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THE TAR HEEL
TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1943
Couch Resigns As University Press. Director; Will Ee adThe
University Of Chicago Press; Assumes New Duties October 1
Man ' Who Built Press Into
Leading Southern University
Publisher Winds Up Work
William T. Couch, who made a name in the book world for both,
himself and the University Press, tendered his resignation Satur
day to accept an appointment as Director of the University of
Chicago Press. He is to wind up his duties here and assume his
new post October 1.. ft
The Press, under Couch's dynamic
leadership, won recognition, as the
leading university publisher in 1 the
South, and indeed Carl Van -Doren,
. writing in "The Nation" several years
ago, declared that Yale and Carolina
were doing the best work among the
university presses in the country.
Declines Offer
. Couchvhad received several tempting
offers in the past, but he declined each
in turn until. he was able to place the
Press on a recognized, solid basis.
This is now an accomplished fact,
and the opportunities for wider' serv
ice at the University of Chicago Press,
which is one of the largest and wealth
iest in the country, were too great for
him to decline.
No mention of a successor to Couch
had been made by the University ad
ministration today.
Couch had been connected with the
Press since his student days in 1925,
when he began work under Dr. Louis
R. Wilson, one of the Press's founders
and its first director.
The versatile Dr. Wilson, who was
as fine a teacher as any embryonic
publisher could have had, already had
his hands full with his many duties as
.head of the Library, and he quickly
worked his brilliant pupil into the du
ties of Assistant Director and then
Director (1932). '
Since Couch has been with the Press,
it has published some 450 titles, rang
ing from fiction to philosophy, but
stressing the needs and problems of the
South, and doing much to enhance the
University's scholarly reputation at
home and abroad.
Leadership
Couch's position of leadership in his
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field was recognized by his election as
President of the American Associa
tion of University Presses for 1941-
43. He has been one of the few south
ern members of the American Insti
tute of Graphic Arts, of which he has
served as an honorary vice-president
since 1942.
Among his outside interests, Couch
was a member of the Southern Policy
Committee and was active in the group
which organized the Southeast for the
Committee to Defend America by Aid
ing the Allies. He also helped to or
ganize the Southern Conference for
Human Welfare, though later he at
tacked this conference and resigned
from it in 1940 because of its attitude
toward the war. '
Di Senators agreed with but two dis
senting votes that all colonies and
areas of uncertain ownership should
be place in international trusteeship
directly under the Security Council of
the United Nations Organization. The
discussion took place at the regular
Wednesday night session of the Dialec
tic Senate on the third floor of New
West building.
The Di decided that the political im
plications of the discovery of atomic
power is to be the topic for discussion
at the next meeting. The Di extends
invitations - to all students to attend
and participate in its debate; it wishes
to emphasize the fact that the 'topic
will concern merely the political, so
cial, and economic considerations of
he question rather than those of pure-
y scientific interest. The Di promises
an interesting session.
Previous to last Wednesday's session
new members of the Senate Tom Cor
pening, Adrian Carroll, and 01 Lowen-
stein received the ceremonial initiation
into the Dialectic Senate. Critic of
the Senate Banks Mebane announced
that the class in parliamentary proce
dure authorized by the Senate will
take place regularly at 8:30 on Wed
nesday nights. These classes will be
conducted by Mebane.
Play-Offs Scheduled From August 21 To 23
In the State - Tennis Tournament
held at Greensboro over the week-end,
TC,UU1"S rney weisn With the Dlavoffs beffinmW a
oi tne Carolina iTe-Flight school lost frnm u0 w i nings. Welborn, Nolan and Pize led
to Sgt. Tom Chambers in Sunday af- " , crnn rn " YA
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ternoon's finals in straight sets, 6-3,
6-4, 6-0. It was the tournament's big
gest upset.
The first set was all Chambers, but
m the second set Welsh pulled up to
a 4-4 tie. In the crucial ninth game,
the score went to deuce 11 times before
Chambers finally emerged victorious
The last set was merely a matter of
formality as Chambers shut out last
year's champion,
In the morning semi-final . match,
Lt; Welsh met a determined 17-year
old youngster, Bo Roddy, of Charlotte,
who captured the State Junior title
for the third straight year in Satur
day's play. The junior champion ex
tended Welsh in losing by a 6-3, 9-7,
count, and this match may have had
some bearing on the outcome of the
finals.
