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Sooner Magazine Published Every Month by the University of Oklahoma Association SOONER MAGAZINE PUBLISHED EVERY MONTH BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA ASSOCIATION Alumni Stag Members : George Souris, '47, Assistant Editor ; Ted Beaird, '21, Riding the Range ; Harold Keith, '29, Sooner Sports ; Betty McLean, '48, Roll Call ; Betty Barclay, '45, Staff Photographer ; Mrs . Mary Turnbull, Alumni Records ; Lui Antonelli, '41, and Joe N . Croom, Jr ., '48, mailing . VOL. XIX NOVEMBER, 1946 NO. 3 The Cover Sooner Magazine proudly presents for its Home- coming issue, 1946, an outstanding, active Sooner family, namely, Joe Golding, Sooner football star ; Ri~i"5 tke SOottet Raa5e his wife, Jo Lane ; and his daughter, Cheryl Lane . (See feature story, page 2 on "O .U .'s Gold Stan- dard .") By TED' BEAIRD The O .U . alums arc fast breaking into new news! Earnest T . Hoberecht, '41journ, who as an Okla- Yes, news flooding in from all corners, in these, homa newspaperman set a near-record in wordage the early hours of November, 1946 . Flashes just of unsold fiction written in his spare time, has at Contents corre- off the ticker tape show dozens and dozens of last hit the jackpot in Tokyo, where he is a spondent for the United Press . prominent O.U . Alumni elected to county, dis- RIDING THE RANGE He is the author of a Japanese lest-seller, a ------------------ 1 trict, state, and national elective offices, in the big novel which is the Nipponese counterpart of such Ted Beaird election "landslide" experienced some days ago . books in this country as Among the names that click across the desk in these "Forever Amber" or "The closing hours just prior to Armistice Day to come Hucksters ." SOONER SPORTS ----------------------- 4 in the next 72 hours, are : GLEN JOHNSON, '39, Okemah ; CARL ALBERT, '316a, McAlester ; And the writing and sell- Harold Keith PRESTON PEDEN, '366a, '391aw, Altus, and BILL ing of the book has made '16, Stigler, all going to Congress as him about the wealthiest STIGLER, __ ---------------- 6-11 representatives from their districts in the state of correspondent in Tokyo- ROIL CALL the yen, which, Oklahoma . in terms of Betty McLean unhappily for Hoberecht, Sooner names flash across the screen in various he can't spend outside Ja- pursuits of life, not only in the political field, pan . O .U . LAB SCHOOLS _ 13-15 but in all walks of life . The ticker tape always An article describing Ho- records Sooner doins' . Here a news story comes Dr. Garold Holstinc berecht's sensational suc- across the desk about JOE LOONEY, '206a, '221aw, cess as the author of a Wewoka, taking over the job as "prexy" of the Japanese best-seller appears DAD'S outfit of O .U . and to carry forward, in FACULTY -------------------------------- 16 in the October 28 issue of what we predict will be a most constructive man- ERNIE HOBERECHT Time Magazine. the work set up by the retiring president and ner, Hoberecht, noticing ARMED FORCES ____________ 18-19 other Sooner Alum, NORMAN BRILLHART, The Time writeup says that widely popular read- '17ba, Madill . COMMISSIONER PAUL WALKER, that Japan did not have any ing matter, decided to fill the vacancy with a novel '121aw, of Washington, drops by enroute from his MEDICAL SCHOOL NOTES - _19 Federal Comunications Commissioner's office in of his own composition . Washington, to radio hearings in Los Angeles . Says Time : "Last week a Tokyo publisher Here just a minute, but hopes to be back when brought out the result, a richly corned-up novel the whistle sounds for the Homecoming game, called 'Tokyo Romance .' It had a U . S . correspond- November 16 . CHIEF JOHHNY WILKINSON, ent for a hero, a Japanese movie queen for a her- UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA ASSOCIATION '23ba, and wife, of St . Louis, drop in for a visit, oine, a faint flavor of 'Machine Butterfly,' a happy Officers : Maj . Wm . V. Cox, Ponca City, Presi- motoring out from St . Louis to Dallas and West ending. Overnight, it became a best-seller ; book- dent ; Mrs. June Baker Durkee, Mangum, first vice- drops printing (100,000 copies) president ; Joe Curtis, Pauls Valley, second vice- Texas points . MIKE MONRONEY, '246a, sellers gobbled the first president ; Ted M . Beaird, Norman, executive sec- by to check up on the "corporation ." Yes, at this and yelled for more." retary . hour MIKE is safely back in Congress by a ma- And here is Time's summary of the plot : Executive Board Members : Hal Muldrow, Jr., over another Sooner son, Norman ; Herbert Branan, Oklahoma City ; Max jority of 3,498 votes "In captured Jap strongholds in the Pacific, War Cook, Clinton ; C. V . Nichols, Anadarko, and Wil- '291aw, Oklahoma City, as CARMON HARRIS, Correspondent Kent Wood, found faded pin-up liam F . Absher, Bartlesville, all members-at-large ; a result of