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1 Wins Title Of April Science Review f| In JC Contest Initiation Is Set Diesel, Combustion Alice Jan Flack, Bice Junior, Engines To Be Shown is the winner of the Miss Hous- For New Members In the last year, since the ton Beautiful Contest. She, was opening of the Abercrombie chosen Miss Houston Beautiful Of Phi Beta Kappa Laboratory, the mechanical en- from a field of six contestants Eight members of the Class of gineering department has de- —three from the University of 1950 have been elected Members- veloped one of the most exten- Houston and three from Rice. in-Course of Rice's Texas Beta sive and spectacular laboratory set- The other nominees were Beverly Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, an- ups in the country. This equipment Carter and Virginia Barber from nounced Floyd S. Lear, president. in operation will furnish the back- Rice and MaryXee Steinhort, Doro- The new members are Jesse Stone bone of the M.E.'s contribution to thy Elliott, and Ruthmary Anderson Binford, Jr., Mary Agnes demons, the Rice Review of Science and Arts from the U of H. William Farrell Fulton, Jr., Ray- which will take place on April 14 Alice Jan, a foreign language stu- mond Harvey Hedge, Jr., Konstantin and 15. dent, graduated from Lamar. She Kolenda, Marilyn Louise Krueger, attended Randolph-Macon Women's Richard Taylor Swim and Lewis Of special interest is the metal- College her Freshman Year, and Chisholm Thompson. lurgy laboratory in which two stu- went to Columbia last summer while The formal initiation of the group dents, H. C. Burghard and G. O. Burke have constructed a water- studying piano at Julliard School and the annual dinner will be held J of Music. March 24. The dinner will be at squirting machine which is cap- Miss Flack will make her first Cohen House and the ceremony in able of determining the effects of official appearance as Miss Houston the Lecture Lounge of Fondren Li- different temperatures upon the Beautiful over KLEE-TV at 6:45 brary. hardness of various metals. This PM, Wednesday, 8th. She will also An address will be made by Pro- small, black, pot-shaped affair ALICE JAN FLACK •si» appear at the opening luncheon of fessor Hardin S. Craig, Sr., the permits a red-hot piece of metal the campaign, Friday at the Crystal well-known authority on Shake- to be inserted into it and the Ballroom, and in the downtown pa- speare. spectator can see the water-squirt- rade of the Houston Beautiful Cam- Dates Are Set For Election Of ing portion of the mechanism play- paign on March 18th. ing water on the heated metal in The contest was sponsored by the Coeds To Positions In Rice Rondelet Tetanus, Typhoid a very unusual manner. It is called <3 Junior Chamber of Commerce. a Jominy Hardenability Tester. The Queen and Princesses of the 1950 Rondelet will be Vaccinations Available Another portion of the M.E. ex- There will be a Dramatic Club elected on March 13. All senior girls are eligible for these At Infirmary hibit which should attract laymen and 'engineers is the department's Meeting, today in AH 110. The positions except those who are married or on, probation, and no All students wanting small pox play "The Impressionable" by petition is required. The whole student body will vote at this collection of internal combustion en- vaccinations are requested to report (Continued on- Page 3) Clarke Foster and Henry Walters time. The polls will be outside Anderson Hall. to the informary before April 1. will be discussed and scheduled. JO Petitions for class duchesses Typhoid and tetanus innoculations and maids must be turned in are also available. Virgil Thomson Will This year you may obtain shots Institute Team Will to any member of the Women's Architect Society any time between 8 AM and 2 PM Speak On Critic's Job Council by Wednesday, March 15. Monday through Saturday. Miss Mr. Virgil Thompson, pianist, or- Members of the council are Gloria Elects Officers; Werner said that she likes the plan Debate At A & M ganist, composer, conductor, and Castello, Jackie Terrill, Colletta much better than last year's ar- critic will deliver a lecture on "The Ray, Barbara Hall, Puddie Hall, Bradbury Chosen rangement. Last year there were Inter-College Meet Critic and His Assignment" at 4:30 Vickie Schwarting, Claire Margaret The Architectural Society elected only two hours in the morning and The Rice Institute debate team PM, Sunday, March 19, in the audi- Moore and Carolyn Coy. The peti- new officers on Thursday, March 2, two hours in the afternoon set aside will leave at 11:00 AM today, Fri- torium of the San Jacinto High tions must have twenty-five signa- and took in a total of seventeen new for shots. Miss Werner feels that day, March 10, to participate in the School. t tures (members of the candidate's members. this year's plan causes less rush and Texas A&M Invitational Debate This, appearance by Mr. Thomp- class only) plus the signature of The new officers are Bob Brad- confusion. Tournament. The team is composed son is sponsored by the Rice Insti- the girl herself. budy, president; Charles Lowe, vice- of Raymond Lankford and Gail tute which extends to its friends and The election for the maids and president; Gene Hines, secretary; Mount. They will be accompanied the public a cordial invitation to be duchesses will be Monday, March and A1 Roberts, treasurer. New Lit Societies present. Mr. Thompson has kindly by Mr. Warner Mills of the History 20 from 8 to 1. In each class, the The new members are: Graduates; Elect First Officers Department. agreed to speak as he is in Houston F. W. Bryan, J. H. Brennan, A. girl with the highest number of By Betty McGeever The tournament will include col- at this time to conduct one of his votes will be duchess, and the next Heidbreder, and D. H. Sites. The The four new Literary Societies leges from all over this area. Thirty own compositions, presented by the new senior member is J. T. Koon, eight will be maids. met this week and elected their colleges were invited, among them Houston Symphony orchestra on the J. C. Reynolds, and B. M. Wingfield Any students who are willing to officers for the rest of the yesfllP the University of Houston. This will evening of March 20. are the new Juniors, and in the* help the Women's