1944
I find all forms of our press today getting spongy and wasting too much expensive ink on Jack and Jackie and Bobbie and Teddy, etc. ... too little on important people like Arnold Palmer and that great dark horse, white hope from Minnesota, Clark MacGregor. So, after a few brief reports we're going to have a Spring Special on Rep. MacGregor (R-Minn.).
The last two days have been pleasant '44 ones. Boog and Lydia McLoud blew in last night on the way home from a week of Colorado skiing and looked great, from the deep healthy tans to the Jerry Lucas knee bandages. Of course, Malcolm, sales manager for Evans Products' battery separator division, never likes to go home with an empty bag and did sell me a deluxe tricycle and jet-styled wagon (manufactured by one of Evans other divisions) before booming off in the bird. Then this afternoon we went to a marvelous brunch at Bud and NancyCoith's wonderful home on the north side of Cincinnati, To make it even better, Jim andCarol Briggs were on hand. I was interested to learn that Bob Myers is now in with the Murchison boys. It seems that Bob's old investment firm was instrumental in interesting the Murchisons in an Indiana water company. They apparently thought as much of along in the deal to run it for them.
Don Comes, who joined Armstrong Cork after getting his degree in Chemistry from Dartmouth in '4B, has been making sure, steady strides ever since, and has just been named Regional Manager of Armstrong's Consumer Products Division. The Comeses live outside Chicago. Among Bob McLaughry's many accomplishments is real estate brokerage and he's now associated with the A. B. Gile Co. in Hanover. A Marine Lt. Col., Bob is Commanding Officer of their New England Air Reserve Group. And speaking of Hanover, one of their former residents and our classmate, John Brown has just had his latest book entitled "The Displaced Person's Almanac," published by Beacon Press. John recognizes that the only alternative to the organization man is the displaced person and uses this theme to criticize some of the distortions of 20th century life. Very good. John and his family are in Beirut where he is assistant professor of classical languages and history at the American University. And with our more learned colleagues, Bob Tompa, associate professor of Business Administration at Monmouth College has been named acting chairman of his department. Bob is currently working on his Ph.D. thesis at Rutgers in the area of his specialty, money and banking. Maybe he's the messiah students of this garbled topic have been waiting for. I'm still convinced our text book at Tuck was dictated by a drunken witch doctor.
Warren Sullivan has been elected a director of the Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. He is vice president in charge of their General Publishing Division and president of the MacMillan Co. Sully is also a director of LaSalle Extension University, the company's home study division. It's hard to believe that eleven years have gone by since we announced the Sullivans' dash to the forefront in the "diaper derby" when triplet sons were born to them! Perhaps it was the shock, but they've never led since. The John Beckwiths feel that they have come to the end of the journey now that the station wagon is full. Their fifth daughter, young Heather, arrived January 18. The young ladies and their brother just take up all the available seats, so John wants to quit. An enterprising salesman is going to con him into one of these trick busses and then we'll see what happens. John is in hospital administration in New London and is quite active in the local Community Chest, Heart Association, and Kiwanis.
Pete Schaub's secretary was kind enough to send along a note about her boss announcing that Pete had been elected chairman of the board of trustees of the Boys' Club of Newark. This organization operates four units and a summer camp with an annual budget of $232,000 and serves 4700 underprivileged boys. John Downs has been elected resident secretary of the New England Regional Office of the Boston and Old Colony Insurance Companies. John joined the organization in 1946 and served in underwriting and field capacities on the Pacific Coast prior to his return to Boston to become New England Regional manager.
Now this isn't electioneering. This little report just comes to mind because Harry Johnson, secretary of '04, was kind enough to write and tell how Clark MacGregor came to his town of Vero Beach, Fla., and made a "fine Republican address to a large dinner audience." Since somebody has got to break up the dynasty down there, we might as well give you a little background on one of the better candidates.
In 1953, even before he dreamed of getting into politics, Time selected Clark MacGregor as one of the "100 Newsmakers of Tomorrow." A valedictorian at his Minneapolis high school, Clark was offered academic scholarships at Yale and Harvard. He picked Dartmouth and graduated cum laude. Enlisting in the Army as a private, Clark won a field commission in Burma and today holds the rank of major in Army Intelligence Reserves. After graduating from Minnesota Law School, he was associated with a Minneapolis law firm for two years, then formed his own law partnership. He held many local and law association posts during this time and was widely recognized by lawyers and judges as an outstanding trial lawyer.
In his first political attempt, in 1960, Clark defeated an incumbent Democrat who had served twelve years. He has been chosen by his forty freshman Republican colleagues in the House as vice-chairman of their organization. He was one of two freshman Congressmen chosen for membership in the Chowder and Marching Society, the Republican legislative-social group on Capitol Hill.
.Clark is.a member of the Judiciary Committee of the House and serves on subcommittees dealing with state taxation of interstate commerce and with claims against the U.S.
Even that terrible Frontiersman, Max Edwards, thinks that Clark is great. No reason to become precipitous and start a mandate now. We'll give Jack a little more time to dig that hole. Then woo Max over by promising him the Attorney General's post (not a bad idea, really) and look forward to a great 1964!
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