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(*• Scarcely ten years ago Texas A&M hatefully as
College was famous throughout the world
(for two things—it had the biggest^rough-
est. winningest fodtball team in the na
tion and its students wei*e the friendliest
people afoot. They would shakei your ated beverar
hand off as far as they! could reach you Dime Box.
“Quiet, you fool, you
made me forget fiye physics formulas.”
To put it briefly and bluntly, it’s a dis
mal situationij In five years, at this rate,
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the Spirit of! Aggi^land will be
way Seriously, thou
great
For dc
letics,
t andrmps
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and^yell “Hello” three-quarters of the
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Somewhere between then and now we
lost most of both commodities.
On the football front now, however, j may have
there is nothing but glad tidings. The cur- friendliness iwi
rent crop of huskies are picking up every There is n
day and there is an awe-inspiring group spirit has gaiped
of Freshmen tearing up the turf down by high positions! all
Kyle Field. ■ ' | itt&t to hov far 3f
But on the friendliness front, all is get along with other people,
blackness. You can ^lk across the cam
pus, bump into thirty people, and not hear
' anything but exclamations of "Watch my
shine!”. From an occasional passerby .
~you get a weak and shifty-eyed “Hoyjrdy” 1V1 '
that would make Pinky Down’s suspenders Let’s begin
sag. : I V J ; both on the
And if you are overt enough to speak our friendlip
at the passing personages, they raise their ball team, bac
eyes from the pavement and glare at you the nation.
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The Most Acid of Acid Tests ;. i
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a carbon- \
tied sarpewhere near
s, we are losing our
valuable characteristic.
A&M’s fortunes in ath-
and graduate rating
4it their reputation for
t, and at the top.
to repeat what this
t|he college. Aggies in
•VjBr the nation today
can go when you can
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We can afford to lose ahpaost anything
except^that attitude. There is nd smaller
tl^at pays sucli tremendous
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Letter, To
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llhe Editor
toaay to speak more often
ampiis and off. Let’s get *
teM
as welll as our foot-
(All jetters to the editor which ire
college and which do not contain dbscene
sons wishing to have their namea withheld
and ithese nadies will not, without the J
other than the editors.)
LET ME CALL YOU
SWEETHEART
Editor, The Battalion:
With reference to the articl^ in
last Thursday’s Battalion concern
ing the representatives to select
the Aggie Sweetheart, we the un
dersigned, non-torps student vrish
to express our desire that this oc
casion remain a Corps functior as
has been done in the years past.
It is our opiiiion that pie Corps
for
the
tra-
re signed by a Stud*
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Id,from publication n
lent or employee of the
I will be published. Per-
r _ may request such action
consent of the writer, be divulged to any persona
Few persons in western nations; dis- We should |worry, yes. f$ut we should
pute the fact that Russia is out to conquer 1 worry constructively,
the world for Communism. J f
But that leadsrto the question of which
one of their tWo weapons, fear of the bomb
of undercover infiltration of ^Communist
public leaders, wilhbe used in the Russian
quest for supremacy^ J
To many, the most logical answer is
' se-
1’jt have i
What ojr it? 11 It
they have only a
we do. A bomb tl
Russia’s presumably recent-discovered'se- | 100,000 casu^ltie
cfet of all secrets—the Atom bomb. Wild spots isn’t subject
speculation has been circulating and will ■ ’ “ ^ J ^
rue
Some foolish people cast the announce
ment of; the eftploa ion off with a shrug of
the Shoulders and say,” but the Russians
don’lt htve. is miiiy bombs as we do.”
akes no difference if
fcjird as many bombs as
can cause upwards of
and knock out vital
'•io
continue to circulate whether Russia will
sideratic
If we db
use the most powerful weapon on earth; won% be a
A weekly Washington report to Quick bombs, bu
.; strikes fljraf
magazine reads,
power to use its atom weapons on us by
air by tramp steamer in any U. S. harbor
to old-fashioned con-
rinj^jig out of ammunition,
an Atomic War, it
6f who has the most
y a matter of who
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as.
ids/‘‘Russia already has the
After the annbuncement of the Rus
sian explosiojn I sdvjeral high place men, in-
by smuggling in the parts and assembling eluding influential Senators, took an op-
theut almost anywhere.” * posite view of! the administration’s indif-
\ We are fearful, and Stalin knoWs it. ! cohclusion was that the
free wqrld, led by the United States should
lie United Nations with
ultimatum would be
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He may be sitting back, smirking, and en- * b -i
joyirig it all. ■ V -V : ! ^
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But for all toe know, the secret may “either co-opetate in effective internation-
have been discovered months or maybe al control e nd inspection of atomic weap-
yearg ago, and the Russians are ojtily let- ' ons! or irt 6(| days we will resort to atomic
ting the news out now. This recent drop
ping may be the sixth, seventh, or! eighth
. such atomic explosion. Why should we
alb go into a commotion now? We should
have known sooner or later the secret
would be unveiled to communist scientists.
wax! to coim pel your cooperation.
