Foreign Trade
Members Meef
Six members of the UO foreign
trade board met yesterday after
noon with shipping and foreign
trade students of the business
school in their monthly conference.
The board members work with
the students in relation to prob
lems on shipping and marketing.
They bring all documents, bills of
lading, etc., which are used in ac
tual negotiations, and go over the
processes with the students.
Meetings of the board are held
in conjunction with the business
school once a month.
Wild Notes
(Continued from page six)
aged Eckstine since it was at this
time that B.E. switched to play
ing his present better trombone.
Incidentally, Eckstine was re
cently voted the male singer of
the year for 1948.
Dizzy left the leadership of the
Eckstine band in Fats Navarro’s
capable hands and formed his own
band. In 1947, Metronome mag
declared Diz’s the band of the
year. For the last three years,
John Birks Gillespie has been vot
ed the nation’s top trumpet play
er by Metronome's readers. The
first year he had a 34-vote edge,’
this last time he was first by well
over 600 votes. His popularity
seems to be steadily increasing as
more and more people accept bop
as the inevitable trend of popular
music.
The hearing: of the Gillespie or
chestra in Portland last week il
lustrated why 2,000 people were
turned away from its perform
ance at the Pasadena Civic audi
torium early this year. It dis
played ..the . greatest ..musical
imagination of Dizzy, and his two
chief arrangers, John Lewis and
Walter Fuller
Its occasional miscues and un
intended dischords showed lack
of practice together, the result of
the great turnover in personnel
that seems to blight the Negro
band. Nevertheless, the unending
flow of ideas in an unbending at
titude of playing for the sake of
music, not the box-office take,
has in its originality great popu
lar appeal.
The fact that the musicians
seemed to be having more fun
than the audience gave the music
an added kick. That they played
nearly three straight hours before
leaving the stand convinced that
their purpose was music, not just
their paycheck.
Dizzy, who is still in his twen
ties, shows his youth in his great
showmanship. Leading the band
behind his back, or jumping a
few feet in the air to cue a brass
blast. However, to meet him he
is quiet and modest. He realizes
that he owes a lot to his follow
ers, and tries to meet their every
request.
When bebop was first coming
into its own, its propagators
adopted certain traits of individ
uality to set this new jazz form
off from other forms. Also, pos
sibly the publicity received from
some of the trappers’ Mohamme
danism and ostrich leather shoes
was not altogether unfortunate
because it informed John Q. Pub
lic that popular music was chang
ing and taking a turn for the bet
ter.
Now, Diz’s band wears very
plain uniforms, no berets. The
time has come when the music
will attract attention, the props
aren’t needed. So the next time
•T.B.'s music is heard, take a min
ute and enjoy it. You might as
well ’cause there seems to be “no
stopping this bopping.”
Codger in Anecdote
(Continued from page six)
Klondike Kate • •
After reaching the Klondike,
Carson dug gold until his hands
blistered. While waiting for the
blisters to heal he visited the M.
& M. saloon. There he met Jack
London, Tex Rickard, Robert W.
Service and so many other inter
esting people that he abandoned
prospecting and drank his way
through 50 years of insolvency,
warm in the memory of his cele
brated friends.
“Rex Beach was a bar slapper,”
Carson recalled. “If he got an
idea while standing at the Bar
he’d slap it so hard you could
hear the bar crack. Then he
would bound upstairs—he had a
room there—and soon his type
writer would be leaping and
jumping. Sometimes he would
come back and say, ‘I had an
idea. It didn’t work. Let’s have
another drink.’
“Jack London was a wonderful
fellow, but he quit drinking and
became respectable. Even after
Jack left the country he used to
send money back to the boys,
saying, ‘I’m not a drinking man—
but have one on me.’
“After Klondike Kate came to
the gold fields, life throbbed a lit
tle sweeter. We never learned how
much gold she sent back to the
states. . . .”
After the gold camps dried up
and the big cities came, Tom Car
son settled in Nome. The bars
were good. The years passed.
Then, one day, came that unac
countable decision to visit his
niece . . .
I know what you’re thinking.
You’re wondering if Tom Carson
came back, and slipped that en
velope under the door.
Yes, he did.
Friendly Discussion
“Personal Power” is the topic for
discussion tonight at Friendly house
by Mrs. Turnipseed’s group. Any
one interested in discussing relig
ion from any side is welcome. The
group will meet at 7:30 p.m.
Mockford, Johnson
(Continued irom page five)
Lippman is considered the best
ball handler in the league besides
being able to hit the hemp with
timely one-handed push shots from
in front of the key.
MOVING DOWN to the second
five, the Fijis’ lanky Ray Heiden
rich was consistently a stalwart
defensive player who gave all op
position a rough struggle for the
ball under the net.
Jim Dunlap of the Delta also was
a rugged backboard man, but
proved himself even more valuable
by sinking fast-break lay-ins to
help the Delt cause.
Sigma Chi’s Bill Larffey teamed
with Jones to provide the necessary
scoring punch in the clutch to give
the Blue and Gold a double action
offense which couldn’t be stopped.
THE MOST OUSTANDING
clutch player in both leagues was
George Watkins from Phi Delta
Theta. Watkins was moved up to
“A” competition during the finals
and almost led his team to an up
set victory over trophy-winning
Delta Tau Delta.
He sank two long shots In the dy
ing moments of play as his squad
was edged out 22-20.
Jim Popp, SAE guard, led his
quintet into the playoff only to fall
to the Hilltoppers in the semifinal
round. Popp racked up points
against opponents with a decep
tive shift in front of the key, then
dribbling in for a lay-in.
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ASSOCIATION
WAA to Vote
On Proposal
An amendment proposing that
appointive officers of the WAA be
chosen after elections instead of
before, as is now done, will be voted
upon by members next week.
Suggested at a recent cabinet
meeting, the change will need a
two-thirds vote of a quorum of ac
tive members to pass, said Bep
McCour^ey, president.
The proposed amendment is to _
section 2, article IV of the WAA
institution, and now reads, “Ap
pointive officers shall be: head of *
sports (appointed at time of nom
inations by committee), publicity
chairman, sports managers.”
If changed, the reading will be,
‘Appointive officers shall be head
af sports (appointed after elections
ay committee), publicity chairman
ind sports managers.”
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TIME — 8:30 P.M. (Tonight)
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