1929
News has just come in that Bob (Laflin C.) Jones was promoted last May from director of insurance services and planning to the newly created post of director of market research by Northwestern Mutual Life of Milwaukee.
Many of you will be interested to hear that Bill Davenport is editor of "Voices in Court:. A Treasury of the Bench, the Bar, and the Courtroom" which was published on October 28 by the Macmillan Company of New York. It will be news to many of you that Bill resigned in 1957 from the Univerity of Southern California, where he held the titles of Professor and Head of the Department of English and Lecturer in Law, to take up his present position. "Voices in Court" includes such diversified writers as Catherine Drinker Bowen, Carl Sandburg, Alexander Woollcott, Thomas Babbington, Macauley, Felix Frankfurter, James Gould Cozzens, Charles Dickens, Stephen Vincent Benét, Anthony Trollope, Henry David Thoreau, H. L. Mencken, John Mason Brown — 38 contributors in all. Carson's cross-examination of Oscar Wilde is here, as is Lord Macmillan on Law and Letters and Law and Language; Learned Hand on The Future of Wisdom in America; Francis L. John Buchan on the Judicial Temperament; John C. Knox on Trouble with the Volstead Act; "Madame Juneau's Case" by Guy de Maupassant; "The Case of the Speluncean Explorers" by Lon L. Fuller, and John H. Wigmore's List of One Hundred Legal Novels. Bill's present home address is 616 Purdue Avenue, Claremont, Calif.
Other news from California - Morgan Baker reports from 1104 Foothills Road, Ojai, that he just got out of a cast that he has been in for twelve weeks due to having his arthritic hip fused. He says "Am able to get around with a cane now, haven't yet rebuilt the muscles that went flabby on me, but so far the progress is good."
Al Fisher's home address in the Twenty Five Year Book should be revised to 30 Mineola Ave., Roslyn, L. I., N. Y., and his business address changed to New York Telephone Co., Room 800, 101 Willoughby St., Brooklyn 1, N. Y.
Lyt Johnston's office address in the Twenty Five Year Book should be changed to Frank B. Hall & Co., Inc., 67 Wall St., New York 5.
Sherm Little has moved away from Buffalo and is now Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles and USC, 4614 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles 27, and his new home address is 2703 Doresta Road, San Marino, Calif.
Brooks White of West Barrington. R. I., has been chosen to head the 1958 United Fund Campaign for his home town and the neighboring towns of Warren and Barrington.
As a result of trying to get Bob Hazard up to New York, we got a most interesting letter from him, part of which says:
Since I saw you all last, I had my stomach carved up, ran into some complications and just managed to stay on this side of the Great Divide. So I sold my business and this summer my wife and I bought a country store at Hereford, Md., halfway between here (Baltimore) and York, Pa., and we are having a real ball dispensing meats, groceries, overalls, stovepipes and plug tobacco to a most fascinating clientele. We are working 75 hours a week and haven't earned any time off yet for good behavior.
I am doing better in the grandparent line, though. Betsy, who lives in Mobile, has two and a few ninths and Bobby, who is a radar observer Ist Lieutenant at Rapid City, S. D., has twin girls and yet another in the making. If all my store customers desert me, it looks as though I might yet have a volume market in the family.
William H. Davenport '29, Professor of English and Chairman of the Humanities at Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, Calif., is the editor of "Voices in Court: A Treasury of the Bench, the Bar and the Courtroom" published by Macmillan on October 28.
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