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m r i&tug-tum t• Washington and Lee University Semi-Weekly

45th YEAR NUMBER 3~ Net Star Plans Journalism Lab rw&L Goes Sissy' Washington and Lee's de­ Cagers Meet cision to admit co·eds to the To Make Home Gets UP Ticker special wartime summer ses­ sion drew wide attention from Duke Quintet In Lexington On 20-hour Day Southern newspapers, with the Visits City Between Stops A United Press teletype installed Memphis Commercial Appeal last week in the Journalism Ll· presenting the story in the most In SC Drive On Current Pro Net Tour bra.ry began ticldng early yester­ day morning, bringing to W&L the novel fashion. Squad Faces Blue Devils Fred P e r r y, Internationally­ full 20-hour radio wire serv1ce of o ver an Associated Press dis­ In Tonight's Initial Battle famous player who in the that news a.gency. patch telllng of the move the spring will begin his second year The machine. a gift of an alum­ Commercial Appeal carried tbe Of Crucial 3-Game Series as coach of W&L's varsity net nus who prefers to remain anony­ team. has completed arrangements mous. will be used primarily in following headline: Perched In fourth place after to make Lexington his permanent copy editing practice by members "W&L Goes Sissy." snatching a 30-28 triumph from home. he said yesterday after a of the copy reading and makeup Maryland Saturday n igh t. Cookie 24-hour visit during a "tlme-out" class, but It Is also available to Cunningham's cagers will begin a from his exhibition tour. non-journalism students. Mr. R. crucial week in their drive for Renewing the vow that he would M. Hodges, journalism Instructor, Darkness Still PreYails Conference honors tonight when coach here until he has "a long said. they take on the pace-setting grey beard.• · Perry said that he While In former years the de­ As 8:25 '" Classes Open Duke Blue Devils In Doremus would return to Lexington as soon partment has received only As· Gymnasium. as he, . sociated Press reports, an AP tele­ Under New War-time The game. first of three im­ and reach the end type wUl supplant the UP ticker portan Conlerence tests on the of then· exhibition tour. No defi­ The first sign of spring broke now In use late 1n March. Hodges over the W&L campus yesterday. Generals' list for this week, will nite date bas been set for the follow a 7 o'clock preliminary be­ added. It wasn't the song of the robins termination of the junket. which Besides its use by journalism tween W&L's freshmen and began In December, but the three­ In the trees. It wasn't the first Greenbriar Military Academy. students the ticker furnishes the buds of wisteria or tulips. It wasn't time world amateur champion said campus with a source of up-to­ Winners of five of their seven he probably would be free in time the baby leafs on the trees-it the-minute news right off the wasn't anything so pleasant. In Conference starts to date, Cun­ to resume coaching duties here wtres. Especially during the criti­ nJngham's paRSers will tackle a before the start or the tennis all its uncomfortable aspects. war cal Battle of Flanders In 1940, did time went Into effect. pair of tougl. out-of-town assign­ season. students jam the J ournalism Li­ ments after tonight's game. They Commenting upon his plans to brary, watching reports come in Designed to save needed elec­ will invade Chapel Hill to meet "settle down" in Lexington, Perry from the Washington AP office. tricity for the defense effort, the North Carolina on Friday night. said that he and MI·s. Perry would Several regulations regarding newly-baptized war time meant and the ne"t day will move into spend more time here each year as genera.! usage of the machine have nothing more or less than an Durham to ~>tack up against Duke the years go by. been posted. Students are asked hour's loss of sleep. for the second time In five days. "We shall probably divide our world professional title. gave no not to attempt to read copy on the Not only did students auto­ A full house ls exPected to watch time b e t we e n Lex1ngton and hint of giving up tennis. He said teletpye during the 9:20 M-W-F tonight's battle. Coached by Eddie that he would continue to partici­ matically give up a whole hour of Mexico City for the next year or block. at which time Journalism t·est. but occupants of the fresh­ Cameron. a W&L alumnus, the so." he said. "but Lexington wU I pate in tournaments and exhibi­ 202 meets. or during the class labs Duke passers have cha.lked up tions, playing out of Lexington, man dorm and most fraternity be our home." The Perrys were conducted four afternoons a week houses near the campus were eight victories In as many Con­ In Mexico a year ago when he ac­ and added that he wanted to get from two to four p.m. ference starts this season to set in a. few rounds of golf "now and awakened three times in the mid­ cepted the W&L coaching post. Non-Journalism students are dle of the night by the doleful themselves up as top-heavy fav­ and returned this year prior to then." also forbidden to lift the cover. ringing of the bell atop Washing­ orites to retain the crown which the orga.nl7.at!on of the exhibition Perry was disturbed when he tamper with tbe mechanism or ton Chapel. they won last year. company. leamed that Jack Mallory. cap­ switches, or to turn the ticker on V e t e r a n s Clyde Allen. Hap tain-elect or the varsity racquet or off. Any cases of jammed paper. But pity the poor sophomore Spuhler. Sam Rothbaum and Billy Perry purchased Virginia license wbo, upon hearing the bell. jump­ tags for h is car yesterday. and team. and Bill Harrellson. num­ twisted ribbon. or garbled mess­ McCahan and Sophomores John ber two man. would not be on ages should be reported to a mem­ ed out of bed and rushed for his