1921

After some months in Paris, HaroldBowen is back in Chicago. Descendant of Captain Bowen, so fastidious that with a lighted candle and wet rag he used to shave once a week, Harold may have set 1921 records by retiring in 1927, traveling in exotic countries, collecting coins, and lecturing before the Prismatic Club whose members, mostly oblate spheroids, sleep with their eyes open. On March 29, 1964, Harold rose early, read the obits, did not see his name, and made his will. It resembled a French author's which read, "I owe much. I have nothing. The rest I leave to the poor." Harold denies that he was precocious. Before he was 12, he had read 10,000 books, but not until he was 13 did he understand Darwin's Origin of Species.

Holland in April, tulip time - Haroldand Caroline Mosser were there. They wondered how 25 million bulbs (though not all tulips) could be exported each year, more than half to the U. S. and Canada, and leave behind so many millions to provide a tide of color inundating the whole area between Haarlem and Leiden, 20 miles on both sides of the highway and railroad, electrified and Smokeless According to Sydney Clark '12, "It is as if all the colors in the world were gathered in a mass behind a dike of time and suddenly let on the polder lands in a vast chromatic flood." The Mossers learned that the 20,000 acres devoted to tulips owe their success year after year to the canal system making possible, regardless of droughts or floods, a constant water level IV-, feet below the planted bulbs. Harry and Caroline could not look on all the 2000 varieties, some with fancy stripes and feathers" commanding sensational prices, but as patriotic Americans they viewed two multicolored types, "The American Flag and "Cordell Hull." Guests at the Hilton, they noted that Hitler's "Lesson One to Holland, the wilful destruction of Rotterdam, had an ironic development. Because the central section was annihilated, Rotterdam, forced to rebuild, now Holland's most modern city, vies with the most modern in all Europe. Its harbor services 22,000 ships a year. Housing 5000 workers and 500 cars in the underground garage, the Building Center, a circular structure with almost every kind of building material and innumerable technical refinements, is visited by architects and engineers from all over the world. The Mossers also spent eleven days in London, toured 727 miles of the English countryside, and revisited Copenhagen and Paris.

Associated with Theo. Hamm Brewing Company, recently acquired by Heublem Inc. of Hartford, Pick Ankeny has been elected a director of Heublein. You recall that the business world raised its eyebrows when Hamm rejected a cash offer of $92,750,000 cash by Rheingold in favor of a better by Heublein, though the price in total substance was about the same. Privately owned, Hamm, located in Minneapolis, was the eighth largest U. S. brewer on the basis of 1964 barrel sales with a volume estimated at $125,000,000 yearly. Heublein, which makes and sells liquor and food products, including Smirnoff vodka and a line of bottled cocktails, has a yearly sales total of about $165,000,000.

Secretary of the Navy from 1947 to 1950, John Sullivan was honored at the recent annual spring banquet of the Merrimack Valley New Hampshire Council of the Navy League of Nations in the Sheraton-Carpenter Motor Hotel, Manchester, N. H. Governor John W. King made the gift presentation. The main speaker, Vice Admiral John T. Hayward, USN, President of the Naval War College at Newport, has served as Commander, Anti-Submarine Warfare Forces, U. S. Pacific Fleet, as Chief of Research and Development of the Navy, and as Deputy Commander and Chief of the U. S. Pacific Fleet.

Carl Hammond used to live in a grand, old brown-stone house, a Chicago landmark, which had been converted into a rooming house. Tucked in between two high-priced apartment buildings, it had to be demolished to make a third. Consequently, Carl has moved temporarily into the Lawson YMCA, 30 West Chicago Avenue.

It was a fine winter for Tom and OlgaGriffith at the Lakeside Inn, Mount Dora, Fla. Tom, who spent his time fishing and bird watching on surrounding lakes, speaks of the pleasure of getting to know Winslow, brother of Don Morse.

In his home town, Worcester, Mass., BobWilson insists that he is vegetating, but, more accurately, he is exploring the roots of his own life and western civilization. He is reading Mario Pei's "The Story of English," rereading Frederick Lewis Allen's 'Only Yesterday," wondering how he could have gained such high grades in high school only to flunk his college boards, debating whether he should return to Okinawa or Yokohama, studying Greek, reflecting on the racial origins of Sicilians and Carthaginians, noting the unhappy situations of American Indians on reservations, fulminating against bureaucracy, and checking his scales to see if he is still 165 pounds instead of 195. Aged 67, he will not be satisfied until he reduces to 160, his weight as a Dartmouth senior.

Would it be a good deal to buy a condominium apartment in Florida, live in it yourself off-season, and rent it in season at a fancy figure? Alex Youngerman could speak with authority, but Chuck Moreau may not for another year. The Breakers, Pompano Beach, to be completed in November, was not, even in March. Nevertheless, he and Monette have enjoyed it and amused themselves furnishing it. Next winter will determine whether their financial ambitions will be profitable or merely self-supporting.

What would you, a music lover, do about music if you lived in New Orleans? Probably what Doug Fay does. From a musical family, though he plays no instrument, he listens to opera on the radio and recalls New York evenings at the Metropolitan when he and his father heard Caruso, Chaliapin, Luisa Tetrazzini, and Alma Gluck. In popular music he dislikes Al Hirt and thinks Pete Fountain great. In all his life he has never heard better jazz musicians than New Orleans Negroes improvising.

Bart Bartholomew continues to receive congratulations about his children. Sue, musician, ballerina, and intellectual, in college completed two majors with distinction; did graduate work at Boston University and Harvard; spent three years in Hollywood; played the role of American Girl in a Walt Disney movie; spent summers with the Youth Movement in Germany and Africa Crossroads in Guinea and two years with the Peace Corps in Ghana. Polly completed in three years her A.B. and B.S. at Chicago; taught Trigonometry and Algebra while getting her MA.. at Minnesota; and did research with Smith, French and Kline. This is not the whole story. Bart has two more children, a daughter, Martha, and a son, Robert ("Bart") '59, who in high school enjoyed Physics most, rebuilt automobiles for the fun of it, drove a laundry truck summers, majored in Economics and joined DBS, worked for the Union Oil Company in San Francisco for two years after graduation, and now in Los Angeles is employed with the U. S. Public Health Service.

As a reward of virtue, Tober Ford, Esq., whose accent is British, invited Corey Ford for a two-month hunting trip as far south as Georgia. Little Brown will publish Corey's Alaska book in October. Lucy Briggs, wife of Ellis Briggs, suggested the title, "Where The Sea Breaks Its Back." Back in Hanover, Corey, burning morning oil (he starts writing at 5 a.m.), is at work on "A Time for Laughter," a book about humor and humorists of the 1920's. An expert on partridge, woodcock, and pheasant, Mr. Tober Ford, living with Corey on a permanent basis, is a particularly fine specimen of English setter.

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