Council in making The Virginia Cleveland Literary mark the first tournament compe- A graduate of "Harvard Univer- Sophomore class, the new members posters and in planning decorations Society elected Nancy Branan, pres- tition for a Rice debate team since sity in 1922, Mr. Thompson studied are J. W. Christopher, N. D. Davis, are requested to Puddie Hall or Car- ident; Doris Cassil, vice-president; the war. Langford and Mount were composition with Scalero and Boul- Ieaton anger in Boston and Paris. He lived olyn Coy (for posters) and Claire " * ' V. J. Higgins, C. D Jackie Dargan, secretary; Suzanne members of Rice teams which last Hill, N. T. Lacey, W. G. McMinn, in Paris for many years coming to M&rgaret Moore or Barbara Hall Oelfke, treasurer, and Barbara Wat- year defeated A & M in two special R. Morris, R. T. Stavely, and C. R. the United States during World (for decorations). son, Literary Council representative. debates here at Rice. Wood. War II to accept the post of music All students are requested to vote Officers of the Chaille Rice Lit- The intercollegiate question for 0 critic of the New York Herald Tri- in the elections so that the contest erary Society are: Neysia Cum- debate this year is Nationalization bune. §A.mong his operatic composi- will be representative of the whole Bob Warren Elected mings, president; Nina Lee Kraft, of Basic, Non-Agricultural Indus- tione are "Four Saints in Three school. vice-president; Mary Esther Hudson, tries. Teams will debate both sides Acts" and "The Mother of Us AIT." . ; ft President of New program chairman; and Edwina during the four preliminary rounds He has contributed musical scores Blankenship, representative to the Friday and the finals Saturday. for a number of films: "The Plough All of the Beauty Nominees Rice French Gub Literary Council. 0 That Broke The Plains," "The Ri- can pick up their pictures in the Les Hiboux, the Rice French Club, Two of the Literary Societies have ver," and "Louisiana Story." For Campanile Office, Gloria Wilson, held its first feeting of the year. not adopted a name yet but their Film Society to Show his musical contribution to Robert editor of the Campanile, announc - Officers elected\were Bob Warren, officers are: Jean Upshaw, presi- Flaherty's film, "Louisiana Story," ed. president; Carol Wheeler, vice-presi- dent; Virginia Amis, vice-president; "Alexander Nevsky" he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in dent; and Nancy Boothe, secretary. Alice Spafford, secretary; Lois Per- 1949. In a story about mercy death The club was revived mainly through ucca, treasurer; and Norma Jean The next film in the series spon- In addition to symphonies, string and the trial of Dr. Hermann the efforts .of-Lester Mansfield of Rogers, Literary Council represen- sored by the Rice Film Society wilt quartets, and numerous other forms Sander in last week's issue of the French Department, and as its tative. be "Alexander Nevsky," a Russian of musical composition, Virgil the Thresher, Dr. Floyd S. Lear principal function will sponsor the The officers of tfie other Literary film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, (Continued on Page 2^ was misquoted as saying, "I bi-weekly French films to be shown Society are: president, Doris Jaffe; with a musical score by Prokofief. would not want to convict Dr. in the Lecture Lounge. Two, "Les vice-president, Shirley Arnold; sec- It will be shown on Tuesday, March Dr. Glady/ Falshaw, a mis- Sander for what he did, but if Marseilles" and "Grande Illusion" retary, Martha Ann Purifoy; treas- 14, at 8 PM, in the Lecture Lounge sionary recently returned from I had been in his position, I have already been shown. urer, Lillian Stuessy; Literarv Coun- of the library. * India, wil speak to the Canter- would have done it." Plans are being discussed to "have cil representative, Gloria Wilson. For those interested in hearing the score, Bill Barnes has lent a bury Club at its regular meeting The last clause should have a luncheon at "La Riviera," to spon- Definite meeting days for the recorded arrangement of it to the at 6 PM Sunday. Refreshments read "I would NOT have done sor an A-House Dance, to visit societies have been established. The library for use in the Music Room will be served, Connie Owens, it" French ships at -the Ship Channel, Virginia Cleveland Literary Society President of the club announced. and similar excursions. (Continued on Page 5) during the next two weeks. ?me.
<$? Two & THE THRESHER r Stadium Words & m HE STADIUM IS going up, after the manner of stadium*, Tslowly, but surely, with a large amount of attendant noise and commotion. Brown and Root is making a heroic effort to complete Music the huge undertaking in time for the first game of the season. And By Tim Weakley so far, we are informed, they are succeeding. From my position as armchair But not without some inconvenience to innocent bystanders. critic of artistic claptrap for this Necessarily, those people who live along Rice Boulevard, in the worthy Zeitung, I will now comment vicinity of the construction, are discommoded by the noise and dust. on the ballet. I didn't go to the bal- let, naturally; I wouldn't be quali- But Brown and Root, in its haste, is working at night, and it is not fied to write about it if I had. Be-, necessary for these people to put up with it. The fact that they are sides, I went to the B#llet Russe putting up with it is a credit to their forbearance, and is a positive aid last year and would sooner be nib- to the Institute in the construction of the stadium. bled by geese than go back. Ever. All football in Rice, and indeed, in Houston, owe a certain As I say, I went to the ballet once. debt to these people. It takes many, many people and types of Seated in an almost empty section activity fb create something of this size. The residents of this section of seats, I watched graceful people flitting about in fake scenery for of town are making a very real contribution by their tolerance. about two hours, two hours in which I failed to notice one shred of mean- ing in the whole affair. Supposedly, the dancers told a 7#£X/C£ |y 7WXBSHEX story or gave their emotions brought about by the circumstances; well and Entered as second class matter. October 17, 1916, at the Post