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THE BATTALION
Thursday, January 12, 1956
Couch Appointed To UT Hospital
Dr. Russell Couch, of the poul
try husbandry and biochemisty and
nutrition department, has been
named a consultant biochemist for
the University of Texas M.D. An
derson Hospital and Tumor Insti
tute, Houston. The appointment
is for the fiscal year ending - Au
gust 31, 1956, subject to renewal.
Dr. Couch is a nationally recog
nized research scientist and writer
in the field of poultry nutrition
and biochemistry. This year he
announced the discovery of uni
dentified growth factors in the ash
of distillers dried solubles, which
have given one-half as much
growth response in test groups of
poultry as the original substances
from which the ash-was obtained.
On Campus
tvith
Max Shukan
(Author of "Barefoot Boy With Cheek,” etc.)
VIVE LE POPCORN!
The other day as I was walking down the street picking up
tinfoil (Philip Morris, incidentally, has the best tinfoil, which
is not surprising when you consider that they have the best
cigarettes, which is not surprising when you consider that they
buy the best tobaccos and the best paper and put them together
with skill and loving care and rush them to your tobacco counter,
fresh and firm and loaded with gentle smoking pleasure to lull
the palate and beguile the senses and shoo the blues) the other
day, I say, as I was walking down the street picking up tinfoil
(I have, incidentally, the second largest ball of tinfoil in our
family. My brother Eleanor’s is bigger —more than four miles
in diameter—but, of course, he is taller than I.) the other day,
as I was saying, while walking down the street picking up tinfoil,
1 passed a campus and right beside it, a movie theatre which
specialized in showing foreign films. “Hmmmm,” I said to my
self, “I wonder how come so many theatres which specialize in
showing foreign films are located near campuses?”
And the answer came right back to me: “Because foreign
films are full of culture, art, and esoterica, and where is culture
more rife, art more rampant, and esoterica more endemic than
on a campus? Nowhere, that’s where!”
Hapless Males Faced
With Dangerous Year
CADET SLOUCH by James Earle
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I hope that all of you have been taking advantage of the
foreign film theatre near your campus. Here you will find no
simple-minded Hollywood products — full of treacly sentiment
and machine-made bravura. Here you will find life itself —life
in all its grimness, its poverty, its naked, raw passion!
H ave you, for instance, seen the recent French import, Le
Jardin de Ma Tante (“The Kneecap”), a savage and uncom
promising story of a man named Claude Parfum, whose con
suming ambition is to~ get a job as a meter reader with the
Par.s water department? But he is unable, alas, to afford the
flashlight one needs for this position. His wife, Bon-Bon, sells
her Y ir to a wigmaker and buys him a flashlight. Then, alas,
Clam ). discovers that one also requires a leatherette bow tie.
This time his two young daughters. Caramel and Nougat, sell
their hair to the wigmaker. So Claude has his leatherette bow-tie,
but now, alas, his flashlight battery is burned out and the whole
family, alas, is bald.
Or have you seen the latest Italian masterpiece, La Donna E
Mobi^ (“I Ache All Over”), a heart shattering tale of a boy and
his dog? Malvolio, a Venetian lad of nine, loves his little dog
with every fibre of his being. He has one great dream: to enter
the dog in the annual dog show at the Doge’s palace. But that,
alas, requires an entrance fee, and Malvolio, alas, is penniless.
However, he saves and scrimps and steals and finally gets enough
together to enter the dog in tho show. The dog, alas, comes in
twenty-third. Malvolio sells him to a vivisectionist.
Or have you seen the new Japanese triumph, Kibutzi-San
(“The Radish”), a pulse-stirring historical romance about
Yamoto, a poor farmer, and his daughter Ethel who are accosted
by a warlord on their way to market one morning? The warlord
cuts Yamoto in half with his samurai sword and runs off with
Ethel. When Yamoto recovers, he seeks out Ethel’s fiance,
Chutzpah, and together they find the warlord and kill him. But,
alas, the warlord was also a sorcerer and ho has whimsically
turned Ethel into a whooping crane. But loyal Chutzpah takes
her home where he feeds her fish heads for twenty years and
keeps hoping she’ll turn back into a woman. She never does. Alas.
