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back page I'm Blue Bell — fly me If you're looking for an un- I usual Christmas gift for far- I away relatives, look no I further. I That little creamery in hrenham is now offering to send the delicious taste of Blue Bell anywhere in the Un ited States. It's all part of Blue Bell's 75th anniversary celebration. Now through December 15th, Blue Bell Creameries along with Continental airlines, will ship two one-half gallons of ice cream to any one of over 72 Continental destinations for onlv $19.95. The flavors. Homemade Vanilla, Cookies 'n Cream, Dutch Chocolate, Chocolate Chip, Buttered Pecan and Pra lines 'n Cream are packed and shipped in dry ice in a special ly designed Stryofoam ice chest. Once the ice cream ar rives at its destination, the re cipient will be called. To order, check coupons in newspaper ads, store coun ters, Continental Airlines counters or write: Flights of Flavor P.O. Box 402 Brenham, TX 77833. Eisenstein A new book telling the life and work of the revolutionary film director Eisenstein has been written and compiled by Jay Leyda, Eisenstein's close friend and associate, in Eisen stein at Work. The book is a study of the filmmaker's career based on information in two major arc hives — the collections of the Eisenstein Committee in Mos cow and of The Museum of at Work Modem Art in New York. The book starts with Eisnes- tein's earliest theatrical work and covers the making of such films as Battleship Potemkin, October, Alexander Nevsky to the works he never com pleted including. An Amer ican Tragedy. — Einstein At Work, Panth eon Books, $30 hardcover; $15.95 paperback V. waca, waca, waca Video etiquette When a guy and a girl play videos, whose springs for the quarter? What's the latest in comfortable videowear? These and other weighty questions are answered in Michael Rubin's book. De fending the Galaxy — The Complete Handbook of Videogamming. Written by Rubin and a team of young authors, this is the first book to gather the unwritten aspects of gaming — arcade rules, customs, vocabulary, ^" 1 - idon horoscope — into a lifestyle guide for the booming gaming culture. The authors discourage readers from studying how- to-win books ("why cheat when you're the only one playing," they ask.) Defend ing the Galaxy provides strategies for survival at a number of popular games. And if you need a quick video fix when you're out of town, listed is a directory of arcades across the country. — Triad Publishing, $4.95 6lttm5L£ GRimsi-fc HERE* IR$ refund Greek Songfest Songfest, a musical variety show, will presented Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Bryan Civic Auditorium. Sixteen groups will sing and dance as they compete for first place trophies in several different categories. This year marks the sixth annual Songfest, which is sponsored by Chi Omega sorority. Proceeds from the show are donated to the Brazos Val ley Rehabilitation Center. Last year, the rehabilitation center received $1800 from Songfest. Besides the 16 groups in the competetion, Songfest will feature performances by Susan Spartz, a former Miss New Mexico and Steve Au stin, who will be the master of ceremonies. Tickets for Songfest are $3 in advance and $4 at the door. Believe it or not, the Inter nal Revenue Service is trying to get rid of almost $900,000. IRS has $827,957.80 in re turned refund checks waiting to be picked up by residents of south and central Texans. The list of people with uncollected refunds includes 1,931 names. Their checks range from $1 to $26,845. If the IRS owes you some bucks and you'd just about given up hope of ever seeing them, keep faith and write to the Department of Treasury, 300 E. 8th St., Austin Tx. 78701. Turkey trot Several hundred people are expected to get a running start on Thanksgiving Day by par ticipating in Texas A&M's 13th annual Turkey Trot. The traditional 3.2 mile run/ jog/walk — depending on in dividual preferences — be gins at 8 a.m. in front of G. Rollie White Coliseum. Starting at G. Rollie White Coliseum, the course runs to Jersey Street on the south edge of the campus, east to Texas Avenue, down the East Main Drive entrance to the campus and back to the col iseum. There is no entry fee and certficates will be awarded to all participate. Locker rooms will be open for use and souvenir T-shirt transfers will be available for purchase. It's hello, Sunday will be the tenth annual World Hello Day. World Hello Day was started in 1973 when Michael and Brian McCormack, then students at Harvard Universi ty, mailed 1,360 letters, writ ten in seven languages, to the Head of State of every country in the world and to media cen ters in those countries to en courage people to participate in the first World Hello Day. Last year the McCormack Lovett at Backstage Lyle Lovett will be appear ing at Backstage tonight and Saturday from 9 p.m. to la.m. Lovett sings original music with a combination of blues and folk songs. Lovet, a graduate from Texas A&M who now is a gra duate student, also is a regu lar at Backstage. He performs there two to three times a week. Cover charge for the con cert is $2. not howdy brothers sent 6,500 packages of informahon about the event to media centers around the world. Hundreds of newspapers,, magazines, and radio and television networks covered World Hello Day in 1981. This year the McCormack brothers have sent 10,000 packages of information to every country in the world. So on Sunday, say hello.