TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 22, 1944
THE BATTALION
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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
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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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1. Which of the following states
has the largest population? Texas,
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachu
setts, Ohio.
2. Which of the following states
has the largest area? California,
Montana, Nebraska, Minnesota?
3. How many states are West,
in major part, of the Mississippi
River? 26, 20, 13, 22, 19.
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five “Civilized Tribes” settled in
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Choctaw, Creek, Cherokee.
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Paraffin, Turpentine, Naphtha,
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these is said to have a paraffin
base? Venezuela, Texas, Mexico,
Pennsylvania, Oklahoma.
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