1951

Nice letter from (Dr.) Marr Mullen makes us envious. Seems that just before getting sprung from the Air Force he squirreled up 35 days of leave and then blew it on a last fling trip to the Orient, courtesy of MATS. Chief host in Japan turned out to be (Dr.) Jerry-san Block, who insisted Marr write us that he (1) is NOT married, (2) does NOT have three children! (Zounds! Did we ever say all that?)

Anyway, Jerry was living in a typical Japanese house with a couple of other bachelors in the little resort town of Kamakura. And more than a little of the atmosphere had rubbed off on him. "Interior decorating (mostly by Jerry)," observed Marr, "is in simple but good Japanese taste." Also in good taste appeared to be Jerry's choice of the local gals, which should be documented close by on these pages by a picture of the group at dinner in Chez Block. On his way back to Spokane, Marr stopped off in Honolulu for a couple of days surfboarding and swimming with the Bill Monahans.

Most Unlikely Rumor of the Month: Guido Rahr was allegedly married July 8. Details, anyone?

Dick and Toni Barnes are tickled over the birth of their first - Elizabeth - also on July 8. And the third child was a girl for both the Percy Cornishes and the Jerry Lindsays.

An Armstrong Cork promotion takes Jack Giegerich from Minneapolis to Baltimore where he'll be assistant district manager for the floor division.... Paul Simel is a captain in the Army Medical Service Corps, has been out to San Antonio for orientation.... Bill Leffler was ordained as a rabbi in June and is off with wife and daughter for two years' study at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

John Gambling now has his own show - "Music From Studio X" — on WOR in New York, and also goes around talking to Lions clubs. . . . Dune Booth has advanced to assistant cashier at the Industrial National Bank of Barrington, R. I.... Chuck Ryan has been moved from Akron to the Firestone plant in Memphis, Tenn.

Charlie Russell's an underwriter for the Travelers' in Hartford.... George Marshall a systems representative for IBM in Toledo. ... Andy Jones a laborer for a construction company in Assaria, Kan.... Bob Maguire still teaching Russian at Duke.

Had to. make a quick trip to New York the other day and Pete Martin was nice enough to introduce me to the dandy oyster stew they serve at the Dartmouth Club. Pete's still writing away for the Latin American section of Time, manages to get sprung for two or three extensive junkets south to the Latin climes, has recently moved to a new home in Yorktown Heights, N. Y.

Bob McCabe is assistant news editor of the N. Y. World-Telegram Sun - a fast rise in a short time. Understand John Marshall is chief resident at the Boston VA hospital in Billerica.... Al Streelman is industrial relations manager at the Schenley distillery in Cincinnati.... Sonny Thamarus is teaching pediatrics at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor.

Is Don Binks the only corporation president in the class? As head of D. M. Binks Co. Inc. he's both a manufacturer and manufacturer's representative - but darned if we can find out what he makes and sells.

Kodak has favored the Chicago area by moving Al Karcher up from St. Louis. Correspondent of ours says Al has "a very nice house in Downers Grove where he lives with his turtle." Karcher electrified skeptics, including Bob Bowler and Jim Culberson, however, by racking up a hole-in-one in the Chicago Alumni Association Golf Tournament.

Bowler reports running into Bob Hopkins in, of all places, one of those helicopters that takes commuters to the airport. And we hear there were new arrivals this summer for both the Hopkins and the Culbersons.

Chris Fuller is going to get married one of these days - to Carolyn Pennington, a teacher in Bergen, N. J., and Hunter College grad student. Chris is with Colgate, Palmolive in New York.

Leaving Westinghouse, Tom Porter has been made director of purchasing for National Electric Division of H. K. Porter Inc., and will be at the Ambridge, Penna.. plant. ... Old softball pitcher Ned Hunt is now personnel and industrial relations manager for Resistoflex Corp. in Roseland, N. J.

And that's it. See you here next month.

Guido R. Rahr Jr. V is shown with a chamis he brought down while hunting in thecentral Austrian Alps near Bad Ischel. Withhim is his guide.

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