What’s Cooking
FRIDAY
8:30—Houston A&M hometown
club, “End of Main,” Thanksgiving-
party., No admission fee.
Birth Announced
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Kunze
have announced the birth of their
daughter who was born Saturday,
No. 13.
Navasota Schools
To Be Evaluated
Dr. L. S. Richardson, superinten
dent of A&M Consolidated schools,
and Mrs. H. S. Creswell, principal
of the elementary school, have been
invited to participate in a system-
wide evaluation of the Navasota
public schools.
The evaluation will be held in
the early part of January.
Battalion Editorials
Page 2
THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1954
All Under 25
'mm.
On Campus
with
MaxShulman
(Author of “Barefoot Boy With Cheek," etc.)
DECEMBER AND MAY: ACT II
Synopsis of Act I: A middle-aged English Professor named Phipps
has fallen desperately in love with a rosy-kneed coed named Mc-
Fetridge. Phipps doesn’t know how to go about courting Miss
McP’etridge, for, after all, he is a professor in the autumn of his
life, and she is a coed with rosy knees. Professor Twonkey, who
shares an office with Phipps, proposes the following plan: Phipps
will ask Miss McFetridge to come to his office for a conference late
in the afternoon. He will be urbane and charming and make fright
fully witty remarks about English lit, and Miss McFetridge will
laugh and laugh. After an hour of this high-type hilarity, Phipps
will look at his watch, exclaim at the lateness of the hour, and insist
on driving Miss McFetridge home. On the way home, he will pass a
theatre that shows French movies. They’ll see the movie, then have
an exquisite French dinner, and Miss McFetridge will be so enchanted
that she cannot but yield to his suit.
So at the beginning of Act II, we find Phipps in his office awaiting
the arrival of the poor young innocent. His hair is brushed; his
nails are clean; he has new leather patches on his elbows. There is
a knock on the door. He opens it and admits a gorgeous creature with
blue eyes and pink kneecaps.
Phipps: Ah, Miss McFetridge. Come in, my dear. Won’t you sit
down? Cigarette?
Miss McF: Ooh, Philip Morris! I think they’re marvy, don’t you?
Phipps: I do indeed.
Miss McF: Hey, prof, would you mind opening a fresh pack?
Phipps: But I just opened this one a little while ago. It’s perfectly
fresh.
Miss McF: I know, prof, but I like to hear the snap when the
pack opens.
Phipps: Very well, my dear. .
(He opens a fresh snap-open pack of Philip Morris. Miss
McFetridge claps her hands delightedly when she hears the
snap.)
Miss McF: Hey, that fractures me! Man, I flip when I hear that
crazy snap! Do another one.
Phipps: All right.
(He snaps open another pack of Philip Morris)
Miss McF: (Ecstatically) Isn’t that the living, breathing end? Do
two at once.
Phipps: Well, if you insist . . .
(He does two at once)
Miss McF: More! More! *
Phipps: I’m afraid that’s all I have.
Miss McF: Oh . . . Well, what’s up, prof? What did you want to
see me about? »
Phipps: Oh, nothing in particular. Just wanted to have a little
chat, find out how you’re enjoying the Shakespeare lectures.
Miss McF: I don’t know, prof. By me Shakespeare is strictly a
square.
Phipps: Indeed? Well, I must say I find your attitude refreshing.
One is so inclined toward slavish admiration when it comes to the
Bard. People forget that in many quarters Shakespeare is regarded
quite critically. Take, for example, the opinion of Shaw.
Miss McF : Artie?
Phipps: George Bernard...You know, of course, his famous words.
Miss McF : I sure don’t, dad.
Phipps: Shaw said he would like to dig up Shakespeare and throw
stones at him. (
Miss McF: Did he dig him?
Phipps: No, I don’t believe so.
Miss McF: I don’t dig him either.
Phipps: (Looking at watch) Good heavens, I had no idea it was
so late. Come, my dear, I’ll drive you home.
Miss McF: No, thanks. I always walk home. It’s good for the
circulation in your legs. I got the best circulation in my legs of the
whole sophomore class. Ever notice how rosy my knees are?
Phipps : As a matter of 'fact, yes . . . Look, you sure you don’t want
a ride home? There’s an excellent French movie on the way.
Miss McF: Not me, dad. I hate French pictures. The sub-titles
always disappear before I can read ’em. But if you want to go to the
movies, there’s a new Tony Curtis picture downtown — a real gut-
buster. Tony plays this beggar, see, but he’s really a prince only he
doesn’t know it on account of his sneaky uncle who switched babies
when Tony got born. Then Tony finds this magic lamp, see, and he
gets into the palace where he meets this crazy girl, only she’s
engaged to the fake prince, but then they have this mad sword fight,
and Tony licks about a million guys, and then he finds out he’s the
prince and it’s real crazy. Wanna go? I’ve only seen it three or
four times.
