1951

Well, judging by the rash of United Nations Christmas cards which poured into the Miller mailbox, some of you still believe there's hope for the world. Either that or someone thinks I'm down here with Point Four.

The first one came from Helena and DickBarnes, who report they've moved into the pastures of Montgomery County, Md., as a result of the Atomic Energy Commission's exodus from within H-bomb range of the capital. Dick says he's still working on the Atoms for Peace Program, now with the Asian-African branch.

Seems that Yuletide greetings as birth announcements are in fashion this year, and you've gotta admit that takes some real planning.

Ann and Frank Smallwood's season's greet ings announced that David White Smallwood arrived at Mary Hitchcock safe and sound Nov. 25. Frank was mighty pleased the youngster had been considerate enough not to disrupt his spectatorship during football season (David - you should have come the day before the Princeton game). Nov. 25 was also the birthday for Don and Barby Rand's first born, Donna Frances, who must have threatened all sorts of records when she weighed in at nine pounds eight ounces. Don's a Navy Lieutenant but, as we mentioned last month, somebody's found use for him at an Army post —Ft. George Meade outside Washington,

From Mt. Kisco, N. Y., Joyce and Al LeClair report that their third, Emmy Milliken, came along Nov. 7. Al's working with Alcoa in New York City. And Dorrie and Jim Raiders ton used a Christmas card to say that Nancy Lang was born last July, joining young Jimmy and giving them "one of each."

Also on the maternity front, scuttlebutt has it that the stork is expected for his fourth visit to Dave and Mary Leslie up in Minne apolis this month - they can use valentines to spread the news. And from Plymouth. Mass., some outfit called the Person Corporation, Un Ltd., whose directors happen to be named Hap and Lissa, declared "the second year-end dividend on their uncommon family stock." This issue was titled Cynthia Person, priced at 8½. A twinkle-in-eye last line adds, "This dividend is a capital gain and a tax deduction for 1957."

Cupid took a holiday this month - almost. No marriages, but my spies say that Dick Dutton's engaged. Don't know the lucky gal's name. Dick's with Reader's Digest in Pleasantville, N. Y.

Al Karcher writes that he's with the same old company - Kodak — but a new address. They've moved him from Texas up to St. Louis, which is still a long way from Maine. Al says he's "looking for somebody who wants to get married" (try a Post-Dispatch want ad, old man).

A finely-drawn-by-hand greeting card sketched the location of Marc and Emily Heifer's Knitson Farm, near Carfe Castle in Dorset, England. Marc reports that all of them, including daughter Emily, are finding caring for registered Jerseys on the 250-acre farm an 18-hour per day proposition. He adds that the whole family finished up a 2½-month visit home to the States just before Christmas, and visited with the Persons, Ed and Betty Post and Pete and Marty Fleming. Marc says there's a welcome at Knitson Farm (3½ hours from London) for all '51s.

We hear that Ben Sykes is due to be out of the Navy by now, and back home with the law firm of Sykes & Sykes in Norwood, Mass. Also understand he was recently admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Marshall Cohen writes from Harvard to say that he, like Don O'Dowd, is curious about the number of '51s in the academic world. "The idea of a Dartmouth academic strikes most people as being as paradoxical as an impotent lover or a sceptical saint," writes Marshall. And after that one, you won't be surprised to hear that he's giving a series of six Lowell Institute Lectures at the Boston Public Library. Subject: "The Meaning of Metaphor."

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