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Court Coverage
In Biased View
Gets Blast
Of Press
Wanderin'—
By Larry R. Jerden
Poetry is written by many kinds of people,
for many different reasons. I’ve always enjoyed
reading it, and wished I could write it myself,
but somehow never could get a good second line
to go with the thousands of first lines I’d come
up with.
The following composition comes to The Batt
from Mrs. R. I. Hoke of Bay City,
A sergeant yelled “Put them on the front line,”
A soldier exclaimed, “But sarge, we don’t want
their kind.”
They are weak in spirit, body and mind,
Better off in a hole where the sun never shines.
Ship ’em home, put them under mama’s skirt,
They’re worth about as much as a bunch of
rats in the dirt.'
If I've got any kin like their lot, scratch
them off my list,
Cause their not worth a dot.
We’re fighting over there to protect their hide,
Tramps like them haven’t got any pride.
They feel they are safe in the USA,
But if real men weren’t over there
They’d all be blown away.
Safe and smug as long as they can hide,
Their conscience must be a mighty poor guide.
We’ll win this war without their cowardly hand
And keep America from becoming a no man’s
land.
With God’s help and his guidance from above
We’ll keep this nation a land of love.
Onward we will go with heads held high,
Tired, dirty and hungry
But never a sigh.
Some will go down and never rise again,
But we’ll keep fighting till this gruesome war
we win.
* * * *
Tessies, too, get poetic now and then.
There’s a tessie up here somewhere,
That’s mighty sad and blue.
She’s the one that didn’t get a letter
When the mail was due.
No, she can’t call you, she doesn’t have a phone,
For up here at TWU,
There aren’t the conveniences of home.
She’s up here studying for her parents and you.
And she sure gets homesick for a letter when
the mail is due.
You remember when you left.
You said you’d write everyday.
Now she wonders what’s happened to those
letters.
Could they have been delayed?
You see, Aggie, she is my roomie.
I’m with her every day,
And that Tessie sure does love you more than
words can say.
Aggie, I thought I’d write and tell you
Your letters aren’t getting though,
For she’s my roomie and I hate to see her blue.
And that’s the way she gets without a letter
from you.
* * * *
Aggies try their hand at rhymes at times, but
their works are rarely, if ever, printable. If any
one on this campus can write this sort of thing, send
it to PO Box 2593, TWC, Denton. That poor girl
needs some kind of mail.
Foregone Conclusion
Dims Enlightenment
THE PRESS IN THE JURY BOX. By Howard
Felsher and Michael Rosen. MacMillan. $5.95.
The relationship between pretrial news cover
age and the administration of justice has received
much attention lately. Complex public and consti
tutional issues are involved. But this book is a
contribution to controversy rather than enlighten
ment.
Felsher’s foregone conclusion: The press must
be legally restricted in most phases of pretrial
and crime coverage because, he says, its present
practice massively violates defendants’ rights to
an impartial trial. In the course of his argument,
Felsher not only accords the press a kind of per
vasive power it has never enjoyed, but also ac
cuses it of chronic inaccuracy, distortion, “depre
dations,” irresponsibility and assorted other sins,
none of them applicable on any significant scale.
Even those disposed to concede occassional
press abuse in pretrail coverage may be a long
way from buying Felsher’s remedy. Is it really
proven that pretrial coverage, even where lurid,
fatally prejudices the minds of jurors ? That
innocent men have been convicted because of it?
That when the court instructs jurors to ignore press
and other outside infhionces, an impossible psy
chological feat is involved? That a mentally anti
septic jury is ever attainable, even if newspapers
largely ignored crime coverage, as Felsher seems
to prefer?
No such doubts ever detain the author, whose
generalizations, like a wet monsoon, sweep every
thing before them. And when the courts them
selves disagree with Felsher, as they mostly do in
cases he himself cites — well, so much the worse
for the courts.
Felsher cites three California cases in which
a newspaper editorialized on a case under judicial
advisement. Whatever the proprieties, the con
tempt levied against the newspapers was reversed
by the Supreme Court of the United States. He
lashes a Miami newspaper for an editorial (27
years ago) criticizing a judge for rejecting an in
dictment; the judge held the paper in contempt,
and the Supreme Court again reversed him. His
patience with the high court wearing thin, Felsher
comments, “obviously it is not safe to assume that
the contempt citation is an effective safeguard
against the depredations of the press.”
Engineers To Attend
Conference Next Week
Eight industrial engineering students will
participate in the Southwest Area Student Confer
ence of the American Institute of Industrial En
gineers (AIIE) at Kansas State University, Man
hattan, Kan., March 4-5, 1966. Two students will
also present technical papers at the conference.
