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THE BATTALION
Tuesday, December 1, 1959
Letters To The Editor
The Battalion welcomes letters to the editor hut reserves the right to edit letters
for brevity, clearness and accuracy. Short letters stand a better chance for
publication since space is at a premium. Unsigned letters will not be published...
• (Editor’s Note: The fol
lowing letter was mailed air
mail special delivery and de
livered prior to the A&M-
Texas football game Thurs
day to Aggie Captain Charles
Milstead. Copies were also
sent to Gordon LeBoeuf,
Head Yell Leader Joe Leep-
er, Alternate Captain Gale
Oliver, Coach Jim Myers and
Randy Sims. The Battalion
is printing this letter for the
information of its readers.
The letter printed below the
following letter is an an
swer to Wilson’s letter.)
Dear Mr. Milstead,
You’re beat and the game has
n’t even been played. You know
you are beat; the coaches know
you are beat; all the ex-Aggies
and the public know you are beat.
I heard on the radio that thei'e
are 4,000 tickets not sold, and if
that doesn’t convince you that
the public doesn’t know that you
are beat, then nothing else (ex
cept game time) will. There isn’t
an Aggie in Houston who feels
proud of you.
At the annual luncheon in the
Rice Hotel Monday, all the Ag
gies agreed that you are a bunch
of good old boys, but that’s all.
They have no confidence in you.
They are ashamed to have you
represent them, and to prove it,
there were three times as many
Texas men present at the lunch
eon as there were Aggies. The
Aggies who were present made
excuses and all but crawled un
der the table when the subject
of the game came up. Lloyd
Gregory, the most vulgar-mouth
ed speaker I have ever heard,
made a statement that should
have made all the Aggies with
any fighting spirit or pride rise
up and object, but the Aggies
just sat and took it. Probably
because it was the truth.
There just isn’t any spirit or
desire to win. The ex-Aggies
don’t have it, the school doesn’t
have it, the coaches don’t have
it and the players don’t have it.
Even the Yell Leaders don’t have
it.
I can just see the game now.
You will come out on the field
trotting through the line of sen
iors. Your own buddies, who you
will supposedly shake hands with,
will just barely touch you, and
you will miss most of them. But
this is all right, because you are
football players and are really
important personnel. After the
first play, you will find out that
the Texas boys are really in there
. 1
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JOHNNY JOHNSON EDITOR
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CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle Job Interviews
to win. They will have been well-
coached, and they will be full of
fight. They will hit so hard that
the Aggies (as in the past) will
become afraid and, for all prac
tical purposes, the game will be
over. You know this is true,
and the public knows it’s true.
When the game time has run out,
you’ll walk off the field, not only
beat but out-scored. The Aggies
will stand and sing a little song
for you just because they have to,
and nobody—not even your mo
ther—will be proud of you or
your coaches.
You can blame it on your coach,
and rightly so, because your
coach is a pretty good old boy,
but he really isn’t a fighter. He
even admitted *it when he first
took the job by telling how a
Rice football player whipped him
all over the field, and old Jim
was afraid to fight back. I’m
sure Jim would be a good guy to
go hunting or fishing with, but
you know deep down in your own
heart that he isn’t really a foot
ball coach who can get his play
ers to fight and not be afraid.
And the Texas team will prove it
to you.
I went to A&M, but I am thor
oughly disgusted with the whole
set-up, and I’ll have to be hon
est about it. Some of my friends
said that they were going to write
and try to make you feel good
and maybe you would win, but I
couldn’t be kind enough to lie
about how I feel about the situa
tion.
When you get out of A&M and
go back to the Texas game, you’ll
be disgusted, too, because it’ll
be the same deal, and you’ll see
my side.
You know, they used to tele
vise the game on a nation-wide
hook up, but the game got so
sorry that they don’t even do
that any more!
John J. Wilson ’38
4821 Jackson Drive
Houston 10, Texas
Editor,
The Battalion:
To Mr. Wilson: It is our feel
ing that you are sick. You are
thoroughly disgusted with us.
How do you think we feel about
you?
Incidentally, did you happen to
see the game Thursday ?
Joe Leeper, ’60
Bill Heye, ’6D
Wade Dover, ’60
J. C. Burton, ’60
Russ Neisig, ’60
# Byron Blasche, ’60
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Aggies on Duty
Army Captain Thomas M. Hall,
’58, son of Mrs. D. J. Bergeron,
Hitchcock, Tex., is receiving his
resident physician training in ob
stetrics and gynecology at the
Brooke Army Hospital, Brooke
Army Medical Center, Fort Sam
Houston. Capt. Hall entered the
Army in July, 1957..
★ ★ ★
The promotion to the rank of
colonel of Temple B. Sebastian
Jr., ’35, has been announced by
Maj. Gen. Earl Rudder, President
Social Whirl
The Wildlife Wives Club will
hold its monthly business meet
ing tonight at 7:30 in the Cab
inet Room of the YMCA.
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of A&M and commanding gen
eral of Texas’ Own 90th Infantry
Division. Col. Sebastian will take
over his post in Houston. He
has been in the armed services
for 27 years.
★ ★ ★
Army 2nd Lt. John H. Boysen,
’59, son of Mr. & Mrs. Marcus
W. Boysen, Brownwood, complet
ed the four-week airborne course
Oct. 16 at The Infantry School,
Ft. Benning, Ga. The 22-year-
old lieutenant entered the Army
in May, 1959, and was last sta
tioned at Ft. Hood, Tex.
★ ★ ★
Pvt. Billy R. Morgan, ’54, com
pleted the eight-week basic Army
administration course Oct. 23 at
Ft. Dix, N. J. Morgan received
training in typing, record keep
ing and general personnel admin
istrative procedures. He entered
the Army in June of this year
and received basic training at Ft.
Riley, Kan.
★ ★ ★
Army 2nd Lt. Alan R. Todd,
’57, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rolla B.
Todd, San Marcos, Tex., partici
pated with the 18th Aviation
Company in Exercise Dragon
Head at Ft. Bragg, N. C. The
exercise was concluded Nov. 9.
Lt. Todd is regularly assigned as
a motor officer in the company at
Ft. Riley, Kan.
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TV OR NOT TV
The academic world has made its first tentative steps into
television—a few lectures, a few seminars, a few lab demonstra
tions—but colleges have not yet begun to use television’s vast
capacity to dramatize, to amuse, to stir the senses, to unshackle
the imagination. Like, for example, the following:
ANNOUNCER: Howdy, folksies. Well, it’s time again for
that lovable, laughable pair, Emmett Twonkey Magruder,
Ph. D., and Felicia May Crimscott, M.A., in that rollicking,
roistering fun show, American History 101 . .. And here they
are—the team that took the “hiss” out of “history”—Emmett
Twonkey Magruder and Felicia May Crimscott!
DR. MAGRUDER: Howdy, folksies. A funny thing hap
pened to me on the way to my doctorate. A mendicant ap
proached me and said, “Excuse me, sir, will you give me 25
cents for a sandwich?” and I replied, “Perhaps I will, my good
man. Let me see the sandwich.”
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delicious! You’re a regular Joe Penner!... But enough of
badinage. Let us turn to our rollicking, roistering fun show,
American History 101.
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© 1959 Max Shulman
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