©Max Sliulnian, 1956
The makers of Philip Morris, ivho bring you this column, hop<
that if there's smoking in the balcony of your campus theatre, it will
be today's new, gentle. Philip Morris you'll be smoking.
The Battalion
The Editorial Policy of The Battalion
Represents the Views of the Student Editors
By JIM BOWER
Battalion News Editor
A look at the calendar will show
Aggies that they have more than
one problem to cope with this year.
For besides the ever dangerous
Le'ap Year, 1956 has blessed us
with three months that harbor a
Friday the 13th.
The $64,000 question is whether
Leap Year has .combined with the
unfortunate Fridays to plan mis
fortune or will the two foi'ces act
independently to harass the al
ready downtrodden male ?
Whichever occurs, the situation
for the single male looks dark. If
the two combine, not even track
stars will have a chance to save
their futures.
They will find their shoes with
the spikes broken and all manner
of obstacles thrown in their path
as the girls laughingly pluck the
hapless males from their hiding
places.
Of if the two forces act sep
arately, the unfortunate males will
find themselves unable to effective
ly combat either of the evils since
they will be attacked from two
sides.
The most immediate problem
looming before Aggies will come to
light tomorrow in a double dose.
Tomorrow is the first of the series
of Friday the loths and to top it
off, tomorrow night will be the first
of the A&M-UT basketball clashes
of the year.
The next unfortunate Friday does
not occur until April—the same day
that the Intercollegiate Talent
Show is scheduled. Attendance at
the show should be high since the
spectators will want to see which
act draws the short straw and re
ceives the bad luck. Also that day
A&M meets Baylor here in a base
ball game.
The next and final unfortunate
Friday comes in July. Summer
school students will have that bat
tle all to themselves since there is
nothing planned to help ease the
pain.
History doesn’t record any ter
rible disaster occurring on the 13th
day of the three months—January,
April and July.
Jan. 13 is the birthday of Salmon
P. Chase, a Republican political
figure who is recorded as respon
sible for establishing the national
banks with the power to issue cur
rency supported by government
bonds.
April 13 is honored by having
T h o m a s Jefferson’s birthday,
Huguenot Day and National Bird
Day.
Huguenot Day is celebrated in
memory of the French Huguenots
who fled to America from France
to escape persecution from the
Catholic Church.
July 13, birthday of Nathan B.
Forrest who won fame as a calvary
leader for the Confederate Army
during the Civil War, is celebrated
as a legal holiday in Tennessee.
Down through the years many
beliefs have flourished as either the
origination of Friday the 13th be
ing unlucky or as preventative
measures against it.
The myth could have started
similar to the one harbored against
walking under a ladder—simply be
cause someone happened to suffer
misfortune while strolling beneath
the ladder.
Currently though, Friday the
.13th draws more recognition to
those who stay in bed to escape
misfortune and get their pictures in
the papers for having been able to
do such a stunt.
It is not recommended that Ag
gies stay in bed to escape misfor
tune on these unlucky Fridays. The
consequences from staying in bed
and missing classes would more
than likely be greater than those
suffered by defying Friday the
13th.
What b Cooking
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The schedule for tonight is as
follows:
7:30
Wichita Falls- Hometown Club
will meet in room 323 of the Aca
demic Building. A hypnotist will
furnish entertainment.
Marshall Hometown Club will
meet in the Assembly Room of the
MSC to make a picture for the
Annual. Uniform for Corps mem-
Familiarity FIighls
Given By Officer
Capt. Roger McCauley, junior air
science instructor and Assistant
PAS, has spent several weekends
taking ROTC students up for pre
training rides.
This is not a part of the flight
training for Air Science students.