Office, Houston, Texas, under the act of March 3, 1879. good. Did they act? Nope; their act- Subscription Rate $1.00 Per Year ing would make Jane Russell an Represented by National Advertising: Service, Inc., 420 Madison Ave.. New York City. Academy Award nominee. Did their Published every Friday of the regular school year except during holiday and bodily contortions have some hidden examination periods by the students of the Rice Institute. Editorial and Advertising offices are in the Fondren Library on the campus. meaning, like those of hula dancers ? Editor Emmett McGeever Not that I could tell. The same dain- Business Manager Tom Smith ty bits of footwork were used to Assistant Business Manager Ernest Voss show varying depths of feeling, and Gin Lane by Hogarth, a reproduction of which is included in the Associate Editor Bill Hobby the audience, obviously composed Life exhibition, 18th Century England, on view in Fondren Library News Editor RuCy Boone greatly of the cognoscenti, applaud- through Sunday. 18th Century London's death rate from bad gin was ed madly at each new endeavor. Editorial Advisors Bob Mcllhenny, Finis Cowan appalling, and in the popular Beggar's Opera a character, Lucy Lockit, Am I a hopeless low-brow ? Of Sports Editor * Howard Martin felt herself safe in offering poisoned gin to her rival, Polly, "for I can Assistant Sports Editor Ted Lockhart course. Then, you can understand Fanfare Editor Patsy Brady why I am unmoved by the sight of lay her death, upon the gin and so many die of that naturally that I shall Society Editor Marty Gibson a man, who having just discovered never be called in question." Make-up Staff Allyce Tinsley and Harold Melnick ' his wife in flagrante delictu, leaps Reporters Beverly Brooks, Don Eddy, John Blake- in the air and waves his feet back more, Pat Byrne, Bob Sehwarjrz, Dewey Gonsoulin, Betty Mc- and forth a specified number of // Geever, Lee Mary Parker, Nina Shannon, Bernice Davis, Julia times. I wouldn't react in this fash- Life" Culture- Exhibit in Library Martin, Shirley Arnold, Tim Weakley. ion, and consider that any art as by Bob Bradbury old as the ballet should have some "Eighteenth Century England" is the theme of the current semblance of versimilitude. Opera has been defined as a mode exhibition on the second floor of Fondren Library. The photo- The Laughing Maniac . . . of expression in which a man, when graphs, prints and text were assembled by the editors of Life stabbed, sings instead of bleeding. Magazine and constitute an enlargement of an article by the By Emmett McGeever But ballet goes opera one better; I same name in their History of Western Culture series which Last week, in the feature on euthanasia, the Thresher mis- know of no ballet, in which a behead- quoted Dr. Lear to a rather severe extent. When our repres- appeared last year. ed corpse depicts his entrance into play. entative called Dr. Lear to apologize (this apologizing business, the lower regions by a flock of tasty Eighteenth Century England Maybe so. was an age of contrast between by the way, is quite a break with tradition) Dr. Lear said, and footwork, but no one but me would Personally, I wouldn't be caught the elegant life of the nobility and I think we've got him right this time, "Oh, don't worry about bat an eye at it. dead in the bedroom slippers Sally the drab conditions of the lower class Believe me, dear friends and art furnished him, let alone his GI that. We expect something like ~ at the beginning of the Industrial patrons: I am not trying to talk shoes, for she out-Claudias Claudia that from the Thresher every South Sherwood, Chomondeley, has you out of seeing ballets, or trying Revolution. switched to Beer." to become one of the most thorough now and then." to cut down the take at the box-of- scatter-brains in the history of the The graphic arts of the time, fice. This supposedly critical column 1 stage. However she is delightful to which dominate the exhibit, reveal The Forum last night was well at- is utilized for the sole purpose of watch from the safe viewpoint of the extremes of these two social In the upper right corner of the tfcnded. Naturally. blowing off steam. Or had you no- the audience, and Sgt. Page appears levels to such an extent that it is second page, the discerning reader ticed ? to have enough stamina that one .. i • i. If anyohe is interested, the impossible to "form a clear picture will notice a rather unusual picture, . ., ' , 0 really does not worry about him Thresher is still running its Letters of life in England at that time, un- with a rather unusual story, which too much. to the Editor Contest. The lack of Unfortunately, the performances less one is willing to believe that I propose to relate: letters seems to indicate that not "Voice of Turtle" of Blake Davis and Charles Koenig there was no class between the in- The pictui*e is entitled Gin Lane, only the Thresher, but everything Jr. do not measure up to the pace sipid nobility of the Gainsborough on the campus is running to the was painted by William Hogarth, Features Good set by Iris Siff. Mr. Koenig, as and Reynolds portraits and the de- and was accompanied by the follow- satisfaction of everybody. I am Sgt. Page, did not seem to be en- loathe to accept this. The best letter, sultory brutes portrayed by Ho- ing caption: joying the part at all; possibly he and it doesn't have to be happy, will Acting, Cuisine realized what life with Sally would garth and Rowlandson. (See cut.) Gin, cursed Fiend with fury receive a carton of Chesterfields be like, as Sgt. Page obviously did However, the less said about 18th fraught By Bob Bradbury not. century painting in England the Makes human race a prey; Jim Kelley remarked the other There are three good reasons for Blake Davis was a little too much better. The only thing of real in- It enters by a deadly draught, day that the traditional picture of seeing the Houston Little Theatre's like Eve Arden's portrayal of Olive terest in the exhibit—no thanks to And steals our life away rough tough old Uncle Sam has production of "The Voice of the in the film version of the play, and Life Magazine—is the collection of been replaced by the cringing figure Turtle" . . . the excellent perform- it didn't fit very well; one felt that books of the period