I This wo ild be history’s greatest show-
doiyn . A b *ash move. Yes.
It woult be brash, but also it would be
the acid test of the-strength of the United
Nations arid of a fear-free world.
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Keepsake. In Weatherford, Texas, SOCIETY stojjy in the Modesto (Cal-
“Mifl Grace Newman, past
a Chapter, will give a
Robert Morris.
Bank President Fred Smith explained how , ifornialBeb;
two Arkansas bank robbers happened to
have a crowbar inscribed “Citizens Na
tional Bank, Weatherford, Tex.”: The
crowbars were distributed a~ souvenirs
three-years ago “but we never thought
they would be put to use .. .”
We certainly hope not.
matron of Wistei!
biological i ketch
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BILL BI
Clayton ssiph.
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Qsve CoalsttJ
0111 Potts
Sport.
Chuck Ca
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Kenneth Mstak. Emmett Trent, Jack Brandt
Martin Howard j . I . Ph
Brad Holme*, BUI HitW.
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Larry Oliver ■■««»*
Hardy Ross, Joe
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.ngeles, and San Francisco.
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will lend the color necessary
such an affair and will fpllow
pattern of well-konwn Aggie
(I it ions. | F
Richard |W. Denny -
Charles G. Hunsti ’45
Jack Luther ’49
Bullet Lonquist ’48
Donald E. Jarvis ’49
Tom R. Carter ’49
Cliff Hodges;'50
Don Hodges '49
E. 1. “Pinky. Greene ’49
Jack MasOn ’51
J. A. “Bitsy’’ Davis ^49
Leland B. Tate ’48
Bob McClure! ’49
E. A. LcBlanc ’51
Dudley G. Letbetter ’^9
Ralph P. Pastocek ’47
James H. E$ton, 45
John Foyt 'to
S. R. Nelson ’48
J. H. Porter '48
D. T. Hiachovy ’50
W. F. McNeil;’49
Rogue O. Garza '52
J. H. Ballew ’49
H. D. Miller ’50
Roy E. Frienson '46
Ross J. Burns ’50
C. D. Martin ’47 |
D. C. Messick Jr. ’50
H. Cleve to’alkup ’44
L. O. Petty ’48
James E. Biles '49
Albert T. Field ’49
S. M. Marshal ’48
W. B. Scritngeour '50
R. P. Creson Jr. ’51
H. G. McMillan ’49
H. M Barhett '49
W. A. Marble ’50
D. J. Matula ’49
Alex Cadena ’52
fcharles O. Hurst ’45
Jim Kelleher
Ben Adair ’48
Bill Du Puy ’47
Martin B. Keough '48
Fred C. Rep pen ’48
H. C. Osborne 149
Fabum Murray ’49
H. H. Johnson ’49 i
William E. Wilson ’48
C. R. Hagens ’48
J. A. Sands ’4?;^
E. Charles Hinckley '49
Charles Lehne ’50
Billy Maye ’50
W. E. Nelson '50
Harry Hurt ’48
Doug Pitcbck ’49
\V. to. Colville ’49
to. A. Balbrealh Jr. *50
William Womack;Jr. ’49
Kenneth Bruce Robhofjf ’48
Uobert L. Smith ’51
H. E. Dungan JJr. ’49
Tom Sutherland; ’46
j. M. Henderson ’40 j
L. L. Cralp ’Ml
William S. Bouldin ’4?
(Editor’s Note—Only about lonei
half the, names signed to this let-
ter could be printed because o
space limitations.
viewed all the Southwest Confer-
e[ice coaches the past week. And
fpllo>ving is a summary of all the
mentors’ comments.
Rice’s couch Jess Neely confided
tp the writer, “The only worry 1
have this year is that my boys
’wiH give the other conference
teams sue! a lashing that they’ll
k|l withdraw from football in dis-
jjjukfc”
i| His next interview was with
A&M’s own Harry Stiteler, who
4pid quite modestly, “My greatest
ncem at the moment is that we
ill not bt| able to
(wl bids we’re sui
the season j is over.’ 1
Baylor’s Bob Woodruff comment
ed, “As of! this week I have sus-
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bt| able to accept all the
i we’re sure to get when
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off t
nded all workouts,
ys can tyke the conference quite
hard
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handily
Work.”
