1938

WIE GAHTS! Up Lake Champlain way (Peru, N.Y.), where ice breakers are macho machines, not conversational gambits, Jim Cuffe has gone back to school. He's enrolled in a German class over at the University of Vermont in a commendable effort to keep up with his son. Jim said the ice on the lake was six to eight inches thick during mid-winter and the great white cold truly stalked abroad, you glad it's April?

FAIR WEATHER FRIEND. This is not meant in a pejorative sense. The label describes Paul Feakin's habits, not his character. An inmate of Stuart, Fla., Paul plays winter-time golf with Jack Stephens at the area's yacht and country club. He (they?) won the member/member tournament.

Summer time finds Paul still seeking the sun but eschewing the humidity, playing golf with erstwhile high school coach KarlSeidenstucker up in North Conway, N.H. It follows that a man of such exquisite taste and zestful appetite should also be involved with Meals-On-Wheels in his home community

FOLEY-O ... a page from the life of Boca Raton's Bob Foley. Enjoying good health and revving up for his 50th wedding anniversary in June, Bob is a five-out-of-seven-days golfer. When he's home, that is. The peripatetic Foley's overseas log includes entries from Europe, the Mediterranean, China, and Russia. In the latter he visited Leningrad or St. Petersburg or whatever designation the city now carries.

Just writing about such a confusing melange of exotic places and tongues caused your correspondent to file the following report extracted from his hurried recording of Bob's comments: "Sent Jim Chandler an (undecipherable) and (undecipherable) the Dekes went out with him as treasurer." Note: this information comes to you from Byeloldgreenwich. It is suggested that anyone seriously interested in an accurate translation contact Bob directly . ..

WHAT'S UP DOC? Plenty, if the good doctor in the case is Bill Mosenthal, which he is. Bill wasn't home when the long arm of this investigative reporter fell short of reaching him, but his charming sister-in-law, Bobbie Mosenthal, was a knowing-and-telling spokesperson. According to Bobbie, Bill is "working like a dog," engaged in activities enough to tax the metde and endurance of a brace of "normal" '38s at this stage of our mutual development. Harken... Bill has been 1) lecturing at the hospital in addition to putting in multiple hours there; 2) writing a book, tide as yet unknown; 3) fielding a stream of calls from well-wishing visitors to Hanover; and 4) geared, at long last, to take a decent vacation. He, Bobbie, her husband, and other members of Clan Mosenthal have targeted North Carolina's Pinehurst as their golfing Shangri La and, by now, have new golf stories to tell. Nice place to get teed off, anyway.

CITIZENS ALL. Dan Marshall has seen to it that you all have received your green cards. As good citizens you are requested to bypass the usual Texas return and use Old Greenwich instead. You will, won't you?

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