Friday, February 18, 1966
College Station, Texas
Pro Folk Singers
Set Comic Pace
SHAME, SHAME ON THE
JOHNSON BOYS! By Joel
Oliansky. Dutton.
The strange world of profes
sional folk singers is the setting
for this racy, gamey comic novel.
PALACE
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NOW SHOWING
James Stewart
In
“RARE BREED”
NOW SHOWING
Kirk Douglas
In
“HEROES OF
TELEMARK”
TONIGHT 11:30 P. M.
SPECIAL PREVUE
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TONIGHT 2 LATE SHOWS
1st Show 6:30 p. m.
Burt Lancaster
In
“THE TRAIN”
2nd Show 9:00 p. m.
Jack Lemmon
In
“HOW TO MURDER
YOUR WIFE’
3rd Show 11:00 p. m.
“LOST WORLD”
4th Show 12:30 p. m.
“ALLIGATOR
PEOPLE”
OUR SAT. NITE SPECIAL
1st Show 6:30 p. m.
Jerry Lewis
In
“LIVING IT UP”
2nd Show 8:40 p. m.
Alan Ladd
In
“BOY ON A DOLPHIN”
3rd Show 10:15 p. m.
Kirk Douglas
In
“DETECTIVE STORY”
CIRCLE
LAST NITE 2 COLOR HITS
1st Show 6:30 p. m.
Jeff Hunter
In
“MURIETA”
2nd Show 8:40 p. m.
Natalie Woods
In
“SEX & THE SINGLE
GIRL”
OUR SAT. NITE BIG 3
1st Show 6:40 p. m.
Sterling Hayden
In
“TIMBERSACK”
2nd Show 8:40 p. m.
Cliff Walker
In
“YELLOWSTONE
KELLY”
3rd Show 10:20 p. m.
“BRAINSTORM”
STARTS SUNDAY
“BECKET”
Oliansky takes you right into
the scene with a episode in
which impresario Willard Mc
Allister hauls Half-Dead Hawk
ins, an old-time Negro street
- singer, in and out of a Texas
jail, and off to New York for a
promotional buildup.
McAllister also arranges the
formation of a new trio—Dave,
Ben and Gil, two guitars and a
banjo—right under the nose of a
rival promoter.
The trio becomes involved in
several complications, one of
which is a nymphomaniac named
Sonya. Another is Ben’s grow
ing megalomania.
The early part of the narrative
is keyed to a hootenanny, and in
this scene the comedy is mild
and almost sympathetic. It be
comes more bitter when the
author lampoons many of the
industry’s odd facets — the arty
pretensions, the scheming of
the agents, the publicity tricks,
the fancy stunts in the recording
business, the phony hangers-on.
Oliansky plunks a mean banjo,
as they used to say in the trade.
Admiral Describes
Officer Career
As Professional
THE NAVAL PROFESSION,
By Rear Admiral James Calvert,
McGraw-Hill. Admiral Calvert
gives a realistic picture of life
in the Navy, covering all sub
jects and all aspects of the naval
officer’s life. He explains not
only the many different careers
the Navy offers and the many
different ways of becoming an of
ficer, but also what it is like
to be a professional officer, what
it feels like to command a ship,
to take part in a sea battle or to
land troops for invasion, what
being a professional officer
means.
Calvert is well aware that the
Navy is not the right life for
all. The enthusiastic and allur
ing picture of the seagoing life
that he presents is therefore
tempered with realistic informa
tion about the hazards and bur
dens of the profession.
The Naval Profession is frank,
fair and serious, Calvert claims.
It assumes that the man con
sidering Uncle Sam’s Navy will
want to know as much as pos
sible.
Calvert was executive officer
of the submarine Jack during
World War II, and twice won the
Silver Star and Bronze Star Med
als. He commanded the USS
Skate on both her history-making
arctic voyages.
A Complete Inventory of
Collegiate Clothing and
furnishings, featuring
leading
traditional brands
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Each Style A Creation
Hair styling at it’s best by two well trained men’s
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from Chicago, Philadelphia and New York where she
attended classes conducted by world renown stylists.
Jim is a platform artist attending many hairstyling
shows and clinics.
Phone 846-5541
Books
(Compiled by Publishers’
Weekly)
FICTION
THE SOURCE, Michener
THOSE WHO LOVE,
Stone
THE LOCKWOOD CON
CERN, O’Hara
AIRS ABOVE THE
GROUND, Stewart
UP THE DOWN STAIR
CASE, Kaufman
NONFICTION
A THOUSAND DAYS,
Schlesinger
KENNEDY, Sorensen
A GIFT OF PROPHECY,
Montogmery
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY,
Berne
IN COLD BLOOD, Capote
Battalion Needs
Book Reviewers
The Battalion presents today
a collection of reviews of books
which have not yet hit the mar
ket.
