The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 22, 1952 Page: 1 of 4
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Entered as second class mailine matter. October 17. 101B. at the Post Qffi<*e, Komron. under the act of March 3, 1879
Volume Forty, Number Ten
HOUSTON. TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1952
Yoimg GOP Speeds
As Election Nears
Plans for an active Eisen-
hower campaign before Rice's
mock presidential election this
Friday were discussed by the
Rice Young Republicans Chap-
ter at a meeting Sunday.
In charge of the campaign will
be Fred Roehr, who plans to spread
posters, IKE buttons, campaign
literature around the campus in an
effort to encourage all voters to
participate in the election.
At the Texas game Saturday
night, members of the Rice Chap-
ter will co-operate with other
Young Republican groups in hand-
ing out Eisenhower-Nixon bumper
stickers which glow in the dark.
Rice students have been keeping
central Eisenhower headquarters
open at night five days a week.
This week they have been busy or-
ganizing Precinct 26 by telephone.
The volunteers have been typing,
mimeographing, and performing
other clerical jobs.
Chairman Paul Metzger, Jr., em-
phasized that the club will defi-
nitely continue to be active after the
nations} election. In the next few
months the club will present speak-
ers who will analyze the results of
the election and discuss current po-
litical developments.
Metzger urged all students who
are interested in helping at Repub-
lican headquarters before or during
the election to contact Fred Roehr,
Forest Ralph, DeWitt Wolfe, or any
other Young Republican.
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Lit Explodes With
Provocative Show;
Carmen At A-House
It is Carmen for whom the men
are neally waiting!
Beware! The sexy, flaming-haired
witch enters.
"Carmen, gal!" they cry panting-
ly. "How about hitting it off to the
l^Us with us, eh?"
"I' beat tonight, boys," she mur-
murs seductively, v "Maybe tomor-
Tpovr, maybe never—but nay, lads,
not today."
And ^th an enticing sway, she
slips, into her "Habanera." At the
time, she nonces Don Jose
sullenly on one side, wMt-
_ a stick of wood and paying
no attention (Silly Boy!). She
tfies to get Don Jose's eye, but he
stubbornly refuses to part with it.
Plucking a rose from her bodice
(Down Boys!), she tosses it care-
lessly at his feet.
What happens? Does Don Jose
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firemen extinguish preset bonfire.
Bonfire Burns; New Pile
Under Construction
"All freshmen out," was the cry that echoed through the
dorms last Thursday night at about 1:30 x\M. The occasion
was a pre-bonfire started by someone, presumably not from
Rice. The wood for the scheduled bonfire next Friday evening
which had been donated by a demolishing company, was left
unguarded, and the results were
disastrous as can be seen from T?^n/ oisAn
'-1- -fcture above. Chaos ruled, "«ySlCal MUCcalOB
with firemen, freshmen, and upper- A flflrAGGAQi
classmen combining to fight the ^ MJfugth XlUlllCoBvo
blaze. • • j
• The wood is now under guard, and JL/lSHPPOllltGCS
plans are proceeding rapidly for i
next Friday night's bonfire. J The Physical Education Depart-
The Rice band will perform, and ment has requested that the Thresh-
fireworks will be set off. T. F. Ar- 1 er print the following letter. Glad-
. ner is in charge of the speeches for ly complying,
the bonfire, and Neal O'Bnen is in ( "The Physical Education Depart-
charge of building the fire. I ment wishes to express its grati-
"Ariy trucks for hauling," said tude to the nearly 100 Rice students
Neal O'Brien, "or sizable numbers who had prepared for Physical Edu-
Charity Tourney
Sponsored By Rice -
Bridge Club
The RicffTSridge Club is sponsor-
ing a Charity Bridge Tournament
in conjunction with the Charity
Drive on Sunday, Oct. 26, 1952 in
the Student Lounge at 2:00 PM. All
the proceeds will be turned over to
the Charity Committee. The fees will
be $.50 for Club members and $1.50
for outsiders. The Board of Direc-
tors has announced that special
awards and small prizes will be giv-
en. They'are hoping to have at least
fourteen tables.
All Rice students and faculty may
become members of the Bridge Club
and thus save on entry fees.
j of orange crates or anything in-
I flanjmable will be appreciated."
The Freshmen Skit will be
Wednesday night, October 22 at
7 i30 in A-House. There is a dance
following the skit. All freshmen
boys and girls must attend, and
all upper classmen are invited.
cation demonstrations at half time
of the SMU-Rice football game..