Lt. Welsh was the only Chapel Hill
entry to advance as far as the finals
into high gear as pennant hun
gry clubs made a last desperate
effort to sneak into a playoff
spot. Regular play ends on Mon
day, August 20, and the cham
pionship will be held from the
twenty-first through the twenty-
third.
The most crucial game of League
A's entire round of contests will be
held on Tuesday, August 14 when the
Phi Gams, undefeated in six games,
tangle with the fast stepping Co. 1
crew who have swept five of six contests.
Next Wednesday will also contain
a very important tilt,- when Smith,
leading league B with six wins in sev
en starts, will battle the- Delta Sigma
ten which has copped six of its eight
contests
In League C, there appears no pos
sible chance for any team toovertake
the winners' offensive offerings, while
Savich led Co. 2 with a third inning
home run.
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Admiral James Gives
Pennant Here Today
Maybry, Pre-Flight Cadet, and former
Texas boys' champion, won over John
Crosland, 6-0, 6-2, and then lost to
ixth seeded Eddie DeGray in Friday's
best match, 6-3, 6-8, 6-1. Walt James,
Intramural head here, won his first
round match over Herbert Faught, 6-1,
6-2, but lost in the second round to
eighth . seeded Ralph Houck, 6-0, 7-5.
Cliff Tuttle won his first match by de
feating Capt. E. B. Finch, 6-1, 6-3,
and won his second round match by
topping seventh seeded Ed Bender,
6-3, 3-6, 6-1. He finally lost out to the
eventual champion, Sgt. Tom Cham
bers, in quarter-final play, 6-4, 6-4.
Duke Wilder, ROTC Cadet, lost in the
first round of play to this same gian
killing Sergeant, 6-2, 6-2.
In the Men's Doubles, Tuttle and
Wilder teamed up to defeat Homer
: Admiral Jules James, Commandant
of the Sixth Naval District, will arrive
here today to present a war bond pen
nant to the Navy Training Unit of
the University. A review will be giv
en in his honor at Kenan stadium, at
2:00 p.m.
Admiral James, whose headquar
ters are at Charleston, S. C, has com
mand of all naval units in North Caro
lina, South Carolina, Georgia and
North Florida. He has held the posi
tion of commandant of this district for
about one and a half years.
Before Admiral James took com
mand of the Sixth Naval District, he
was in command of the Naval units
stationed on the island of Bermuda
Admiral James and his naval units
there were a very great factor in the
breaking up of the Nazi U-Boat men
ace. Before he was stationed in Ber
muda he commanded a battleship.
Admiral James is an old time Navy
admiral, having graduated from An
napolis in 1908.
- lhe admiral will arrive here at
11:30 a. m. today, present the pen
nant at 2 p. m. and leave for Charles
ton at 3 p. m.
When the great atomic bomb center
was being set up at Oak Ridge, Tenn.,
the University was literally "combed"
for young scientists and other work
ers, according to a story appearing in
the "Chapel Hill Weekly.
Not one word was said about bombs
or atoms at the time, however. The
call was always for young men and
women who could be useful in a high- I Starr and Edgar Decameron, 6-2, 6-1,
ly mysterious war project. This but lost their second round to Dr. Sam
project was not merely secret, as many Ravenel and Ed Bender, 6-2, 6-3. Walt
war projects were. It was super- James and Clarenie Maybry also won
secret, and it is only now that the se-1 their first round match by topping Lt.
cret has come out. Milton Farber and Lt. Georere Becker.
Representatives , ' of companies 1 6-1, 6-1, but were eliminated in second
working with the Government mainly I round play by Tom Chambers and Hu-
the duPont and the Tennessee East- ( bert Barrier, the second seeded duo,
man companies came to Chapel Hill 4-6. 6-1,. 6-2. The fifth seeded com
frequently, told the university's . voca-1 bination of A. M. Jordan and Dr. Dud
tional department the. sort of talent I ley Cowden likewise were eliminated
they needed, and then interviewed the I in the second round, as Ralph Houck
Intramural Tennis Tourney
Swinging Into Last Rounds
Intramural Net
Tourney Begins
The Intramural Tennis Tournament,
which has been in progress during the
past two weeks, is slowly but surely
swinging into the later rounds of
play. This week should see the mixed
doubles and men's doubles divisions
get under way, the tournament pair
ings having been announced a week
ago, and competition is expected to
be fast and furious
No results have been obtained on
students that were recommended," the
article says.
