: "I spent so much time making sure that we had a strong Eisenhower slate of delegates lined up for the Presidential Primary last March that I didn't get around to do anything in my own behalf and the result was about a thousand votes short of being elected delegate to the Republican National Convention. This may or may not have been a disadvantage, for at the Convention I was elected to membership on the Republican National Committee for the next four years. These duties, added to my present responsibility as chairman of the Republican Finance Committee here in New Hampshire, will keep me busy for the next couple of months."

Dick had hoped to see Tom McIntyre's wife Myrtle continue as a member of the Democratic National Committee so there would be liaison between the opposing camps, but she chose to forego re-election to join the personal campaign staff of Estes K. Sounds gruelling to me.

We seem to be running out of space, so I will wind up with a couple of brief notes. Bill Tallberg was married September 12 to Miss Jean M. Barrett of Milton, Mass. They were to live in Melrose after the wedding trip. As far as I know, Bill is still with Amer- ican Brass Co. Mort Berkowitz was named ad director of Women's Home Companion recently. The Hanover Inn had some late summer visitors from '37: Ernie Kern and son; Dr. and Mrs. John Knorr II; Sam Bentley and wife, and Dr. Hank Doremus and his wife.

Next month I shall cover the Executive Committee meeting scheduled for October 5 in Bridgeport.

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