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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1942)
X I .! * ; & ■ jk» imS* • y T li / * If : f •! I . I 1 I * 1 . - I • ' i ; j J ^ DR. HYCKUP AND MR. JIYE li - X j! pure. Pat ignored the two, thinlc- T ing them too drunk to ] her. ± “I hate women,” said Jimmi with false disgust, and continue to sing like a bachelor in a bat tub. jT: “I hate ’em too,” agreed Ji mie with like disgust, “but sht might be different.” -At this Jimmie feigned disr giist and even stopped singing but he couldn’t stop hiccuping. Johnnie walked and him to the dorm* On the stoop, at twelve O’clock 01 day night Is no place to begin lesson in oratory, but Jimmie decided they needed a mental “toast” to take their rpinds of^ women. He raised his Voice to a miraculous pitch and Quoted: \ “Here’s to-Hell: may the stay there be as gay as the way there!” f Abruptly ending his he passed out ,flat and Johnnie carried him off to bed, On Wednesday morning John-i nie had a class and Jimmie hadr headache. He recuperated a « 4 • * ’ quickly though, when he an swer fcd the phone in the hall and heard Pat’s voice. As it happen- ‘ ed she thought she was talking to me electrician and was so excited she didn’t know she was talking to Jimmie. Jimmie didn’t char ie her mindL I “C >me over quick,” she said, “my tubes need fixing—I’m missfng the ‘Early Birds’.? “O K.” answered Jimmie mis- Unde^standingly, and dashed off fbr Pat’s house, singing (but not hicciiping this time): “I ain’t no radio repair man, !por he radio repair man’s son. ' brut ! can test your set, till the rad id repair man comes.” ’ Jui t as he finished his lyric Pat c >ened the door and in walk- J ximie without a word and th< ut breaking his step. On inside of the room he stop- \ ] ■ T i trouble?” he asked answered Pat. “Can you . .. * t r Without a word Jimmie began wqrk on her set (radio). Now >11 nie, have you ever seen a Vet from \ -z 13 student who could fig but a case of the “heaves?” Well, Jimmies’ gbllity didn’t trouble him. In fact nothing troubled Jimmie. He went to work with a zest that would flatter any E. E. man. “Your tubes are all right,” Jimmie said with a sly grin. “Please hurry!” Then, with nervous generosity which the love-sick Jimmie did not see through, can’t keep you here much longer; you have to go to a class, I know/* “Your condensers look good, too,” Jimmie speculated disre garding Pat Then his finger touched a little bit of innocent looking wire and the radio gave out with ” . . . for that school girl complexion.” “All’s well!” cried Jimmie hap pily. , . - ' j “Oh, good!” exclaimed Pat with a glorious sigh, “Now scat!” But Jimmie wasn’t to be brushed off like that, so . he placed himself in the most com fortable chair he could find, and continued to examine her tubes? >T f FRESHMEN! HERE IS YOl'R STOR Regulation... KHAKI SLACKS TRENCH cbATS j j • SHIRTS. SOCKS. | \ TIES. BELTS. CAPS ■: COLLAR ORNAMENTS^ COVERALLS . ' • 1 • -X 1! M _ h Everything. An Aggie Nevds-—AtfFair Prices Aggieland’s Favorite “In Old Y” For Over 20 Years We Have Served the Aggies With the Best.... ! -V atches On Shirts free; I ■ We Sew Patel r AGGIE CLOTHE North G^te 22 Eats i Drinks r Smokes r X THE BATTALION