which the library Virtue and Truth, driven to Des- of poor little John Q. Public. This ance of Iris Siff in the role of Sally, an original interpretation would has on view in the same room in pair seems to have been dictated by the the abundance of laughs in .the have been more natural and just as connection with the Life exhibit. Its rage compelled to fly; less-than-aggressive foreign policy script, and the running water in entertaining. These flaws would not Although they are under glass, But cherishes, with hellish Care now pursued by the people in Wash- the kitchen. have been noticed in a larger cast, reading only the title pages of these >, Theft, Murder, Perjury ington. For home affairs, may I A press release from the little but with only three parts called for, interesting volumes," including first suggest the switch from Uncle Sam theatre informs us that during the anything short of perfection is no- editions of Richardson's Clarissa to a Dammed Cup! that on the Vitals red-white-and-blue octopus. war the War Department vetoed a ticeable. and Defoe's Fables, Etc., is more 0 proposal to star Bette Davis in the rewarding than any of the prose in preys About that running water. There show in an overseas tour "... for the rest of the exhibit. This is to That liquid fire contains is a great deal of cooking and eat- a very obvious reason: the brass be expected. It is generally ac- Which Madness to the herat con- Lecturer Paints ing in the script, so the Little Thea- veys, hats felt that it was psychologically tre has built a complete kitchen on cepted that the plastic and graphic And rolls it through the veins. unwise to let the lonely dogfaces the stage, with all-workable fix- arts of Eighteen Century England are quite inferior to the literature "Gin Lane" is half of a pair of Musical Portraits experience, even vicariously, the tures. A painful note of realism is of the period, and anyone who is caricatures painted by Hogarth to ideal kind of love story 'The Voice added to the play when the char- (Continued from page 1) interested can find the proof laid combat the social evil of gin-drink- of the Turtle' tells. acters make real coffee and drink out neatly in the exhibit room. ing which was running away with Thompson has painted more than "Every unmarried serviceman it, steaming hot, on the stage- (The the London slums at the end of the 100 musical portraits, all of them would have liked to have been in the audience almost learned how to make scrambled eggs in a double eighteenth century. The other half of drawn from life, the subject posing GI shoes of Sgt. Bill Page, the The Freshman Class Meeting boiler just before the curtain in the pair, "Beer Street," is the dia- as he would for the portrait painter comedy's hero, whose week-end leave was held March 8 in the Physics the second act.) metrical opposite of "Gin Lane." in oils. starts by getting stood up on a date Amphitheatre to make plans for It pictures an intersection under the Mr. Thompson adds his appearance and ends in a love affair with a The show is recommended for an the Freshman Dante. The dance most pastoral conditions, with every- with the Houston Symphony orches- lovely young actress." Since the evening of sophisticated comedy, al- will take place Saturday, March one daintily sipping beer, instead tra to a list of performances which situation could hardly have been ex- though the person seeking a spicy 25 in the Lounge. It was decided of guzzling the "Cursed Fiend." includes the New York Philharmon- pected to repeat itself on a Pacific type of titillation in his entertain- to be a Shipwreck Dance. One would imagine that the rest ic, the Philadelphia, Cincinnati, In- atoll, there seemefti to be no good ment will be disappointed. It runs The Freshman Picnic will be of the public relations campaign was dianapolis, Buffalo, and St. Louis purpose served in further frustrat- through the eighteenth, with 80c April 29. along the lines; "Robin Hood, of orchestras. ing servicemen by showing them this student rates on Sundays. THE THRESHER Thre* What Is It—Spring Ten Coed Beauties Why Is It---People By Spurs By Ruey Boone The wind was blowing hard enough to upset my equilibrium Chosen By Conover Nancy Markle's young protege, Frank, caused quite a so I teetered landing on the great man's shoulder and slid down flurry in the social circles of the campus, last week, when she on the bronze knees of William Marsh. For Campanile introduced him to the public for the first time. Frank is now The statue grunted. "What did you expect?" he asked— residing at Nancy's home, after spending several unsettled days "flesh?" Harry Conover, nationally known in the showers of North Hall. Following a short excursion in I dazedly picked myself up, bring beach umbrellas, iced beer beauty expert, has selected the ten the bluebonnets in Nancy's an< a cn c from the stor about one of the straightened my feathers and * P* * lunch, it's bad enough most beautiful Bice coeds. Announce- front yard, during the process y t0 Texas tried to think up an answer. s.ee on the parapet ment of these girls was made by of moving, he is now resting colleges which is now em- _ ...... waving those things they have in- TT T Gloria Wilson, editor of the Cam- comfortably in a muddy fish bowl. ploying re-marked flinch decks for use in canasta games, since the evil panille. Frank, by the way, is a charming "•""y' rrT* •«"><**>*>**-" implications of playing cards is up- blue-eyed turtle. In the order of their selection, the setting the administration. to say but the fall had scattered my , , * * * thoughts. "Spara, you are a bird. . . why 1950 Beauties include Ellen Yeager, • * • "My dear Spara," rumbled Marsh's w**en 1 was a boy " Freshman; Carolyn Croom, Junior; The Thresher editor was apparent- Picture of the week: The expres- voice in my ear. "You make a very "Marsh," I hopped on the great Dorothy Kelly, Freshman; Joan Ben- ly a little provoked the other day, sion on the face of freshman Carol clumBy landing, smear my surface man's nose. "When one human says nett, Junior; Joan Portis, Fresh- after several students had asked if Marshall, when she woke up Sunday his appearance was meant to adver- with your feather oil and then just to another, 'I understand Sunday man; Camile Coulter, Junior; Peggy