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VOLUME L
Fiftieth Year of Publication and S ervice to the University
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1948
HAL Boyle tells the tale of thfv
vanishing American. See story
page 1, columns 2, 3, and 4.
NUMBER 51
.c
Busybody
Is Comic
Offstage
ii anyone else tens me that
I'm a natural for the part I’ll
hit 'em over the head with my
bustle,” Sally Nicol screamed
with a charming smile and a
twinkle in her blue eyes.
Sally, or "Sas” as her friends
call her for no logical reason,
plays Mrs. Candour in “School
for Scandal.” A veteran comic
off stage as well as on, Sally has a
field day in playing the self-esteem
ed, good-hearted busybody who
wouldn’t for the world tell you that
. . . and on into her bit of gossip.
As house president of Susan
Campbell hall, Sas got the Cali
fornia freshmen off to the right
start by answering the question
“does it rain in Oregon?” with
“honey, there are two seasons in
Oregon—the rainy season and
August, and you won’t be here in
Augi rt.”
h Sas is a native Oregonian, com
!/ ing from Portland. She’s appeared
■) in other University theater produc
tions, including “The Man Who
Came to Dinner,” “Adding Ma
chine”, and “Midsummer Night’s
Dream” of last season.
As Mrs. Candour Sas takes com
plete charge of the scene from the
minute she charges on stage until
she makes her exit—and heaven
help the person who gets in her
v/ay. Mrs. Candour is perhaps the
most delightful of Sheridan’s char
acters in the restoration comedy,
though individual taste will deter
mine the favorite for members of
the audience.
Sas looks forward to the opening
Actress
SALLY NICOL will play the part
of Mrs. Candor in the forthcom
ing production, “School for Scan
dal.”
Friday night with the gusto of a
veteran actress, and is even more
anxiously awaiting the road tour
the School for Scandal company
will take during winter term.
“What I like about the road is
the unexpected, anything - can
happen quality,” Sally explain
ed. “One night you may play on
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New Type All-American
NORM VAN BROCKLIN, above
gets another All-American berth.
This time as quarterback on a
ten man “Dream Team” selected
by Betty Grable. “Hollywood’s
“Gal with the legs” disregarded
all the fundamentals of football
and picked her team solely on
good looks. Amazingly enough,
Miss Grable overlooked Jackie
Jensen of California on her team
of the year.
Betty Grable Selects
Van On 'Dream' Team
By Gretchen Grondahl
Oregon quarterback Norm Van Brocklin has hit a new kind
of All-American listing.
This time film star Betty Grable did the picking of an all
star squad, and not on the basis of such common considerations
as tackling, blocking, or running back punts. Miss Grable chose
her dream team for their looks.
Commenting on her choice of Van Brocklin, the actress savs
“any guy who can complete so
many passes in one season is
okay with me.”
The girl who is famed for her
well-molded underpinnings was
conscious of gams when she
chose her backfield, for she se
lected SMU halfback Doak
Walker for his “Best-looking
legs.” Minnesota’s Billy Bye, who
appeals to her maternal instinct,
fills the other halfback position.
Handsome Fred Nadhenry of Yale
completes the backfield at fullback.
Captain of the blonde beauty’s
All-American is Center Pat O’
Sullivan of Alabama. Barney
Poole of Mississippi and Bill
Clements, UCLA, were selected
for the ends, while Guards Bill
Fischer of Notre Dame and Rod
Franz of Cal were chosen for their
“rugged good looks.”
Miss Grable’s selection of a tackle
will provoke much heated discus
sion—simply because she claims
that she could find only one hand
some enough to make the team, Phil
O'Reilly of Purdue.
Glancing over tne list of her ten
man All-America, Eetty concludes:
“I don't know how good some of
them are, but if they can play foot
ball as well as they look—oh, broth
er!”
The story of Miss Grablc’s selec
tion came to the Emerald by way of
an article clipped from the Los An
geles Mirror by former Oregon
student Mrs. Dean Post (Barbara
Tibbets,) of Seal Beach, California.
Ducks Face SMU
In Cotton Bowl;
Campus Jubilant
\\ hat looked like a blue holiday ahead turned into a gala
prospect as UO received an eagerly awaited bid to Dallas’ Cot
ton Bowl.
, Invitation to the New Year’s game was received and accept
ed by the l nivcrsitv during the Thanksgiving holidays, ancl '
was later confirmed by Southern Methodist University, which
will meet Oregon on the Cotton Bowl grid.
Accoiding to a release by Howard Lemons, athletic business
manager, LU students will he
permitted to purchase two tick
ets each for the game. No stud
ent rate will he offered; the
standing ticket price is $4.80.
