1924

This is to be a consistently "joyful" column; nothing but good news and no alarums and excursions to arouse your anxieties. Perhaps this is a reaction to the recent Carnival and its spirit. Perhaps some of you were here and didn't catch me at home or office; the only ones I saw, the "Monday after" were Norma andRed Maloney. Red claims he's practicing how to cook an egg gently; the test comes next summer when I'll sit on his private beach again. I offered to show him how this time, but he preferred to eat at the Inn in bloated style (that has a lot of meanings, I see).

Seriously, good news item #1. Hal Spring-born becomes a VP and a VIP all at once. Word comes that he is now vice president and executive editor of Moore's gas industry publications - four of them. He is now the only gas industry editor to be a member both of Society of Gas Operators and the Gild of Ancient Supplers. Looking back, as we have done with others on occasion, we find the following:

Managing editor of The Dartmouth, Zeta Psi, and Dragon while an undergraduate. He joined Moore in 1929 as news editor of Gas Age, after some experience with other trade papers. He lives in Mount Vernon, N.Y., was married to Helen B. Reynolds in 1927; they have two sons: Reynolds, Yale '50 (engineering) and Neil, Wesleyan '58; one grandson.

Item #2. A '24 wife makes good: BleikeReed's wife, Doris, becomes a Trustee of Brown University. She was the former Doris Browne; they were married in 1929; formerly of Worcester, and Bath, Maine. My record does not list any children.

Item #3. A good many of you have seen Teahouse of the August Moon, in which Paul Ford (Weaver) carries off the laurels; also on TV, with Phil Silver's Show, on CBS Tuesdays he's the Colonel. New address for your files is 54 West 16th St., New York.

Item #4. Pete Wheatley, whom I missed when he was in town recently (try again, please), did himself proud in his role as District Attorney in the Bonomi trial in Plymouth. This case received wide publicity in the Boston papers, with the "verbal duel and courtroom strategy between the two lawyers" attracting wide attention from his peers who attended each day's sessions. This was his first murder case; reports indicate he handled it with much credit.

Item #5. A casual bit of homework by one of my spies discovered that Sumner Robinson has made a change. The National Sales Executive Annual Report and Handbook for 1955-56 says that he has left as chairman of the Graduate School of Sales Management of the National Sales Executives and is now with Stephen Rug Mills (New York). He was formerly sales manager of National Homes, makers of prefab homes, of Lafayette, Ind.

And scattered bits: Penn Haile writes another Letter to the Editor — of the New YorkTimes this time; he was urging administration of nuclear tests by the United Nations. TedMorehouse is no longer with Young America Films, but it is now Morehouse Associates, Inc., consultants, distributors, etc., of audiovisual methods and materials. His office is also his home, in this new venture: 104 Cassilis Ave., Bronxville 8, N.Y. No details on the next one, as I write, but Ed Mansure resigns his important post as General Services Administrator, because of "personal obligations." The record has been one of great savings to the government - you and I - in his direction of contract-buying of many items used in government services. This is a house-keeping agency, and demands closest attention to detail. You'll see more on this item in your papers and magazines.

Finally, word again of Red Newell, from Singapore. He's in a very hot part of the world, literally and figuratively. Singapore and the Federation are working toward self-government and have the usual growing pains of such an operation. You've read of the riotings after the first April elections; more than 300 strikes mean a very unsettled situation. He has been through the agony of being on a team to negotiate with a union - the Bank Employees' ' Union. A new building project takes more time, with the foundations in and occupancy a year off. It is shocking to read that he hasn't played any tennis since September 1941 - "just before sliding out of Japan via Shanghai on the furlough that was to save me from one of the camps." If I could only get at you now, Red; maybe I could beat you at last; perhaps even Harry Holmlund could take a set. Ralph Jr. (not Red) is in second year at Blair Academy; the twin girls (aged 10) are in Singapore - to celebrate the Newells' 20th wedding anniversary on February 10. Says Red: "That may sound like a practice shot to a lot of the brethren, but not to me." The brethren, or some of them, can speak from our thirty years and assure Red "the best is yet to be" - believe it or not.

Guess this does it again. Fathers-sons banquet yet a week and more away. Will have to report it in Butts Lamson's next Newsletter, I guess. (That ought to be happy news for him.)

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