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Frank Hartmann, who directs Chemstrand's home furnishings and tire merchandising and advertising, really had a great idea using Barbra (that's the way she spells it) Streisand to presell about 50 million TV customers on Acrilan and Cumuloft nylon. Not only did Frank sell them but Barbra grabbed an Emmy award and the show several others. And Frank, the charmer, presold your secretary by sending him a special autographed record by Barbra called "Why Did I Choose You?" — a question I can't answer.

Been meeting anyone at airports lately? Keep your eye open for that Philadelphia impresario, Chick Webb, who always seems to be headed for Erie, Pa. Chick has many business ventures (and a stunning wife). Latest venture - car leasing - and that is a venture and adventure.... Last week met Bob Gray in a line at the Atlanta airport — both headed home with all the other Yankee drummers. Bob is very active with Delta Air Lines as its Washington counsel; his role was quickly recognized by two stewardesses giving us the attention reserved for VIPs. Bob's new law firm is moving nicely with plans for expansion, and Bob somehow finds time to keep actively flying in the Naval Reserve.

To Chuck Feeney a tip of the class hat for a real cliff hanger in the National League race. Even popular Bob Clark would agree the Giants gave it the old try. Bob has quit making those long distance collect calls at night to his distant friends. . . . Just to verify an earlier report, we learned that George Van Petten did retire from the USN after 22 years' active duty. With four stripes to his credit and professional kudos as a top surgeon, Van will settle down in Portsmouth, R. I., and practice in Newport at the Aquidneck Medical Center. We'll miss getting those attractive Christmas cards from Grace and Van around the world.

Up in Belmont our own Johnny Koslowski is filling a need promoting the new Winchester Indoor Lawn Tennis Center, where two courts will be Neo-Turf vinyl grass and two courts cork turf surface. The vinyl, so Kos tells the press, has more bounce to the ounce with uniform smoothness. This venture called Photronics, Inc. also distributes golf cars, all-weather tennis surfaces, and operates the center. Sounds like a great idea and promoted by Kos will be a smashing success.

Long move from Summit, N. J., to Los Angeles but Bob Ehinger did it to join an increasing number of '43s on the Coast. Bob has been with Western Electric since 1946, recently as its manager of personnel administration in New York and now manager of its Los Angeles Distributing House. . . . Harry Bishop, prominent Philadelphia surgeon, was elected vice president of the medical staff at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where he is senior surgeon. Harry is also assistant professor of pediatric surgery at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine.

Tom Keeler writes from Corpus Christi that he resigned from the Great Texas Lumber Co., where he had been since 1946 and with two associates has organized constructing a medical office building in Corpus. Tom says '43s are really scarce down there except for Chuck Arnstein, whom he saw about ten years ago. He talked with BillThaxton via boat radio last summer in a fishing tournament off Port Isabel.

So what's behind an address change . . . sometimes material for a novel or a biography. Not so says Mike Frothingham, denying any productive alumni news in his recent change - just a move to smaller quarters to have more time and money for far more interesting avocations than housekeeping. All wives rise for a cheer to Mike! But I still suspect a real story in this successful suburban family in Rye with its four children ranging from 15 to 5.... Joe Hirschberg, nationally known experimental physicist, moves from Princeton to the University of Miami as professor and chairman of the Physics Department. For 7 years Joe headed the optical section of Princeton's Project Matterhorn, a research in plasma physics sponsored by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Joe's special interest is discovering the properties and actions of plasma, called the fourth state of matter and the basis for thermonuclear energy.... Howie Thomas is back from his journeys and won't tell me much until I buy him lunch in Philly. You've got a big fan club, Howie, who follow you around the world. Present address is 18 Colwyn Lane, Bala-Cynwyd, Pa.... With fifteen years' extensive design experience in all media, Don Clark has been appointed art director of the Elbert Advertising Agency in Waltham, Mass.

The College was well represented at the inauguration of Dr. Joseph C. PalamountainJr. '42 (r) as President of Skidmore College. On hand were (from left) George I.Davis '28, Treasurer of the Skidmore Board of Trustees; Dr. Henry T. Moore, formerDartmouth faculty member and Skidmore's President Emeritus; and President Dickey.

Tucson, Ariz., attorney Bob Miller '44 (r) and his son Michael, 16, sit on motorcycles that carried them on an 8,000-mile trip into Mexico and Central America.The seven-week trip through Mexico and into Guatemala, with numerous side trips,included visits with Peace Corps Volunteers and a short jet flight over jungles.

Secretary, 414 Rosedale Dr. Pottstown, Pa.

Treasurer,60 Little's Point, Swampscott, Mass.