1950
By the time this couple of paragraphs is printed you'll know whether you picked a winner for the Derby and whether that expensive fertilizer and pre-emergent crabgrass control with nitrogen, phosphate, and vitamin B-1 really makes grass grow, blue or otherwise. Hoping that both circumstances have had nothing but the happiest outcomes for you, may we suggest your careful attention to the center ring for...
RATTLE PRATTLE
The spring maids and blades should arrive soon, but in the interim two braves and a squaw have snuck into the tepee. Surprisingly enough, the damsel was the first and news of her birth came in decidedly secondhand fashion. It seems the mother in the situation went to a small seminary-type school in northern Massachusetts, said institution publishing sporadically an alumnae news, whence cometh the report. So we were jarred out of our skulls to have the word that Jack and Barbara (Tig) Kent welcomed their fourth girl last September 30. Along with two boys, Katherine Alexander must cut quite a caper in Winchester, Mass. Two March lambs complete this month's listings. Certainly the lads wouldn't generate enough noise to be considered lions, would they? The elder jungle cat is David Thomas who weighed in March 5 at six pounds, 12 ounces. Mom and dad are Bob and JoanMcllwain, who have two other sprouts.
Most recent addition is Randall Hebenstreit, son of Dave "Scat" and Maria Luce in Milwaukee, March 22. Gemutlichkeit reigns and healthy bubchen has been guzzling malt formula to increase his starting seven pounds, nine ounces.
Welcome, kiddies!
GRAPEVINE REPORTS
Of course the peddlers get relocated more than other business men! Two recent examples underscore this fact. Bob Day was reported only a few weeks ago as new sales manager for Union Bag-Camp Paper in lanta. Now we see that he's hanging his hat in Pittsburgh. Steeltowners can find him at 227 Seeger Road, zone 34. ... Curt Kimball has departed the Windy City for a sales post with Garrett Music Company in Mission, Kan. He and Sandy have at least one potential piano player, a daughter, Sandy. ... Out on the West Coast, Len Stein is sales manager for LPL Engineering in L.A. ... Bill Sullivan got a plaque for outstanding service and production (sales, that is) from the Worcester agency of Connecticut Life. Bill is an independent general insurance broker.
Our indefatigable shylock, Si Morand, ran into Fred Gamble at the Central States meeting of the Investment Bankers Association in Chicago. Fred told him that Arnie Oss had departed from Minne-gophersville for San Francisco, and that Bill Frenzel had been elected to the state legislature last fall.
Several globetrotters to check up on could begin with Capt. Fred Laird whose USAF address is TUSLOG Det. 26, APO 254, N.Y.C. ... Another man in mufti, Phil Gross, reached his majority last February 27. He has been with the Army ROTC unit in Hanover as assistant prof of military science since 1960. ...The far Pacific has a new resident: Jim MacLeod can be reached care of Frome-Broken Hill Co., Pty., Ltd., 95 Collins St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Dave Steinberg has been moved to Seoul, Korea, with the Asia Foundation.
A few tidbits from here and there reveal that Johnny Marson is assistant purchasing agent for John Oster Manufacturing in Milwaukee. Not a Waring blender around for miles, eh? ... Monty Miller is a project en- gineer with The Gilbert & Bennett Manufacturing Co. in Georgetown, Conn.... Dan Schausten is an account exec with Goodrich and Snyder, Portland, Ore. ... George Woodwell was the subject of a threepage article on his work as "Atomic Forester" in Science World, the scholastic magazine, in February. George is an ecologist with master's and .doctorate in botany from Duke where he taught till 1957. For the next four years he was at the University of Maine, and now he's at Brookhaven in charge of radiation experiments on effects of gamma rays on trees. ... Tom O'Connell, director of the Berkshire Community College, continues to get mentioned by the papers for his frequent speaking engagements. The latest bugged us, though when he talks to the local Thursday Morning Club that meets at 2, according to the article, is that really a couple of hours past midnight?
Hey! Don't forget Swede Swenson's swindlers ... they want your green for the Big Green, and the deal is the best in any town. Nowhere else will your money go so far for so needed a purpose.
See you once more before summer vacations start!
Secretary, 2617 Thayer St., Evanston, Ill.
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