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Edwin R. Daniels
Senior Social Secretary
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Senior Class President
Jimmy Demopulos
Longhorn Corps Editor
Joe Coddou
Corps Adjutant
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Infantry Regimental Commander
Allen Self
Battalion Corps Editor
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VOLUME 46
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1946
Don't Worry About That 'C' Quiz
Just Look at Date and Then Pray!
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Did you have a ma
jor quiz today? Well,
quit worrying about
it. Today is Friday
the thirteenth, and
you never heard of
anybody busting a
quiz on such a lucky
day, did you? Or did
you?
Once upon a time
Friday the thirteenth
was looked upon as a
day of woe, when it
was considered safest
not to leave the
house. This was a
medieval superstition,
based on the “facts”
that Friday was the
witches’ Sabbath, and
thirteen an unlucky number, and the combination was to be feared.
If a foolhardy peasant tried to work, but slipped and broke his leg,
his neighbor said, in true medieval language, “He should have stood
in bed.”
But Texans have refused to be bound by any such “old wives’
tales.” In the days of the roaring frontier, Friday the thirteenth
was a good day to plunk silver dollars on the poker table in hope of
huge winnings. Of course, if it did turn out to be your lucky day, it
had to be somebody else’s bad luck day. But what the heck . . .
So quit worrying about that quiz. If you busted it, blame your bad
luck on the date. And don’t swell up if you queered out, either. Give
the date the credit!
Announcements For
Mid-Term Grads
All mid-term graduating seniors
who desire announcements must
place orders at the Student Ac
tivities Office not later than Tues
day, December 17th. Announce
ments must be paid for at the
time of placing the order.
Three types of announcements
are available. Orders may be
placed for paper-bound, leather-
bound or French-fold announce
ments in any combination. Per
sonal cards may be ordered at the
same time.
BAND WINS ALL-ROUND
FOOTBALL SIGN PRIZE
For producing the best all-
around display of football signs
for the conference games this
season, the combined band was
awarded the cash prize of $25,
offered by J. E. Loupot.
In six conference games, the
band has won a first, second,
third, two sixths, and a tenth
place.
Signs were judged before
each game and results posted
weekly.
Rubinoff and His Magic Violin
Perform in Bryan Sunday at 3
Music lovers of Bryan, College
Station and area will remember
enjoying one of the finest treats
of their lives in October of last
year when Rubinoff and his violin
appeared on Town Hall.
They will once again be granted
the privilege of seeing and hearing
one of America’s outstanding vio
linists in person, when Rubinoff
will appear on the stage of Step
hen F. Austin High School in Bry
an Sunday afternoon, December
15, at 3 o’clock, under the sponsor
ship of the Bryan Junior Chamber
of Commerce. High spot of next
Sunday’s performance will be Rub-
inoff’s presentation of his own vio
lin arrangement of .Chopin’s “Polo
naise.”
When Chopin, moved to the
depths of his soul by the treachery
and tyranny confronting his na
tive Poland, wrote the immortal
Polonaise, his brilliant technique
was limited to the keyboard of his
piano, but music fans of this vi
cinity will hear the Polonaise not
as a piano solo, but for the first
time as a violin interpretation.
Rubinoff, who graduated from
the Warsaw conservatory at the
age of fourteen, knows Poland—
knows deeply the Poland which
Chopin set to music. Now with
the rendition of the Polonaise as
a violin solo, Rubinoff fulfills a
promise made many years ago to
the dean of all American music—
a pledge made as a child to the
immortal Victor Herbert. Discov
ered by the brilliant American
composer in Warsaw, Rubinoff
was brought to this country by
Herbert. Earlier at the Warsaw
conservatory the young prodigy,
Rubinoff, sat with Victor Herbert
as they listened to a great pianist
of that day render the stirring
Polonaise. “Some day,” Rubinoff
said to his older companion, “I
shall write a violin arrangement
of that composition.”
Years intervened and the great
Herbert passed away. Rubinoff
became a household name and
America learned that Rubinoff and
his violin were as much a part of
life as coffee and doughnuts. Ra
dio appearances, moving pictures,
nationwide concert tours—the ac
claim of millions and literally
thousands of renditions of the
world’s best loved music—but in
between times, in every free mo
ment, Rubinoff worked on his ar
rangement of the Polonaise. And
now, in this first full year of post
war peace when once again ty
ranny and aggression have been
stamped out by freedom, Rubinoff
and his violin give to America
the fulfillment of that promise
made many years ago—the Polo
naise with all the warmth and hu
man expression of the artist and
his $100,000 Stradivarrius.