Phipps: As a matter of fact, I just remembered a previous en
gagement. Sorry.
Miss McF: That’s all right. Thanks for the Philip Morris. ’Bye.
(Exit Miss McFetridge. For a moment Phipps sits in.stunned
silence, mopping his brow. Then a smile appears on his face.
He is a happy man again —out of love. Contentedly he lights
up a Philip Morris.)
©Max Shulman, 1954
This column is brought to you by the makers of PHILIP MORRIS
who think you would enjoy their cigarette.
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This pleasant sight is what is left of an
Oldsmobile. It crashed heaclon into another
car near Beaumont a while back. “Going-
too fast,” the officers said.
Six people were killed ! in the accident;
four of them in this car.
All six of the dead were under 25—or.
about the age of A&M students.
Tomorrow, A&M students will start leav
ing the campus, most of them in automobiles.
They will go to Austin, then after the game
they will join the University of Texas’ 14,000
students on the highways, everybody trying
to get home.
Thursday afternoon, and the rest of the
holidays, are going to call for extra careful
driving. Everybody will be on the road, and
everybody will be in a hurry to get some
where.
Young people (“all were under 25”) have
more accidents than anybody else. Ask your
insurance agent why your rates are higher
because you’re a college student.
So it all adds up to one thing: somebody
is liable to get killed, and it might be you.
The odds fall that way.
So take a good look at this picture before
you leave tomorrow, and drive slowly and
sanely over the holidays.
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Above is the wreckage of the navy T-28 trainer which crashed Saturday night near
the college. One occupant of the plane was still strapped in his seat in this part of the
debris. Stuck in the ground in the background is the plane’s propeller. Below, two stu
dents examine a section of the plane’s wing which fell on the drill field before the plane
hit the ground.
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By JON KINSLOW
Battalion Managing Editor
A former A&M student and a
Marine pilot were killed Saturday
night when the T-28 navy trainer
in which they were flying crashed
a quarter of a mile west of the
campus after spraying the campus
with wreckage.
Dead was Aviation Cadet An
thony Vevduzco, ’54, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jesus W. Vevduzco of Laredo;
and Marine Capt. Thomas Pryor
Wareham, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas R. Wareham of San Fran
cisco.
The plane thundered over the
campus shortly before 7:30 p.m.
Saturday and some of the pieces
fell on the drill field where cadets
were guarding the bonfire. A few
of the guards immediately spread
an alarm that someone was trying
to burn the bonfire.
A reliable source reported Mon
day that Vevduzco had said earlier
that he would “buzz” the bonfire
that night." Vevduzco left A&M
before he got a degree.
Confusion broke out on the cam
pus, with half the people running
for the drill field and the other half
going to the scene of the crash.
City Manager Ran Boswell estimat
ed that 5,000 persons were at the
crash site. Several times the sight
seers had to be moved back from
the wreckage by personnel investi
gating the crash.
Battalion photographer Seymour
J. Smith was standing near Bizzell
hall when the plane roared over
the college. He said the' plane
sounded as if it were diving.
“I looked up but I couldn’t see
earthly
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any lights on the plane, but I could
tell the color of it by the light on
the Academic building,” Smith said.
“It wasn’t mpre than 200 feet off
the ground.”
Ralph Cole, Battalion city editor,
was riding in an automobile in
front of the natatorium when the
plane flew over.
“When I heard it, I looked up,”
he said, “and suddenly it was en
gulfed in white smoke. It began
to fall, and I saw something drop
in front of the natatorium. When
the object hit, it seemed to explode,
but it didn’t burn.” It was later
found that the object was a wing
tank from the plane.
Among the pieces that fell on the
campus were parts of the wing,
tail, the wing tank and a landing
gear. No students were reported
injured by the falling debris.
The plane barely cleared a fence
around an experiment station farm
west of the college near the rodeo
arena. It scraped the ground for
several yards and they apparently
nosed into the ground. It then
apparently skidded several feet
more before disintegrating. Parts
of the plane were scattered over a
100-yard wide area.
The largest piece of the wreck
age was about the size of an au
tomobile, and one of the occupants
of the plane was found in this piece
still strapped in his seat.
The other man had apparently
tried to jump shortly before the
plane hit because his parachute
was open and he was loose from
his seat. He was lying about 25
feet from the other occupant. Both
were killed instantly, and tht
bodies were badly mutilated.
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