1945

I do a lot of driving. And I've developed a habit of thinking while I'm driving. It does beat listening to country rock fade in and out on my car radio. Sometimes, particularly as I near a deadline, I get to thinking about this columnThere seems to be a sparsity of sensational 1945 headlines these days; I got to thinking that it might be a good idea to follow the lead of some suburban newspapers by leaving national an international news to the city sheets and departmentalizing. Things have been kind off ing that way anyhow. We've had copious news of educators in the past year or so and many a word of retirees and of their travels.

Our Retirement-Travel Section this features Ann and Hunt Bennett. Hunt as West Coast manager of Newsweek back in January of 1982 and promptly traveled to Hong Kong to investigate a business opportunity. nity. Then he and Ann took a 54-day cruise around South America as guest lecturers. Hunt describes this latter cruise as a "fine boondoggle indeed" and in the same breath (a little poetic license here) invites any '45s who happen to find themselves in San Francisco to give him a call.

Our Society Section has done quite well recently, as our sons and daughters negotiate marriages and fill our lives with the sunshine of grandchildren. This month's "social-note-from-all-over" comes from Allan Herrick in Greensboro, N.C., who reports that he meets monthly for lunch with Moose Rowan and other Dartmouth alumni. (With Moose? Every month!?)

Now we must have a Financial Section, where we can keep you updated on market information. For instance: Consumers Water (John W. L. White) 30½ bid, 31 asked; Figgie Corporation (Harry Figgie) 23⅞, up ⅜; Nabisco-Standard (Bob Schaeberle) 34½, up ½. What I need now is a list of all you corporate presidents, c.e.o.'s, c.o.o.'s, c.f.o.'s, and c.o.b.'s; and I'll get your company listed in our column P.D.Q. Well, perhaps not so very P.D.Q., as the above quotations are for, I think, last April Fool's Day (my usual leadtime complaint, you know). But I'm certain any '45 brokers worth their salt (and they all are) will tell you not to worry about the daily fluctuations of the market any investment program should be for the long haul.

And then there should be a Medical Section. We're getting to (or have arrived at) the age where we have plenty of aches and pains, and we have a goodly list of doctors to respond to our complaints even a couple on the executive committee. And speaking of that committee, I calculate there's about one-third of a ton of excess weight being carried around by its 34 members. (In true gentlemanly fashion I have excluded Trudy Butler.) But I should have let the whole thing go at that. Further calculations reveal that I am responsible for about five per cent of that extraneous blubber.

Perhaps we should skip the Medical Section.

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