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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1947)
No Hanky Panky Here A Rough, Tough Story A short snort story by Hashiell Dammitt, winner of the National Baking Institute's Order of the Busing Bun. “Spade” Diamond lurched into the bushes. He took a drink. He v. as going to wait until the fat man or the thin man came out of the house. He didn't care much which as long as his bottle held out. He could barely see the house. He took another drink. Now he couldn’t see the house at all. He slugged down another Snort. T hen he lit his drink and took one swallow from his cigarette. The coals were hot on his tongue. He soat at them and missed. “Damm,” he swore. He was tough. He hit himself on the head, dragged his senseless body back to the car, and waited for Develop ments, his blonde secretary. She didn't come. He spat at the Poet’s Corner J.ife and Death and Life and Death (Winner of the Walter Evans Smallgoat award ) Infinite squalor restrospects The mood of startled rhapsody . . I think, I dream, and there was Something else Here about something. by A. Sharecropper Candelabra (second prize winner) Candelabra . . rhymes with Candelabra . . . Candelabra .... , Candelabra. by A. Friend hole in his tongue. He missed. “Double damm,” he swore. He was getting tougher. Then he died. Icckfrg Beck 100 years ago today: It was May 27, 1847. 50 years ago today: It was may 27, 1897. 10 years ago today: It was May 27, 1937. 1 year ago today: It was May 27, 1946. Will history repeat? Mangey Mongrels Rove Friendly Hall Les Anderson, alumni secretary, announced today that savage dpgs have been turned loose in the corri dors of Friendly hall, and that the beasts will remain unfed until after June 1. “No seniors gets no commence ment instructions, no tickets, and no programs until after June 1, and I ain't aimin’ to have ’em hanging around the alumni office gettin’ un derfoot,” Anderson stated. “After | all, they ain’t alums yet.” Seniors will be limited to four commencement tickets a head, An- i derson pointed out, and scalpers will be persecuted to the full extent of the law. “Tickets for the alumni luncheon will be ready when they get the oth er stuff,” said Anderson. “We’re really gonna send ’em away from th^old campus with a bellyfull.” j Stan Williamson and Howard Lemons are good friends. 4 ' Through a Glass, Darkly... GARNISH WITH YARBS THE KEG AND I—:(777 pp.)—Fred Flotsam and Jerry Jetsam—Smut of the Montfl ($3.50). No carping critics we. but this thirst-provoking magnum |opus by Grizzled Gruff Fred- Flotsam and Fear Shaped Jerry 1 Jetsam blitzes through 21 chapters of hard-as-nails cider—and (gets there. Xu backwater writers they, men, Flotsam and Jetsam have hammered out a boilermaker that is to-be-reckoned with force of its type (8 pt.). The plot brews in Olympia in the heart of the vast Rainier min 1 ing country and delves into the J book bottoms of human frailties, ] foibles, and lurking evils. At times it is powerful, at other times weak flaccid, acid, and rancid. Nora, the sister, sought to re plevy a skillfully contrived makeshift from Ufarson, tl>e slave. But Ufarson shrewdly moved the whole affair to Mil waukie, where it eventually fell into a deep discard. I The authors were small boys at the time. Somehow, they never quite got over it. 'Jpffars later when | Flotsam was apprenticed to an al | chemist in old Point Comfort, Va., he developed the keen powers of penetration that would' one day enable him to span the gulf be tween the lending library and the barber shop. But it took Jetsam, the word i wizzard, to knit up the ravelled, fenestrated gloom that murked into the seventh day. I Federal law forbids sale or re | use of this book as it contains 79 per cent grain neutral spirits. Kook Makes It to Head HONOLULU, May 26 (SDX) — The ship of a Captain Koch (or Cook) was sighted rounding Dia mond Head this morning. Early discovery of the Sandwich Islands is anticipated by All and Sundry, local beaehboys; but thoroughly ripened cratts “Three-finger Jack” was the nick name of a man with three fingers. Johnson hall records reveal that Susan Campbell hall was named for a woman. ODD FELLOWS LODGE Spencer Butte No. 9 Meets Tuesday Nile at 8:00 p. m. Corner of Oak & Broadway Expert Radio Repairing 24 Hour Service ENDICOTTS Radio and Appliance Service 871 E. 18th Phone 5739 Today's Noontime Entree Take Nine Eggs. Tenderly Nibble Each. Then Nail Endive To Number Eight. Toss New Eggplant Through Naptha Elixir. Test, Noting Expansion. This Nourishing Epicurean Tidbit Never Enervates. Thoroughly Nauseating. Eh? RECORDS SHEET MUSIC Classical and Popular INSTRUMENTS ACCESSORIES best stock in town d WILSON MUSIC HOUSE SB East 10th Ava Tel. 727 DANCE EVERY SATURDAY For table Reservations Call Springfield 8861 9:30 - 12:30 Wayne Ryan and His Band SWIMMER'S DELIGHT 3 Miles east of Goshen. Call Spr. 8861 This Is INDEPENDENTS’ Day HOWARD LEMONS No. 1 « JEANNE SIMMONS No. 2 - - ^ ,1 I M » I «»♦»** I I M M t *» 1 »>»*»*«»•»*• ■ . » . • - - Paid advt.