The Battalion College Station (Brazos County/, Texas
PAGE 2 Friday, February 21, 1958
Art for
Aggies 9 Sake
By WELTON JONES
MUSIC—The Mitchell-Ruff Duo, currently one of jazz-
dom’s most respected ensembles, will be heard at 8 p. m.
Monday in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom under the
auspices of the MSC Recital Series.
The two men’s backgrounds reek of conventionality.
Dwike Mitchell was born in Jacksonville, Fla., studied after
World War II at the Phila
delphia Academy of Music
and served as a soloist with
the Philadelphia Symphony
Orchestra.
Willie Ruff, born in Sheffield,
Ala., received a bachelor’s and
master’s degree in music from
Yale University. The two met
during- the war and. formed their
present unit in 1955.
Their basic sound is created
by a piano-French horn combi
nation with Mitchell on piano and
Ruff doubling on French horn and
bass viol.
Many listeners have commented
on the ability of the two to weave
themes with the piano and French
horn that give an impression of a
much larger instrumentation.
Claiming- inspiration from com
posers as varied as Bartok and
Bach, they seem to interpret fa
miliar “pop” tunes as serious
chamber music efforts.
The group resembles the Fine
Arts String Quartet, which ap
peared here earlier this year, only
in that they play off the same
five-line scale, but the purposes
of the two units are not Jo di
vorced.
It seems to have been Louis
Armstrong, a trumpet player of
some note in another field of jazz,
who said “If you like it, why man,
it’s good music.”
One shouldn’t be afraid to like
the Mitchell-Ruff Duo merely be
cause they bear the sometimes-
embarrassing tag of “jazz.”
Nor, on the other hand, should
they be rejected because their pic
tures show them dressed in tuxe
dos.
VARIETY—The problem of G.
Rollie White Coliseum’s theatrical
imperfections has risen again.
This time the MSC Music Group,
sponsors of the annual Intercol
legiate Talent Show in March,
are worrying.
The group has a show lined up
that sounds, on paper at least,
intriguing, but the old worry of
no curtain and no backing for
sound that so many performers
in the White building have be
moaned is still unsolved.
The changes would be expensive
(San Antonio’s Victor Alessandro
remarked that a plywood shell
would be the only good solution)
but are necessary if good per
formers, professional and ama
teur, are going to continue to be
attracted here.
Job Interviews
The following interviews will
be held in the Placement Office:
Monday
Freeport Sulphur Company,
New Orleans, interviews chemi
cal engineering majors. Subsid
iary of the above company—Cu
ban American Nickel Company
wishes to employ 10 Cuban grad
uates.
Employers Casualty Company,
Dallas, interviews accounting,
business administration, agricul
tural economics and mathematics
majors.
Rohm and Haas, Pasadena,
Tex., interviews chemical and me
chanical engineering, chemistry
and physics majors.
Monday and Tuesday
Reynolds Metals Company,
Richmond, Va., interviews chem
ical, civil, electrical, industrial
and mechanical engineering, phy
sics and chemistry majors.
The California Company, New
Orleans, interviews the following:
B.S. and M.S. graduates in petro
leum, civil and electrical engin
eering and B.S. in mechanical en
gineering-.
The Carter Oil Company, Tul
sa, Okla., interviews chemical,
mechanical and petroleum engin
eering and chemistry, physics
and mathematics majors.
Tuesday
Black, Sivalls and Bryson, Inc.,
Oklahoma City, Okla., interviews
chemical, electrical, mechanical
and petroleum engineering maj
ors for jobs in product and pro
cess design and technical sales.
Core Laboratories, Inc., Dallas,
interviews geological and petrol
eum engineering majors.
Texas-U.S. Chemical/Company,
Port Neches, interviews chemi
cal engineering majors.
Universal Atlas Cement Com
pany of Waco interviews mech
anical, industrial and chemical
engineering majors.
Tuesday and Wednesday
Ralston Purina Company of St.
Louis, Mo., interviews agricultural
and mechanical engineering, and
business administration and ac
counting majors.
Square D Company, Detroit,
Mich., interviews electrical, me
chanical and industrial engineer
ing majors.
Aggies -
Try Youngblood’s
Fried Chicken
% Chicken - Trimmings $1.00
%
Barbecue — Steaks — Seafoods
Rock Building
South College
Midway Between
Bryan & College
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JOE TINDEL Editor
Jim Neighbors Managing Editor
Gary Rollins Sports
Joy Roper Society Editor
Gayle McNutt City Editor
Joe Buser, Fred Meurer News Editors
Robert Weekly Assistant Sports Editor
David Stoker, Johnny Johnson, John''Warner, Ronald Easley,
Lewis Reddell Reporters
Raoul Roth News Photographer
Francis Nivers Sport Photographer
George Wise Circulation Manager
. . . . Now there’s a prof that hates to give out grades!