morning at the OWLS slumber par- sit. The least you can do is talk will be a good day for turning over tise the Rally Club's "Bum's Rush." Golden, Junior; Fo Fo Catsinas, Jun- ty, her date pounding on the front to me. This time of year when I rocks.' and the answer is 'That's While virogously denying all the fil- door to take her to church. Her know spring is coming, I wish I'd what I heard, too." ... I didn't fin- ior; Lorraine Adams, Junior; and thy accusations, he promptly turned is wide-eyed comment as she peeked been reincarnated something other h my sentence, men were beyond Jeanne Lewis, Sophomore. and asked the nearest staff member at him around the corner was "Are 'than a statue." my"Spring, comprehension" he murmured. Then . for some These beauties, along with the for a nickel for a cup of coffee. you sure it's 8:30?". I flew to his shoulder and inter- reason I felt the statue sigh. twenty-four class favorites will # * * rupted. The story of his reincarna- 0 grace the Vanity Fair Section of the tion was something I enjoyed only Dr. Gladys Falshaw yearbook. Ten of these outstanding A young woman architecture stu- The typical academic reaction to in the winter. It was spring and personalities are Seniors, six Junior, dent recently retracted her state- the performances of Ballet Theatre being a woman I had to talk. Spring To Speak To MSF seven Sophomores, and one, a ment to the effect that the Twen- last week-end was well-expressejl by does that to women you know. Freshman. tieth Century Burlesque show could- the student who said he didn't get "Marsh, I don't understand Rice Today the Methodist Student Fel- anything out of "Billy The Kid," the statue interrupted, lowship will hear a talk by Dr. The Seniors are Pat Amsler, Glor- n't be very different from life class. students." ia Castello, Marty Gibson, Eugenian It seems that one of "her gentlemen because he couldn't figure ou£ what "no"Spara, one understand' s Rice students, Gladys Falshaw, foreign missionary the characters in the first scefie particularly their parents." to India. Dr. Falshaw was born in Harris, Betty Keyser, Betty Jo'Jop- friends took her up on a dare and lin Lee, Maxine Lehmann, Lee Mary escorted the innocent miss to the were pushing. A little higher plane "Honestly, Marsh, if you want to Manchester, England. She received of thought was presented by the talk I'll go away. Here I bring my her Ph.D. from the Sorbonne in Parker, Alice York and Marie Zap- South Main show so she could see alac. for herself. student who threatened to leave the troubles to you, expecting granules Paris. For twenty two years she has Music Hall in the middle of every- of wisdom to be formulated in your been one of the most outstanding The six Juniors are Virginia Bar- ber, Bertha Grey. Jackie Meyer, Col- thing, Saturday afternoon, if the or- mind and what do you do, inter- Christian missionaries in India. Dr. If anyone asks you if you have a chestra dared to break out with the rupt." letta Ray, Gay Schneider, and Nina Falshaw is a member of the Church flinch deck handy, don't drop dead Missouri Waltz in honor of Margaret The statue grunted. Marsh had of England. Shannon. The Sophomores are Betsy Belstrom, Margaret Blau, Carolyn with shock—it's merely a throwback Truman's presence. never been known to apologize. Recently she was asked by Dr. Douglas, Puddie Hall, Marilyn "People sitting on the grass eat- E Stanley Jones, himself one of ing lunch ^ outside when they have the most celebrated missionaries of Marrs, Paula Meredith, and Vicky Schwarting. Lynne Buse is repre- that beautiful library to stay inside. our times, to come to America and Why, we birds aren't even allowed tell of her experiences. She has been sentative of the Freshmen. in the Music Room and those silly Houston lecturing for a month, humans don't appreciate it. I even and is to ^ here another month. Dr. saw one girl stretched out on her Albert P. Shirkey of St. Paul's Meth- Two thirds essay stomach in the grass in back of you odist church introduced Dr. Falshaw MANUEL'S studying." ^ recently as "one of the most God collcge man should know! "They call it communing with na- fiue(j persons I have ever known." SHOE SHOP ture, Spara. They read Rousseau, The meeting be held at 12:10 FINE SHOE REPAIRING Thoreau and Wordsworth and then in the library exam There Mil#: are moved to go back to nature. The will be a goloist A11 Episcopalians While You Wait Service simple life." are especially invited to hear Dr. 6132 VILLAGE PARKWAY "But Marsh, worst of all. . . I p i haw. a s Across from New heard a group usually considered, Next 'priday Bishop Clinton S. Butler-Grimes Bldg. what is that human word—intelli- Quin> Episcopai Bighop of Texas, gent, discussing with great glee the wiU speak to jjgF possibilities of a "bay party" on the roof of the library. They were going to wear bathing suits and Turbo-Generator Is Your friendly neighborhood bank Conveniently Located in Pride of M.E. Dept. MCCARTHY CENTER (Continued from Page 1) >• This is an Art Major. Really gines. A Superior Diesel Engine — We Welcome Student and Faculty Accounts — a sketch. Thinks Monet makes the world which was originally built for ship- go round. His question in life is where does board installation and is used in BELLAIRE STATE BANK Van Gogh Vermeer.\Knoivs Rem brand is nothing to the laboratory to demonstrate the sneeze at. Often goes to bed with shades half drawn. operation of compression ignition Member FDIC engines will be centrally located. Spectators will be able to parti- cipate in the vibrations -exhibit in which visitors will give a suspended bar a blow with a hammer and see -Make the stresses which they have created in the bar recorded on an oscillo- graph. They will be able to deter- THE AVALON DRUG COMPANY mine the amplitude, velocity, and 2518 KIRBY DRIVE acceleration of the vibrations which mm they have created. A Convenient Shopping Place The steam laboratory should at- for School Supplies, Sandwiches tract all those whose suppressed desire has always been to be a and Drinks and All Drug Needs railroad engineer. The basic prin- — LY-9136 — ciples of the steam engine will be shown in an old 1912 Corliss steam '• This is a "Manhattan" Sportshirt. engine which is kept in operation i m We've a whole gallery of these solid-colored because it provides such a simple rayon masterpieces, in a paletteful of colors. clear-cut example of what makes E. BOB LOEWENTHAL Just picture yourself in one. a steam engine run. Other more Photographer complex steam engines will be on CAMPUS FAVORITE display for all interested. The — DIAL LI-3572 — pride of the M.E. department, the • MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY new turbo-generator unit with • WEDDINGS AND PARTIES auxiliary equipment will be one of • HOME AND CHILDREN the most-emphasized features of ,fi» the M.E. exhibit. This generator • COMMERCIAL WORK is a large piece of mechanism, • PORTRAITS THE MANHATTAN SHIRT COMPANY unique in the Southwest, in which • COPIES Copr* 1950, Tbt Monhotton Shirt Co valuable experiments can be con- 4019 La Branch ducted since all factors of its oper- — HOUSTON 4, TEXAS — ation can be varied easily. :
