1939
It may be near Valentine's Day to you readers, but for us "published" authors with a deadline at the Gutenberg Press the New Year's bells are still clanging. Even Dr. Jack Kuhlke's prescription for SpanTran seems impotent.
And, as we linger over the final fingering of the Xmas cards received from classmates, called to mind is that sagacious remark of my wife, Cocky, "If you don't send 'em, you don't get 'em." How true!
However, it is gratifying to see Gibson's, Hallmark's, Chryson's and Henri Fayette's subjective evidence that still alive are the Haskell Davenports, Louisa and John Egbert, Betty and Henry Bagg (stating all's well in Holyoke), Bill and Mary Ellen Russell, The Winships, Bob and Jean Field (how about coming East this summer?), Robert and Alice Hagge, Betty and Jack Gumming (showing five birds on the card and the remark "some birds" - agreed), Cordelia and Russell Fette, Whit Cushing (come to Palm Beach and see results of my two months of painting in Europe last summer), Polly and Bob Cushman (who now live at 14 Westwood Drive, Worcester 9, Mass.) and "many" (four, to be exact) others.
Browny dropped us two postcards this month. One from Hanover telling us John Steele was registered at the Inn; designed no doubt to put Conrad Hilton in a state of collapse. The other from a town in Vermont which, due to the parsimonious use of ink thereabouts, failed to register the exact location. It did, however, inform us that Lou Oldershaw and his three boys were schussing down the Sugarbush Mountain. Then he went on to say, "Stowe crowded so Mad River and S.B. getting play from us." Strange phraseology.
The president of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company has announced a top-level personnel change. Joseph J. Urban is the new vice-president in charge of operations. I'm momentarily expecting a follow-up announcement of largesse whereby 39ers' nickels won't be any good in the Hoosier State — all phone calls on the house.
Fred Tower is newly appointed sales manager for the New York State district Canco Division, American Can Company. His head-quarters are in the Lincoln-Rochester Bank Building which we assume is in Rochester.
Dave Smith has moved to Connecticut, is back in law practice, and his address: Lake Avenue, Greenwich.
Roger Stanwood has moved from Bellaire, Texas, to Houston 24, same state. Address: 10637 North Evers Park Drive.
"The Michigan Manufacturer & Financial Record Monthly" has revealed the appointment of Bill Bachman as a senior vice-president of MacManus, John & Adams, Inc., national advertising agency with offices in Bloomfield Hills. Bill is group head in overall charge of Bendix Aviation accounts, and chairman of the agency's New Business Department. He has been with the agency since 1947, after four years in the Navy. He was made a vice-president in 1955. Bill, I've a boy in Cranbrook, so will look you up soon.
We had lunch with J. Merriam and J. Vincens at the Vanderbilt Grill three weeks ago at a table next to Corny Miller who has abandoned Rotary, Conn., for trade publishing in New York. I think he said he was with Conover-Mast. Anyhow, the Merriams had recently been to the Homestead in Hot Springs and after five days there ran into Janie and Bill Kent who had also been there that long. They played golf then drove to Washington together five days before the Davidsons arrived at the same place. All of which proves nothing and we'd better quit and take a credit of five column inches some future month when we have something to write about.
Secretary, 1908 Coolidee Dr. Dayton 19, Ohio
Treasurer, 15 Meridian PL, Huntington Station, N. Y.