I he Athletic Department
ticket oftice will he open from
December 1 to 18 for the sale of
tickets to Texas-bound Webfoot.
One of the largest banquets
ever held in the state of Oregon
will honor Head Coach Jim Ai
ken, Assistants Dick Miller and
Frank Zazula, and the Oregon
football team.
The banquet is set for 6 p.m.
Tuesday, December 7, at Mac court.
] Master of ceremonies will be famed
radio comedian Phil Harris, who
sends word that he will “honor the
Pacific Coast champions."
All Oregon alumni will receive
applications for tickets to the
Cotton bowl game. They are be
ing sent this week through the
alumni office and athletic depart
! ment, and must be returned by
i December 15, said Les Anderson,
alumni director. Paid members
of the association will receive
first preference, but otherwise
the applications received earliest
will be considered first.
Banquet tickets are now on sale
at the ticket office or at the Eu
gene hotel. Students, alums, and
Oregon rooters from all over the
Northwest are expected to be in
attendance.
In order to accept the Cotton
Bowl bid, the University had to
gain the approval of a majority of
the members of the Pacific Coast
conference. Members of the football
team itself were also polled as to
their wishes.
Today's Vanishing American
Old-Fashioned Indian Nickel
By Hal Boyle
NEW YORK—(APJ—The van
ishing American today is the In
dian on the old-fashioned nickel.
He is losing face faster than
Chiang Kai Shek. No wonder he is
looking west toward the sunset
He has had his day. He and the
buffalo are going down together.
For the nickel is about as useful
to the average man now as a golf
ball is to a hen. Time was when ]
the Nickel delighted the childish |
heart. Give one to a kid today, and
the little innocent is likely to in
quJr s\
“What’s it for?”
And it is a hard question to an
swer. The nickel, like the old grey
mare, ain't what she used to be.
The coin originally was strictly
in inflation product. Now it’s a
victim of inflation.
It was first minted in 1866 in the
ugh price times following the civil
var. Before that the people had
nade small change with half cents,
arge cents, Pennies, bronze two
3ents, nickel three cents, and sil
ver three-cent and half-dime pieces.
The new five-cent nickel, which
vas actually only 25 per cent nickel
ind 75 per cent copper, quickly ri
valed even the Indian head penny
in popularity.
It had a mighty reign. For two
generations of Americans it was a
basic coin, although by statute it
was legal tender only in the pay
ment of debts of twenty-five cents
or less.
It helped build fortunes for the
Wool worths, the Dukes and many
another clan.
What couldn’t a man do with a
nickel in the good old days? He
could buy his wife a pair of ear
muffs or a hair ribbon. He could
belly up to a bar and get a stiff
shot of stomach warmer or a tall
glass of beer. It would finance him
to a plug of chawin’ terbaccy, a
small pack of coffin nails, or two
of the darkest,^, strongest cigars
this side of Cuba.
It would take him to the movies
in the era of silent flickers, when
strong men fainted at the sight of
! pretty Pearl White, tied by villainy
to the railroad tracks in the path
of the speeding express train, 15
minutes out of Hoboken.
They thought so much of this
I dear old coin that the worst thing
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'Messiah'
Concert
Sunday
One of the major musical
productions of the University’s
history will he offered to Eu
gene audiences on the evening
of December 5, when Choral
Union and the University sym
phony orchestra will combine
in Handel’s “Messiah.”
Under the direction of Dean Theo
dore Kratt of the music school, the
production is sponsored toy the Uni
versity religious council and the
School of Music.
The various parts of the oratorio
have been in rehearsal since the be
ginning of fall term; the Sunday
night performance is expected to
reach a new high in the spectacular
on the UO music scene.
UO religious council has stated
that “the public is invited"’—mean
ing that no admission will be charg
ed. McArthur court will have seat
ing for a large audience, which in,
all probability will be one of the
greatest ever to attend such an
event at the University.
Onyx Street Area
Opened To Parking
In order to ease the parking1
situation for art and architec
ture. students University offi
cials have opened the area in
front of the architecture annex
on Onyx street to students hav
ing classes in that building. The
area was formerly restricted for
physical plant personnel.
This change does not affect
the restrictions on parking in
driveways or on the lot still re
served for the physical plant,
near the University press, paint
shop, or extension building.
'School for Scandal'
Box Office Opens
Starting today the general
public may buy tickets for
“School for Scandal,” which
opens Friday for a sixperform
ance run — Friday, Saturday,
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday.
The box office in Johnson hall
is open from 10 to 12, and 1 to 5
until Friday. Days of perform
ances the box office remains open
until curtain time. Tickets may
be purchased at $1 per seat, or
one season ticket stub per ticket.