1935
Late News Flash ... If you've been getting alarmed by a sudden, nationwide craze for hula music, been puzzled by the stepped-up sales in leis - relax. It just means that EdwardFitz-Randolph Donnell Jr. has blown in from Hawaii. Presumably, everything will get back to normal when he blows back. Fitz airmailed me, just before press time, that he and Mimi plane in on April 30, head straight for New York. Mimi hasn't seen the skyscraper city for a good many years, and they intend to have a short whirl. Then Mimi's off to Canada for the annual Junior League convention. (She's the J.L.'s Honolulu president.) Fritz will meanwhile be doing some traveling around here, rounding up more merchandise to retail in Hawaii.
Sid Diamond has switched law firms, going over to Kaye, Scholer, Fierman & Hays, here in New York. Advertising Agency Magazine recently carried an impressive series of articles Sid wrote on one of his specialties - the legal distinctions between trademarks and copyrights. ... Boston newspapers spotlighted the news that Harris Reynolds resigned his post as assistant on the State Attorney General's staff, returning to private practice.
Heard from Charlie Naylor that he, KenKurson, Art Somers, Harry Ferries and DickMuzzy turned out to represent '35 at the annual Alumni Dinner in Boston this year.... Ted Huck and wife Barbara are devoted to their three boys, but thought it would be nice to see just each other for awhile. Their two-some hideout was Naples, Fla.
Gloomy note from Ted Hupper:
"Last November the U.S. Information Agency decided that some of its Washington staff were becoming too soft and shipped us to the field, where the wholesome food, regular hours, and simple life would put us back in shape. So for almost three months I have been undergoing rigorous physical and mental discipline at the frontier post of Paris. Sharing my hardships are my wife, daughter and son. As executive officer of our post here, I share a fascinating assignment with an outstanding and representative group of Americans at the Embassy, and am making friends with some interesting French people, too."
Dave Johnson is still practicing law in Cleveland and living on a farm. Says he saw Jack AuWerter and Dan Close at a small '35 luncheon recently.... Bud Lippman will tender his M.D. talents to any classmate who happens to be in Atlantic City and ailing at the same time. Bud has three children, but he didn't specify what variety.... Kelly Hamilton just made a second vice pres. of the Elizabethport Banking Co. in Elizabeth, N.J.
... Got a somewhat condensed message from Ben Wheeler, but it delivered these basic facts: he's assistant financial secretary for Mass. Mutual Life Insurance; he has twin daughters (age 13); Barney and Kay Tomlinson had dropped by recently for a surprise visit.
Good long letter from Bob Collins, who recently bought out his partner in their Los Angeles pipe threading machine business:
"Now it's called the Collins Machinery Corporation. We have just begun to sell them back East and I'm pleased to say they are in use on almost every major construction project in Metropolitan New York.... We were also successful in getting the contract for the United States Air Force requirements for 4" pipe threading machines, with shipments going all over the world.
"I am still a die-hard on my skiing, take the family to Aspen every year. Don't know whether I told you, but I was one of the original backers of the Aspen Ski Corporation, have been a director since its inception. A most rewarding investment from the start, both in fun and financial returns. When I'm not trying to earn a living or skiing, I'm on my Phil Rhodes designed sloop. Red carpet always out for any of the sons of old Eleazar, at our new house in Pasadena."
Fred Raymond and wife Bette left the chills of a Vermont winter for a Mexican vacation. There they teamed up with Beach Riley and his wife for a carefree evening. The Rileys are pretty excited about the advent of their first child. Fred says it made him quite nostalgic when he recently hired the Barbary Coast to play for a local "Polio Ball." They've mushroomed into a very modern 16-piece outfit. (Lowie Haas please note, writes Fred.) ... Charlie Barnes reports he's piling up a lot of car mileage, selling transportation throughout Connecticut and Massachusetts for long-distance movers. North American Van Lines. The agency is Charlie's own biz.
Life with Jack Egan in Bedminster, N.J.:
"Mailing address is Box 455, Far Hills, N.J. All of my neighbors ride to the hounds on Saturdays, with the Essex Fox Hounds Club. However, since I am primarily a golfer and decidedly not bow-legged—the best I could do was join the 'Tewksbury Foot Bassets,' who hunt with a pack of basset hounds every Sunday."
Chip Hawgood (age 14) handles mail answering for father Bill. Chip reports his parents had dinner with Carl Funke and his wife in New York awhile back. Also that his family spent two weekends of golfing with the Bob Rounsavalls last summer, and that Bob has four children. Also that the Hawgoods have four 'children, too, and his father supports them by working for the PattersonSargent Paint Co. in Cleveland. Keep me posted, Chip.... Win Mayo, who's been singing in Broadway's smash musical Silk Stockings for a record two years, was heading for the West Coast in mid-April, on a cross-country tour with the show.
Mel Mandigo hears Phil Hastings has gotten married. Name's Stephanie. Mel's own activities in Glover, Vt., include part-time dairy farming, being Company Secretary for the Farm Bureau, a distributor for the Curtiss Candy Co., experimenting with Bovine artificial breeding, and teaching a class on farming to a group of Korean War Veterans.... AlBrush (our valedictorian, you'll remember) has shifted from General Motors in Detroit to General Motors Acceptance in New York. After some six months of grueling weekend commuting between Michigan and New York, he's finally established the family in a new house at Darien, Conn.
And speaking of housing, Harry Knott has a ten-room domicile in Bellefontaine, Ohio, and with those five children of his, imagine he can use the space. His oldest daughter is training at Children's Hospital in Boston. His only son, aged 4½, seems to have his future all mapped out. "He will go to Dartmouth," says Harry firmly.... The Dean of Admissions has another prospective customer in Bob Busey's 13-year-old Bobby, who is already talking Dartmouth. Bob is sales district manager for a division of General Electric in Philly. He's just built a lake-front house in Berwyn, Pa.
Postcard from Jack AuWerter:
"Owen Fairweatber and I met by accident skiing (or should I say 'by coincidence') at Otsego Ski Club in Michigan in February, and rolled back twenty years in as many minutes. Great weekend. We followed up with a night in Chicago (his town), with wives, and it was even better. Hie Fairweathers are about to set sail for North Africa for a vacation. They really do it."
New 16-year-old ski star Joan Hannah, daughter of our Sel, was featured in a NewYork Times sports article in March.... PerryWachtel and your correspondent recently bumped into each other across a conference table while working on the same advertising promotion. Perry is head of his own firm - the De-Perri Agency in New York.
Guess we better take leave of picturesque old '35 for this month. See you in June.
Win Mayo '35 (r) is shown with Gretchen Wyler in the "Josephine" scene from Cole Porter's smash musical, "Silk Stockings."
Clark C. Sorensen '36, formerly personneldirector and then assistant to the president ofHarris-Seybold Co., has joined AmericanMachine & Foundry Co. as Director of Publicand Industrial Relations.
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