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D. COTTLIEB &. CO.
1140-1150 N. KOSTNER AVE.
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CHICAGO, ILL.
FOR
MARCH
1941
PAC. NORTHWEST
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LOUIS KARNOFSKY
SEATTLE (RC) - Harper-Meggee, dis-
tributors for Victor and Bluebird records,
was a hot-bed of news last month. The
opening gun was fired with the announce-
ment that the firm's Portland office is open-
ing a record department. Personable Tom
Curry, ex-Seattle branch ace, and recently
H-M's wandering Rose City ambassador of
goodwill, takes over the managerial reins,
aided and abetted by Mrs. Maye Grinde, a
Seattle transferee.
Item No. 2 in the Harper-Meggee news-
reel: Marie Palmerton, eager-eyed business
college graduate, is annexed to the force.
Item 3: A parachutist was discovered
bailing out on the firm's roof-top, but on
closer scrutiny, it was found to be Danny
Cupid. He left his lethal mark with Don
Oakley, shipping clerk, and Beulah Holben
of the record set. Engagement announce-
ment followed.
Item 4: The firm's employees watched in
breathless suspense the photoflash finish be-
tween Danny Cupid, of Item 3 fame, and
the old boy with the white whiskers famil-
iarly known as Uncle Sam. Tom Cater, stock
clerk, woke up one morning and found he
was No. 349 on the call order of his local
draft board. Several months later, he ap-
peared for his physical exam. Unc Sam
slipped one arm around his shoulder and
gave him until February 24 to appeal the
board's decision. But Danny Cupid, chuck-
ling gleefully, slipped in with a Friday
punch, and Tom became a henedict on Feb-
ruary 21- with a full-fledged dependent
whispering sweet somethings in his ear. At
last reports, Unc Sam was beating a stra-
tegic retreat.
January was Blessed Event Month on the
Row and the offsprings were storked in such
profusion that we missed one in the shuffle.
It was a New Year Day Special, consigned
to Mrs. Fred Wolters. The red-headed papa
is Gardner Punchboard's Northwest repre-
sentative. The red-headed heir has been
christened Paul.
"Now let me tell you about my opera-
ti on . .. " These words are the quickest pre-
lude to inducing sleep th at have ever been
spoken, but when Mrs. Ron Pepple reels off
the details, sheer amazement sweeps bore-
dom aside. Here's a case history of Mrs.
Pepple's surgical: February 1 - gall blad-
der removed, a major operation. February
10 - dismissed from hospital. And a week
later conducting all her affairs in normal
manner, even to helping Hubby Ron at
Northwest Sales! Miraculous? We'll leave
it to you to pick a better word, if you can.
Dick Swapp would gladly swap his pres-
ent occupation for hi's old one. One of the
most popular route men to leave the phono
trail, Dick is an army private at Camp Mur-
ray, trying hard to fight off the waves of
phonograph nostalgia that assail him every
time he hears a strain of music.
A member of the B.P.O.E., C. J. Cassutt,
joined 100 other Elks from Seattle and
Portland for a special trip to San Fran-
cisco. While relaxation and pleasure were
keynotes, C. J. also had an ear to the
ground for the clinking of coins. He in-
stalled a Mills Four Bells in the buffet car
and turn ed his jaunt into a dividend-paying
affair.
COININGS ON THE CUFF - Michael
John Staed, age one month, is looking more
like th e old man every day; but Mrs. Bill
Staed is having a long, hard pull at Swed-
ish Hospital. . .. Fortunes of Frank Count-
ner continue to zoom upward. A couple of
months ago, a 1941 Ford pick-up was added
to the phono fleet ; this month it's a '41
Studebaker truck.
A quick flash from "Pulchritude, Inc.":
Stock in this corporation has plunged to
new low depths now that Belva Eckstrand
has resigned . . . . Bill Duggan, owner of
Puget Sound Amusemen t, is in Florida
building a hotel, while his ace lieutenant,
Clyde Newton, is in Seattle building sales
volume . . . . Things You Have to See to
Believe Department: Briz Crabtree, strictly
an on-the-wagon-man these days, imbibing
Coca Cola, while Johnny Michael, sitting a
few paces away, was sliding down cham-
pagne.
C. T. McKelvy, Seeburg's director of
sales, occupied top spot in the billing at
the 1941 phono showing early in March.
. . . A. F. McFee, the Wallace, Idaho, op,
has returned from a fortnight's stay at Hot
Springs, Mont., where he gave his rheuma-
tism a good boiling out .... The Hart Nov-
elty basketball five is such a flashy quintet
they are talkin g of entering it in the Na-
tional A.A.U. tournament. . .. Mrs. Bob
Farrell is recovering nicely after having an
obstreperous appendix removed.
The Bureau of Missing Persons, the
F.B.I. and the sheriff's bloodhounds beat
a futile path in their search for Buck
Weaver, Ken Shyvers' mechanic. A week
later, Buck walked into the office as ser'ene
as you please and wanted to know what the
furore was all about.
Dick Robinson, recently transferred from
Jack Moore's Spokane branch to handle the
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