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' A —i--* - -j— P-i arcnnecis cnier EB's To Give Show Blue. Gray Game Saint Patrick's Day will be high- MF Trim htnairri Cige Tttk Home Show Contest lighted by a style show given by the EB's, both active and alumnae. Ends Practice Members of the junior and senior The show is being held at Ralph h 63-38 Until fii far Rft architecture classes of Rice entered Fans and students left the Blue- Eupley'a and will begin promptly the Architecture Home Show con- at 8:15 PM. by John Plumbley Gray scrimmage Saturday feeling It took over 50 games in which 23 teams used over 215 boys a lot better about the chances of test, sponsored by the Houston Home Alice Flack, Carmen Baumbaeh, next year's team in this mean ole Builders Association. Pat Lyford, Martha Hodge, Bertha but at long last the Intramural Basketball champion has been world. It was a general consensus The winning house in the contest, Gray, and Shirley Snow will model. determined. And once again it was the powerful, well poised, of opinion that the Big Blue isn't which is to be designed in the me- Admission is $.60 and everyone is and sharp shooting R. A. F. They took the same title last going to be rolled over by anybody. dium price class, costing from invited to attend. year and made it two in a row as they swept pass all opposition One city paper ventured to predict $7,000-$12,500, is to be built as a ted plans are to be judged by the to win the crown. that the Owls would be in the tus- feature house for the Home Show, Home Show Committee, and a prize to set up the league playoffs and sle for third with the TCU Frog- The season started back in which will be held at the Sam Hous- of $250 will be presented to the it saw the Donkeys going against gies. It picked Texas and SMU for ton Coliseum, April 16th-23rd. The November when 23 teams the M.F.'s in the opening game and originator of the winning design. signed up to play. The teams were the first for first and Arkansas sec- model home is to be given away as the RAF doing battle with the ond. put into leagues and round robin Roaches. The game that proved to a door prize during the show. All girl's softball teams are The Blue team scored a 40-6 vic- tournaments in each league gave be the most interesting was the Competitors of the contest were requested to turn in lists of tory over the second string Whites. individual league champions. A sing- Donkey-M.F.'s affair. With Louis architecture students of Rice and softball intramurals will begin Vernon Glass quarterbacked the le elimination playoff was held Litherland pouring in 12 points the the University of Houston. All pro- their prospective players. The Blues and fired two touchdown pass- among the league winners to give Donkgys took an early lead and jects were due for judging on Mon- as soon as the weather permits. (Continued on Page 6) day, March 6, 1950. All the submit- the final champion. commanded play right up to the Coming out on top in their re- very last. spective leagues were the Donkeys, The second playoff saw the RAF the Roaches, the M.F.'s, and the final unleash their big guns and com- champ, the RAF. A draw was made pletely subdue the Roaches 63-88. Taking advantage of their tremen- Presbyterians Hear (Continued on Page 5) McLaren Speak 0 For the past five weeks the Pres- Intramural Track byterian Student Association has heard a series of talks based on the book "Man's Disorder and God's De- Meet Planned Spring is just about here and the sign," the monumental report o^ intramural season is just around the 1948 convention of the World the.corner. Entries for softball and Council of Churches, held at Amster- tennis singles and doubles close dam, Holland. The series will con- March 13 so entries should be filed tinue for five more weeks. at the field house as soon as pos- Last Wednesday the talk was de- sible. Heavy tournouts are expected livered by Rev. Robert McLaren, in both events and contestants sponsor of PSA, and graduate of should get lined up on the intra- McCormick Theological Seminary, mural rolls. Chicago. He is the associate pastor Plans are being formulated to at Central Presbyterian Church. conduct an Intramural Track and Mr. McLaren said that lately it Field Meet this spring and students has become unfashionable, even un- interested should keep posted either thinkable to repent. This is because in the Thresher or the Intramural man has forgotten that he is a Bulletin Board located at the Field sinner. He has forgotten about God's House. A full scale track meet is will. By repentance Mr. McLaren not planned. It should be obvious to meant that a person recognizes that most readers that this is impossible he is on the wrong track and is de- due to the fact the rigorous train- termined to get on the right track. ing is required for distances and Next Wednesday PSA will meet events usually associated with regu- in the Fondren Library Exam Room lation track meets. So, in order to at 12:10 instead of 12:15. Rev. Jack meet the needs of the Rice student Williams of Ook Park Presbyterian body here are the events as they Church will speak. look right now: 50-yard dash, 75- yard dash, 100-yard dash, 440-yard SOUTH END relay, running broad jump, stand- ing broad jump, high jump, hop- step-jump, base running (softball) SHOE SERVICE and softball throw for distance. 