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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Friday, September 27, 1957 by Dick Bibler Art for Aggies’ Sake WELTON JONES Back again for the second week and this time on the correct day, this column takes a deep breath and plunges again into the midst of creative and artistic activity at Texas A&M. Sometime in the fu ture this column hopes to attain enough stature to afford the luxury of general rambling, but not yet. MUSIC ON RECORDS — This column occasionally gets the urge to curl up with some bit .of favorite music, relax and let the music draw out what memories it will. Being in this mood recently, column went to the very excellent Brows ing Library at the Memorial Stu dent Center hoping to spend a moment with that prince of tone poems, “Phnlandia”, by Jean Sibelius, currently being mourned in the music world after his death thisi month. The piece was not found. It would seem that an old favorite like this would be in any collection the size of that at the MSC, so this column did some quick investigation and now gives these observations: The $1,500 worth of sound re production equipment and the vast collection of all types of music in all speeds of records is a definite service for students, visitors and staff members—BUT . . . The current collection of records is poorly displayed and arranged in no logical order and money available for additions seems to have been spent rather unthink ingly in the past. It w T ould be a luxury to have several interpretations of all the classics plus a fully stocked group of contemporary musical plays in the original cast albums and what ever other music demanded, but it is impossible to retain such quantity, of course. Therefore, the resources available should be used to the greatest benefit of everyone. Instead of having two copies of “An American in Paris” and “Rhapsody in Blue”, by George Gershwin, for instance perhaps another work could have been obtained. Another “over-represented” com poser seems to be Chopin, with three albums containing many duplications. Also there is a derth of minor works by such major composers as Mozart, Haydn, Schu bert, Beethoven and Handel. Among the things noted about the collection was a sur prising amount of that sugar- saturated, machine - made pap known in the trade as “mood music”. A leading exponent of this throw - in - all-the-tunes, -grind-’em up-and-they-all - sound - the - same school is the orchestra leader known as Mantovani, represented at the MSC by four albums. Two actions seem needed. First the existing collection of 33 Vs RPM records, 45 RPM albums and the vast treasure of old 78 RPM clas sics donated to the MSC by the Cushing Memorial Library must be sorted and displayed to the best advantage in some logical order. Then second, a method of pur chasing new records must be found that will be fair to lovers of all types of music. This is the job of the appropriate MSC committee, but also for all those who have cursed the present system. As a start, this column would like to suggest some records of readings by superior actoi’s, some good ballet music, some of Richard Wagner and, oh yes, Sibelius, “Fin landia”. PAINTING AND SCULPTURE —Mrs. Emalita Terry, teacher and adviser of the MSC’s Creative Arts Group, has announced that, in addition to the regular schedule of painting classes this year, a limited number of students, chil dren and adults, will be accepted for a course in sculpture. Instructor for the course will be Joseph Tompa, the Hungarian artist who escaped the Communists in his native country last year and is now living with his daughter here. Mrs. Terry says Tompa is a talented craftsman of the European traditional school, and has taught before. He speaks little English, but can express himself well when talking about his work, she says. Also in the art line, the current exhibition of paintings by Michael Frary, University of Texas art in structor, which has hung in the MSC for three weeks will leave Saturday and be replaced soon by a mixed-media “circuit” exhibition from the Texas Fine Arts Associa tion. MOTION PICTURES—Of inter est to war movie fans will be the first showing this year of a MSC Film Group movie in the Center’s Ballroom. The picture is that saga of General Anthony C. McAuliffe’s 101st Airborne Infantry at Basto- gne during World War II. Stai’- i'ed are Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalban and othei's. The film will be remembered by some as that supei'-realistic opus produced about 1950 with no background music and no women. At the time it was a significant contribution to motion picture production and is still woi’th seeing. DATES TO REMEMBER—Oct. 1, Great Issues Committee presents James Carey in the MSC. Oct. 8, Town Hall presents the Four Freshmen in the G. Rollie White Coliseum. Impractical Needed For Ideas Roads "YgS.r FIN? \VSM01 FASIEK TO 6£T CATES NQiV THAT I HAtfE A CAR 1 Dag Re-Elected Secretary of