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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1949)
!> NK Prlijii'iljh of * way iii ftr, \V ■ t t I 'i ■ V 1 1 ■ • . / I. )i ■ ■"! + ..i 1 .1 “mjost ous ^ newarfa ", ortd a pr4f6i eijffci ■j i iye ; . . coltrt wasji in| oka :v , 'tf year /j thyoui / to jCo/ui 1 Joieoh!: Prize Com ees Awards 1 / 4^1 w h •*-WW*4* PulUxer Hnivd to “Druth « imiMih Broud- luard >f Honor," Ifartimn air force / nanrod yestor- b* of Columbia -year-old Jamea the outstanding ind Arthur Mil- Rtandijng drama- ood rleceived an mate biography, lOpkinsj.” - mmittee decided :a State Journal rendered the d anq mentori ng the nation’s | ournal was hon- oiihg a presidential fiy. Jtin series by Mel on waterfront crime tne year’s outst&nd- f local reporting, veri for theJ32nd stablished in 1917 I $2,500,000 made New |York World ami the uIn Post-Diiiputch. Mb award of 1600 is given (if. the IM la’ch individual winner, and if $500 ■old plaque to the ] winning news 'll per, The drama award covers the ear from April 1, 1948, to April 1949, and all other awards are or the calendar year 1948. |! Tnd music award' went to Virgil Thomson, 52, music critic/tf the New Yo| k Herald Tribune/ior the Accompaniment to ‘‘Louisiana Story,” documentary film cln the drilling of an oil well in the Loui siana bayous. Lute Pease, 80-year-old cartoon ist and the oldest man ever to win a Pulitzer Prize in that field, was honored for a carthon in thei New ark (N. J.) Evening Newi. The cartoon showed a broken Window pane labelled “coal strike” With a lower line saying “|U. S. Economy.” A judge was shown pointing a finger at United Mine workeifs bossi John L. Lewis, whO was 3 asking in nocently, “Who met” Two newspapermen won prizes for the year’s best editorial^. The winners were John H. Crider, 43, Wversity by the late (editor-in-chief of the Bostorj Her-[a- collection of his! poems publish 3 i| former publisher 1 aid, and Herbert EHiston, 53, Eng-led in t» Mi nn-s thni* • In ju friV: 1950| ihd Bell; ‘ ™ to • thti ilk ti. It Vets instate NSLI DON’T llsh-born member (if the WMbing ton (0. C.) Post i toff. C. P. Trttatffll, the New York Times, rscslved $ »rl*e for sxcsl- lenco in covering the national scons from Washington. Price Day of the Baltimore Sun was honored for i series of ar ticles on India’s f rst year of in dependence, which was adjudged the best reporting km international affairs. The newspaper photography award went to Nathaniel Fein, of the New York Herald Tribune, for a picture of the late Babe Ruth. The picture, entitled “Babe Ruth Bows Out,” showed Ruth, bat in hand, as hf/was honored at the Yankee Stadi death. “The Disruption of American Democracy,” an historical study of the political crisis that led up to the Civil War, Roy Franklin Nidi ium shortly before his won a prize for ols, of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania. Peter Viereck, of Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., was honored for “Terror and Decorum,” error; his' r magazines. TH E HOKES ted in Phi Eta Sigma, a national freshman hon- These are the freshmen who were recently Initfa- Several sophomores who missed the first initiation were among the group initia ted. J. JB. Abbott is the society’s sponsor. 1 J- 6-^ r. Behind The Missing C urve I! disabled Veter- to reinstate 1 Service Life apply for new so by Jan. 1, ^ to J. R, Var- reproMentative Hrjifo’a Adminiiatra- Quiz Cramming Analyzed By Balt Research Technician m started w its session, IFw tion that All but o bills that i the session' business ci two fiscal ported by mittees. emosynary ]| hanging in committee. All \x>‘: ity as pfl lation and debate at Legislate to $5 a day day is the sion. The 120 days sessions an cut after e: iod. Chairman the House tee said he be able to «y bills earl partmenta) first cdnsii ; Among considerat was the S’ Council Bill; j> fer bf JuStt | j state a'neik the juvenil ' 'and has str port. . Wi : * r - «£S, i/ f>\ ik 1 \M tiill ihM jrtg fi’iijvA|jdi r fm y 'o mth Witlj || A jMU |rbt ltd fed •;Ve .erlnf it ww) i In . r - r ,tmstM i T I Thd eklttui.dai lev dehce tiuw ni( ;is his 5iishbij War II Veteran, disiihlt'if for In can not furnish! 