Anyone interested in reviewing
current books — either fiction
or non-fiction — for publication
in The Battalion should contact
associate editor Larry Jerden in
the Student Publications Office
in the YMCA Building basement.
Book reviewers are given the
books they review.
THE BATTALION
Page 3
Institutions Face Changing Period
The University in Transition
by James A. Perkins, president
of Cornell. Princeton University
Press. The book is taken from
the Stafford Little public lecture
series delivered by Dr. Perkins at
Princeton Nov. 3-5.
Dr. Perkins suggests that the
university in America is moving
through a transitional period
where it is undergoing rapid
changes as it adjusts to a new
place in human affairs. In this
process of change, the university
is increasing its power and in
fluence in society and at the same
time is losing its autonomy and
independence as it becomes a part
of the larger system of higher
education.
As the university goes through
this transition, Dr. Perkins em
phasizes the importance of uni
versity presidential leadership. It
is the president who must lead
the administration, trustees, fac
ulty and students into an under
standing of the “institution as a
whole, the activities it supports,
the public face it presents, and
the private concerns with which
it is occupied.”
The president must be “an
agent both for stability and
change” and should “not fear
power or be afraid to exercise it
because he must know that power
cannot be the direct concern of
either student or teacher.”
“The student is a student,”
states Dr. Perkins. “He is at the
university to learn—not to man
age; to reflect—not to decide; to
observe—not to coerce.” As for
faculty, Dr. Perkins feels that
“The nature of knowledge today
is such that it requires minds and
talents of quite a different order
than those needed to make admin
istrative decisions. And the fac
ulty should be left as free as
possible of administrative duties
in order to do its work.”
The university, with its three
fundamental missions of research,
teaching, and public service, has
become the pump that feeds fresh
ideas and manpower into the
bloodstream of American life.
This vital role has caused much
of the formidable growth of the
university, which in turn has
created many problems.
With regard to internal prob
lems, Dr. Perkins observes that
each university must recognize
that it can’t possibly cover the
full range of all knowledge, and
must therefore focus its efforts
in research, teaching, and service
on those areas where it is able to
achieve real excellence. Likewise,
the public service activities of the
faculty can be justified only if
they feed back information into
research and teaching.
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| College Catalogue Spoof |
\ Pokes Fun At Education |
GOING AROUND IN ACADEMIC CIRCLES: A LOW VIEW
OF HIGHER EDUCATION by Richard Armour, McGraw-Hill. An
inside job spoof on the American College written by a man with more
than thirty-seven years’ experience as a teacher and administrator
in schools all over the country.
The book is a parody of a complete college catalogue, covering
such topics as admissions, expenses, the campus, and the curri
culum all seen from Armour’s very special point of view.
The author includes a history of higher education from prehis
toric times to the present. The following comment on the Middle
Ages is only one of many hitherto-unearthed facts about education
that he includes:
“Members of the faculty were better off than previously,
because they wore suits of armor. Fully accoutered, and
with their visors down, they could summon up enough
courage to go into the President’s office and ask for a
promotion even though they had not published a thing.”
The author presents a comprehensive guide to financial aid
which will be of help to all needy students:
“Financial aid takes many forms, all of them involving
money. There are, for example, scholarships. One of
these is the Henry M. Humplemeyer, established by Henry
M. Humplemeyer in memory of Henry M. Humplemeyer,
available to any worthy and needy student of good char
acter who comes from North Dakota, has a mole on his
right cheek, and is under five feet tall.”
Many other areas are covered as thoughtfully as the above-
mentioned, making this book of interest to the student, the faculty,
the alumni, the administration, the drop-outs and all who have a
sense of humor.
To any kid
who’d like to go somewhere:
We’ll pay half your fare.
The idea’s not as crazy as it may seem.
Anytime we take a jet up, there are almost
always leftover seats.
So it occurred to us that we might be able
to. fill a few of them, if we gave the young
people a break on the fare, and a chance to
see the country.
The American Youth Plan*
We call the idea the American Youth Plan,
and what it means is this:
American will pay half the jet coach fare
for anybody 12 through 21.
It’s that simple.
All you have to do is prove your age (a birth
certificate or any other legal document will do)
and buy a $3 identification card.
We date and stamp the card, and this en
titles you to a half-fare ticket at any American
Airlines counter.
The only catch is that you might have to
wait before you get aboard; the fare is on a
standby basis.
“Standby” simply means that the pas
sengers with reservations and the servicemen
get on before you do.
Then the plane’s yours.
The American Youth Plan is good year
round except for a few days before and after
the Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas
rushes.
If you can’t think of any places you’d like
to go offhand, you might see a travel agent
for a few suggestions.
We can’t add anything else.
Other than it’s a marvelous opportunity
to just take off.
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until you have your ID validated.)
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with $50 worth of discount coupons.
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