U.N. FAUBUS (Continued from Page 1) Said Faubus in his address: “You will recall that it was quiet in Paris during the German occu pation, and it is quiet in Budapest today.” The nine Negro students were protected every step of the way through classes by armed para troopers. But Faubus further charged that to maintain tranquili ty “teen aged school girls have been taken by the FBI and held incommunicado for houi's of ques tioning while their frantic parents knew nothing of their where abouts.” Faubus continued: “It always becomes quiet under military rule. . . . The federal government has made a grave and grievous error, in the federalizing of the guai’d and the use of federal troops. The troops are even inside the school building accompanying Negro stu dents from class to glass. “This constitutes a serious dan ger. The impetuous or thoughtless act of a white student could result in his penetration by a bayonet.” Faubus pledged a relentless con tinuation of “working and fight ing for the right of my people to solve their problems peacefully.” He concluded: “I know that when the American people have had time to think and to learn more of the facts of this situation, they—in their good judgment—will rebuke the natioxxal administration for the ill advised and unwarranted use of federal troops. By WILLIAM N. GAITS UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Sept. 26—(A 5 )—Dag Hammarskjold, Swed ish practitioner of “quiet diplo macy,” was named yesterday to a second five-year-term as secretary general of the United Nations. The 52-year-old bachelor diplo mat won the unanimous recommen dation of the 11-nation Security Council yestex'day morning and the 80-0 approval of the 82-nation Gen eral Assembly this afteiuxoon. Israel was absent because of the Rosh Hashoxxah holiday, but sent word it endorsed his re-election. One ballot was invalid. The vote proved Hammarskjold had kept the friendship of nations large and small, Communist and npn-Communist, through continued cold wax 1 , the windup of the Korean conflict and last fall’s Middle East ern and Hungarian hostilities. It also reflected his success in getting’ 15 U.S. airmen out of Chinese Communist prisons in 1955 and in reaching agTeement with Egypt for the U.N. to send in atx Emergency Force and clearing the Suez Canal after the Bi'itish, French and Israeli invasions in 1956. Thei’e were no other candidates for his job. His new term starts next April 10. He draws salary and allowances totaling $55,000, tax free. The U.N. Charter makes him secretary of the Assembly and Council and boss of the ox-ganiza- tion’s 4,398 employes from about 80 countries. It empowers him to call the Security Council’s atten tion to “any matter which in his opinion may threaten the main tenance of international peace and security.” He has never done that. Gelatin loses some of its gel strength when it is heated with an acid. Professional Visual Care BRYAN OPTICAL CLINIC • Eyes examined e Glasses prescribed • Contact lens fitted Dr. Smith and Staff Optometrists Convenient Terms TA 2-3557 105 N. Main The kind of “impractical” re^ search that produced the electronic age was recommended to traffic expexfs today as a weapon in the battle for greater highway safety. Dr. Lawrence R. Hafstad, Gen eral Motors vice president in charge of Research Staff, told the Insti tute of Traffic Engineers that en- tii’ely new automobile instruments to help control the “chronic viola tor fringe” of drivers are among the possible - results if teams of “competent amateurs” and other researchers are turned loose on traffic problems. Hafstad .emphasized that such “driver monitor” instxuments were cited “not necessai'ily as recom mendations but as examples of un conventional ideas which are like ly to emerge if more of a mixed- team or operations x’esearch ap- px - oach is introduced into the traf fic problem ai'ea.” Among hypo thetical examples of “driver moni tors,” he mentioned: 1. A magnetic tape to i^ecord the speeds at which a car had been dilven just prior to an accident. 2. A device to relay from road side radar installations, now used to detect speeders, a warning to the driver that he was speeding. 3. A system to duplicate road side ti’affic signals inside the cai’, “where they would speak with con siderably enhanced authority.” 4. A system which would not merely signal the driver, but woxxld CATERING, F or ^ SPECIAL OCCASIONS Details to Me. Leave the * LUNCHEONS * BANQUETS -k WEDDING PARTIES I.et Us Do the Work — Von Be A Guest At Your Own Party MAGGIE PARKER DINING HALL W. 2(ill) & Bryan TA 2-5068 B.S" FUR 3TQRAGE_HATT ERS Phone TA 2-1585 Bryan, Texas control the operation of his ve hicle. Dr. Hafstad told the engineers that “in connection with the traf fic problem, we seem to have done a pretty fair job in seeing what caxx be done with concrete, steel and asphalt.” Do You Have Your Serge Yet ? See LOU to get a good deal on Serge. 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