1938

HOME BODY. Intelligence about that eminent barrister of Babylon (N.Y.), Fred Becker, reveals that he has lived in the same house since 1920. How's that for resisting change! Beck notes that, in contrast, King Van Denberg has lived in seven homes on three continents. Beck and King lived off-campus with roommates DukeWales and Johnny Meyer for three years.

Beck, a veteran blue water sailor, had a hip replacement a while back. He walks well, but you won't see him on a deck much any moreat least not setting spinnaker.

Beck made a passing reference to RollyLindscott, but exactly what he said, while admissible, was illegible in the scribe's notes.

SMILIN' JACK. That soubriquet might call for an apology, except that John Smifiis still projects the image of a riant enthusiast. John had dinner with Vinnie Sherman in Vero Beach last winter. He reports that Sherm is teaching art at a local community college, painting murals, and playing some tennis.

John himself has retired from his practice of ophthalmology, plays doubles and swims a few times a week. Last May he married his late wife's sister-in-law, Mary Jane Arnold. It is assumed that his medical specialty ensures their seeing eye-to-eye.

WHAT THE HECK. Better, perhaps, what's Heck up to? Heck, of course, is CarlHecker, whose residence in Goffstown, N.H., lets him get to Hanover de temps en temps, as certain would-be bilinguals are wont to say.

Heck, who rowed on the first Dartmouth crew, is enjoying a hobby in crafty fashion with his wife. He's particularly involved in creating Shaker reproductions, which he mosdy distributes as gifts.

Class nepotism note: Heck's daughter Linda is a paralegal working for John McLean. Nice.

LONG TIME NO SEA. When last seen by the perpetrator of this column, whose fraternity brother he is, Jack Stevens was fussing over some piece of gear for the LCI he skippered. Sitting stolidly and determinedly alone, he seemed dwarfed by the immensity of Ten-Ten Dock in Pearl Harbor, to which he was moored—a picture made the more vivid and indelible by the fact that it was deadline time for slipping the moorings and heading westward on yet another lengthy sortie.

Mirabile dictu, talking to Jack, you'd have though the last conversation was only yesterday. Old soldiers may fade away, but old friendships and old memories endure.

A more up-to-date note: Jack, who lives in Stuart, Fla., is a near neighbor of PaulFeakins.

BETTER LATE, ETC. Squeezed out of the March column by material received earlier was a note from Terry Holleran. Terry, who retired in 1980 as Executive VP of MacMillan Bloedel after 35 years, reports that he married Miss Jones—Barbara, that is—in 1942, and they're still reading from the same sheet of music.

X MARKS THE SPOT. Francis X, that is, as in Reilly. Fran passed along a Harvard Law Bulletin, the contents of which included a view of Soviet law today as seen by Professor of Law Hal Bennan. Hal was one of fourteen scholars tapped to assess "The Legal Challenges of a New Era" in Central Europe and the U.S.S.R.

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