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TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 22, 1944 THE BATTALION PAGE 3 The Lowdown On Campus distractions By Alfred Jefferson Guion’s Wednesday and Thurs day offering is to be ‘‘White Car go”, starring Hedy Lamarr and Walter Pidgeon. As Tondelayo, the African siren, Hedy Lamarr does a good job of acting, but she looks just a little bit too made-up. The scene is laid in the jungle, where Hedy gets all the men to go crazy over her and kill each other. In the end she pays for her sins, though. The Lowdown: Nothing to go A. W. 0. L. over. Friday and Saturday Guion’s double feature will consist of “My Friend Flicka” and “Night In New Orleans.” “My Friend Flicka is just what a nine-year-old or a complete sentimentalist would go for. It is the unrealistic story of a horse, with no love interest, and not much of anything. Don’t let the posters kid you—it’s not the most wonder ful picture ever filmed. In fact, as far as yours truly is concerned, it rates among the lower five per cent. The second feature is just a “B” whose story is fairly interest ing. At least there is more to it than the biography oi a horse. The Lowdown: Why they always make a good book into a bad pic ture is more than we’ll ever know. This bill is strictly a time-waster. Today and Wednesday the Cam pus is showing “Swing Out the Blues” with Bob Haymes, Lynn Marrick and a number of specialty singers. This is unfairly good musi cal, but it’s not much in the way of a drama. Just a kind ot vaude- ville-the-screen production. The Lowdown: Not too bad, but don’t go if you expect much. Thursday and Friday’s picture will be “The Rains Came”, with Tyrone Power and Myrna Loy. This is a god screen adaptation of Louis Bromfield’s best-seller. Much Df the artistry in the book is pre fer CORSAGES Just Phone 2-2400 WYATT’S FLOWER SHOP Corner Main and 26th BRYAN We Deliver served in the show, and it really is worth seeing. The story is set in India, in the midst of one of the many famines which occur there. It is mainly a love story. The Lowdown: Very good; every one will like it. —BACKWASH— (Continued from Page 2) and she just loves Aggies. Is the breeze shifting to the north ? If it is the sailing toward the Gulf will be easier. Course it will be harder to get back to A. & M. but who particularly cares about getting back. The important thing is to get away in time to get the little ladies on the line. There are tales that can never be told, in print, about the week end. Deep deep are they buried in the cellars of old A. & M. An author is the queerest animal in the world. Why? His tale comes out of his head. Lovelies next weekend T1RESHMAN report that they J; are going to flood the campus with luscious ladies this weekend for the SeconO Regimental Ball. Only comment on this flood condi tion is that it has been pretty dry around here and the atmos phere right now is definitely ab sorbent. Best man wins A race to the finish started this morning when three boys each de cided that his own whiskers were more manly than those of the other two. Bill Daily, Marc Smith, and Joe Wall are planing to spend all their spare time between now and Friday cultivating the scratch growth around the chin. May the best “ape” win. Overseas report Lt. Clifford Estes, ’44, is in.Eng land recovering from a wound re ceived in France since the begin ning of the invasion. Cliff is re membered as the curly headed guy who was second in command of the Infantry Band a few semesters back. —DORMS— (Continued from page 1) be assessed with all guests vacat ing their rooms by 11:30 a.m. Sun day morning. Fletcher Henderson, prominent Negro bandleader, and his orches- ter will be on hand to furnish music for both the Second Regimental Ball Friday night and the All-Serv ice Dance the following evening in the Grove. Labeled “The King of all ar rangers”, Henderson attained his present following after working in the capacity of Benny Goodman’s arranger for several years. Hen derson is often given much of the credit for Goodman’s current pop ularity and his title of “The king of Swing.” Having played at many of the more popular night clubs in the last, Henderson is a familiar fig ure on the bandstand to thousands ' and recently furnished the music- Aggie Marines Win Rifle, Field Honors What’s Your I. Q? Recent honors have been won by two former A. and M. students, Marine Corporal Robert 0. Ayres, Jr., ’43, and Marine Private Lionel Harris Wheeler, ’38. Cpl. Ayers, after performing a tour of duty on Guadalcanal and at New Zealand, has been stationed at Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, Cal ifornia, as an instructor in field wire communications. At this base he recently received the promotion to his present rank. Pvt. Wheeler fired a 328 out of a possible 340 at the Marine rifle range at Camp Pendleton, while in “boot” training. A score of 306 en titled a Marine to an expert rating. for the Yale University Junior Prom. George Floyd handles the vocals with Henderson’s orchestra, having been acquired by the band at a birthday party given for Duke Ellington where he sang “just for fun”. This is Henderson’s second at tempt in the musical field, having given up a previous orchestra to devote his entire time to arrang ing for Benny Goodman. —DONATIONS— (Continued from page 1) amino acids and the values of pro teins are measured by the kinds and amounts of amino acids pres ent. The American Meat Institute, realizing that meat and meat prod ucts are an important source of food and feed, recognizes the need for increasing knowledge of the different kinds and amounts of amino acids in meat. Dr. Lyman and his associates re cently have developed a new meth od of assaying the amino acids in foodstuffs, including meats, which method has come to the attention of some 85 leading laboratories in this country and in Canada. This method, it is believed, will greatly facilitate the study of amino acids in foodstuffs and ultimately enable better evaluations of these differ ent kinds of protein. Launching a campaign for the Lower Rio Grande Valley to assist in financing its own agricultural research program, and acknowl edging appreciation for services rendered by the A. & M. Experi ment substation at Weslaco in es tablishment and development of the 23,000-acre farm and orchard projects of Rio Farms, Inc., at Ed- couch, R. B. McLeaish, chairman of the corporation’s board of di rectors, has sent a check for $5,000 to W. H. Friend, substation super intendent, placing no restriction on its use other than for agricultural research in the valley area. Mr. McLeaish is a member of the committee appointed recently by the Valley Planning Commis sion to secure more adequate fi nancial assistance for agricultural research agencies serving that re gion. Benjamin Franklin willed 100 pounds to provide silver medals for outstanding boy scholars in Boston. About 30 medals a. year are awarded, and since 1793 ap proximately 4500 have been re ceived by Boston youths. Questions of the type given be low will be submitted weekly by some member of the college facul ty to test your intelligence, com mon sense, and ability to think clearly. This week’s set of ques tions was submitted by Dr. F. M. Smith, assistant professor in the college chemistry department. Each question is worth ten points. A score of 90 or above is a superior rating, from 70 to 80 is above average, 50 to 60 is fair, Aggie Exes Active In Italy, Pacific Two former students have had thrilling experiences in their com bat missions. In the Italian Theater, 1st Lt. Rudolph L. Kubin, ’44, a P-40 Warhawk pilot, had one of his closest calls at th height of the campaign that took Rome when an aileron was shot away by flak. Lt. Kubin managed to bring his rugged P-40 back to base safe ly- After flying as an air observer through severe Jap anti-aircraft low levels during the invasions of both Saipan and Guam, including one forced landing on the cap tured Jap airfield at Saipan Marine Major Robert E. Collier, ’39, has recently landed safely on the newly captured Orote Peninsula airfield. Normally a ground officer, Maj or Collier was assigned air ob server’s duties for the recent in vasion of the Marianas Islands. During the Saipan assault, with only five gallons of gas left in the plane, he was forced to make an emergency landing on the littered field. Over strong Jap defenses and through enemy anti-aircraft fire, Major Collier flew over the Guam beachead for nine hours on D-Day. 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