The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Tuesday. April 10, 1956
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THE MANY LOVES
OF THORWALD DOCKSTADER
When Thorwald Dockstader—sophomore, epicure, and sports
man-first took up smoking, he did not simply choose the first
brand of cigarettes that came to hand. No, indeed! He did what
any sophomore, epicure, and sportsman would do: he sampled
several brands and then picked the gentlest, tastiest, most
thumpingly, wondrously, unfailingly pleasing of all — Philip
Morris, of corris!
Similarly, when Thorwald Dockstader took up girls, he did
not simply select the first one who came along. No, indeed!
Thorwald sampled. He took out several likely girls and then he
compared their charms and then he made his choice.
His first date was with an English lit major named Elizabeth
Barrett Grish, a wisp of a girl with luminous eyes and a soul
that shimmered with a pale, unearthly beauty. Trippingly,
trippingly, she walked with Thorwald upon the beach and sat
with him behind a windward dune and listened to a sea shell
and sighed sweetly and took out a little gold pencil and a little
morocco notebook and wrote a little poem:
7 will lie upon the shore,
1 ivill be a dreamer.
I will feel the sea once more
Pounding on my femur.
Thorwald’s second date was with a physical ed major named
Peaches Glendower, a broth of a girl with a ready smile and a
size 18 neck. She took Thorwald down to the cinder track where
they jogged around thirty or forty times to open up the pores.
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• ..7feyi/oo6ec/<3roati</' 30 or./fo times to open, up theporcb **
Then they played four games of squash, six sets of tennis, 36
holes of golf, nine innings of one-o-cat, four periods of rugger,
six chukkers of lacrosse, and a mile and a quarter of leap frog.
Then they worked out for a few hours on the parallel bars, the
flying rings, and the bongo board, and then went ten rounds
with the eight-ounce gloves. Then they had heaping bowls of
bran ancf whey, exchanged a manly handshake, and went home
to their respective whirlpool baths.
Thorwald’s final date was with a golden-haired, creamy-browed,
gi-een-eyed, red-lipped, full-calved girl named Totsi McEstway.
Totsi was not majoring in anything. As she often said, “Gee
whillikers, what’s college for anyhow — to fill your head full of
morbid old facts, or to discover the shining essence that is
YOU?”
Totsi started, the evening with Thorwald at a luxurious res
taurant where she consumed her own weight in Cornish rock
hen. From there they went to a de luxe movie palace where Totsi
had popcorn with butter and a bag of chocolate covei'ed raisins
— also with butter. Then they went to a costly ballroom and
cha-cha’d till dawn, tipping the band wildly all the while. Then
they went to a Chinese restaurant where Totsi, unable to deci
pher the large and baffling menu, solved her problem by order
ing one of everything. Then Thorwald took her to the women’s
dorm, boosted her in the window, and went downtown to wait
for the Morris Plan office to open.
While waiting, Thorwald thought over all of his girls and
came to a decision. “It is clear,” said Thorwald, “that I am not
yet ready for girls.” “It is equally clear,” he continued, “that
a man meeds a gentle companion, and who,” he asked, “will be
my gentle companion?” “Why, PHILIP MORRIS, of corris,”
he answered. “Philip Morris will be my tender comrade, my
solace and my strength, my friend in adversity, my shelter in
vicissitude, my boon and bosom buddy,” and, so saying, Thor
wald lit a PHILIP MORRIS and was content. ©m»xshuiman. i9.-,6
The makers of Philip Morris, who bring you this column every
week, hope that Thorwald will soon find the girl of his dreams, and
that they will make beautiful smoke rings together—with Philip Morris,
of corris!
The Battalion
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tudent
The Editorial Policy of The Battalion
Represents the Views of the Student Editors
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Texas and the City of College Station, is published by students in the Office of St
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Is Ross Strader. The governing body of all student publications of the A.&M. College
of Texas is the Student Publications Board. Faculty members are Karl E. Elmquist,
Chairman; Donald D. Burchard. Tom Leland and Bennie Zinn. Student members
are Derrell H. Guiles. Paul Holladay. and Wayne Moore. Ex-officio members are
Charles Roeber. and Ross Strader. Secretary. The Battalion is published four times
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Letters to the Editor
Editor, The Battalion:
Your “inspired” editorial in the
April 5 edition of The Battalion
was a prime example of acting
when you did not know the facA
I was one of the ushers who
“rushed out”, as you so aptly put
it, the Aggies who were sitting in
the colored section at the Nat King
Cole show Wednesday night. The
students were not rushed out, they
were merely asked to move higher
so the Negroes could- occupy the
seats which they paid good money
for. As soon as all of the Negroes
were seated the students were
allowed to sit where they pleased.