1 health because he jehiiltlng from, or filtary service, ho National Hervlco apnly fora new |irneil said. 1 « !' as calngory must iatement or ftir for to January t, dng for new In ti oatimlfMitidn is icinstfiting, if the fs not as good as il'policy laiMed, he fical examination. By TRANK CUSHING I '• I Ai highly-enlightening report on 4tudy habits at A&M has just been completed by Dr. Egbert Est Seh- )oj, Eminent research authority, r. Scnnoop has been engaged for le past six months peering aboiit the campus and over shoulders of Studying individuals in an attempt to Bjet full information about meth ods of preparing for quizzes used by Aggies. |)r. Mchnonp Is sn expert on unrtivsflng seldom known and less cored about farts. Ills most recent work prior to coming to this school was done while he wss a msmbir of th# Kinsey learn. He was In complete chai'ie of tnllervlewlng Siamese twins dur ing this research, li> the Doctor's opinion there are several hroad eategorled Into which hin Ity tide liTilitiaiJ se 'is not Ipurposm.^ \pplic^itfs:fo:l iha \re hai^ajiciv jbetwOeh Uctlbbet itembk r 2,n9 i5, ! ^ai'nell' rif fo! •Tuesdays: tu d | office at Rooi it is to furnish >nly bar to health jesulting from ac- pice, and that he tied for insurance new' NSLI must military service 8, .1940, and. Sep- delusive. .the campus on hursdays in his 160, Bizzell Hall. Balloon Bungalow May Be Aid To Housing Problems By DAVE COSLETT Those oft-Chastised people who live in glass houses are finally get ting a break .Modern sbience has Come up with "a bungalow in which residents can heave the- fuiniture at each other if they feel so in clined. The omnicient wires of the Asso-] tain pressure in at least a dozen •dated Press have disclosed that j Radomes per day. For one, the a Buffalo, N. Y., firm is produc- 1 hot air would not be lost to the ing such a house under the name i four winds. “The Radome.'’ Made of “The Radome.'’ Made of fibre glas^ and rabberj the Radome is in reality a king-sized toy-balloon. Gone are the traditional timber and beams of the frame house. The new house is held up by air—held up well enough, in fact, that it will stand up under winds of 140 miles an hour. Originally developed by the Cor nell Aeronautical Laboratory, the Radome is being used by the Air Force to protect new radar eye equipment. The idea however, could be modified for movable private homes or for buildings like an ice skating rink. The house is half of a huge balloon 36 feet high and 53 feet in diameter, fastened to a con crete" base. Its walls are about as thick as this issue of The Battalion. Once it's inflated, a vaccuum cleaner pushing air in keeps it pumped up and ventilat ed. You enter and leave through an air lock. The pressure inside is less than that inside a child’s toy balloon. But a puncture wouldn't make this house explode. It would just col lapse slowly. If hit by shellfire, there would be rto wood or stones to full on m<m pr oquipnient. Oddly enough, Al’s Hal Boyle hasn't gotten around to elaborating on this subject, even though it of fers anmxing possibilities. In the first place, the new dwell- liig will atarjt a jivyw boom In tne vacuum cleaner salesman's busi ness, No longer ^lll be have to rely on his time-worn patter In order to sell otto of hit producta to a riductant house-wife. He can say that no house “can afford, to bo without one,” and actually be tell ing the truth. And no more professional politi cians will have to accept unemploy ment compensation after having lost their jobs as guardians of the public welfare. With their exper ience, they should be able to main- Walkup Elected To Head Methodist j Cleve Walkup was elected to head the Wesley Methodist Student Foundation at A&M for 1949-50 last Thursday bji the student board of stewards and committeemen. Other officers elected were Sam Barnes, vice chairman; Chuck Pic kens, secretary; Jody Damron, treasurer and Tbm Field, program chairman.. • ! Formal installation of officers will be held;at|the retreat on the Weekend of Mar '21, thei i to fa Nor The dwellings would not be feasible around A&M though. Drcwn-puts might be impossible, but the idea of detaching another outffit’s, hopse from its moorings would be too strong. Imagine waking up some morning, grab- binij some books, and rushing .out the door only to find that youjr house had been wafted by the; soft breezes of the night ar-off Siberia. r could junior be trusted with the jfamily scissors. A snip here, a sn p there—and before you know it, yjur house needs a retread. The Radome would