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World News This Term
World events moved swiftly during fall term. A few of those
events which may shape things to come are highlighted here.
October 4
The “Happy Warrior.” A1 Smith, who ran for president on
the Democratic ticket in 1928, died.
October 8
Death came to the man of “One World,” Wendell Willkie,
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By ORIX WEIR
The house dances held over the
past weekend brought forth some
humorous incidents such as Terry
“one woman” Carroll forgetting all
abrupt his sweet Gamma Phi date,
Betty Butler, and sleeping most of
his evening away right where he
fell.
Bill Patterson seems to be a very
confusing personality; for ’tis
rumored his love is stationed at
the Theta house under the name
of Margaret Payne and yet the
lad was doing his best to infatuate
a certain Tri Delt last Saturday
even at the annual house mixup.
Henceforth you may expect to
see anything after gazing upon
petite Jacky “seagull” Howell do
ing a balancing act along the entire
center partition between the booths
at'the Side.
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“I get around” Moffat gave all a
thrill recently by having mommy
send up a motorscoot with which
she swished over the entire cam
pus until, alas, the motor machine
collapsed and now poor Patty is
back to walking again, only this
time her legs resemble one big
advertisement for Band-Aid.
One question bothering many is
simply this: Does Jean Taylor ac
tually study with Jack Craig as the
excuse goes?
Sfe’l Jack Powell and blonde
Dottie Maddox, ADPi, are one
happy couple and Jack, the smil
ing youngster, isn't content unless
he calls Dottie at least 3 times
! each eve.
The Gamma Phis should feel
■ elated for it is rumored big Ed
Allen intends to make it his next
' stop. Tsk, tsk, how that boy does
play the field!
Starting next Monday is “Build
Up Herb Hoffman Week,” alias
William Bendix, or the Hairy Ape.
Where is your lifeboat, Herb ?
A fund for a roadmap of the
campus for Leon Williams will
> soon be taken up. Guess the poor
1 boy, by mistake, stopped at the
DG house when his date was a
I Thsfa. Could it be the fog?
Note: After last week’s article
[ iy40 presidential candidate.
October 20
General Douglas MacArthur ful
filled his “I will return” promise as
! U. S. troops landed on Leyte island
in the Philippines.
October 23
The United States officially rec
ognized General Charles de Gaulle’s
provisional government in France
as did other United Nations.
October 25
Reports started pouring in of the
damage inflicted by U. S. forces
on the Japanese fleet in the battle
of the Philippines. Official spokes
men proclaimed it as the most
severe defeat that the Japanese
navy has ever suffered.
October 31
President Roosevelt announced
that General Joseph Stilwell has
been recalled from his China post.
November 7
In the national election President
Roosevelt was re-elected for a
fourth term.
November 10
Prime Minister Churchill con
firmed reports that London was
being bombed by the new Nazi
secret weapon, V-2. This rocket
bomb travels at speeds up to 1000
miles per hour, plunging down si
lently from heights of 60 or 70
miles.
November 13
The last of the large German
battleships, the Tirpitz, was sunk
off the coast of Norway by RAF
Lancasters.
November 18
The U. S. 9th army whose where
abouts had been kept secret for
several months, went into action
against the Germans north of
Aachen.
November 20
The biggest breakthrough of the
past three months on the western
front came as Allied forces cap
tured the bastions of Metz and
Belfort, and pushed on to the Saar
basin and the> Rhine.
November 23
B-29 superfortresses based at
Saipan bombed Tokyo.
Don “womanless” Dyer is in a
very sad state.
Prase makes a good man better
and a bad man worse. — Dutch
proverb.
Movie Version
Loses Theme
By PEGGY OVERLAND
The theme is good—that within i
the soul of man, indestructible and
proof against all the sufferings,
horrors, and fears of the world,
there is an instinct for good that
cannot he lost to him. The story
is good—that of seven men who
escaped from a nazi concentration
camp hack in 1936 when Hitler
was still just a threat, and who
were gradually brought back one
by one and tied to crosses erected
in the yard, until only one re
mained empty. The empty one be
longed to George Heisler, who was
actually escaping from Germany
and who, in the process, was
learning the truth of man’s in- |
lierent humanity to man.
But somewhere m the process
of adapting Anna Seghers’ novel,
“The Seventh Cross,” to the
screen, the effectiveness and
beauty of its theme is lost. Spen
cer Tracy as George Heisler is
negligible. It is the story and the
gradual unfolding of the soul of
man through the varied characters
whom he meets that comprise the
important element of the picture.
Tracy only provides the central
pivot for this development, and
as such, acts with restraint and
self-effacement.
Despite a few brilliant and start
ling scenes, most of the film
drags along its grim course, with
little humor to lighten the sordid
incidents and with a noticeable
lack of suspense. Much of the lat
ter can be blamed on the mono
logue of the dead leader, Ray Col
lins, who had recognized the su
perior qualities of Heisler and also
his lack of faith in humanity and
who speaks to him from the cross.
It is monotonous and often lacks
an expected and necessary elo
quence during scenes intended to
be moving.
Momorable scenes picked at
random from the picture are: the
dramatic moment when the acro
bat who had been chased over
the rooftops of a little German
town with a crowd watching in
interest and enthusiasm, stood on
the ledge of a building, removed
his coat resignedly and, taking a
deep breath, dived off to the
pleased horror of the spectators;
all the scenes in the apartment of
Lisle and Paul Roeder which were
n’t exciting but which were psy
chologically sound; and the beau
tiful and terribly pathetic scene
in the garden where the last of the
escaped seven pleads with Heis
ler to return with him and give
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...or keeping the younger set happy at home
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icebox at home is just the place for frosty bottles of “Coke”. Your
family and all their friends will welcome it. At home and away
from home, Coca-Cola stands for the pause that rejreshes,— has
become a symbol of gracious American hospitality.
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to acquire friendly abbrevia
tions. That’s why you hear
Coca-Cola called “Coke”.
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limself up, because as he says,
the circle must he completed and
tecause the world has become far
too horrible and brutal for man
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over to expect goodness or beauty
in it again.
A patchy b'.it interesting p e
ture.
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