Army branch students are accepted
on flights.
Flights usually last from 30 to
45 minutes. The student is given
a chance to fly the plane and be
come familiar with how it operates.
Students interested in making a
flight should contact Capt. McCau
ley about a week in advance.
Anderson To Hold
Soil Short Course
Jack W. Anderson, assistant pi - o-
fessor in the Department of
Agronomy at A&M, will conduct a
Soils and Fertilizer Short Course
in Kaufman County Jan. 30 thru
Feb. 3.
James G. Simmons, Kaufman
County agent, is in charge of ar
rangements there.
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BILL FULLERTON Editor
Ralph Cole Managing Editor
Ronnie Greathouse Sports Editor
Don Shepard, Jim Bower, Dave McReynolds - News Editors
Welton Jones - City Editor
Barbara Paige - Woman’s Editor
Barry Hart. Assistant Sports Editor
Jim Neighbors, John West Reporters
Maurice Olian - CHS Sports Correspondent
Tom Syler - Circulation Manager
James Schubert, Mike Keen, Guy Fernandez Photographers
That “new suit” I “bought”
for Dad is really an old one
I had rejuvenated at . . .
C A M 1* U S
CLEANERS
hers will be class “A” and coat
and tie for civilians.
Amarillo A&M Club will meet
in the YMCA and will serve coffee
and cookies from Mothers’ Club.
Milam County Hometown Club
will meet in the YMCA.
Williamson County A&M Club
will meet in room 3B of the MSC.
Lower Rio Grande Valley Club
will meet in the YMCA.
Houston Hometown Club will
meet in room 107 of the Biological
Science Building to discuss spring
club plans.
Winters Hometown Club will
meet in room 110 of Bagley Hall.
Lubbock Southplain Hometown
Club will meet in room 223 of the
Academic Building to discuss vis
iting high schools.
No Time
Tyler Smith County Club will
meet in room 224 of the Academic
Building to present Mothers’ Club
and Former Students Association
Loan Fund.
Van Zandt County Hometown
Club will meet in the YMCA
lounge for the election of officers
Panhandle Club will meet in the
Academic Building.
West-Texas San Angelo Club
will meet in the Ag-ricultural
Building to collect money from
sale of tickets to Christmas dance.
Fayette-Colorado County Home
town Club will meet in room 2C of
the MSC.
J ob Interviews
Thursday and Friday
U.S. NAVAL LABORATORIES
IN CALIFORNIA are interested in
majors in mechanical, electrical,
aeronautical engineering. Also
physics, m a t h e m a t i c s, ocean
ography and meteorology majors
for opportunities at the U.S. Navy
Electronics Laboratory in 'San
Diego, Calif, and the U.S. Naval
Air Missile Test Center at Point
Mugu, Calif. They will also inter
view faculty, graduate students,
seniors and juniors for summer
work.
CIRCLE
THRU FRIDAY
“Southwest
Passage”
Rod Cameron
—Also—
“Atomic Kid”
Mickey Rooney
USED BOOKS WANTED
The Exchange Store is in the market
for your used books
Check our prices before selling
THE EXCHANGE S I ORE
“Serving Texas Aggies”
THE WESTERN
STEAKS — CHICKEN — SEA FOOD
LUNCH SERVED
11:00 A.M. — 2:00 P.M.
OPEN 24 HRS.
HWY. 6 SOUTH
Local Man Named
Livestock Official
Henry G. Jones of College Sta
tion has been named official am
bassador for the College Station
area to the Seventh Annual San
Antonio Livestock Exposition, E.
W. Bickett, Exposition president
announced.
The enlarged 1956 Exposition
will be held in the Bexar County
Coliseum Feb. 10-19.
Five new divisions have been
added to the show this year. These
include Charbray and Charollaise
cattle, Cheviot and Montadale
sheep and Delaine sheep in the
junior division.
THRU SATURDAY
“SHEPHERD OF
THE HILLS”
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