1713 BISSONNET As yet dates for this event have 4114 FANNIN not been decided upon but in order to give the participants a full pro- gram the meet will be conducted over a period of three days. A run- HOUSTON ning tabulation of points earned will TYPEWRITER be kept and final winners in each m event will be declared on a basis of f/'l EXCHANGE total points won. A full schedule of events will be run off on the first SEE US FOR: day and a boy can enter 2 track and 1 field event on that particular day. 9 Portable Typewriters He does not have to enter "Stents • Rebuilt Typewriters but three is the limit he can enter. f Typewriter Rentals On the second day (possibly a week • Typewriter Service after the first day) another full 0 Anything that Has to Do program will go and that' in turn WMTii SMOKERS WHO KNOW. . . IT'S with Typewriters will be followed by the concluding third day trials. All rules and regu- 1405 CAROLINE lations for this meet will be posted PR-9129 J. B. BLEIKE, Mgr. on the Intramural Bulletin Board at 4 the entrance to the Roost and also (JameZsJor at the Field House. A Complete Optical Service Across the Street front Rice Convenient and Reliable Service on All Glass Repairs, Latest Style Frames and Glasses to Your Prescription jWi'Mmss/ Rice Students and Faculty Are Welcomed to Our Free Adjustment Service and to Visit the South's Finest Yes, Camels are SO MILD that in a coast- Optical Dispensing House. to-coast test of hundreds of men and women who smoked Camels —and only Camels—• for 30 consecutive days, noted throat special- ists, making weekly examinations, reported
NOT ONE SINGLE CASE OF THROAT 211 Herman Professional Building IMITATION due to smoking CAMELS t THE THRESHER Fivt Rice, St Thomas Rice Hams May Participate The To Clash in First Baseball Qame In Okie Council on 12th Rice plays its first regularly Radio students from Rice have sonnel and advertising agents. Op- Owlook scheduled pre-conference game next been invited to participate in the ening day of the conference will be Monday with the St. Thomas Uni- fifth annual radio conference at the largely devoted to demonstration versity Saints at 2:00. The starting University of Oklahoma March 12 broadcasts by students from select- MARTIN and LOCKHART line-up will probably be as follows: to 14. ed institutions. Bill Golibart, catcher; Kennedy or Scores of students fram south- Headlining the list of speakers Glass at third; with Beard, Church- western universities and colleges will be Wayne Coy, chairman of The Southwest Conference, with the exceptions of co-cham- well, and Devine rounding out the will attend this year's conference the Federal Communications Com- pions Baylor and Arkansas, has completed its 1950 basket- infield. along with station managers, per- mission, and Richard P. Doherty, ball season. Interest in sports on the part of the student bodies Truett Peachey is the only sure director of the employee-relations now is relatively finished, too, until next football season. outfield starter, since prospects from New Societies Choose department, National Association of Spring football practice are still re- Broadcasters. porting to the baseball squad. Some Regular Meeting Days Theme of the conference is "Great of these latecomers may well land (Continued from Page 1) Expectations," according to Dr. Yet there are such things as spi'ing sports. This year Rice should starting berths in the outfield. meets on Monday at 12:30 in Dr. Sherman P. Lawton, conference fare pretty well in track, baseball, golf, and tennis. The track enthusiasts Coach Harold Stockbridge has not Houston's old office, and the Chaille chairman and coordinator of radio of the school, and there are at least three around, will have only one yet named his starting pitcher. Rice Literary Society meets on Tues- instruction at OU. Special interest opportunity to see the Rice thinly-clads this year, a dual meet with 0 day at 1:00 in Room 104 Anderson meetings are scheduled on sales and Texas on April 13th. This year Coach Brunson has a large squad out, RAF TAKES— Hall. Doris Jaffe will hold her meet- market problems, news, FM, tele- the mile relay team (that ran the fastest mile in the United States last (Continued from Page 4) ings on Tuesday at 1:00 in Dr. vision, and problems of getting year at Los Angeles) returns intact, and, even with losses due to eligibility dous height advantage the winners Houston's old office. Jean Upshaw started in the industry. difficulties, the team should be a contender. seemed to score at will. will preside over the meeting of the On a basis of previous games the literary society of which she is Baseball finals between the RAF and the president at 1:15 on Tuesday. The M.F.'s didn't figure to be much of Next week, the literery societies The baseball fans fare a lot better. They, and "they" is purely an DIRTY assumption, will get to see an improved squad in action, beginning next a . battle. But past performances will draw up their constitutions and week. The slate for Coach Stockbridge's nine shows nine home games. didn't count. The RAF went into formulate statements of purpose SHAME A veteran nucleus, plus some very promising sophs, make the Owls a the game a 20 point favorite but it and their individual programs. TAP ON THE HOUSE possible winning team. Rice, it need not be added, has had very, very took plenty of hustle to bring in few winning baseball teams. the title to the tune of 43-30. As in AT THE SOUND previous games the RAF put their OF THE height to working and it paid off. Tennis, Golf But the M.F.'s did a tremendous ALARM The tennis-happy people have the benefit of having the home matches ON YOUR job in holding the high scoring on the campus. If there are any golf fans on the campus, though, they CBS NETWORK DIAL Kirby Drive at Bissonnet have it rough (no matches, of course, on the campus). The tennis squad, champs to 43 points. Bob Strawn with the Harris boys and Turpin still around, will be strong again. Buddy did such a fine job that he held Weaver leads an improving Rice Golf team. Gerald Weatherly to 4 points. But This year, if you are a sport fan, don't just save that blanket tax for while Weatherly was being closely the Campanile. Come out and see the Owls in action this spring. With guarded the M.F.'s could find no -CARLOS- improved student interest, the