Over al
l^as quite
ti bout not
Iconvertiblels
team.
I think'my
encc
Without all the
Austin, Blair Cherry
glum. He was moaning
being able to furnish
for the freshman
Up at SMU, Matty Bell was cry-
i tg In his root beer about the Cot-
tm Bowl scoreboard not being con
structed fpr scores of the three-
figure magnitude. Sez he feels two
figures wijl hardly be adequate for
Hs boys tills season.
Traditionally downhearted Dutch
ieyer sounded a new note. “I
‘ally can’: see the need of playing
ny of mj six varsity teams! this
tall, but tpey won’t let me use my
So I figure we’ll just
or nine men most of the
tihe scores won’t be too
freshmen.
May eight
time, so
lopsided.’’
Arkansas’ Barnhill remarked,
“I’ve got id much first string ma-
erial this year that my only regret
s that we can’t play a doublehead-
*r every Saturday.”
Anybodj want a drag offa, this
weed ’fore I throw it away?
Sincerely
James G. McClure, ’49
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sports page of a, newspaper from
one of our fair cities south of henj.
First thing I notice is a column
by a sports writer who had i iter
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Red River (How*;
ring John Wayne i
Clift (Gnion Hill)
This department ha
to time made several
snide comments corifce:
erficiality an d
characteristic of
“Western.”
1 The filmplay
ploits of oar
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and a
movie
goers. At the sante time, it has
emained monotonously unchang
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Why the “westerh” lias achlev
such glorious h< igh i of popular
is a fairly simp ^ntytter. With
story of the untamei West and
dauntless pioneer spirit that cqh-
quered it goes the grekt American
dream of independence and
age. And ihe adventure and acti|
which form the “western”
bone are plenteous enough to alr-
rest the attention of ‘fjunior” aid
incite him . to frenzied emulation |ijf
what is transpiring onl the screen.
Joe Moviegoer jeherishes the
sight of Randy Scott Snuffing qUt
the odious lives of wkrring Apa
ches from atop a fleeing stag*-
soach. Randy is wiijfiing the Wei t
News of Aggielant
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tng a poker table reduced
ters over his head, k . n
scored for clean living, honesty,
and virility. i 'j
Neither is the reason for the
stereotyped quality of the run-of-
the-mill “western” caukei for
much head-scratehbigJ In its own
>le way, toH°lly w
in on the ,r wi
ce appeal am
it mass-produrti
wood has
western’s”
much head-scrat
inimitable
cashed
box-office appeal and tyr
them ont mass-production stv
Consequently, originality 1
fallen along the wayside with
| the bullet-riddled red man.
Bedeck an actor in westerr
tire, sit him on a horse, turn
loose on a prairie with only
ghost of a plot (usuallly one
rowed from a previous film that
died in its tracks), and you have the:
typical cowboy classic a creation
which tempts any thirteen year olq
to rude laughter.
Yet maturity , In the “western”l'
is not an* impossibility. Several
times in the past film companiei
have made realistic irtspections o:
our pioneer past with fond bu
not foolish eyes, proving that juv4
enility is not an inherent trait of
:he “western.” “Stagecoach” isj^
•4.r now playlft]
an, even sir L
brewed fi
atjon of
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In its every respect, “Red
is grown-up entertainment
itibnar “westei .
carefully avoided
whiuh has s
fer! thfin th
outlaw; who
hekH”; plot.
Nri'l
ething other to" of-
stial “Posse chases
really a sport ht
by' reliable
Wiyuje, who does
png yet
(ft. i the
be desired,
imprehsed
John
hia best Job of
And Montgomery
all that could
were, particularly
the talent dis-
cd by John Ireland.' He’s a
lajljto watch.; j ■ '
The fluidity of the production s
furthet enhanced ,by skillful direc
tion, . vigorous photography which
accomplishes fipo | things with
hltteff ;and white, and a musickl
score carefully attuned to the
mood :of ; eactrscene.
|n; “Red River,” the spirit of the
West has beeij properly admired
and at the same time wisely hand
led; to: give the public a filpi of
adtilt proportiens. '
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now being broadcast! over radip j
station WTAW at 7:50 a.m., anj-
nounced Roland Bing manager of
student publications: .Sponsored b
the College Exchange Store, t[h
program ia broadcast six days a
week, Monday ithroiigH Saturday.
Dean Reed, sophhmore journal
ism student of A |Cq.,' A. S. Al
Writes the script for (the program
and directs the broadcasts. The
announcing is (lope by| members o(
the Battalion ptaffl | s
Harold Gann of B Co. Athletics
writes his o\yn sfript and an-:
nounces all sports n^wp, said Bing. ;
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