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PAGE 2 Tuesday, January 6, 1959
Interpreting
Lots of Pretty Dates Available’
Soviets Boastful, Says TWU Date Bureau Co-Chairmen
Intent Undefined
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
Peiping radio, joining the
world-wide Communist effort to
link the Soviet Union’s latest
achievement in rocketry to politi
cal superiority, has . chosen an es
pecially inept smile.
“The East Wind is prevailing
in both cosmic space and the
world,” Peiping boasts.
The last to use the term “East
Wind” in such a connotation
were the Japanese militarists.
They used it as a code to trigger
their attack on Pearl Harbor. It
became a synonym for their sui
cide.
The Soviet Union has achieved
greatness in the field of science,
with strong military implica
tions.
The underdeveloped countries
embracing a vast proportion of
the world’s population are now
engaged in weighing the merits
of two political systems. They
are seeking future systems for
themselves which give greatest
promise of quick material prog
ress.
Soviet scientific progress lends
weight to Communist arguments
that their system contains such
promise.
The underdeveloped countides
also think, for the most part,
that world peace is essential to
their material success. Agitation
which heightens the tension be
tween the Communist and capi
talist blocks disturbs them.
This feeling cx-eates a point of
no return for the-Red propagan
dists.
President Eisenhower, in con-
ti'ast to Ameidca’s reaction of
fear over the first Sputnik,
gx-eeted the Soviet sun shot
within the concept of man’s long
dream of probing into outer
space.
The Soviet Union itself largely
confined the first announcement
to this concept.
The propaganda boys, how
ever, have not been slow in
seeking to relate the achieve
ment to the cold war, and to a
possible hot war.
The United States is on recoi’d
as being willing to lead the world
in a great economic revolution
if the nations will devote to it
the resources now devoted to
military pi’eparedness.
The Reds keep di’agging every
thing into war, with its scope
keeping the world’s xnind off the
progress it should xxxake. They
keep abrading the soi’e spots
such as Bei’lin, Quemoy and the
Middle East, making their own
position that of disi’upters, with
a thin pretext of being builders.
If they keep it up, the East
Wind may tui - n back upon them
as it did upon the Japanese mil
itarists.
Who’s Here
Yankee Ag Drew From Hat,
Got Joker, Too, He Says
By JACK TEAGUE
John F. Euler, 21-year-old edu
cation major from Eden, N.Y., is
a “Texas born and Yankee bred”
Aggie who decided to return to
the Uxggest state—south of the
North Pole—to finish his educa
tion.
Born in Brownsville, Tex.,
John moved with his family to
Eden when he was five, where
his dad is employed by Bethle
hem Steel.
A gi’aduate of Eden Central
High School, John was in the
Drama Club and played tennis,
ti’ack and football.
“My x-eason for being at Ag-
gieland was purely by chance,”
said John. “I wanted to return
to Texas to go to college, and I
actually drew from a hat. I’m
glad I drew the joker, too.”
John, executive officer of
Squadx-on 12, was secretary and
vice-president of the Yankee
Hometown Club his sophomore
and junior years, respectively.
This year he is secretai'y-treas-
urer of the Student National
Education Association.
Upon gx'aduation, John plans
to join the Maxines for his serv
ice tour, and then wants to teach
xnathematics at a grade school
or high school.
“I know I’d like to teach.”
John said, “and I also like to
work with kids.”
Most of John’s free tixxxe is
spent in Houston with the apple
of his eye, Miss Chexie Gehl.
Chexie, also of Eden, is a student
at Herman Hospital.
John said that one of the best
times he has ever had was a trip
to Florida over Easter vacation
of his sophomoi'e year. He trav
elled with another Aggie and
three LSU boys to Ft. Walton,
Fla., deep in the swamps. He
said the trip was very interest
ing, but uneventful except for
two occasions. One time John
was driving a jeep, and crashed
through the back* of a garage
when the bx-akes didn’t hold. On
another occasion, John and the
rest of the troops had. left the
door open to let in a night
breeze. When they awoke the
next morning, a 12-foot alliga
tor was standing in the door,
looking “very lean and very hun
gry.” John refused to say what
happened next, leaving this to
our imagination.
This summer John is travel
ling to British Hondux'as in
Central America as an as
sistant to a graduate student,
Chaxles Fuglex’, who will be do
ing reseaxxh work thex-e. They
will collect specimens of reptile
life and expect to stay all sum
mer, he says.
Women in the United States own
more than 65 billion dollars worth
of insurance protection. However
men continue to own the major
share of life insurance.
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By JOE BUSER
Battalion Editor
The A&M-TWU Date Bureau,
still has lots of pretty gilds like
Joy Guthrie (pictured right)
available for dates, accoi'ding to
John Sackett and Gai’y Pepper,
co-chairmen of the bureau.
The bui'eau, recently organized
by the Campus Government
Assn, at Texas Woman’s Univer
sity and the Class of ’59, has
gotten off to a slow start but
propects seem to lie improving.
Bobby Allen, senior business
administx'ation major from Jack
sonville, one of the first Aggies
to get a date through the bureau,
seemed enthusiastic and pleased
with the system.
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s
really fine. My date was great,”
Allen said.
Sackett offei’ed consulation
for Ags not competely satisfied
with the selection.
“Even if the date you get isn’t
perfect it’s a good way to make
some fine contacts,” the hefty
senior said.
Said Pope Franklin, seci’etax-y
of the TWU association, “I
think the Date Bureau will es
tablish a much closer relation
ship between the schools and
both will benefit.”