Letters To The Editor
Editor,
The Battalion:
Today I read in the Houston
Press where the Civilian Student
Council commended Mr. Tindel
for' his “fearless” editorial pol
icy. I cannot understand why
those students, who have never
given Corps life a good try should
be so concerned about Texas
A&M College. Let’s face it. The
school is not for the likes of them
and they will be second rate Ag
gies forever.
I do not intend this for the
students who would like to be
members of the cadet corps, but
cannot for reasons beyond their
control. But to live on the camp
us of Texas A&M for four years
as a civilian, seems mighty queer
to me.
Most of these second raters
could get their same education
at other state schools amid all
of the culture they seem to miss,
such as tea and lady fingers,
trash bonfires, hill-billy march
ing (?) bands, pep rallies and
Howdy Week.
The all-male status and com
pulsory military training is the
only thing responsible for the
school’s great past and the only
thing that will keep it from ob
scurity.
Robert L. Drago, Jr. ’49
Editor,
The Battalion:
Compulsory Corps will resume
its position here on the campus
next semester. Quite a strong
controversial subject, this com
pulsory Corps. In fact, so
strong that the Professor of Air
Science, Colonel Henry “Pelly”
Dittman, was told that he would
not be considered in that same
position during the forthcoming-
school term. Or any time later,
for that matter.
Col. Dittman, ’39, is one of the
strongest, if not the strongest,
advocate of compulsory Corps
here at A&M. Because of his
stand, former President D. W.
Williams gave him the high sign
and told him to “Go West, young
Colonel, Go West.”
With compulsory Corps once
again operational at Aggieland,
it would appear that this would
no longer be a topic of debate
between one Col. Dittman and
one faculty and Board of Direct
ors. Possibly it isn’t, but some
one certainly wants to give “the
boot” to the one man on this
campus who has had enough guts
to stand up and fight for his
convictions—and in the face of
overwhelming odds.
The AFROTC students want
Pelly back! Leadership is what
we want, and what we have had
for the past three years. This
didn’t happen by chance. It came
when Henry Dittman was as
signed by the Air Force to as
sume responsibility for AFROTC
training at Texas A&M.
Someone, or some body of per
sons, will do this campus damage
by letting this man leave. He
has shown spirit, determination,
courage, and above all, maturity.
The college administration and
the Board of Directors should ex
amine the record and thoroughly
consider .the expressed wish of
all Air Force cadets—“We want
Pelly back next school term.”
Air Force Juniors
A day’s work is a day’s work,
neither more nor less, and the
man who does it needs a day’s
sustenance, a night’s repose, and
due leisure, whether he be painter
or ploughman.
—George Bernard Shaw
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“Run Of The Arrow”
With Rod Steiger
Plus
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With Susan Hayward
SATURDAY
“Monkey Business”
‘The Bold And The Brave’
“Domino Kid”
Also 4 Cartoons
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THE CARTER OIL COMPANY
Research Laboratory
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Affiliate of Standard Oil Company (N. J.)
Will Interview Students on February 24-25, 1958
We Have Positions For: Physicists, Chemists, Mathematic
ians, and Chemical, Mechanical and Petroleum Engineers.
Make an appointment through your placement office.
Pray as if it all depended on
God, but work as if it all de
pended on you.
—Lawrence Jones
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Also
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In
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Also Sunday - Wednesday
Wayne Puts His
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Sophia Loren
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Legend of
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Bring your shoes to us
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Look.
COURTS
Shoes — Shoe Repairs
North Gate
Chemistry 102
Help Session
1:30 P. M. Saturday
Chemistry Lecture Room
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“Save Your Money and
Help Your Grades”
Compliments Of “Lou”
TOWN HALL
Presents
THE BROADWAY COMPANY
DIRECT FROM NEW YORK
mNNY D HITi” V AURICE EVANS
FUNNY HITi I In ottoeiolion with
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Presents
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IRA LEVIN
(adapted from the nave! by Mac Hyman)
with REX EVERHART
TUCKER ASHWORTH • HOWARD FREEMAN
ROYAL BEAL • IAMES MIILHOLLIN
and CHARLES HOHMAN
Production Directed by
M03T0N Da COSTA
Sets by GERALD l. RITHOLZ
From the original b, PETER LARKIN
Costumes by NOEL TAYLOR
& lighting by PEGGY CLARK
Tour Direction: Broadway Theatre
Alliance, Inc.
Monday, March 3
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Adults $2.00
Children - $1.00
Tickets At Student Activities
FRIDAY
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outstanding
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of all time!
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