prove an ob stacle to the age-old art of love too. Lost forever would be those lingering; moments on the front porc’i of the best girl’s house. In the irst place, there would be no fron porch. In. the second place, said girl would probably rush mad ly fiom the car, dive into the air lock, and slam a three-inch thick hatcli on your hands. Of poupc, you could always get every wljth a pneumatic shovel, or eveiyn king-sized straight pin. FI jmlljj comes the problem of furn ahinA your little cuehull-uhnli ed cdttiige. Where on earth would fha Ittiu woipnn find u place to tuiiiij mime gnrgeouH purple and give \ checked drapes, Ollier problems would douhl- less arise along Ibis ifna, Ami anollmr ol life's Hole pleasures am Id he lost to Hie ages. The neli 'hhofs would have to live , the r dilily lives unobserved by Am! Agatha, House to house television might solve this ptoh- lem No (jn|> ciln deny that Oils dy namic! world marches steadily on ward, Nothing seems Impossible nowadays. Men are conquering the air—oVeti to the point of Using it to hold Up their houses. Now, if they’ll oily find some way to use thp (lam stuff in place of food, all be ‘ ‘ through tossing In order ap- we’ll Mo rich. hey Missing In / Armored Truck Wreck FORT WORTH, Tex.—UP*—An armored truck loaded with money bags collided today With an auto mobile driven by Charles Fincher, §Om a / i The truck turned over. Fincher 1 mocked out of his car by the “ of [ the collision. money bags were recov- Bnd transferred to another nch^r wa: taken to the tkl-fwith his 1 billfold missing. It disappeared during the excite- all studying-students can be classi fied. Each group, he finds, has certain peculiarities which distin guishes it from the others. Thus, states Dr. Schnoop, an individual can be easily classified by his pre- paring-for-quiz technique. Being of a true scholarly nature, Di\ Sch noop has adopted Latin names for thi^se categories. His statistics oh the unusual quirks of each group reveals these faets. Grade I’oinius GrnhiiM; Schnoop finds that those of this category differ from the others In that they not only read the textbooks of tludr courses cnmpletely but that they conscientiously take lengthy iioits upon tin' Prof's lectures and rewrite or type them Immediately after class, Moreover, the I motor rcpotjts, these oddltins—frown upon cheallng, Bather than compose out* lines to he idlpped surreptitiously out when the prof's eyes mv-husy elsewhere, these fellows prefer >tn memorize or learn’ the fa eric Dr. Schnoop at first \ya* lead by circumstances to helK've that peo ple of this group suffered ti) a man from some unknown phobia. He was puZzled to find that they studied only with their window shades securely drawn. Ft rther in vestigation revealed; thoiigh, that these were only safety precautions to avoid the occupational disease common to those of the top grade brackets. Embittered students who were victims of the curv* system were not above shooting illuminated windows or bombs through open doors to make, the “normal cu proach a normal arc. Nextus Annus is the sec gory which was defined Doctor. This classification of those individuals who hope for the present but are stuff ed full bf confidence for the future. The general philosophy they ex press is that “ ... I ain’t got a chance In hell this semester but wait ’til next year; I’ll ring the bell for sure.” Since they give themselves no chances for the present semester their preparation for quizzes is extremely scant,.They use text books mainly for window-props and paper-weights. They arc careful to maintain the re-sale value of the textbook by avoiding getting them dirty through mar king passages or reading them. Toward the end of the semester they may leaf through the book hurriedly and pause for a minute to look at illustmtlotts hut gen erally they prefer to discard the hook In favor of a current issue of "Sunshine titul Health.” Notes taken by Individuals of this group ure somewhat incohoiv cnl, They usually contain brief senU'iicps which make no sense when/iki-mul, Dotglllnga domliiute every' puge with two or three cojn* doted games of tlc*tuo*lo mixed n. J . / ' I'rofns-t’ldclieniisj Dr. Hchndop f th * trustful of pl'o- rve and cate- by the consists hold no studying as a practice which only tightens up the inind ami body. Generally tlte Relaxus-Mor- phus browse ovjer the text while deciding what the ev«ning[H ac tivity should consist pf. One of the eve of the quiz they usually take in n movie nod follow it tip with a few broivs at one Of the local estulillsliipents. The draw back of this tyoe of qulx-pfepar- ntion that !