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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1944)
Clips and Comment By MARGUERITE WITTWER Pi Phis at the University of Kansas received a big coffin sized package recently. With many squeals from the chicks the six foot box was opened and from among the fluffs of tissue paper emerged the head and scaly green body of a large stuffed alligator. Just a little Valentine’s present to one of the coeds from a hopeful admirer. While lawns in Eugene are sprouting crocuses in the sno-ball carnival' spirit at Syracuse univer sity is the annual snow sculpture Competition between the campus organizations. The Alpha Phi so rority won this year’s cup for the outstanding snow sculpture group depicting a heroic sized St. Ber nard rescuing a fallen skier. With the auctioneer asking for “higher and higher” bids, the bond auction at Northwestern univer sity will feature one of Frank Sin atra’s bow ties, personally auto graphed and sent to the coeds by him. The campus war council re ceived a letter from the swoon boy saying he was sending the tie and expressing his hopes for the success of the drive . . . Next we »Avill have Sinatra-shrines along the highways where dreamy-eyed swooners can worship. * * * The University of Utah engin eers are growing their whiskers to compete in the annual contest for beard honors. Prizes will be award ed at the traditional oyster stew dinner, to be held at the barracks cafeteria for the best goatee, the most artistic beard, and the “most effort and least result” beard. A queen to reign over this strictly male event has been chosen by the engineers and will help judge the chin foliage. Shades of old pre-war college days in the spring! Louisiana State university fraternity men will pre sent the 1944 edition of the Sam urai singing competition. Six queens will reign over the Mortar Board sponsored dance at the University of Washington. Six Varga girls! Providing competition for IT. of W. coeds these smooth, curvacious and lovely beauties are beautiful, popular and well-known (judging by the dozens of calen dars decorating dorm and barracks rooms, huh?). Painted life-sized and cut from cardboard these Var ga girl facsimile queens should satisfy anyone’s wistful melody, “Pm gonna buy a paper doll that I can call my own . . . etc. etc, etc.” ! he Wei! Went Dry, or Pump and Cirmcumstance If there’s anything- I hate it’s puns and pun-makers. People call j me the Mad Hatter, not because of Alice and Wonderland but because' I hate punsters worse than the bills presented by butchers, bakers, and I candlestick makers. v A brimming baker of water should be pore don skin specialists! because of the puns punnable from the word “dermis.” ' I detest hamburger on a pun worse than the thought of President Roosevelt's fourth termis. And if O. Nash is mad at my poetry he is a nashty man. Because he has no copyright on style, and he can't copy right •anyhow and my verse is a lot verse than his ever can Be. So nuts to him. And I will say “nutting doing” and go on writing with vigor and Vim. —N. Y. I You’ll be hearing the news of Victory on the same radio you now have . . . if you keep it in good working order! We still have tubes and other ra dio supplies and staff of expert repair men. We pickup and deliver. EUGENE RADIO SHOP 128 K. 11th Ph. 4954 Home Owners, Builders Q Do not he- misled into thinking you have to use substitute materials for “repairs and mainte nance.” You are permitted to use all practi cal grades of Douglas Fir Lumber and Red Cedar Shingles for such needed work without dollar limitation. See Us for Details and Call on Us for Service M 1 Euffta« I 313 Springfield V — . . . former University student, who leads the 42-pieee marine eorps women’s reserve band from Camp Uejeune, North Carolina. Sergeant Plummer played with the University hand and prior to her enlistment was working for her master's degree in voiee. (Marine Corps photo) Emerald Analyst Relays Flash' From Washington By CLELL CRANE, USA Emerald Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 12—(Special)—I was sitting in my room with some of the fellows last night, studying, when my friend George stuck his head out from under the bed (it gets very crowded in my room) and said, “The time has come, character, for you to contact your friends in the land of the empire and ship builders by confidentially telling them what is, in Washington.” Inasmuch as George believes that men such as he and I in positions of great a public responsibility should not express political convic tions, I will tell you about the weather, which fortunately has been released for general con sumption. However, if you bought plenty of tuberculosis seals last Christmas you need not worry. Washington weather is known in Washington as being irregular. It’s one of Washington’s main defens es. All treaties between the United States and foreign powers signed in Washington are in favor of the U. S. simply because foreign dele gates will sign anything to get a w a y — in the summer from heat rash and in the winter from anything that happens to be going through on its way south. It is immaterial that the delegates have to live in a tent on the White House lawn among the unfound Easter eggs. All joking aside, it’s all wrong about housing conditions being crowded in Washington. I have it on good authority you can get a hotel room any time you want one. All you need is a pass-key and a more powerful physique than the individual already occupying the room. A concealed weapon could be of invaluable assistance if you are one of those who favors breathing, eating, and drinking as typical conditioning exercises. My friend George says it isn’t true that many Washingtonians have the philosophy of one of the countless liquor store operators who advises, “Don’t drink water; people wash their feet in it.” How that enters into the discussion is beyond me, but I don’t argue with George. He dug a ditch. OLIVIA DeHAVILLAND ROBERT CUMMINGS in 'Princess O'Rourke" also ROY ROGERS in "Man from Music Mountain" txpenmenta! riay Presented Today An experimental one-act produc tion directed by Dorothy Wey gandt, sophomore in music, will be | presented at the Guild hall theater j today at 4. An open invitation is extended j to anyone interested in seeing the play. There will be no admission charge. An Ugly Man contest was spon sored last spring on the Sail Jose State college campus in Califor nia. I Jam for § IBreakfast I * *5 By SUE WELCH First, chums, my humble apolo gies for last week. In case some of you didn't notice, there was no column last week, but I don't imag ine that many of you noticed it, so I don't know why I'm mentioning it. but . . . We’d like to start off, in fact, we’ll like to devote this whole col umn to Fathah Bailey, in view of tlie fact that the Fathah and Crew have played their last dance on the old Oregon campus. Bailey, along with several members of the band will he leaving ns the end of this term for points unknown. On behalf of the entire campus, anil I think 1 may speak on their be half, I'd like to thank all of the hoys for one swell time these last two terms, we’re really going to miss you fellows. Since he arrived on this campus, Fathah Bailey has managed to keep all of us rocking to his really smooth rhythms. He has played music that kept not only all of you cats jumping, but tunes that have hit the soft spot in the hearts of some of us more romantic folks. We’ll never forget Bailey's fine ar rangements of “Embraceable You,” and “Marcheta," not to men tion the solid licks in his original number "Bivouac Bounce," other wise known as "Rettus or the Fortistand.” Nor will wo forget the sweet tones of Boh Stetlar’s trumpet as he gave villi (lie fine intro (<* “You Made Me Love You.” And thanks tod, to Aee Felberg, .Tack Iilumenttial, Merle “hot lips" (let ohol, Whitie White (who won’t lie leaving us Mil May, if all goes well), and Ralph (Mr. B. T., Su( ton who departed from (he old campus Iasi week. Fellas, we feel a slight lump coming into our throat at the thought of all of you (and one in particular) leaving. It doesn’t seem quite right that just as things were beginning to get in the groove here we should have to be deprived of such a fine bunch of men. Oldest continuous university on the western hemisphere is the Co legio de San Nicolas founded in 1540 in Mexico. YOU CAN’T LOSE YOU CARRY TRAVELERS CHEQUES! That’s ripht! 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