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• Columns • Editorials • News Briefs Cbe Battalion Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, March 4, 1966 • Opinions • Cartoons • Features T ricks His S leeve Jim Baldauf To Pull Act Out Of His Hat For Routine CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle By LANI PRESSWOOD Battalion Amusements Editor Jim Baldauf, A&M's ITS en try, is sure to have a few tricks up his sleeve Saturday night — he’s a professional magician. The 22-year-old English major combined a sharp line of patter with his smooth magic act to win the Aggie Talent Show back in December and gain a berth in this 15th annual ITS. In anticipation of his upcoming appearance, Baldauf has been concentrating heavily on perfec ting his routine for the past couple of weeks and has added several new tricks. Although he confesses that he's still “nervous before every per formance,” Jim has been appear ing on stage as a magician for over ten years. He has appeared before church, civic and school groups as well as other talent shows since he first started pulling rabbits out of top hats. After awhile he switched from amateur to pro fessional status and has held membership in both the Interna tional Brotherhood of Magicians and the Texas Association of Magicians. Baldauf dates his serious in terest in magic back about ten years, when he was living in Pennsylvania. A then 94-year- old show business veteran, James Bard, provided the spark. BALDAUF REHEARSES ROUTINE . .. A&M ITS entry practices card trick. Bard was a friend and profes sional colleague of Harry Hou- dini, one of the legendary names in entertainment history. “Bard was a retired vaudeville performer,” Baldauf recalls, “and a close personal friend of Hou- dini’s. He was in the top acroba tic act in vaudeville during his day. He gave me several per sonal letters of Houdini, a stage costume of Mrs. Houdini’s, and some other things.” One of Bard's gifts hangs in Baldauf’s living room — a vaude ville advertising poster dated 1897. The poster is not the only un usual item in Jim’s living room, though. A boa constrictor meas uring over six feet occupies a cage in one comer. Baldauf and his wife Margaret have named the reptile ‘Bo’ and keep him healthy on a steady diet of rats. About once a month they let Bo out to slither around the house and get his exercise. Baldauf’s interest in animals, as well as magic, may well be hereditary. His father, Richard, heads up both the A&M Wildlife Sciences Department and the Ag- gieland Combo. Jim and his wife of over two years, the former Margaret Thames, are both graduates of A&M Consolidated. He calls Margaret “a tremen dous aid” and reveals that “she is engaged in a lot of the back- stage work in my act.” Baldauf hopes to keep magic as a sideline but his future plans are geared toward graduate school and not the stage. But even though he doesn’t plan to pursue magic as a career, Bald auf is serious about the field and offers some thoughful observa tions on the subject. “Magic is one of the oldest forms of entertainment and the sorcerers and alchemists of old made some important scientific discoveries. “In this technological age, the public isn’t impressed with gim micks and tricky boxes. The trend in magic now is toward simplicity, sleight of hand, and good entertainment.” For a sample of what he means come out to ITS tomorrow night. But sit close to the front only at your own peril . . . one of the staples of his act is audience participation. “Thanks friend! This option entitles you to select the Apache Belle of your choice at th’ I.T.S. Saturday and ask her for a date!” 3 Girls Win Homemaker Honors Three A&M Consolidated High School girls are in the top 10 per cent of United States’ home makers, according to the results of a test given last December. The Betty Crocker Search for the American Homemaker of To morrow revealed that Ann Mc- Murry, Dianne Bell and Eveljt Logan scored among the nation'; top 10 per cent. A&M Consolidated girls rank ing in the top 20 per cent wer* Ardis Kemler, Sally Robinson Peggy Owen, Barbara Both, Kay Fisher, Jane Rudder, Alitt Berry, Loretta Covington Janet Holt. Campus Interviews with ^Lockheed-Georgia Outstanding career opportunities are open at Lockheed- Georgia for Aeronautical, Civil (structural). Mechanical, Metallurgical Engineers and Physics (dynamics-mechan ics) majors. Located only 8 miles from Atlanta, Lockheed- Georgia offers a unique combination of career opportunity and extra-curricular appeals: convenient resort areas, major league baseball and football, pleasant year-around climate, and opportunities for post-graduate study. LOCKHEED-GEORG IA COMPANY A Division of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation An equal opportunity employer SEE YOUR COLLEGE PLACEMENT DIRECTOR FOR AN INTERVIEW ON March 9, 1966 If an interview is inconvenient at this time, you are invited to mail your resume to: Rick Green, College Relations Coordinator, Lockheed-Georgia Company, 834 West Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30308* Dept. W-201. 1Q66 FORDS FOR WORK OR PLAY THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student ivriters only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported non profit, self-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community newspaper. Members of the Student Publications Board are: Joe Buser, chairman ; Dr. David Bowers, College of Liberal Arts; Dr. Robert A. Clark, College of Geosciences; Dr. Frank A. Mc Donald, College of Science; Dr. J. G. McGuire, College of Engineering; Dr. Robert S. Titus, College of Veterinary Medicine; and Dr. A. B. Wooten, College of Agriculture. The Battalion, a student newspaper at iiblished in College Station, Texas dail; Texas A&M is except Saturday, published in College station, lexas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, September through May, and once a week during summer school. MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republieation of all other matter herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. 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