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Last week's regimental dinner paid fitting tribute to a man we midshipmen met at Lido Beach, and a man who holds something more than our respect, Lt. Commander Salmon. He was both an inspirational commanding officer and a gentleman. If your men were your commanding officer, Sir, they would say, as you so often have, "Well done." Smooth sailing, and good luck from the youngest of your past commands...
Because New Year's Eve was his boss's night off, a copydesk assistant named D. L. Whitehurst was in charge of putting the Palm Beach Post-Times to bed. Instead of merely editing the last-minute news, he felt like making some of his own. He banged out a 650-word article and slapped it on Page One. Sample: "Half-drunk women heard their drunker men tell why this bloody mess, so far, far away would be over before another New Year. . . . They had been in combat-with their draft boards. . . . They had their stripes-deferment stripes...
From Long Island to Long Beach, hundreds of big & little campaigns to raise money for the public welfare got under way last week. As usual, whole-souled armies of volunteers were doing local bell-ringing, buttonholing footwork. And as usual, many of the amateurs were being guided from afar. The guide: one of the dozen or so professional fund-raising firms whose business it is to put system into benevolence...
...staff of the '46 Album includes: Daniel P. S. Paul '46, of Adams House and Daytona Beach, Florida, Chairman; Walter Amory '46, of the NROTC and Needham, Financial Vice-Chairman; Gordon P. Baird '46, of Adams House and Delaplane, Virginia, Literary Vice-Chairman; and Russell K. Headley '46, of the V-12 and St. Paul, Minnesota, Photographic Vice-Chairman...
Died. Mrs. H. H. A. (Amy Marcy Cheney) Beach, 77, composer, pride of U.S. women's clubs, famed for such easily negotiable glee-club melodies as Ah, Love, but a Day, The Year's at the Spring, first woman composer to have a work per formed by the N. Y. Symphony (in 1892); of heart ailment; in Manhattan...