squads should, and do improve. And, solution for stopping big Bill Tay- just as a side light, you might have an enjoyable time. lor. This game saw some of the For Good Tasty Mexican Food Things happen to this paper that just couldn't. So, Tommy Hudgens, best ball handlers ever to show their —OUR SPECIALTIES— that was your picture, and not Joe McDermott's. Don't cry Joe—when wares in4ntramural play. There was you're' a senior, maybe we'll print your picture. Of course, it's under- Pringle, McMillan, and Bellamy for Chicken and Rice Mexican Stuffed Peppers standable how two such handsome men and fine ball players could get the RAF. The M.F.'s countered with mixed up by us mere humans. Both lads hail from that metropolis of the little Joe Whetsell and Ralph Rags- Tacos Chalupas Enchiladas, etc. piney woods, Lufkin. All boys are champs, and any report that they dale. In this game it was simply don't wear shoes until they come to Houston is false—Morris Frank to too much height on the part of the 2433 TIMES BLVD. LI-0319 the contrary. RAF.
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THE TBRBSHBR —— Owls Hn't Be Tracksters to Opel Paul Emile NaggiarNaggiar,, FrencFrenchh 0 Season Witt Bonier To Speak On United States (X Statistics Mutti Botrmt Mr. Paul Emile Naggiar will give a public lecture on United The Southwest Conference re- (Continued from Page 4) Olympics Saturday States of America and United States of Europe, Friday, March leased the final basketball statistics Coach Emmett Branson and his 10th in the Fondren Lecture Lounge. es—one to Frank Allen and the track team open their season this this past week. Riee still finished other to Sammy Burke. Billy $prk- Saturday at Laredo with the annual Mr. Naggiar will show how geographical circumstances, last according to Mr. Stewart's cal- halter was the running star or the Border Olympics. Although many national consciousness and tradition, how problems of language-, culations, and led in points allowed, letting 59 more points tally than the afternoon and he well promisee to of the boys have not yet rounded into culture commerce, industry, live up to advance notices first shape, Rice should pile up plenty second placer, TCU. and how the fundamental prob- Rice did, however, grab two in- gained last year as a soph. George of points. As in most meets involv- lem of space contributed to the Campus lighting Glauser looked good from his full- ing Southwest Conference teams, teresting firsts. Tfcfe Owls soak formation of the United States of back slot on the wide stuff. With Rice will be picked to finish third Improvements Slated 67.3% of their free tosses to lead Sonny Wyatt out with a knee in- behind the big two, A & M and America. At Student Council -meeting Sat- the. Conference, and Joe McDermott jury, Rex Proctor, defensive safety, Texas. He will show how unfortunately urday Martel Bryant, chairman of hit 83.0% of his to pace anybody who scored more than 35 points (McGee filed in with plenty of zest, scoring Making the trip will be Otha Byrd, these elements are either lacking or the Improvement^ Committee, re- ported that a plan for improving of Texas, in his four games before two TD's. Glauser also scored twice Tom Cox, Red Brown, James Hoff, of no avail in the establishment of being declared ineligible, hit 83.3%, to round out the scoring efforts of George Donaldson, Joe Watson, Jim campus lighting was under way. the United States or Europe. and tallied 31 points). the first team. The Blue team show- Gerhardt, Joe McPhail, Tobin Rote, More lights will be put up, and those In the opinion of Mr. Naggiar, The Blue and Gray connected for ed a fine forward wall led by huge Verne McGrew, Pat Moore, Billy already up will be repaired. It is 220 field goals in the 12 Conference Paul Giroski, guards Joe McPhail Fagan, Teddy Riggs, Drexell Vin- undue emphasis has been laid on planned that floodlights will be con- games, 1 less than sixth-place (in and Ike Neumann, center Lee Stone- cent, Ralph Grawunder, Charley the technical aspects of the problem. structed around all the parking lots field goals) Texas. Rice, even with street. Reserve Hans Wagner also Coleman, Buddy Gregory, Jack Hud- It remains a problem of the mind, on the campus. The job will prob- its' sensational free throw record, stood out. gins, Richard Tharp, and Jim Young- a problem of human nature, of per- ably be carried through during the summer if the plan meets with the finished third in total made. The For the Whites, ably led by blood. sonal conduct and behavior. Diplo- trustees' approval. Owls, however, were tied with Texas "Loose" Carswell, fullback Buddy macy should seek its solution in the Fornes served notice that the afore- Owls will be lacking another fine re- Lee Mary Parker was chosen to for the least missed. path of common sense and morality. mentioned Glauser will have to do placement for the number one man- represent Rice at the TCU Spring In personal fouls, Rice was fourth, plenty of hustling for his job. Fornes under. Carswell has one of the fin- Mr. Naggiar, has now retired from festival. only six behind the leaders, Arkan- runs with a lot of power and is a est "pitching" arms in the South- active political life, but in the past Student Council voted to elect four sas. Switzer was the only other Owl possible candidate for Soph of the west and could easily deal plenty he has held such positions as French cheerleaders at the spring election (McDermott made 172 points) to Year in '50. of misery once in a position to fire Ambassador to China, to Soviet Rus- this year due to added duties the hit over 100 tallies—he scored 103. White got 90, Gerhardt 79, Tighe Last year Rote was backed by away. The only White TD was made sia, and at one time was the delegate cheerleaders will have next year 69, Grawunder 46, Childs 19, DeMoss Glass and when September rolls by Gene Silver on a great catch of to the United Nations San Fran- with the building of the new sta- 12, Hudgens 11, Wharton 8, and Mc- around it doesn't appear that the a pass by Carswell. White runners cisto Conference, and to the Far dium and perhaps an increased stu- found the Blue line a little too tough Eastern Commission in Washington. dent body. Curry 4. to cope with. 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