Other campus leaders both
here and at Denton seem of the
same opinion. But concern has
been expx'essed over the idea of
selling such a program to stu
dents.
“There is a stigma attached
to it as far as some uppex’dass-
men are concexmed,” said Susan
Maxwell, px-esident of the Stu
dent Council at Tessie.
Jimmie Lightfoot, president of
the TWU Roundtable, said, “I
don’t think it will be a success
m
Joy Guthrie
. . want a date?
right away.”
But thex-e is some light in the
dax-kness of pessimism. Mike
Mux-phy, px-esident of the Cam
pus Govex-nment at Tessieland,
said, “I have talked to some Ag
gies and they feel like it will
be a success—if it lasts the first
yeax-.”
If all the girls look like Joy,
Mike may be wiser than her
years.
Application for a Tessie date
can be made at A&M by filling
Students Asked
To Pick Up Mags
Liberal Arts students who
have not picked up their
first issue of the Commenta
tor are requested to do so
this week, according to Rob
ert Kerr, editor of the bi
annual magazine.
The magazine may b e
picked up at the Student
Publications office, ground
floor, YMCA. Students must
present the postal card mail
ed them before Christmas,
Kerr said.
The procedure is neces
sary because of the high cost
of mailing an edition pub
lished twice a year.
out a personality blank at the
Office o f Student Activities,
Room 210, YMCA. This form,
with a photograph, and a letter
stating the time and day of the
occasion, should be sent to:
Date Bureau Committee
Office of the Dean of Women
Box 3685
Texas Woman’s University
Denton, Texas
Dates will be made by select
ing an appropriate gix-1 from the
qualifications submitted and she
will x-eply personally.
Applications from Tessies
wanting Ag dates will be filled
by the Date Bureau here.
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Editor,
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Many thanks for sending us a
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Editor,
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Thomas Jefferson was an avid
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The Lively Arts
‘Witness’ Top, ‘Peyton’Last
On Writer’s ‘Flick Parade’
By HENRY LYLE
Amusements Editor
The year 1958 was a year of
decision in Hollywood. At last
the movie industry had come to
i-ealize that television has spell
ed the death of the Class B
motion pictux-e and has fox-ce'd
a new degree of excellence in
the fix*st-runs.
Hollywood’s new awareness of
quality over quantity made the
year just ended a memox-able one
for its bumper crop of unusual
ly fine films. With great diffi
culty, this department has se
lected 10 pictures as the vex-y
best of ’58 (including those re
leased prior to the Academy
Awards). They are:
1. Witness for the Px-osecu-
tion
2. Bridge on the River Kwai
3. Paths of Glory
4. The Defiant Ones
5. Gigi
6. Vex-tigo
7. Home Before Dax-k
8. The Big Country
9. The Young Lions
10. The Pi-oud Rebel
Despite the fact that the good
flicks are getting better than
ever, the shows that do fail are
even bigger failures than evex-—
from an ax-tistic standpoint, that
is.
The 10 wox-st motion pictux-es
of 1958 were all big money-mak-
ex-s and very popular at the box
office. Four of the horrible films
below made mox-e money than
any of the above, excluding
“Bridge”. In order of badness:
What’s Cooking
7:30
ASME meets tonight in the
Social Room, MSC at 7:30 p.m.
Election of officers and a pictux-e
for the Aggieland will be taken.
1. Peyton Place
2. Tarzan and the Lost Safax-i
3. The Naked and the Dead
4. I Was a Teen Age Werewolf
5. Max-jox-ie Mox-ningstar
6. The Vikings
7. Dx-digstrip Girl
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We Aggies like to read about Wee Ag
gies. When a wee one arrives, call VI
6-4910 and ask for the Wee Aggie Edi
tor
A future Aggie sweetheart
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
liahi W. Droemer, ’59, 824 En
field. Dawn D’ann arrived at
10:59 p.m., Dec. 19, at St.
Joseph’s Hospital.
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Mr. and Mx-s. Wilbux-n Benton
became parents of the first baby
in Bryan in 1959. A gix-1 was
box-n at 8:59 a.m.y at St. Joseph’s
Hospital. Benton is a instx-uctor
in the History Department.
Twin Aggie sweetheax-ts wex-e
born to Mx\ and Mrs. Sam L.
Sullivan, Jr., ’59, 303 Live Oak.
The two girls arx-ived at 2:50 and
2:58 p.m. at St. Joseph’s Hospi
tal.
A future Corps commander
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lamar
Hisey ’59, 606 Max-y Ann. The
boy arxived at 9:40 p.m., Jan. 4,
at St. Joseph’s Hospital.
8. And God Created Woman
9. Bonjour Tristesse
10. The Blob
Please keep in mind (before
stacking my hole) that the 10
worst shows of 1958 may have
been pex-fec^tly enjoyable to sit
thx-ough. That isn’t the point.
The point is that a picture like
“King Cx-eole” or “Liana, Jun
gle Goddness” (no room for them
on the list) are enough to make
a film critic watch the late show
on television.
And as for high budget flicks
like Nos. 1, 3, and 5, the waste
of both money and excellent plot
are appalling. “The Naked and
the Dead” belongs on the list
because, in px-oducing it, Holly
wood corrupted one of the great
novels of this centux-y. “Peyton
Place” was contemptable as a
piece of litex-atux-e and the film
was beneath contempt.
Making bad motion pictures
out of good novels is a wox-se
crime than px-oducing something
as hax-mlessly wretched as “I
Made A Monster.”
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