The rope, or “fence”, I believe,
was the term you used, was cut,
yes. It was made into a hangman’s
noose and dangled down the ramp
in front of the entering Negroes
by three “gentleman” seniors,
striking one of them. Is that or is
that not your racial prejudice that
you were writing about ? Why don’t
you write an editorial about that ?
You seemed to have the opinion
that the ushers were prejudiced
against the Negroes. Well I assure
you, we are not prejudiced against
the color of any man’s skin.
As the editor of a newspaper, you
have a great power for influencing
the public in your hands. Don’t you
think you should find out all the
facts in an “incident” before you
write about them ? I think both you
and your readers will be a lot better
off if you do.
Gilbert N. Steile, ’57
Mr. Steile:
I was present during the incident
of which you speak. As a member
of the Battalion staff, I felt it my
duty to bring the situation to the
attention of the Editor.
Your advice to “find out the facts
in -an ‘incident’ before writing;
about it” is truly sound, and con
stitutes the basic principal of good
journalism.. I hope that I may al
ways live up to your standards.
However, if you return to thei
editorial and examine it closely, I
believe you will find, written be
tween the lines possibly, the real
object of our criticism.
You, the ushers, cannot be in
any way blamed for carrying out
the orders of your superiors, and
following their rules. But this does
not necessarily mean that these
rules are the right ones.
The Battalion has taken, and
continues to take the position that
denying any person any right be
cause of his race, creed, or color
is wrong, with no exceptions.
As for the “hangman’s noose”
you describe, I feel sure that the
student who cut the rope had noth
ing to do with the children who
fashioned the noose.
Welton H. Jones Jr. ’58
What’s Cooking
CHS Seniors Favor
Ike For President
A recent survey among Consoli
dated High School seniors indi
cates President Dwight D. Eisen
hower is a 19-1 choice over three
other presidential hopefuls.
The survey, which will be con
ducted throughout the United Sta
tes and then tabulated as one vote,
listed Eisenhower, Estes Kefauv-
er, William Knowland, and Adlai
Stevenson—selected beecause they
had authorized the entry of their
names into one or more state pres
idential primaries.
Results were Eisenhower, 39;
Kefauver, 2; Knowland, 0; and
Stevenson, 2.
J. J. Skrivanek and Mrs. S. S.
Sorensen made the local survey.
The following organizations have
scheduled meetings for 7r30 to
night:
A&M Rodeo Club meets in room
203 of the A&I Building. Election
for the rodeo team will be held.
Rodeo ticket sale report will be
given.
Student Chapter of AVM^will
meet in the amphitheatre of the
Veterinary Hospital. Dr. Harry H.
Pilop will speak on practical aids
in a small animal practice.
The Accounting Society will meet
in the YMCA. A representative of
Ford Motor Company will speak.
Coffee will be served.
★ ★ ★
Tau Beta Pi will have Agg'ieland
picture made tomorrow afternoon
at 5:15 on the steps of the new
Administration Building. Attire
is class “A” uniform or tie and
coat.
A&M Journalists
Get Summer Work
Three A&M Journalism students
will have opportunity to get on-
the-job training this summer,
working as interns on newspapers
under a program sponsored by the
Texas Daily Newspaper’s Associa
tion.
Students to participate in the
program are Jerry Weatherby
from Fort Worth, John West from
Pettus, and Leland Boyd from
Chilton.
Weatherby will work on the Fort
Worth Press, West will work on
the San Antonio Light, and Boyd
will work on the Waco News Trib
une.
Donald D. Burchard, head of the
Journalism Department, said the
three students will serve, a ten-
week period as interns on the
newspapers. Burchard is local co-
ordinater for the program.
Chairman of the TDNA intern
program is Robert Whipkey, of the
Big Springs Herald.
Center Nev/s
Sbhedule for the Memorial Stu
dent Center this week is as fol
lows:
Tuesday
A&M Speechmasters Group, 5:15,
2 C-D.
MSC Dance Classes, 7-10, ball
room.
MSC Hobby Group, 8-9 2A.
Thursday
The MSC Recital Series will pre
sent an added attraction at 8 p.m.
in the assembly room.
Tickets are now on sale at the
main desk of the MSC for the In
tercollegiate Talent Show to be
held Friday night in White Coli
seum. Reserved seats are $1.50
and general admission $1.
Conference Set
The Ninth Annual Accounting
Conference, sponsored jointly by
the Department of Business Ad
ministration and the accounting
organizations on the campus, will
be held April 16-17 in the Memorial
Student Center. Edward S. Packen-
ham, associate professor of busi
ness administration, will be chair
man for the conference.
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