"The university divisions drawn
upon most heavily were the Chemistry
Department and the School of Com
merce. About 20 chemistry students
went from here. One of them was W.
E. Thompson, Jr., of Chapel Hill.
Commerce students were in demand
because the project required a vast
volume of bookkeeping and accounting
and auditing and the compilation of
statistics. t
default, L. T. Johnson won via the "Every now and then one of the" stu-
same route, andW. E. Townsend, dents would come back to Chapel Hill
Walt James, Duke Wilder, Gerald cn a visit and would tell that he was
Begnaud and Bob Crawford all re- working at Oak Ridge, Tenn. That
ceived byes. I Aact was permitted to be stated, but
In those second round matches 1 nothing more. Oak Ridge was a Gov
which have been reported thus far, I ernment-made city. A person em
ployed there went about his own spe
cial job without knowing what other
persons, in other parts of the plant,
vere doing."
Guy Andrewsstaged a minor upset in
defeating seven seeded William Smith,
6-2, 8-6.
iWalt James looked in rare form in
defeating W. E. Townsend in straight
sets, 6-1, 6-0, while Dr. Cowden con-
the women s singles matches, but m ni. . n a n a . , ,T
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tournament as he won over George
and a considerable number of matches
in the second round have been com
pleted.
In first round competition, top seed
ed Cliff Tuttle, No. 1 man on this
year's varsity tennis team, defeated
Welborn in straight sets, 6-0, 6-1. Lt
Owens of the ROTC Unit here won
his first round match over Al Savich,
6-4, 6-3. Tom Asbury pulled a near
upset in his first round match as he
extended fifth seeded Dr., J. C. Rus
sell, 14-12, 6-2. That 26-game set is
by far the longest single set record
ed thus far in tournament play.
Stephen Smith outlasted Lew Ahrendts
in two overtime sets, 7-5, 7-5 in a
very close match, while seventh seed
ed William Smith won from Lawrie
Hooper on a default. Second seeded
Dr. Dudley Cowden, who last year
won the tournament, came out on top
in his match with Fred Bauder, 6-0,
6-0, while T. Gray McAllister, seeded
number six, defeated Jabie. Heywood,
6-3, 6-2. In other first round play,
Oliver Orr won over Jim Sanford on
Thompson by a 6-2, 6-1 count, while
Duke Wilder, seeded number four in
the tournament, and number two man
on this year's tennis team, was ex
tended in his first set, 7-5, but won
the second set 6-3 to -defeat Gerald
Begnaud.
PEACE
(Continued front' first page)
was based on a false rumor, the Uni
versity's return to normalcy is unin- j
terrupted. The return will probably
follow such events as the abolition of
the Pre-Flight unit and the other
Navy training units, the return of
hosts of veterans, an academic cur
ricula adapted more to the needs of
a peaceful society, the construction of
more buildings, more glamorous stu
dent social life, return to the quarter
system, rejuvenation of extra-curricu
lar activities, and a daily student news
paper.
University leaders hope to guard
Monogram Club Picnic
According to John Lineweaver, the
University Monogram Club will picnic
to Hogan's Lake Sunday afternoon.
Those attending will meet at 3 o'clock
at the Old Well, where a bus will be
waiting. About 25 couples are expect- ;
ed to attend. v
against the re-creation of the spirit of
reckless frivolity which before the war
brought so much discredit to' the Uni
versity. The spirit of the University i
of tomorrow will be a spirit condu-i
cive to preparation for a useful life in
an organized society.
and Van Wagoner scored a 1-6, 6-4,
6-3 upset.
COGS
(Continued from page two)
unmentionables back in a matter
of weeks, instead of months!
Without a doubt:
Our hearts go out to Commander
Raugh of the Pre-Flight School, for
getting his lads off our grass. Now
if he will just get them to be a
little quieter when they change
classes, everybody will be happy.
Thank you, sir.
We all congratulate and thank
the servicemen of the campus for
their unselfish bond buying. On
fifty bucks a day, once a month, it
ain't easy!! Orchids, in bunches,
fellas!
Now that Ed Wiles has left his
appendix at the local "Sit Right
Down; You'll Be Well in a Jiffy
Club" we hope his academic efforts
will go on, uninterrupted, and high
ly rewarded. Glad to see you mov
ing, .hd.
It's nice to be able to look over
the campus, and not through it
Thank you, kind sirs.
The cogs have carried the wheel
the campus, and not through it!
stops to rest.
