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IMPORTANT, IF TRUE Tug-o-war Participants Wind Up Training oh, We Got Spirit. . / Lotsa Fight, Team's ’Right' ABC MKADOWH (Special) "We gotta fightin’ ballclub” wan the comment of gravel-voiced Bob Brittain, grizzled mentor of the aophomore tug-of-war team, when contacted here Thursday at the aophomore training camp. The aophomore squad, which meets the powerful freahman ag gregation today at 4 p.m. dn the! Mlllrace, has undergone two weeks of dnily doubles workouts for the crucial content. "I think dose guya in ready," snarled Brittain as he tossed an empty stubby in the Willamette liver. "My built tub in vicious," he roar ed, pointing to a number of beard ed and muscular young men cas ually landing horseshoes anti tear ing New York Phonebooks to j shreds. When asked to confirm rumors that his team had been practicing swimming on the side, Brittain ex ploded in anger, "Swimming, schmimming!" hr snorted. "Cook who we got.” Who have they got? Among th> stars arc Ben "The Beast" Schmidt. 237 pound ruffian from i the Minturn rcllar; “Casual" i Clarke Miller, wiio thinks nothing of rough and tumble with 10-1 odds (his way); and "Potent" _ Paul Hawkins. 190 pounds of sinewy dy- 1 namite. Toynbee (( »h/ihtied front foot one) strike. Him reaction to the event: ‘I any, I think that was a good bit of fun. We must do it again.’ ” And "Life's" article, in Its ‘‘LIFE ON THE NEWS FRONT OK THE WORLD,” page 52: (May 12) “The great British historian Ar nold Toynbee, lecturing at the Uni versity of Oregon somehow was maneuvered into a bowling alley. "You said . . . the rise and fall of civilization is based on a series of challenges and responses,' said the wife of a history professor. 'Here is a challenge. What is your re ‘ sponse?’ "Toynbee, who had never tried to bowl, picked up the ball and flung We're Lucky It didn’t cost the I'O audience n cent to hear Dr. Arnold Toyn bee when he spoke here recently. But 400 people In Chicago ponied up $12.50 per plate at a dinner for him at the Casino Club there Monday, according to a story In the Chicago Daily News. Proceeds of the dinner were to help finance a trip Toynbee plans to Peru to study th • ancient Inca civilization. it. It wont down the gutter. He | tried again, and again the ball! went down the gutter. But with the persistence of a glob of life trying' to lift itself from the primevafl ooze, Toynbee tried once more. A clean strike." Another story in "Time,” on the same page as its Toynbee article, refers to another campus lecturer—Writer Bernard DeVo to, who spoke at Tuesday’s as sembly. The story tells of the purchase and revival of the "long - defunct old sagebrush weekly, 'The Territorial Enter prise’." DeVoto is on the contrib uting staff of the weekly, in which Mark Twain, about whom DeVoto has been a heavy writer, got his first byline. s . i I . . . A Little White Cloud Glass Sad; Looks Bad SOMEWHERE IN EUGENE f Special)- Last-minute workouts arc being held by the freahrnan eJasH for the annual tug-of-war with the sophomores to be held at 4 p.m. this afternoon; however, if the worst fears of Coach Bob "Weepy” Glass materialize, it will be a sad day indeed for the Fresh men . Between sobs on his crying towel, Coach Glass remarked that the sophomores would probably nin wild as usual and that it was only because of tradition that the freshmen would bother to show up at the contest. Maybe It'll Rain "Maybe it will rain, and the whole thing will have to be called off,” he added hopefully. A shot tage of material seems to be hindering the efforts of the freshmen. Many freshmen attended summer school and are now sopho mores in academic standing. There seems to be no basis to the rumor that Bronco Nagurskl is enrolling in the University of Oregon as a freshman. The wily mentor refused to com ment when asked if the freshman ranks would be bolstered by the Los Angeles Rams. He did remark, however that he had been confer ring with Len Casanova. Efforts are being made to orga nize a buxom rally squad to bolster the spirits of the freshmen and try outs are being held for those girls girls who feel that they possess the necessary qualifications. A jazz band and pep club will round out the proceedings. HEY YOU! ARE YOU LISTEN'IN IT'S GETTING LATE MOTHER'S WEEKEND IS NOW! GET THAT ORCHID CORSAGE SPECIAL (ORCHIDS $1.50 up — In Case You Haven’t Heard) New Co-op Gets Half of Members The Wcbfoot Consumers Co-op may he open soon. A report from the board of directors reveals that 50 per cent of the persons neces sary for operation of the store have signed up for membership. Negotiations are being carried on between the Co-op finance com mittee and the present owner of the Am-Vet grocery for purchase of the store. Persons interested in member ship in the Webfoot Consumers Co op may obtain the necessary infor mation at the Amazon housing project. Signs have been posted in Ihe housing project where co-op members are located. The board of directors urges the membership of persons not located in the Amazon project. . —. Flowers Unlimited 193 E. Broadway — FlowerFone 4-6244 ON CAMPUS, IN THE ' _________ • Campus Briefs i — 0 Buckling Counselor petition* I must be turned in to the YWCA j office in Gcriinger or Bobbette Gil-1' more at Carson hall by 5 p.m. to day, Miss Gilmore said. Instruction meetings will be held Tuesday in j Carson, and May 21 at Gerlinger , for all petitioners. The government of Jamaica. ’ B.W.I., operates a land settlement plan, under which large areas are j purchases and then re-sold to' bona fide settlers in 10-acre lots, j at low prices, on the installment l plan. 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