1929

Charley Dudley sent a clip from the Boston Globe on Joe Losey's return to Hollywood after his blacklisting that followed the post-war Red hunt. Joe refused to declare his political beliefs or to name his associates in several causes. He went to England where, in 1952, he was "hired to direct hundreds of horrible television shows." The Associated Press described him as a "big, shambling man with ample girth and a face that reflects 71 years of good times and bad." You're in the club, Joe! They added, "The personal triumph of Losey's return was total." The Dudleys and the Bill Magenaus are now off on another trip.

Gene Davis had a fine report last fall from Joe Ruff in Pasadena. He wrote, "After knock- ing around in insurance, selling, and my father's hardware business, I found myself at 40, married, with two kids and no job. A stroke of good fortune got me in the retail lamp and shade business, and since then life has been a bit of paradise for me I can't imagine anyone being any happier. I play golf several times a week to a 16 handicap, work out at the local Y, and my health is wonderful. I do a lot of custom work making things into lamp-like bases . . . a real shrunken head, a camel's stomach, etc. . . . hope I never have to retire."

Last November 21, the Berlin, N.H., Reporter announced the retirement of Art Bergeron, and the mayor declared it Art Bergeron Week. While still at Dartmouth Art set up a real estate deal that paid his way into Harvard Law School. He's been mayor and city and county counselor for Berlin. The Reporter called Art "a cherished citizen who will always be working behind the scene somewhere trying to make something good happen."

Notes of the same vintage have Perley Perkins playing and occasionally teaching squash at Salem, Mass., State College gym and having fun; Jeff and Gena Stearns still glowing from the 50th and planning a 50th wedding an- niversary cruise in January; and our old room- mate, Jack Boyle, in his Dekalb, 111., law office completely out of touch with Hanover and his old associates.

Bill Sykes reported that he's a resident of Harbour Island in the Bahamas and spends several weeks each summer in Duxbury, Mass. They've been down the Nile and hoped to go this winter to LaPaz, Bolivia, where their oldest daughter lives.

This really cleans out my reserve of notes. How about your reaction to this outburst?

Fornication and perversion now elicit no aversion. Though they tell us we should use some kinder words. Yet when we're a bit romantic about In- dians, they're frantic. This, to some of us, is strictly for the birds. Perhaps they'll laugh at all this stuff When, later, they grow up enough.

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