7I A fZ.INATION ISSJUE OCT -~ 9- - - As the summer's dust resettled, we peered thru the cobwebs to perceive a goblet of a glowing purplish liquid. It was all that served to distinguish Phos from Volume XXXIV October, 1950 No. 5 the office litter of rusty beer tins, Open House para- phernalia, and make-up circa 1937, upon which he was sprawled. Noticing our entry, he drooped an eyelid and muttered, "lo." VOO DOO "Migawd, old boy, has the summer's isolation di- M. 1. T. HUMOR MONTHLY ESTABLISHED 1919 luted your vinegar? You, imbibing medicine?" "'Quiet! Silence, pipsqueak, the only medicine that SENIOR BOARD could cure my illness is three thousand miles away." This elixir is a remembrance of a petite Scandinavian HOWIE SCHWARTZMAN General Manager lass who taught me that the Midnight Sun is useful for RIP TODD Managing Editor DAVE FINDLAY more than mere illumination. Ah, those evenings, Business Editor BOB SCHWANHAUSSER overlooking the "Paris of the North" and sipping what Associate Editor is called, Parfait Amour. Potent; quite potent, espe- JUNIOR BOARD cially for blondes." "How did you, get to Europe? What brought on CHUCK WHITNEY Literary Editor such reveries?" RANDY PAULLING Art Editoi DAVE LONG "All in a life's passing, yes, yes." "Why when Sally Features Editor BILL DUNN Publicity Manager from Pigalle came .. ." "Back in June I was partaking ALLAN HOFFMAN Make-up Editor a few with the gobs in a quayside cabaret, Atlantic HOWIE SIMMONS Joke Editor Avenue it was. I helped bid bon voyage till my ca- BILL CHANDLER Advertising Manager pacity was far exceeded. Somehow I staggered back NICK BADAMI I with them to the ship. Before I quite came to, the GENE KOCH j Co-Sales Managers ship was half a day out en route Copenhagen. The ROBERT L. HARDY Treasurer mate gleefully put me to work swabbing decks; eleven JERRY HATHAWAY Office Manager days worth, # @ *! it." STAFF ASSOCIATES "So, you were well readied for that clean land of MAKE-UP SALES Manny Rotenberg butter and eggs." Lee Carney Bill Schlesinger D itre Tatiatcheff "Pshaw, Kitten fodder. Ran across a pal of the Cla~s Tol Twitchell Fred Radcliffe Miguil Rivas Jr. C. E. Lenz of '28 soon after being tossed ashore. Never finished Joseph lannicelli Bill Whittington James Eyer Manuel Liverman out his freshman year, but sporting a 'Tech is Hell' Bill Wollenberg LITERARY b&.qnner and exclaiming John Meader Paul Shannon of the invincibility of the MIT E. S. Carlson Stan Benjamin Marty Greenfield Bill trained man, he talked his way into the position of FrankCCruickshank Rice Bob Garvin Rodent Control Engineer. The firm he attached him- Bill Moffatt ADVERTISING self to just happened to be a brewery, but then he was George Stevens Oscar Kaalstad PUBLICITY John Medgyesy Robert King an ex Voo Doo publicity man. John Clegg Charles Abbott Dave Lissner Anyhoo,. with Dick Ahrons Gilbert Steinberg Fred Cohen his OK and by spoutin a little of the Joe Van Horn John Crowe Jacob Pinkovintz technical terminology I'd acquired through association Bert Leonard Gross Joseph Cahn Mullin 0 with Course XV men, I persuaded the functionaries Tom Moore Bob Chapman TREASURY Stan Silverman to partake of J. M. Knight my services. By maintaining a scientific George Bromfield Jack King aloofness and occasionally poking knowingly into FEATURES Jack Taub ART the vats and pipelines, I got through two months un- John Annese Paul Corbiere M. J. Freidenthal Charles Mather revealed. One day a director woke up to the fact that Howie Briscoe Bob Rayfield Sheldon Herskovitz my input far exceeded any useful output. Before I Maury Davidson Horatio de Garcia John Roof could utter a final Skoal, I found myself output at the OFFICE CAT: PHOSPHORUS bitter end of a wooden shoe." After this astute survey of the European political Copyright, 1950, by the VOO DOO Senior Board. situation, Plos issued us from the office. We under- Published by the Senior Board for the Students of stood his -nostalgia. Just a few minutes later, our the Massachusetts Institute of Technology keyhole ear was warmed by his purring of the poig- Office: 303 Walker Memorial, Cambridge 39, Mass. Office hours: 4:30 to 5:30 P.M., Monday nant strains of "Wilhemina From Copenhagen." through Friday Published monthly from October to May. Twenty-five cents a copy. H. S. Subscription: S.00 for Eight Issues. $53.00 In Pago Pago. Entered as scond class matter at the Post Office at Cambridge, Mass. Phos is pleased to announce the election of Allan Hoffman, Bob Hardy, and Jerry Hathaway to the Junior "This mnonth's cover by Pautling" Board as Make-up Editor, Treasurer, and Office Manager respectively. 