1944

Holiday Magazine notwithstanding, the best in panorama viewing of the Frisco Bay area can be had from the precariously situated, cliffside setting of Malcolm and LydiaMcLoud's sun deck high above Redwood City. You can scan from Nob Hill on the left past the Hoover Tower at Stanford to those big dirigible hangars just short of San Jose on the right. Ergo, two more solid "down-easterners" defect. Like so many other 44's who have migrated, the McLouds are enjoying their west coast life to the hilt.

In the frightening transition from our childhood Buck Rogers comic books to today's reality we find several of our classmates heading the parade. Last month I reported Gene Callaghan's pioneering of the vertical take-off and landing XC142A plane. Now word comes that physicist Dr. DickAllen is one of the nation's leading experts on death rays and laser beams. Dick is an associate professor of physics at the University of Hartford and is often called upon to address various groups on his specialty. I understand he brings demonstration material to illustrate his lecture. If you have need for a speaker and abound in courage, here's your man. Jim Browning is also in some area of physics that smacks of science fiction. His company called Thermal Dynamics Corp. manufactures high-temperature plasma torches and associated equipment. Jim recently booted himself upstairs to chairman of the board and appointed a new president so he can devote more time to new process development. Something scary is bound to come from all those afternoons he spent at the Nugget.

In more moderate endeavors, Art Kiendl, who has made a significant name for himself in the field of education and is now headmaster of the Mount Hermon School, was recently named to a newly created commission on public education under the sponsorship of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

Throughout the years I've written about Art Saul and his civic interest in his home town of Arlington, Mass. I guess he held every position that they had to offer and obviously did too good a job. Now that he would like to ease out and concentrate on his business, the townspeople have decreed otherwise. In a unique and spontaneous gesture, more than 2000 Arlington voters have pledged to back Art in hopes of encouraging him to return to his seat on the board of selectmen, where he had been past chairman. Always too agreeable, Art again agreed to run. More after the elections.

There was a great picture of Marsh Clark in the financial pages a few weeks ago accompanying a piece about his promotion to senior vice president in charge of media, marketing, and research for the Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell and Bayles, Inc. advertising firm. He looks just like Brian Donlevy in "The Great McGintey" (another great attraction at the Nugget in the '40s). Rod Morgan, who had been branch manager for New York for Spaulding Fibre Co. of Tonawanda, has been promoted to the position of Central Regional Manager and takes in the New York, Detroit, Cleveland, and Dayton offices. That sounds like about 60% of the market.

Food broker Mike Costa is now making his home and operating out of Bangor, Maine, and apparently is enjoying the life of a true "down easterner." Investment broker John Dingwall seems content with Gotham's southerly exposure but looking for a bit of Lebensraum has moved his home to Armonk. Possibly I mentioned this but Dr.Jim McClintock is now operating out of Denver.

I see Dr. Bud Coith only when I get a hangnail or when our wives are in a fashion show. Last night it was at a fashion show that featured the jet-set designer Oleg Cassini. Bud's wife, Nancy, was at her loveliest in one of Oleg's most revealingest. The sight of Nancy in his gown prompted the maestro to muse before a packed house at the Symphony Orchestra Fashion Parade, "I should call this creation 'From here to maternity'."

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