Students from colleges and universities in
Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico, Louisi
ana, and Texas will I>e participating in the con
ference.
Charles E. Herzog, A&M senior, will present
the senior paper, “An Evaluation and Comparison
of the CRAFT and Wimmert Methods of Optimum
Equipment Location.”
The junior paper, “Organization of Work,” will
be presented by Joe D. Woodward, an A&M junior.
At the Movies
with Lani Presswood
With Dick Van Dyke and Elke
Sommer The Art of Love couldn’t
miss, and you know what ? It
doesn’t.
Belly laughs and rolling in the
aisle it’s not. But fast of pace,
quick of wit and light of heart,
it is. And the result is a bright,
fresh comedy which is a worthy
addition to producer Ross Hun
ter’s well-stocked trophy case.
Being a show about romance,
naturally the action is set in the
traditional amour capital of the
world — Paris.
Van Dyke plays a struggling
American artist with a strugg
ling, unscruplous American writ
er (James Garner) for a garret-
mate.
Dick’s paintings are barely
worth the energy it would take
to rip them up while he’s alive,
but when the Parisian populace
think he’s committed suicide his
stuff sells like popsicles in July.
Garner, television’s Bret Mav
erick, is not one to look the
other way at such an opportunity
and so he keeps the reluctant
martyr out of circulation while
the selling price of his paintings
continues to spiral.
During the midst of all this
intrigue, two of screendom’s more
delectable numbers manage to
get into the act — Angie Dickin
son and Elke.
Now Elke’s just wild about
Dick, so to even things out An
gie has to pair off with James.
Only it’s not quite that simple
because . . . well, you know how
complicated these things can get
in comedies.
Van Dyke spends a good bit
of the show running around in a
red wig and blue sunglasses, and
that sight alone is nearly worth
the Campus Theater’s price of
admission.
There’s just something about
Dick Van Dyke that makes any
thing he touches click. His tele
vision show is one of the few
that can be conscientiously sat
through more than once or twice.
Julie Andrews came away with
the headlines but “Mary Pop-
pins” owned more than a little of
its charm to Van Dyke.
This guy has a knack of mak
ing you enjoy yourself and his
name on the marquee is a pretty
good indication in itself that the
show inside is a good one.
Of course the others in the
cast of “The Art Of Love” are
not exactly slouches themselves.
Elke has never shook me up
with her acting ability but her
physical assets are enough to
make her a welcome addition.
Gamer plays a part similar
to Charlie in “The Americaniza
tion of Emily,” a role that he
handles with skill and finesse.
And Angie is not on screen near
enough in this film but when
she is around, you know about
it.
These four swingers, Ethel
Mennan and her troupe of “danc
ing girls,” sharp direction by
Norman Jewison, and a well-knit
story line all combine to make
a sparkling, lively comedy, a
commodity far less common than
it should be.
THE BATTALION
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EDITOR GLENN DROMGOOLE
Associate Editor Larry Jerden
Managing Editor Tommy DeFrank
Sports Editor Gerald Garcia
News Editor I Dani Presswood
current best sellers T he Last 100 Days
(Compiled by Publishers’ Weekly J
— FICTION —
The SOURCE, Michener — THOSE WHO LOVE, Stone
UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE, Kaufman — THE LOCKWOOD
CONCERN, O’Hara — THE DOUBLE IMAGE, Maclnnes
— NONFICTION —
IN COLD BLOOD, Capote — A THOUSAND DAYS, Schlesinger
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY, Berne — A GIFT OF PROPHECY,
Montgomery — THE PROUD TOWER, Tuchman
CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle
“Sir, I just wanted to tell you that I completely understand
the material in this course—You’ve done a wonderful job
in presenting it! However, quizzes don’t usually give a fair
measure of my grasp of th’ material, so you might like to
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New TolandBook Examines
End Of WW II In Europe
THE LAST 100 DAYS. By
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Between Jan. 27, 1945, and
V-E Day there was an avalanche
of headline war developments.
Toland has summarized them in
a book of more than 600 pages,
using here-and-now techniques
for his story.
Toland has been selective. He
has not given a balanced com
prehensive view of the war, which
would have taken volumes. He
moves from one tense scene to
another.
He tells of prison camps, the
Dresden bombing, the friction be
tween British and American
staffs, the Yalta Conference, the
somewhat accidental Remagen
bridgehead, local strife in Vienna
and Prague and the German ex
termination camps.
He couldn’t include everything;
such figures as Goering and
Eichmann barely appear in these
pages, and (except for Dresden)
there is little reference to the
air war or the V-2 problem.
Experts undoubtedly will chal
lenge many of Poland’s inter
pretations. For the lay reader,
his main contribution has been
to create a feeling that the reader
is present at momentous events,
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