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Box 96 Green Valley, AZ 85622

A Down East newspaper interviewed our Fred Scribner not long ago and brought out a facet of his life that was news to me, as it will be to most of you. Aside from repeating that he is the "quintessential establishment lawyer," I'll skip their description of Fred, whom we all know pretty well. Most of the article is devoted to Fred's recollections of William J. Casey, late director of the CIA, and a partner of Fred's for eight years in the Washington law firm of Scribner, Casey and (Leonard) Hall.

Casey (the man, as distinguished from the chief spook) had many peculiarities which Fred found endearing. Casey was a tie-chewer, gnawing on the end of his necktie while talking. He was also a mumbler. When he mumbled and chewed at the same time it was almost impossible to understand him, a trait that infuriated many senators, who assumed that Casey was hiding something. Goldwater called him "Flapper Lips." He also had compulsions about telephones and second-hand bookstores. He couldn't pass a phone without stopping to make a call or a bookstore without buying an armful of books.

But Casey was a writer and historian and a brilliant tax lawyer. He authored a book on the battles of the Revolutionary War, as well as the best standard textbooks on tax law, which every tax lawyer and accountant considered the bibles of that field. Had Casey shown any particular interest in in- telligence work in those days? Only that he had worked for Donovan's OSS during WWII and maintained close contact with his associates of those days.

Hanoverian Burt Crandell attended the first basketball game at the new Berry Sports Center and found himself sitting next to Dartmouth's #1 athletic department enthusiast, Les Godwin. Responding to Burt's comment on the very comfortable seats, Les said they had been his gift to the Sports Center, adding that he wanted to do something for Dartmouth that he could alsoenjoy during his lifetime!

Burt reminded me that, at the request of Dave McLaughlin, Charlie Widmayer has taken over from Peter Smith the writing of a book on John S. Dickey.

Greetings.