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Marv Chandler, while discounting his own, writes to defend the place of trivia in this column. "Tell Ping," he says, "if we want intellectual controversy, there are plenty of sources." (The debate about the appropriateness of personal trivia in these notes always reminds us of John Keller's story of asking Louis Howe what kind of a newspaper the Bronx Home News was. Howe explained that it was essentially a paper that had made its place by carrying small town type news about people who lived and worked in a part of the big city. "One of these days," he told John "some smart editor will modernize it, and it will fail within the year." Which by the way, is exactly what happened.)

Actually, Marv's note was attached to a copy of "remarks" he made to the A.M.A. Annual Insurance Conference that dealt with matters far from trivial. Addressing himself to the "Business Climate of the Seventies" and looking first at the bleak side of the current picture, Marv ticked off 16 items ranging from the population and ecological crises and the gross racial inequities to the liquidity crisis in enterprise and the stubbornness of the current economic stagnation—and alongside of these set down a few positive countervailing points. The main burden of his speech was "Moses Chandler's ten commandments of consumerism" (No. 1: Thou shalt not deceive thy customers; No. 10: Thou shalt exalt the importance of the individual). We hope Mark Short, to whom we are forwarding the text, will be able to carry a fuller precis in his newsletter.

Bill Morton, who kept his post as chief executive officer of Equitable Securities, Morton & Co. when (like the Chinese absorbing their conquerors) he became president of American Express two years back, has resigned the investment banking subsidiary spot. Nate Pearson, vice president of T. Mellon and Sons, keeps getting elected to divers boards of directors, the latest being that of the Mellon National Bank and Trust Company of Pittsburgh. Others include the boards of educational television station WQED and the National Institute of Public Affairs in Washington, D. C.

Milt Alpert, who carried on as Judge of the New York State Court of Claims at Albany and other circuit locations, was recently appointed by Governor Rockefeller to the Temporary State Commission on Eminent Domain. He and-Lil vacationed in Japan and Hong Kong, are happy now to have daughter Helen and husband nearby, while son Bruce '69 is in his second year at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Milt is on the executive committee of the Dartmouth Club of Eastern New York and, we gather, was one of the 9-to-3 majority calling for a slowdown on any decision to make the College coeducational.

The balance of this column is devoted to the (more or less) retireds. Thus a clip from the Albany Times-Union informs that Bill Bennett, having stepped down from the administrative sales managership of the Norton Company after 30 years with that organization, has joined the sales staff of O'Connor-Sullivan, Inc., realtors. Sid Alexander reiterates from Clearwater, Fla.: "Enjoying every minute of my 'early retirement' and recommend it highly to all who have varied interests and a young outlook. All '32ers welcome!" And Hank Barber, also from Florida: "Listed in Miami phone book. Would love to hear from any classmates visiting or living in Miami. Golfing, fishing, traveling—much better than working."

Ted Ellis is a new Floridian: "After 31 years with Sears Roebuck, finally retired, gave up our home in Long Island, and purchased a place in Hollywood, Fla. Son Bob graduated from Ithaca College last year as a Phys. Ed. instructor; son Joe at school in Poughkeepsie; and my two daughters each presented us with a grandchild as retirement gifts. A big year!"

From the opposite corner of the land Al Boncutter writes of a 5-week European fall tour, and plans for a couple of months in Mexico come winter. John Chesterman is still living in New Providence, N. J., but before the year is out will be retired after 37 years with the Bell System (N. J. Bell, Bell Labs, and presently AT&T), at which time he and bride will move to the home they are building in the seacoast area of New Hampshire, near Exeter. There they plan to tend a 40-acre woodlot, grow things, feed wild birds, and generally rusticate.

And Ed Eichler makes a further report from the Pacific Coast: "We've been Californians for four years and enjoying every moment. Not doing anything monumental but with a little list of picayune ventures I keep as busy as I want. Gave up golf and now gung-ho about tennis which helps neutralize my evening martinis. About to start Spanish lessons so as to keep up with my numerous friends south of the nearby border in San Diego. We're living midst oranges near Del Mar in the sticks, neighbors to coyotes. I feel most secure now that a Dartmouth guy, Ed Miller '47 is D. A. of San Diego County."

The First Annual Dartmouth Alumni Ski Weekend will take place in Hanover March 6 and 7. Lodging at the Hanover Inn, two dinners, and two days of skiing at the Dartmouth Skiway can be had for the package price of $80 per couple, with proportionate reductions for singles and those wanting only one night's lodging. For reservations write Dennis A. Dinan, 203 Crosby Hall.

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