>/, Schnoop points qut Is that too/oflela the subject be* comes too relaxed, Freqneully they pass Pul chid when the pro* lessor hands them their i|i|lss|*f, Cheatuin lllln|dns Js tluji fajit groPp Identified) by Dr, HriPibob, lie was of the opinion that I his jp indeed the hardest Working group of nil, Th < Doctor t aid Min! tlm Indlvldtiuls of ihU eluss si'Ulolji o to lied the n ght hefore In <|uIki hey '-i n'y UP’ til night cnri'yliig Indtlers to pud fro a lid using tlieiiT In ninklng a Necoiid-story ptlefiipt on thellr pyof's office. Whim not Mims h|ignged they work imtil dawn Inventing ingen ious methods, of secreting notes ubout. They are: easily recognized. Schnoop says, Mr they hnv« n ten dency to squint.‘This is because of the eyestrain tlnjy incur from rend ing at difficult tingles the scratchy handwriting of [their fellow, quiz- tak ng students. [Schnoop. finds jhat they alio differ [from the others in that they avoid i shaking hands or washing them dn quiz days. This is to prevent s fully written have placed thei'e. m ’axing Problems IMh leglRlfttwr# today but wcmH ^ the laMl week of . I . . ' . j • j •pending and taxa- »H quif m quit and go homo. | m their ti sins^oi 'rs Pei-s j whp hi.v contoc " »Hqg< cite Be Heidi K[kow Lodgei 1 .Ross Masonic Lodge 'its annual picnic. Wed- 4130 p.m. in area three Park, Howard W. Bar- oT Enginqering, announe- ifdajr. that barbecue homel ind a ball giime would ire nttmetiona of the af- jm biers of the Lodge and lilies and all students ma- Ul degrees, and their wm- jinpited. Busses will leave >us Corner at 4 p.m. and tie YMCA five) minutes nt'(Lommodate isportation, Ba those vyhc i flow said; Wishing to attei notified net been . B: Nelson, Box 5717 ^teforu nd ar shoulc fh blearing botes w lays. the Viirc- whjch they Captain dt E professor iicjuie nee ring, Detfi'ti vited by lh|i[jtliHij poratlon lit; bcl r|) fifth ConMi! q u i Mnivorslty iMiclij Ht-28 inefui li; 1 Genoraf SB to to 25 niemh Cif i the lending!, u les Who tni personnel 4|nf|ijl)|i niinuul epiil| Tlitme In pluiils- Ilf if ji if I usflgm'd l o' ^odi the grenli*il!|ii|ii It ohsorve tlnjEpMl re I pi hum jifjpji ii|j M A jl| Be He||, A&M wlflpijl judging cnrthrtlj ers on Mn>aM tri! Ross, profei Mu' tti!' ucation. ;»•' • fj Nine hull ji'ci 1 j contest wini b'fk t the contest,! (.jxvl^ij by tbe DepS-tni Education, vfe- Included \tfili poultry, me|t/ I finds Mint students of Mils group ure extremely dlic ' , feftSrtrs. They base tlieir .educa- tiutml hnbits on the too-often-triu 1 assumption that profs by and large are chicken. Individuals of this category read nothing of the text hu!*! the footnotes. What notes they have taken us- ually consist of the sidelights thj’own at them "... at no ex tra cost.” They are also prone to diligently write down what the prof lectures on in the waning seconds of class when their class mates are closing their books, light ing cigarettes, and adjusting ties and caps. Incidentaly, Schnoop finds that the Profus - Chickenus students have unusually high grades for the amount of studying that they do. Kelaxus-Morphus is a brach of the Yogi belief maintains Schnoop. The students of this classifiestibn are strict adherers to the the that they, should be completely re laxed ana refreshed in order to do thtir best on a quiz. They condemn Know Your Advert N j Sj ill H STi 1) $1.25 much a pair isn t f 4 11 ' ! . ■ I 11 to pay underwear but for I J L » v Wfy 1. The average Aggie 2. The average A&M sti 3. Each Aggie spends an ;i derweaar || ' ' . 4. A&Vr students spend it I, I T'C.'I [[Ih I red ral ■L’r i( Itferlw K, Ityptek, Jr,.! V** nit leer of the Hand InUivHHic lnilti«llon of t!u» umrtil Dlriftdott, wlll dlN-l c umIc (tniping poUcItof Urti) at a meeting of the County Chapter of (h«| ance hVslivul Held 1 coi ii unnuul Texus Squunf cstlvul will be held In th»| larjilen Theater in San Anf May ;1'2, 13 nnd 14. [estival is sponsored by*thu [tub. Of Alamo Heights tcL aigl teach thej traditionaj square dartce; :r. !. SW. f "it-' ■ / r \ s A Purvey of indents li f ,iv |! i • i| ■ ' ; v ..il Underwear It a year. V:]; year for 40 n- *ar fbH underwear