the ballots a few hours ago in Okla- Emerson Price, Vinita, District I representative ; pictures of an almond-eyed cinema star (who homa's Fifth Congressional District . "JAP" HAS- James L . Robinson, Tahlequah, District II ; James looked like Movie Actress Yetkiko Todoroki, a C . Hamill, Madill, District III ; James R . Frazier, KELL, '22bs, O.U .'s Athletic Department High- good friend of the author) . Later in Tokyo, they Wewoka, District IV ; Joe W . Curtis, Pauls Valley, Mogul-dashes in, grabs SOONER-ARMY color District V ; Grady D. Harris, Alex, District VI ; met and fell in love . But they had to woo in picture film-dashes out-catches Santa Fe, Mrs . June Baker Durkee, Mangum, District VII ; motion secret, for her studio forbade fraternization . When Cox, Ponca City, District VIII, bound, to meet the O .U . Alumni Club Maj . William V. WICHITA another correspondent was murdered by a former and George D . Hann, Ardmore, immediate past Jayhawker city tonight-there to in that K .U . Nazi spy, Hero Kent Wood was suspect. His girl president . tidings of O.U . Thus it comes Trustees of Life Membership Fund : Errett R . spread the good friend tossed away her chance for a big role by Carey, Oklahoma goes-the ticker tape always recording Newby, Oklahoma City ; Tom F. and thus it confessing that she was with him at the time of City, and Neil R . Johnson, Norman. Sooner activities . 1946-47 Alumni Representatives of the O . U . the murder. R . interesting "recordings" on Athletic Council : Paul Reed, Sulphur ; Neil One of the most "She was fired, married her American and they Johnson, Norman ; Granville T. Norris, Muskogee . however, is the good true- that ticker tape tonight, went honeymooning at Atami hot springs. A tele- Sooner Magazine is published the fifth day of yarn on the "Ole" journalist, ERNIE HOBE- each month by the University of Oklahoma Asso- gram came from her studio : in view of her "dem- Okla . Entered as RECHT, '41journ. Whether it be in Berlin, in re- ciation, Union Building, Norman, ocratic sacrifice' all was forgiven, and the big role second-class matter Oct. 13, 1928, at the post office cently war-torn France ; in South America ; in of was hers after all . Fadeout ." in Norman, Okla ., under the Act of Congress Tokyo, plus points East and plus points West-or March 3, 1879 . Subscription $3 .00 per year, of novel's setting for the most part is at No . magazine and $1 .00 for in these United States, there is always a Sooner The which $2.00 is for the Shimbun alley, the official billet for foreign cor- Alumni Dues . Foreign, $4 .00. Life, $60 .00. Single alumnus in the news! Some Sooner making inter- 1 are those of -Hoberecht got many of the resi- copies 25 cents . Opinions expressed esting news and headlines, due to his, her, or their respondents, and the editor and do not neessarily, represent official covers . Member contributions! The dope on ERNIE? Well, here it dents between the action of the Alumni Executive Board. of American Alumni Council . 'tiz . (Continued on next page) NOVEMBER, 1946 The book, moreover, has romantic illustrations, Against Dana Bible's mighty Texas, like Army described O.U .'s Gold Standard as the first kissing scenes ever to aclorn rated No . 1 in the Nation the week Oklahoma met a Japanese novel. Hoberecht explains that since The gold Oklahoma's Sooners found six years them and which had averaged nearly 300 yards per Japanese are unaccustomed to western-style em- ago down in the smoky hills of McIntosh County game rushing while murdering Missouri 42-0, braces, he went into "great, quivering detail ." Colorado 76-0 and Oklahoma A&M 54-6, Golding is buying Coach Jim Tatum's rugged team a lot Hoberecht wrote his novel in English and got single-handed out-rushed the whole Texas team, a Japanese friend to translate it . A Tokyo news- of prestige these days-inflation or no inflation. gaining 86 net yards to Texas' 81 while Bobby paper wanted to run the book as a serial, and two It was six years ago that Joe "Junior" Golding, Layne, the Texas tailback, was collecting only 13 net yards in nine rushes. of Japan's three leading movie makers have put in a Eufaula, Oklahoma, high school boy, was ar- Golding also robbed bids for the screen rights . dently courted and won by the Sooners. Tom Stid- Layne when the chips were ham, brawny Sooner head coach, not only per- down by intercepting a flat pass Layne flung to Time magazine's article quoted Hoberecht as sonally visited the fancy-footed Eufaula boy in Hub Bechtol, Texas All-American end, and sprint- saying he "probably wouldn't refuse" if were he those days but also sent his brother, George, a ing 99 yards to a touchdown that put Oklahoma asked play the hero's role for the motion to pic- personable Checotah, Oklahoma, banker, over to back in the game 13-14 early in the fourth quarter.
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