Music critics throughout the
country, who have heard a pi^-
concert rendition of the Rubinoff
arrangement have been simply
elaborate in their unanimous praise
and admiration. One well-known
Metropolitan reviewer wrote: “In
a spirit of humbleness I relived
the Chopin Polonaise. It is re
grettable only that the great com
poser himself with his own inti
mates—Franz List, George Sands
and other contempoi’aries, could
not have been present last night.”
Reception of the Polonaise as a
violin solo has been equalled only
by the maestro’s current feature
number of his concert—his own
arangement, also for the first time
in history as a violin solo, of the
Warsaw Concerto.
General admission tickets are
selling for $1.20, while the reser
ved seats cost $1.80.
Bond Election for
College Station
Slated for Dec. 17
Approval by the state fire in
surance commission of plans for
extending the water distribution
system of the city of College Sta
tion, pending passage of a bond
issue to finance the work, has
been received, it was announced
December 11 by City Manager F.
A. Vaughn.
Funds for the water system im
provements are part of a $100,000
bond issue to be voted upon by
property-owners of College Sta
tion next Tuesday, December 17,
Vaughn said. The ballot will also
include issuance of bonds for sew
age and electrical system improve
ments.
The new waterworks plans in
clude laying of 6-inch mains, with
necessary valves and fire hydrants,
to bring practically the entire city
within the maximum fire protec
tion area, Vaughn said.
Absentee ballots are available
at the city office in the Southside
Market building, Vaughn said, add
ing that the ballots must be re
turned no later than midnight De
cember 14.
Polling places will be open from
8 a. m. to 7 p. m. December 17.
The polling places are: Ward 1,
Southside Market building; Ward
2, Luke’s Grocery building; Ward
3, Waldrop building at North
Gate.
Economics Club to
Hear Dies Tuesday
Former Congressman Martin
Dies, of ‘Dies Committee’ fame,
has been announced as the guest
speaker for the Economics Club’s
December meeting, according to
Bill Murphy, club president. Dies
will speak on “Un-American Ac
tivity As It Pertains to Govern
mental Economy,” a subject on
which he is especially qualified to
speak.
Acclaimed as one of the finest
speakers and orators of the nation,
Dies promises to be the biggest
drawing card on the club’s sche
dule of outstanding speakers in
the field of economics.
“All students, wives, and visit
ors are invited to hear Dies Tues
day night, December 17, at 7:30
p. m. in the Geology lecture room,’’
Murphy said.
A dinner will be held for Dies
at the Aggieland Inn preceding
the meeting with the club officers
and the Economic Department as
hosts.
January Graduates
Say 'No Exercises'
Seniors graduating in January
voted overwhelmingly not to have
graduation exercises, in a meeting
Tuesday night, December 10. Sid
Smith, president of the Veterans
Club, presided over the discussion.
He also announced that graduating
seniors do not have to take final
examinations, according to word
received from Dean F. C. Bolton.
Diplomas will be mailed to sen
ior's at the end of the current se
mester. Those January graduates
desiring to take part, in Commen
cement exercises may do so in
May, provided this is acceptable
to the College officials. “An
nouncement on this will come la
ter,” added Smith.
EL PASO HOLIDAY BALL
SLATED DECEMBER 23RD
On December 23, ex-students
from El Paso are sponsoring a
Christmas dance at the Cortez Ho
tel for the El Paso A. & M. Club.
Howard Derrick, president of
the club, urges all members to be
present December 18 to discuss
plans.
COL. ORA JASON COHEE,
who will appear as the guest
speaker of the Interfaith meet
ing, sponsored jointly by the
Y M C A and A. & M. Hillel
Foundation Sunday afternoon,
December 15, at 3:30 p. m.
Three-day Regional
Hillel Conference .
Begins Here Today
A regional conference of Hillel
units of the Southwest, with Texas
A. & M. as host, will be held on
the campus, beginning this even
ing and ending Sunday afternoon.
Each foundation will be represen
ted by five delegates, but as many
visitors as wish may come.
The course of events has been
planned for that time, according
See HILLEL, Page 4
Scenes from "The Male Animal"
Number 20
Veteran’s Council
Names Telephone,
Library Committee
The board of representatives and
members of the student council
met with the officers of the Vet
eran Students Association for a
get together, Wednesday evening
at 7:30 in the west end of Sbisa
dining hall.