This demonstration had been plan-
ned to acquaint the public with
Physical Education facilities, in-
struction, and activtiies availably
to students, faculty, and alumni of
the Rice Institute. We regret that
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Seventeen bids were sent to
men of the Rice Institute by the
Rally Club last week. New mem-
bers of the service organization
are: John McClintock, Mike Kel-
ley, Joe Lockridge, Burr Pieper,
Tommy Reckling, Bill Lindsey,
Skip Lee, Crayton Walker, Dick
Chapman, George Staten, Phil
Sherwood, Rosie Rosenburg, Ben
Edwards, Harvey Jewett, Evins
Atwell, Bill Barrison, Willie Ber-
ryman, J. Meyers, and Charles
Tepley.
Unphotographed persons
for Campanile pic-
go to Century fcabs,
Inc., 502*4 Main Street, before
Tuesday, October 28. The fins!
Ust of class photographs will be
attade on that day, and pictures
wOl have to have been made be-
flMfe tfcfen. Century L*bs are *pea
ttatll ft PM on Mondays.
10 Beauties To Be Named To Vanity Fair 10
The 1953 Campanile Vanity Fair Beauty selection will be-
gin Tuesday, October 28, at 7:00 PM. At this time a committee
of the presidents of the eight lits, the editor and business man-
ager of the Campanile, the president of the student association,
the president of the senior class, the chairman of the honor
council, a representative of the. — —~ , ™. .
K dub, and the chairman ofthe j £
■fr<".qV,rnqn guidance committee I photographer, Mr. Marvins, of Chal-
will choose fifty girls from nomina- mers Marvins and two other quali-
tions submitted by the lits and the fied impartial judges will pick
Campanile. I twenty-fiVfe girls to be' photo-
1 graphed. The photographs will be
submitted to Mr. Walt Kelly, famed
| cartoonist and creator of Pogo who
' will choose the final ten beauties
from picture alone.
The Campanile feels that the final
selection will in this way be a com-
posite of a girl's photogenic quali-
ties and her personality. Because
of the tradition at Rice that a girl
may appear only once as a Beauty
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Pogo's Pa Packs
Lecture Lounge
Public Pleased
By Brad Thompson
Walt Kelly, the modern master of
"line drawing illustrated dialogue"
appeared before a select mob of
Rice students in the Fondren Li-
brary Lecture Lounge last Satur-
day. He was introduced by Em-
mett McGeever, who gave a brief
history of art forms, leading up to
that modern one, called in our
American slang "comics."
Mr. Kelly then explained to his
extremely appreciative audience
how and why Pogo had originated.
It peems that Mr. Kelly first cre-
ated Pogo as a rather unimportant
character in a comic strip involving
V little. Necrro boy and his animal
rriends. The action took place in
a swampland so that the sometimes
fantastic goings-on would seem
more credible to the reader. How-
ever, Mr. Kelly noted that more in-
terest centered around the animals
than around the little boy, the sup-
posed central figure. One day,
therefore, the boy disappeared from
the story. As Mr. Kelly put it,
"There was this alligator sort of
standing around, but I never did
ask him about the disappearance."
From then on, the formerly obscure
Pogo became the star of the story.
Why is he called Pogo ? For the
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SMU Girls Doused
Feted At Dorms
Last Friday
Four girls from SMU got a sam-
ple of Rice enthusiasm after the
Freshman football game last Fri-
day night, October 17, when their
car was ambushed and they were
doused at the driveway leading in-
to the infirmary parking area near
west hall when "dormitory residents
mistook them for potential lighters
of bonfires.
The girls, riding through the
I campus after the football game bus-
! ily cheering SMU, got their com-
euppance when they were hoisted
| on the shoulders of willing fresh-
j men and ridden through the dormi-
tory cloisters after a thorough sat-
uration. Two of their number dis-
appeared temporarily; their com-
panions waited for them some twen-
ty minutes in their car while some
200 • Rice boys boiled around out-
side. Some distressed soul telephon-0
ed the police and reported a disturb-
ance; two cars of alarmed police-
men were soon on the scene urging
everybody to go home to bed, point-
out that a scandal might result if
the yellowed press got hold of the
story. *■
As soon as the missing girls had
returned from off the campus (they
were drinking sodas waiting for the
storm to blow over), the crowd dis-
persed. . .
Tomorrow at 8 PMfcn in tht
Lecture Lounge, "Les Hiboux"
will sponsor "The Well Digger's
Daughter," a French film with
English substitutes; tickets will
be sold from 7 PM until thefilm
begins.
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