1953

The imperial sound of the Olympic-theme trumpets is still lingering in the air. What a fabulous and spectacular event the XIII Winter Olympics were. Surely, for most of us, the Games had lot of nostalgia. Would Jim McKay have done any less with Paul Bousquet at the Vale of Tempe or Gus Hullman on the golf course or Billy Beck at Suicide Six? And what about the fabulous ice show at Occom Pond under the overall direction of Dick Loewenthal when Dick Button himself crowned the Carnival Queen? This year we thrilled to the inspired hockey team, but can you remember when the 1948 Dartmouth Olympic team came back each year for the alumni game and we savored the skill of Riley, Riley, Desmond, and Thayer? We were well represented at Lake Placid. Bill Beck was the assistant chief of course for the downhill and Put Blodgett helped with the cross-country. Among others, JackPatten was in the cheering section.

In our summary of the fall football season, we overlooked the great party that Carol andDick Kochman gave after the Columbia game in their Riverside Drive apartment. At the party were: Bonnie and Dave Siegal, Dom Smith, Renee and Mike Zarin, Ted Merritt, Susan and John Corcoran, Sarah and Wally Ashnault, M. J. and Ed Wood, Father Gus McGuire, and Bob Morris and new bride.

The U.S. Postal Service is working on a plan to automatically sort letters right down to the route carrier's bag. The result would be a dramatic increase in productivity, faster delivery, and the ability to hold down costs and the price of a postage stamp. The key to doing this is to increase the zip code from the present five to nine digits. Getting America to make this switch is going to take a lot of selling. At first glance it seems to be very inconvenient. But the benefits should be staggering. Tom Dewey is the chief marketing man behind the plan. Tom has been with the Postal Service for ten years; this is far and away his biggest challenge.

Andy Sigler has been elected to the board of RCA Corporation. Andy continues to chair and serve as chief executive officer of the Champion International Corporation.

Had lunch at the Quincy Market in Boston with Larry Barnett back in January. He looks as dapper as always. I guess you can take the boy out of London but you can't take London out of the boy. Larry has been working in New York setting up an off-shore insurance company.

Bill Beutel visited his old stamping grounds here in Cleveland for a weekend. He still is anchoring the 6:00 p.m. news in New York for WABC. They are far and away #1 in the Nielsen ratings. While their thrust is primarily local news, they precede the network half-hour and give their own slant on the national and international news. Bill travels worldwide in order to give viewers a familiar face at a distant event. For example, last fall he traveled on the Papal plane as the Pope made his way through Ireland and the United States.

In February I was lucky to spend a weekend with Nancy and Fred Chase in Dunedin, Fla. Fred is an attorney in New Port Richey just to the north. He and his partner have a general law practice with lots of work in real estate. We had a great sail out in the Gulf. It wasn't exactly frost-biting, but don't believe all those posters you see with the blazing sun and sand.

Ran into Paul Paganucci at the Yale Club Dartmouth section in New York. Keeping the College's portifolio equal to, or ahead of, inflation requires a lot of work and Pag is on the road constantly. In February he and Bob Callender and their families all spent a week together in St. Martin's.

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