President Sid Smith told the
gathering that* the next general
meeting of the Veteran Association
would be the first week of Jan
uary, probably on Monday, Janu
ary 6. He said that news of the
meeting was difficult to pass a-
round and that programs in the
future would feature entertain
ment. Since a number of the of
ficers will graduate in January,
Smith stated that a committee will
be chosen to arrange for an elec
tion of new officers next semester.
From the board of representa
tives, R. P. Sanders, R. G. Shear
er, and Sam Williams were desig
nated as a membership committee,
whose job it will be to arrange
for new members to the Associa
tion this next semester. Plans
call for membership cards to be
sold on registration day and be
fore entertainments that are
planned for the coming year.
A n entertainment committee,
consisting of R. A. Poison, S. E.
Hood, and R. E. Costellow was
formed, and they will make pre
liminary arrangements for the
dances to be held this next year
and will turn their plans over to
the incoming vice-president for
next semester.
The question arose, that the li-
See VETERANS, Page 4
Committee Names First Seven of Twenty
Corps Nominees, Veterans Allotted Ten
The first seven of twenty nominees for “Who’s Who
at A. & M.” were selected by the Student Life Committee
following recommendations made to them by a sub-commit
tee of cadets. The choices were made on the basis of lead
ership, extracurricular activities, and scholarship. Each
was required to have a grade point average of at least 1.5,
unless conspicious achievement in the other two fields meri
ted selection.
A sub-committee of veterans are now in the process
of choosing from among the veterans ten students for ap
pointment to ‘Who’s Who’.
Pictures of later selections will be run in The Battalion
as announced by the Student Life Committee.
Drum & Bugle Corps
Organized by Band
According to Cadet Major Phil
ip Kosub, drum major of the com
bined band, the Texas A. & M.
Drum and Bugle Corps was or
ganized Thursday night, December
5.
Kosub stated that each morning
the Drum and Bugle Corps will
march through the New Area at
6 o’clock after the firing of the
75 mm. cannon. At noon mess
formation they will be stationed in
front of Duncan Hall and play
bugle march music.
The Drum and Bugle Corps is
composed of two groups of ten
men each, consisting of six buglers
and four drummers, taken from
the Infantry and Field Artillery
Bands.
CHRISTMAS WRAPPING
SERVICE FREE AT “Y”
Commencing tomorrow morn
ing, the YMCA is offering free
wrapping service of Christmas
packages, both for shipping and
for carrying, M. L. Cashion has
announced.
The Veterans’ Wives Club is
cooperating in this respect, add
ing the artistic touch on each
article that is wrapped. All
wrapping materials will be fur
nished by the YMCA, and the
service will be available throug-
out next week.
Aggieland Orch to
Play for Tomorrow
Night’s Annex Ball
A. & M.’s Aggieland Orchestra,
under the direction of Bill Turner,
will play for the Annex Veterans’
Club dance, to be held at the Stu
dent Center at Bryan Field tomor
row night. Dancing will be from
8:30 to 12:30. The previously an-
noi(nced all-girl orchestra from
Sam Houston State Teachers Col
lege is unable to make the date.
The Student Center will be ex
tensively decorated with a Christ
mas motif, and judging from com
ments on the last veterans’ dance
at the annex, this promises to be
one of the main social events of
the semester.
John W. Laufenberg, president
of the annex club, announced that
only 300 tickets will be sold, due
to the limited dance floor. It was
also made known that plans were
made to house any week-end guests
at the annex. “Although the vet
erans are sponsoring this dance,”
said Laufenberg, “it is open to
both the Corps and veterans.”
Admission for the affair is $1.20
couple or stag, blit no stag tickets
will be sold at the door. Only
those stags who have purchased
tickets during the advance sale
will be admitted.
Tentative plans call for enter
tainment during intermission. At
that, club officers will also be in
troduced.
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“The Male Animal”, which is being presented by The Aggie Players for the last time tonight and tomorrow night at 8:15 p. m. Under
the direction of Art W. Angrist of the English Department, the three-act comedy is playing in the Assembly Hall.
UPPER LEFT: “Nutsy” Miller (Harry L. Taylor), Ed Keller (Frank Camp), and Myrtle Keller (Will Beth Stephens), in Professor
Turner’s living room.
LOWER LEFT: Dean and Mrs. Frederick Damon (Jimmy McKenzie and Jeanne Kernodle.
UPPER RIGHT: Patricia Stanley (Mamie Lee Jackson) and Cleota (Sybil Claire Banister).
LOWER RIGHT: Ellen Turner (Mary Frierson) and Michael Barnes (Milt Frenkel).
CENTER: Professor and Mrs. Tommy Turner (Bill Krause and Mary Frierson).