1920

"The Clarence Darrow of the Bay County Bar Association," that is how Michigan legal circles described Newc Newcomb, who defends persons accused of felonies too poor to hire a lawyer and assigned one at public expense. So he becomes a millionaire? Hardly. His pay for cases dismissed at the lower court level is $50; $15O for work in the lower court on cases eventually reaching arraignment in circuit courts; and, when circuit court trials take place, pay on a per diem basis. In 1967 Newc represented 10 persons, some on most serious charges. "Sometimes I'm the only friend they have," he remarks, "but I don't feel any obligation to them other than to assure a fair trial," but a judge has said, "His clients don't suffer because there are so many. He will fight like a tiger for them."

Doug Storer is working on a new book, "Amazing But True Stories Behind the Stamp." Sample: West African Togo in 1963 issued a stamp honoring President Lincoln on the 100th anniversary of his Emancipation Proclamation freeing Negro slaves. When President Kennedy was assassinated, Togo, over-printing his name and birth and death dates on its Lincoln stamp, became the only country in the world to memorialize two U. S. Presidents on one stamp. Doug has an American eagle eye for coincidences. Lincoln was elected President in 1860; Kennedy, in 1960. Lincoln was warned not to attend Ford's theater on the night he was shot; Kennedy, not to visit Dallas. Both shot on Fridays in public view, were sitting at ease beside their wives. Both were shot from behind. Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and was found in a warehouse; Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found in a theater. Both assassins were killed before they could be brought to trial. The men succeeding Lincoln and Kennedy were both named Johnson. Andrew Johnson, born 1808, and Lyndon B. Johnson, born 1908, were both Democrats, Southerners, and former U. S. senators.

Guest of honor at screenings of Buster Keaton classics, "Seven Chances" (1925) and "Steamboat Bill, Jr." (1928), Rudi Blesh in informal and witty talks captivated audiences. Afterwards interested students surrounded him, when he, according to The Dartmouth, spoke "eagerly, without reserve" in a "memorable" experience.

At the 46th, 21ers remembering friends once so alive, now dead, may view in the Treasure Room, Baker Library, beautiful and rare books given by living members. Speedy Fleet has recently honored Hal Bolles with a handsome volume of 451 pages with 1000 pictures, many in color, reproduced from tie work of Hieronymus Bosch (1460-518), the Flemish painter, contemporary of Breugel. In memory of Bill Codding,Reg Miner has presented an attractive art book with black-and-white and colored reproductions of famous Victorian paintings. Bill Embree has given Baker many books from his late brother Hank's personal library and back issues of magazines, particularly Ballyhoo, and old theater programs.

Interested in old houses, Ben and HelenSalzer after many summers of good luck in renting different ones in Walpole, N. H., are making major alterations in their Denver home. Interested also in old Europe, they concentrate chiefly on Switzerland where their daughter lives with her husband, a Swiss, Professor of Geophysics at the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva. England lures them also, especially the 13th-century Three Crowns Hotel in Chagford, Devonshire, and the architectural delights of Bath. Helen and Ben might be able to answer a question put by Laurie Erskine. Can you cite a more dramatic example than the new Coventry Cathedral of how the modern age has extinguished the past?

After a year in France Harold Bowen recently found himself a mite restless in Michigan, and so he burned out his nervousness in Bermuda sun with golf, fishing, and swimming. The contrast between Detroit and Paris he now takes with becoming grace.

Bill and Linda Spencer have enjoyed a 26-day cruise on the Santa Magdalena to Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, and Peru. Travel notes: friendly passangers, food fine, rooms excellent, Panama City crowded, Guayaquil more crowded, Lima especially enjoyable in the Gran Bolivar, an oldish hotel in the grand European style. This summer it is to be a northlands cruise.

With Laetitia in Oaxaca, Mexico, for pleasure and alone in France and Germany for Reader's Digest, Harland Manchester found Paris restaurants stimulating and expensive, worse than New York. Walking about the city he broadmindedly forgave the French for differing with him about a number of civilized pleasures.

At 2 a.m. Doug Fay in New Orleans and Art Foley in Reseda, Calif., call each other long distance to reminisce. They lament that so little Guinness is drunk in New Hampshire, a sad state for lovers of Irish.

Scrapping plans to slave until 70 and then retire to ski Aspen, legs protesting, WarrenHomer has said farewell to Agnew, Calif., and hello to Portland, Me., close to his daughter Linda and her Sam, completing their college educations.

In an ice-cold shanty on Lake Champlain Tom Griffith found fishing poor this winter. He and Olga shifted lakes and headed for big bass and shad at Lakeside Inn, Mount Dora, Florida.

Vice-president in charge of trade, public, and government relations for the Simmons Company, Jack Hubbell is the new President of the National Association of Bedding Manufacturers. After fighting in W.W. I, Jack rose rapidly in Simmons to become promotional sales and advertising manager. In W.W. II, as Army Major, he served as liaison officer with the Motion Picture Indus- try and chief of the Army Overseas Motion Picture Service. Rising to Lieutenant Colonel, he received a dollar-a-year appointment with the War Production Board in 1942. In 1965 he accepted for Simmons the National Retail Merchants Association Vanguard Award for making the greatest contribution to retail sales in 1964. For distinguished service to the College, Dartmouth has awarded him the Wentworth Bowl.

You might not expect so much in Fitzwilliam, N. H. In an unofficial capacity in the Lions Club, Shorty Bateman can serve the community in many ways a town meeting cannot and transform long-term and intense rivalries between Fitzwilliam and Troy into mutual respect bordering even on friendship. Endowed with a long head for figures, as Substitute Water Commissioner he found no money in the treasury and unpaid bills galore. In less than a year had blotted out the red ink with black. Hilda is deep in church work, women's clubs, and the Meadowwood Fire Department, "the finest rural fire department in New England and maybe in the United States."

Watch out for Big Boomer Dan Patch at the 46th. Looking doleful, he remarks, "I'm full of creaks and squeaks. No lubrication. No pep. Can't break 90." No matter your handicap, he will demand strokes. Better avoid a Nassau at ten bucks. Dan will sink his putts after big booming, and you will be forking out $30. The tip-off comes from Newell Smith, who writes that Ted Sonnenfeld and Big Boomer have been burning up St. Croix and can play 36 holes without fatigue.

1921 will join 1920 for another summer picnic - this year's date Saturday, August 5, and the place the Souhegan Club, New Ipswich, N. H., not far from the Massachusetts line. You'll be getting more details from Abe Weld and Harry Garland.

Rudi Blesh '21, who recently publisheda biography of the late Buster Keaton,was in Hanover to launch the currentfilm festival with Keaton classics: "SevenChances" and "Steamboat Bill Jr."

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