1921
During the Christinas holidays Ray Mallary waded through Vietnam mud and water, crossed bridges made of logs to visit a refugee village, got scared when a helicopter banked with nothing between him and the ground, and attended a party given by U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. With a group of prominent Vermonters, Ray paid his own expenses out and back with the avowed purpose of cheering our troops and learning about the two wars, military and educational. Our fighting men answered all questions, assured Ray that they were getting the job done, and said that "peace rioters" in the States do not understand American military morale and encourage the enemy to prolong the war.
When Ellis Briggs speaks, he is worth listening to. When he writes a book, it is worth buying. In "Anatomy of Diplomacy: Origin and Execution of American Foreign Policy," he defines the scope of foreign relations and the roles of the President, Congress, Secretary of State, and American Foreign Service. You may expect pungent comment about attaches and operatives gushing into U. S. embassies and almost negating the State Department's attempts to control American diplomacy. Ellis may be at his ironic best when he comments on Utopian pipe dreams and the role of American forces wallowing in foreign swamps. Is NATO disintegrating? Can Communism be contained? Are our involvements in Southeast Asia as admirable as they are expensive? Ellis's answers are incisive.
In Pompano Beach and Captiva Roger Wilde wants most to photograph the reddish egret and the oyster-catcher with his canonflex RM equipped with a 200 x 45 mm. telephoto lens. The fish he wants most to catch are the spotted seatrout, snook, and red drum. His equipment is a bamboo spinning rod with 8 lb. monofilament 5 oz. torpedo head line. Of all Florida flowers, Caroline most enjoys gardenias.
Ing Baker is enjoying his 50-day New World Discovery Cruise Around South America with the Moore-McCormack "S.S. Argentina," "America's newest luxury cruise liner," which left New York Jan. 31 to visit 17 ports, nine countries, and three Caribbean islands. Quiz for the geographi- cally minded. 1. What port city is called the gateway to Caracas? 2. What Peruvian city near "the fairest gem on the shores of the Pacific" is a former pirate stronghold? 3. Where in Chile is the social resort of presidents? 4. What city in Uruguay has a rose garden with 850 varieties? 5. What city is sometimes called "the Venice of Brazil"? 6. In what city of Barbados are harbor police dressed as tars of Nelson's fleet? Answers: 1. La Guaira. 2. Callao, near Lima. 3. Vina del Mar. 4. Montevideo. 5. Recife. 6. Bridgetown. If you scored 6 out of 6, you had better go again. If you flunked, see your travel agent.
Hilt and Mildred Campbell decided to build in Pinehurst rather than Hanover although they love New England weather. They had a beautiful taste of it in January. With no regard for age or beauty, an ice storm snapped off tall pines. Laborers found that they had almost a foresters' job carting off branches. Through a frosty window in a warm house such sights may be picturesque. But electricity conked out for four days. No heat and no light. Hilt camped at the Carolina Hotel - alonpe, for Mildred was hospitalized with bronchitis. Yes, North Carolina in its capriciousness is almost New England. After a few days of sunny and warm weather for golf, it snowed.
Mrs. Merrill Shoup, Tom Nor cross, Hastings Walker, and Lorin Goulding have honored the memory of Ralph Ruder by presenting Baker Library with "Bonsai," a sumptuous volume with colored photographs taken by Manschichi Sakamoto, one of Japan's finest art photographers. Literally tray arrangement, Bonsai is the art of dwarfing and shaping trees and shrubs by pruning and controlled fertilization. From the narrow space above its containers, a good Bonsai inspires one to imagine a rich world stretching deep into the vast infinitude of nature. The author, Chuzo Onuki, who possesses an outstanding collection, cherishes natural forms, and eschews extremists favoring deformed and distorted shapes.
Here is news for Guy Wallick, HarryChamberlaine, and Sandy Sanders. DocFleming entered three water colors in Festival of the Arts in Escondido and won two awards, a blue ribbon and a red. Cheered, he will seek further instruction at Palomar College. Sixes and sevens in golf are now a minor matter. With Nels Baker's interest in woodlands and A 1 Dunn's interest in conser- vation, Doc attended a three-day meeting of wild life and conservation organizations in San Francisco and then flew for a twelveday visit to Hawaii and the outlying islands with 24 biologists and career conservationists. He regrets that the islanders seem so intent on erecting tourist traps and exploiting their climate that primitive charm and idyllic tranquility are rapidly disappearing.
Because Martha's back forbids down-mountain skiing, she and Bob Burroughs did not join the Tyler Thompsons and the Jack Meyerhofers in Switzerland this winter. What then, Swedish massage? No, The Guana Island Club in the British Virgin Islands and on Maui, Hawaii, where warm salt water works wonders in relieving muscle spasms. Bordand Burd Helmer may be plunging in with them.
As an educational pinchhitter, Phil Noyes, busier than ever with substitute teaching, rates high. When Sev Severance's wife, Marion was laid low by flu, Phil took over her Latin classes in Old Rochester Regional High School, Mattapoisett. Evenings he had to study hard to keep abreast of the assignments.
Figure it this way. If Jack Hubbell is "still on the Simmons team 100%" and spends the balance of his time with the Haley Corp., a travel agency of which he is part owner, is he not perhaps a 150 percenter?
ROUND ABOUT. Leigh and Crete Tracy are spending six months at 16 Third St., N., Ahmadi, Kuwait. In that Arabian harbor they may watch going out horses, pearls, dates, wool, dried fish, and ghee. Ghee is semi-liquid butter remaining when butter from buffalo milk is melted, boiled, and strained. Coming in are oil, grain, coffee, rice, and guns. ... David, son of Hewitt Moore, North Pomfret, Vt., advertises that he can make complete restorations of reed organs and player pianos. ... Jack and Olive Graydon spent three weeks in Scotland and Ireland last September and hope to see classmates in Florida during May. ... Art Ross still works three days at Fairchild-Hiller Corp., Manhattan Beach, Calif. Instead of a 1967 Maine vacation, he chose to visit relations in North and South Carolina. ... During a New England winter in Brooklyn, early rising and flying about were for snow-birds but not Tracy Higgins. Retired, he is on a contract basis as consultant for three years. ... Em and Olive Corbin are proud that their actor son Albert, in Cincinnati last summer, has been playing at Lincoln Center in "Tiger at the Gates" and in "Cyrano de Bergerac." Olive acts in "American Dream" used in New Britain by the State Laymen's Association of Congregational Churches to bring more music, art, and drama into church affairs, and Em keeps busy as stage manager.
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