00 IuCINCIulTWN I I NO A splendid place to go when the as all that and I'm sure that you chill winds whistle around your won't be disappointed. ribs and you feel that you must IC/ have some solid food to keep winter at bay is Jacob Wirth's place on You are, we assume, hungry. You Stuart Street just east of Tremont. are, we assume, poor. All that, Jakey's dark beer is famous, of and if you like a change, too, visit course. It's a good beer, albeit The Nile, 52 Hudson Street, just off a little too watery to curl one's * Stuart Street behind Washington. ,Ooo hair, comes in handsome seidels You can drink there, but the food, and should make you belch teu- - Levantine or not, is good enough tonically, and with great violence. to stand on its own merits. Out- Food comes in all sorts of Kraut standing is the green salad, the ways such as bratwurst, pig's knuc- chicken stuffed with rice - God kles mit sauerkraut and, on Wed- only knows the Egyptian name for nesdays only, sauerbraten. All of it, but they speak English there- it heavy, and all of it good, with and, so help us, the strawberry the lonely exception of the potato shortcake. The quality of the salad, which is prepared in the coffee is such that thrifty house- German fashion and doesn't tickle keepers have been known to ask my fancy in the least. But that's for its source, and if you like things a matter of personal taste. Prices served on a skewer, and don't mind put Jake into the medium range, using your fingers on a chicken, from a buck and a half up, and the kufta mishwi is your meat. service is fast, willing, and friendly Arab League atmosphere is pro- I~ in the extreme. Lots of local color, vided by some of the records in the 0 rbol and not a bad place to take a girl juke box, leavened, however, by a to when she wants to see a real homegrown maestro or two. The beer joint. service is rapid and friendly, and the check should hover around two dollars for a real belly-bloater. 'I / Again on the restaurant side, I Dishes are a la carte, and you take have one place in particular which your pick to suit your purse. The should appeal to everyone. It is place is utterly respectable, and is the Restaurant Du Barry on New- suitable even for the virginal. We bury Street in the vicinity of Exeter know. Street. They specialize in a French cuisine and put out remarkably excellent food for the low prices which they charge. The atmos- phere is quiet and conducive to There are seven films on my the enjoyment of your meal. A recommended list, and four of very taste-full dinner may be had them were made at home, sufficient for well under 2 dollars including evidence, I think, that the boys beverage and dessert. If can do it if they 0 soup, put their minds you ever find that you have to to it. Perhaps even more signifi- take her out to dinner and you're cant is the fact that two of the three on the impecunious side, before foreign films were made by the she gets any big ideas about where same writer-director team, which to eat, you come out with, "I know tends to show that if good men are the neatest little spot ... loads given their heads something in- of atmosphere. .. ." It's as simple teresting results. Usually. alam 3 In reverse order, the films are Much as I dislike juvenile per- it remains one of the finest films these: 'Destination Moon' first of formers, I must confess that Reed I have ever seen, and the more I all, at once the dullest and most has wrung a splendid performance see it the more I see. You will interesting film I have seen in a from his principal figure. His not dare to make your peace with long while. It is rather like watch- cameraman, a craftsman of great the world and face your grand- ing a training film of a fascinating polish and talent, has a flair for children calmly if you have not military operation. There are the wet cobblestones at night which he seen 'City Lights.' same frantic attempts at a plot, demonstrated first in 'Odd Man R.V.G. the same stereotypes, the same Out' and in 'Idol', and which, I warmed-over humor, and the same suppose, is almost the leitmotif pedestrian pace. From a scientific for 'The Third Man,' an admirable When I'm wearing strapless things point of view, however, the film and nostalgic entertainment set in Instead of buttons and bows is first rate, and of the highest in- the new Vienna.