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The Story of College life In Brazil; From One Peter Adler,;Young German^
Emigrant Who Corresponds With Aggie Jake Wilk-A Vivid Contrast To A. & M
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Glenn Miller's Swingfests Polled
Most Popular With Collegians; Music
And Personality Is Winning Combination
“Daar Jaba.
“1 ban Just nttamad from tbroa
boon of practical work, tonaioting
In plowing on* of our ftelda, ond
boring takon a obowor both 1 bon
timo to aaowor your latter Many
thanka far your kind and interact
tba
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dot ha* up In. Upon flrot tight H ter* I
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walla aor ruga oa tba floor nor Unodi
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to atari a row wHh say af tbom 1
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awaoy giving Cngliab and Qsrmaa
laaoona to wmo of tbo fifteen por
(10 cento) which la nry littU ona
for Brasil wkar* wagoa aad tost
of living aro comporatinly low. I
am In a nry fortunate position aa
asarly aU of the agrteultoral hooka
la our library art tether English or
Froach, tboro dooan’t allot on# good
book about agricultural topic* la
Portuguese
-A apodal attraction af Uvraa
la a hunched motor, of paved stmt,
a nry ran comfort In tba interior
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FORD MLNNSRLYN
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PAUL MARTIN
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R. C. FRANKS
SIDNEY LOVELEfcS
WAYNE Dl RHAM
EUGENE HART
WESTERN
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FORD MUNNERLYN AND ASSOCIATES
JUNE 3,1940
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS ON BREAKING SEVERAL
RECORDS IN MAY. YOUR AGENCY HAD BIGGEST MONTH IN
ITS HISTORY, WAS LEADING AGENCY IN THE COMPANY
IN OUR FIfTEENTH ANNIVERSARY CAMPAIGN, AND
YOU HAD THE THREE LEADING PRODUCERS IN THIS
CAMPAIGN. YOUR RECORD HELPED THE COMPANY
REACH A NEW HIGH IN PRODUCTION FOR ONE MONTH.
BURKE BAKER, PRESIDENT
SEABOARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
SEABOARD
LIFE INSURENCE COMPANY
HOUSTON. TEXAS
Ford Munnerlyn, District Manager • Phoe College 235
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Confirming
ad. only wMb
college editor* recently wont
tbo polio for Billboard mag*,
aad voted Gtaun Mtllar’a aiubaa
tba moat popular band with An
tea's atelaglana
Glenn piled up a total full Ik
llama tbo tea* af hi* baaraat m
raratedBaum wraawsmud i*» dMm
ptewlsatf , eteWPful w'^™*vUU^»*U011 iul wvvte
Mold Mo bad a total nto af III
Uat yoar, to • oiatelar pall, Gtonn
netted oa* vote.
Tkte dooon't da anything to aetvo
tbo awing v* awoot
which avoryono has a theory Glenn
eon handle either; aa tba anly moral
to bo drawn from tba nttog la
that college people Ilka Gloria Mil
mth * I .
Naturally, they’re not alena
Long known aa a muaidan'i muai
clan, Millar had a groat tpputetmn
with the band men themdelvc be-
fore M Moonlight Serenade " made
the public Miller-conacrora
Glenn played la band* with mu-
aiciaaa Ilk* Tommy and Jimmy
Doraey, Bonny Goodman, Gena
Krupa and Bix Biederfaacka be
aut on kla own.
took him two trtea and thro* years
lara ho found th
Ua
Clartoda, Iowa,
m a Nebraska
r
Aa it dKhi’t mb) for about eight
week*, every oar make* a cloud of
duat ao that yoe can hardly breathe
"One of our American teacher*
here (we have three la all) la a
Mr. Wbeelock who teache. aoila,
and who .tudied at your acbool
One of hit former arhooi-mate* Is
Mr.Goodricb Jon*, whom perhap.
you know My greatoat wish i* to
visit th* United State*. One*, aa I
wrote ia my first letter, I waa en
rolled at the Uaivoraity of Califor
nia and was just ready to go there
when the war broke out and our
money supply stopped. If you know
a ate* girl wbo would like to aor-
respond with me, toll m* her ad-
dr***. Thanking you again for your
nine latter and hoping for a reply,
I am your friend,"
Pater
Mora, Glenn's m
atartod with kla high school band
and a mail-order tumhawa Bo-
twooa high acbool ond tbo Uahm»
ally of Colorado, Glenn put to n
yuur with Boyd Bontortt Orabia
tra to Daavur. This taste of tba
muter world affected him ao that
ho toft college after two years aisl
sat oat for California whore ho
joined Ben Pollack’s famous band.
After several yuan oa lbs e«.*t
ho went to Now York, working
with Pao! Ash, JUd Ntrhteo, Fred
dy Bleb, tba Dorsey Brother* and
Ray Nobla. He begaa to farm his *.
flrot bond while working ter Bay
Nobla, hooping an *y* out for am-
sictona whose work bo Ukod
While working for Ray Nphla,
Gtonn first kit on the instremeatal
arrangement which gives kla or.
ehostra Its character: tbo oaxotons*. 1
The saxotonao consist of a fiv#-a»aa
sax seettoa, in iteslf highly unos
u»L in which a clarinet takas tbs
lead, playing a full octavo above
the tenor sax, with the throe other
>ax*o filling oat the harmony
Strangely enough, "Moonlight Bar-
made,” the tune reoponaibto for his
Arte big aueceas, waa written by
Miller aa a trombone exercise th*
boys in th* bond liked H to well
that they talked him hate using It
for a tbaaaa.
