=^AGE TWO
MAROON AND GOLD
FRIDAY, APML 1, 1949
Maroon and Gold
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FRIDAY, APRPIL 1, 1949
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’TIS SPRING, TRA LA!
Once more our fair campus has become
aware of the advent of spring. Of course,
it didn’t become official until the appear
ance of “Keep Off The Grass” signs. The
adamonitions are truly a linguistic tri
umph this year. Of course, there is less
grass to keep off than there was last
spring.
Classroom windows are open again, and
students woo Morpheus with soft, sensuous
breezes caressing their foreheads. These
same students were soothed to the same
stupor by hissing radiators only a few
weeks ago. Ah, spring, it's great to be alive.
Perhaps the foremost reason for the fan
fare with which spring is greeted each
year is the emergence of the fair sex from
wraps which have kept them protected
from the inclement winter weather. We now
become aware of those who have been hid
ing their light under a bushel.
Our beautifully landscaped men’s dormi
tories have become the scenes of outside
■activity. It isn’t really spring at Elon until
a window has been broken by a baseball.
The occupants of rooms which have beome
too warm for comfortable afternoon sleep
ing have moved their indolent forms out
side to snooze in the sun.
The ball park has heard the first “Kill
the umpire,” and, what’s more important,
the baseball team has won its first victory.
Senior Oak is acquiring new scrips, J^pm
; Cupid’s sly darts, and the rush for benches
! on the campus after the evening meal is
^ comparable to the Oklahoma land rush.
It must be a wonderful urge indeed that
would prompt a person to sit on a con
crete bench for one hour.
Well, enough of this typewriter doodling.
Blame it on the warm air coming through
open windows and the fact that the con
tent of this issue is hardly inspirational to
editorial writing. —B. "W
By GUS GUSTOFF
We feel that we have accomplished
much through this column:
North has been replaced with a new
fire proof building. See picture in
this issue.)
New locks (that can be opened from
the inside without a key) have been
placed on all doors in West and
Ladies Hall. New fire escapes have
also been installed at these dorms.
You are now fn^oying the use of the
new water fountains that we wrote
about, one new refridgerated foun
tain on eacTi floor of Alamance,
Science Bldg. and all dorms.
Congratulations Bob DeMarco. Bob won
the N. C. A. A. diving championship at
Carolina last week-end.
We are very proud of our child prodigy
Jack McFayden; however, we did hate to
see Lauritz Melchoir lose his job. A talent
scout hear the choir broadcast over WBBB
Sunday and Little Jackie was immediately
hired to replace Mr. Melchoir at the Met.
....Tough luck Miss Pate! Miss Pate brought
her horses up for the Burlington horse
show early and had them stabled in
Mooney Bldg. By mistaTie one of them
was butchered this week and we had it
for' slipper.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! We
had a most wonderful time at the picnic
supper held in the new parlor for the boys.
There will be a formal dance held in
the gym during spring holldays'7 sponsored
by the student body—Art Mooney will
play. Be sure to attend.
It is true that they have a new supply
of shin guards and saddles for the base
ball team? I hear that all the infield is
going to wear shin guards and the out
field will wear saddles when C. K. Siler
pitches.
Fortunate? I should say so! The broad-
way hit ‘Harvey’ will be presented at Elon
with Joe E. Brown and a host of Sroadway
stars. As you probably know, ‘Harvey’ is
an imaginary rabbit, and from what we
have been able to learn, there has been
a change in the plot just for the Elon
production, with another rabbit being
written in so that it will be more excit
ing for the students here.
The Burlington Saddle Club has a spe
cial class programmed for the horse show.
It 'will include only the Elon students’
ponies.
Lovely production of “The Rice Is Ripe”
at Elon Monday night.
In spring a young man’s fancy turns
to—^yep! You guessed it. Ain’t it just grand
with all the beach parties going on around
the campus.
Hello Boogie!
There will be a tea held at the White
Swan for all Eon students this afternoon
at half past four o’clock.
Toooooo bad. That seductive young lady
in The Corn Is Green’” was shipped im
mediately after the play Monday night.
She didn’t even get to change her cos
tume.
Understood that the girls intramural
pool championship games will be held at
the Sportsman in B’town.
trash and tragedy ...
THADDEUS T. PARKINWOODS
In keeping with the rest of this publica
tion, Trash and Tragedy, instead of being
serious and completely truthful as in the
past, will indulge in a bit of nonsense. You
will realize, of course, what a task this is
for us, since we have heretofore written
for you nothing more nor less than the
actual facts.
Probably the greatest shock of the season
is Jack Moody’s vow to ignore all women
in the future. Regardless of the coming
spring, “Lover Boy” Moody’s fancy turneth
away from thoughts of love. He declines to
divulge his reasons for his decision, but
stubbornly refuses to go again to Greens
boro, even though he is offered transpor
tation nightly. This will undoubtedly be a
great blow to the inhabitants of UNC’s an
nex.
