1944

Bull Hinman blew in town the other night, a happily transplanted mid-westerner, even to the point of remarking that Cincinnati looked "beautiful." Bull, sales director of International Paper's board and coated paper division out of Chicago and covering thirteen states, just bought a new home in Barrington, Ill., with many mow-able acres to cut down the waist line and a pool to lounge about and pick them up again.

I hadn't known that Dan "The Bear" Donahue was in Chicago, too, but Bull tells of running into him. Dan is vice president of the Susquehanna Corporation and also makes his home in Barrington. While in Europe last fall, Bull met with Cy Thompson in London, reports he's looking splendid, very English, and has it so good over there it's unlikely he'll come back to fight Our traffic jams.

John Eaton has blocked up his skis, and has diverted his interests, passionately, to yachting. The way I hear it, he's got a giant sailing vessel, practically completed, about to slip the ways any day now. Swampy Marsh is a bit more commercial in his hobbies and has a laundromat operation going for him in Stamford, which gives him something to do in the mornings (like collecting receipts) before climbing aboard the New York Flyer.

The corps of cadets at West Point apparently gave Jack Riley a dramatic welcome when he returned home from the Olympics with the gold medal. And his four sons gave him an equally noisy reception.

Lem Arnold has made the move from Dayton to Sherman Oaks, Calif., just on the outskirts of Los Angeles. And I see that JoeDryer is home from Cuba, back in Rochester. Don and Lela Hinkley are still in Brussels, Belgium with Procter and Gamble and apparently thrive on the Continental life. Harold Stein and his brothers Jerome and Morris were featured in a Supply House Times article pointing out how a well managed, sales minded company like their Torrington Supply Company can triple sales and maintain profit margins in a matter of fifteen years.

Jim Browning, chairman of the board of Thermal Dynamics Corporation, president of Browning Engineering Corporation and associate professor of mechanical engineering at Dartmouth, has taken to the speaking circuit and recently addressed the American Welding Society on the topic. "Application of Rocket Energy in the Welding Industry."

By this time I presume all of you and your youngsters have had your polio shots and are protected from the tragedy of the disease. Ken Turner '28 wasn't as lucky, being stricken with the worst, most crippling kind in 1954. With the aid of mechanical devices he can raise his arms slightly and write a little. With this small tool, a lot of spunk, and hard work he has built up a nice little magazine subscription business. Let's help him grow. Ask your wife to jot this down now: K. W. Turner Agency, Tompkins Cove, N. Y. - and send him all your subscription renewals and new subscription orders. He handles them all, competently. Thanks.

Dick Mayberry is back in Rochester after a two years' tour in Chicago. I can understand why one would want to leave Chicago but how about exchanging Sun Valley for Nepal? That's what Phil Puchner did when he gave up his consulting engineering work to join the State Department. It's rude to speak about Chicago like that when we haven't written about Wendall Clark in about ten years. He's an all-time Chicagoan, now V.P. of Samuel Harris and Company machinery and living in Northbrook.

Mike Costa, who has tried to keep one jump ahead of the crushing encroachment of New York urbania has fled to Bedford Village where he should be safe for a year or two. Brack Hazen, on the other hand, is resigned in the fight and lives smack plumb in Manhattan and probably sets his alarm for 8 A.M. as opposed to Mike's 5:30. Attorney Wyn Underwood probably has them both licked, sticking to good old Middlebury, Vt.

Take some nice family pictures at the beach this summer that we can print in the column next fall. Don't be concerned about those little rolls of avoirdupois that sneak out over the trunks; it will make us all feel better.

Secretary, 1105 Center St., Milford, O.

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