At preaant Gtoan la touring tba
country, putting In prom apprar-
ancat at campus** where ba to
Number On* bandleader. Hia radio
aartoo, beard over Cft, continues
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thura-
day nights at lo 00 p. m., EDIT,
Cartwfflt Muilr Room h An IniftorUml
Form of Fm> KnlrrUiinmrnt Al A.&M.
af b 11111 I MeraMeearaeaweteoa
t Seaboard Life
Sets New Sales
Record During May
On# of lb* muai Impartanl
lib* grail, feem* nf •ntertainmeni
j tbot (ommor .tud*nt. ran enjoy
lb* Cemogi* Maair Hiiem. loeatad
on lb* top "steep" of th* Ce*htn4
Memorial library
Th* Carnegie Endowment, se
cured by the collegs in 1090, rep
resent* on* of the fineet roller
turns of records available The set
includes an electric phonograph
with an extension apeaker, more
than a thousand records, 900 book*
on music and musicians, and about
200 acoras on the various musical
works. The records cover the music
of all countries, all types of music,
and works of all the major and
many of th* lesser composer.. The
act includes complete symphonies,
five complete operas, and hundreds
of other musical worka.
During th* day the room is "free
for aU" During this time any per
son may remain in the music room
and play th* records. At night,
|! however, the music room must be
reserved This rule has been made
to enable persona to hoar their fa
vorlte selections without interfer
mg with another porson'a wishes
; There are three periods of reeer
; vatioa—from 7 until I o’clock,
from I until I, and from 9 until
110. Th* room may ha raaorvod by
signing tbo reservation list which
( is located at the main dank of the
library. Raaarvattou may b* mad*
only one week ahead af the Urns
that tb* room la to bo uaod
Th* music room, in tta present
[ mabeup, baa oatated sines Jan-
•ary* 1M7. Prattora to M»t Unto,
hawovar, thara had already *ital>
ad for aevorml years a wnatl eol
lection of th* ilbrartoa'a. T. P
May*, wbteb ha mods aveliabto to
| th* atudont body with hi*
phonograph.
Early In INI, at tbo auggoo-
tten of on* af tbo students (Bam
tom
•nan on* of tba Camofi* oote at
Oarnogto Tate la Pittoburg), Dr.
Mayo put la a request to tb* Car-
aogto Foundation of Aatertoo for
on* of thter oote. At first tbo ra-
queat was rafuoad on tb*
tlmt tbo Foundation bad hundreds
of roga—to xid onl F • frw onto
to gteo. However, after tbo Gar
nogio Foundation toaraod af tbo
eelioettea already existing In tba
library, a Carnagto ate waa im*
amd lately granted to tba
AJWKMirn k4i€ ' BrnFjfiW
baa ptoead a value on tb* sot of
IU00. thto petoo dose
apprante th* ooot af the
at ratoil valaa.
, AU records were broken in May
in the writing of new bualneas by
tb* sales organisation of tb* Sea
board Life Insurance Company of
Houston, according to Ford Mun-
norlyn, manager for the College
Station-Brytn district. Th# month
waa the beet in th* company'. 15-
year history. The salsa fore* for
tb* (hatrict also hung up a new
record in May, writing more buoi-
mm than in any singto month .to
the IS year, of the agency's his
tory
"But what I am proudest of to
the record of some of my men,"
continued Mr. Munnerlyn. "Sid
ney Loveless, who graduated from
A. and M in 1931 and was quite
an outstanding atudont. hove prov
en himself even more outstanding
in his hu.iness lift, for ba was tba
biggest producer in tb* company's
biggest month By hto work In
May be became a member of tb*
Seaboard's Half Million Gab."
Mr Munnerlyn then went on to
tell about Paul Martin, wbo grad
uated from A. and M. jate a yoar
ago and Johted the lea board’*
organisation a month later and
who won tb* company's iftth an-
nlversary prta* for bis reeerd to
paid buatoeaa far the month.
Ford Munnerlyn, himaalf, waa
th* third high man to tb* oom.
pafty for tb* month, landing all
other dldtrlat managers
Meraohnl Burjfees, newly appoint^
ad lean representative af Baabaard
Ufa Inauraae* Company far thto
territory, partkipatod to tba earn-
palgn and covered hto quota. Oth
er members of tb* agency revered
r quotas far tbo month and
helped In thto record production af
staff of
Mr. Munnorlyn also
tb* addition te tba agom
Wayne Durham, popular young bua-
ineos man. for whom bo predicts a
ifnt ruturw in uita n#U!
"W# nrtatoly - appreciate tba
tendid rapport gtora te aa by
our friend to College and to Bryan,"
“W* anted uat
tba record wo have bad
H ate ban for thter help "
A surrey shears 71 por rant of
U. 8. Collegians dtoappcov* of
ghost writing, It por oote drat