Rumor has it that one of the untenanted
downtown buildings is to house a beauty
parlor, although we assifre you nothing of
this sort is necessary at Elon. Just between
us, though, this rumour Is entirely false.
We have it from authorized sources that
the proposed establishment is to be a combi
nation billiard parlor and bar. This, in our
estimation, is a foolhardy move, since the
new bookstore is definitely to have suds on
tap, thereby causing the outside business
to suffer financially.
“Lefty” Hollander, highly incensed at
the allusion to his ‘beard’ in last issue, has
been running around defying everyone to
count the hairs. Seems we missed the count
by two or three.
The men in South are wondering why
they weren’t issued raincoats and water-
Pfoof blankets with their rooms. Some are
even threatening to pitch tents within the
walls of their rooms to keep off the water
that pours through what is ironically called
a roof. It’s getting pretty bad when one
must wear overshoes instead of bedroom
shoes.
And who was it that during nominations
in chapel last Monday, wanted to nominate
Coy Eaves for Chief Cheer-leader?
With great pleasure we take this oppor
tunity to announce that for the forthcoming
dance—oops! beg pardon—party, Tex Ben-
eke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra will
play it smooth and hot. Both Beneke and
Stan Kenton were clamoring for this date,
but after much deliberation, the commit
tees decided upon the former. For the
following party we are considering Andre
Kostelanetz.
Each morning we of South Dorm waken
happiy to the strain of operatic arias
most delightfully caroled by Bill Cook and
Buford Andrews as they perform their
habitual dawn ablutions. A pleasing duet,
to be sure, with Buford taking the bari
tone lead and BilT the melody ^in his color-
otura 'soprano.
Enough! Enough! It is such a strain for
one to write in a vein to which he is not
accustomed. But, just as a Parthian shot,
let us roar gleefully together at this
screamingly funny excerpt from Poe’s
happy little ditties:
“And over each quivering form
The curtain, a funeral pall,
'Comes dovra with the rush of a storm,
While the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, ‘Man,’
And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.”
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Reprinted
April 1945
issue of ESQUIRE
pyright
1949
Esquire, Inc
Reporter Asks Some Silly Questions
A nd Reaps Silly A nswers^ EIon S ty le
Flashgun Fosdick, world-famous
photographer for the Daily Worker,
was this week attracted to the Elon
campus by news oi recent changes
in the dining hall menus here.
Licensed by Pravda to write up
any U. S. news that can be used as
propaganda behind the iron cur
tain, Fosdick expressed happiness
over his Elon assignment.
Between camera flashes and
questions, he described the college
as fascistic to the core, retaining
only one characteristic of Western
Capitalism—decadence.
Asked if his interviews here re
vealed any information that could
be used as propaganda in Russia,
Fosdick spat vigorously.
“Of course!’ he said. “First, you
serve no caviar in the dining hall.
Second, no one on the campus
seems capable of giving a sensible
answer to any question.’
The main question Fosdick asked
was: “Do you aprove of the-newj
dining hall changes?” The answers
follow: I
BULLETIN
Jack Platt, freshman caddy for
the varsity golf team, yesterday
was denied a hole-in-one on the
580-yard ninth hole of the Alar
mance Country Club course.
Course officials, reluctant to ad--
mit an Elon student to the famous
Hole-In-One Club, checked Platt’s
shot. They found a playful look
ing worm wrapped around the pin,
looking “rather impudent,” they
said.
The final decision of the officials
was that the worm had pushed
Platt’s ball into the hole.
TILLIE POPGIRDLE
Sophomore, Home Economics
LEFT: “I certainly do approve.
Those yummy eclairs they serve
with the ice cream are so yummy.
But, ooh, my figure.
HORTENSE GRASSGREEN
Senier, Education
RIGHT; “I am definitely against
the new changes. I am a vegetarian,
and I resent being forced to eat
tenderloin steak every other day.”
CAL CLAVICLE
Freshman, Physical Education
LEFT: “I don’t think I like it. [
Those trays are so heavy with all |
that food! I get too tired carry- ‘
ing them to a table, and my fe«t [
hurt when I stand in line taking |
my dishes to the dishwasher.”
JOE GUSTAV
Junior, Ministerial Student
RIGHT: “Do I like them? Boy,
I'll say. Fred Hoffman always asks
me if I want two desserts.”
VERA VERBOSE
Eng;lish and Child Psychology
LEFT; “Im thrilled with them.
I split an infinitive every time
I think of those wonderful
changes..”
PROFESSOR OVERCUT
Faculty Member
RIGHT; “On the whole I am in
favor of the recent dining hall
changes. However, I don’t think
it necesary for the waiters to sa
laam three times before serving
faculty members. Twice would be
sufficient.”
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Gay Paree's Peerless Naughty Christi
‘/’ve been going out with a Frenchman and I want to learn
what he keeps whispering to me”
Shown in a leap from one of her more conservative numbers is the fabulous Christina, better known as
Naugty Christi. Here she portrays Diana at the hunt. For Christi’s appearance in the floor show of
the Oak Club next week, see the news story on page four and the Oak Club ad on page three.