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a 3-3 record, and there is no possibil
ity of their catching the leaders.
The Ringers have likewise cinched
at least a tie in League D, with the
mathematical possibility of the Leath
ernecks pulling up even with the lead
ers should they win their remaining
two games while the Ringers are drop
ping their last contest.
In Thursday contests Sigma Chi
downed the Staff in a battle of bats as
both teams hit freely in a high scor
ing zv-lz game, bigma Lhi scored
seven runs in the first inning-and the
Staff came back with a like number in
the next two frames, but the winners
put on a six run splurge in the top of
the sixth to pocket the victory.
Smith downed the Beta crew by a
14-4 count to rack up victory number
six in seven starts and move into top
position in League B by a half game
margin over the Delta Sigs, who boast
a 6-2 record. The Smith Ten combed
Toothman, the losing hurler, for 15
hits, while Fahey was holding Beta to
seven scattered bingles. The winners
cause was further aided by 6 Beta errors.
Steele scored an upset in a League
C tilt when they surged from behind
in the final frame to score six runs
and take a 15-12 win over the third
place Two Brew Team. Two Brews
took an early 10-1 lead, but Steele
scored 14 runs in the last four frames
to grab their first league triumph in
five starts.
The Leathernecks gained half a
game, on the leagde-leading Ringers j
in League D by staving off a last in
ning rally by the Kappa Sigs to take
a hard-fought 12-9 victory. The win
was the Marines' sixth in seven
starts and kept them in the' thick of
the pennant fight with the top place
Ringers who have a 7-0 record
Cather with four hits in four trips
and Walden and Sorrell, each of
whom had three for four, led the
Leathernecks in the hitting depart
ment while Johnson and Brinkley who
hit -safely in four of five trips, led in
that department for the Kappa Sigs.
In a practice tilt between Med
School of League D and Co. 2 of
League B, the Med School ten came
from behind in the last two frames to
take a well-earned 7-4 victory after j
trailing 4-0 at the end of five in- court.
Phi Gam 6
Co. 1 NROTC 5
Sigma Chi 4
Staff 3
BVP 0
Kappa Alpha 0
LEAGUE B
Smith 6
Delta Sig ... 6
Phi Delta 5
Co. 2 . 3
Beta 2
Zeta Psi 0
LEAGUE C
Med School 5
DKE ....; 3
Two Brews 3
Co. 3 1
Steele 1
LEAGUE D
Ringers 7 0 1.000
Leathernecks 6 1 .837
Kappa Sigma 2 5 .285
SAE ... 2 6 .250
Sigma Nu 0 8 .000
INTRAMURAL SCHEDULE
AUGUST 14-17
Tuesday, August 14, 5:30
Alexander 1 Staff vs. Sigma
Chi.
Alexander 2 Ringers vs. Leath
ernecks. Intramural 1 Co. 1 vs. Phi Gam.
Intramural 2 BVP vs. Kappa
Alpha.
Intramural 3 Co. 2 vs. Phi Delt.
Wednesday, August 15, 5:30
Alexander 1 Co. 1 vs. Staff.
Alexander 2 BVP vs. Phi Gam.
Intramural 1 Co. 2 vs. Beta.
Intramural 2 Delta Sigma vs.
Smith.
Intramural 3 Co. 3 vs. Steele.
Thursday, August 16, 5:30
Alexander 1 Co. 2 vs. Smith.
Alexander 2 Delta Sigma vs. Phi
Delt.
Intramural 1 Co. 1 vs. Sigma
Chi.
Intramural 2 BVP vs. Kappa
Alpha.
Intramural 3 Co. 3 vs. Two
Brews.
Intramural 4 DKE vs. Steele.
Friday, August 17, 5:30
Alexander 1 BVP vs. Phi Gam.
Alexander 2 Co. 1 vs . Sigma
Chi.
Dean Takes Vows
With Dr. Holmes
Dr. Holmes received her Ph.D. in
education at the University at the
June Commencement.
Dean Whatley W. P'erson of the
Graduate School of the University and
Dr. Mary Bynum Holmes were mar
ried in Mount Olive, the home of the
bride, last Thursday, August 2, ac
cording to announcements received
here.
What floor is this, Your Honor ?
The fifth floor.
I'm going upstairs.
What for?
I. want to be tried in a hieher
His feverish lips were pressed to
mine;
I gave him every drop,
He drank away my very self
I couldn't make him stop.
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