.The Daily Tar Heel
Thursday, September 25, 1952
Barry Farber
Personally
Olympic Diary
'They Really Ought To Put In Revolving Doors'
Harry Snook-
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during the next nine months.
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Presidential Memo
We couldn't possibly start a
column withQut mentioning first
of all the top-notch job done
this summer by a happy go
lucky, perrenially smiling boy
from Rocky Mount, who is al
ways insisting that he's going to
"take it easy next quarter". It's
our good fortune that it's always
"next" quarter, and not "this'
quarter, because we've learned
to lean on Bob Gorham when
we want a job especially well
done. And Bob's job as Orien
tation Chairman has been mag
nificent, to put it mildly. A new
orientation counsellor's hand
book was printed, complete with
Bob's own Gorhamesque phil
osophical footnotes, for the first
time in our memory a picnic
for the freshmen was held, and
most important of all, the group
Bob chose for his committee
and the counsellors they chose
were just the type boys to in
troduce a new class to Caro-
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Bob spent the better part of
his summer preparing for the
Freshman orientation program,
and from South building on
down the unanimous opinion, is
that it was time well spent.
Thanks Bob!
Flowers should also be tossed
to Mr. J. S. Bennett for his work
this summer is giving us social
rooms in the upper Quad. All
four dorms had walls knocked
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out between two rooms, which
gives the boys there the elbow
room they need to live in the
splendor to, which they would
like to become accustomed. If
you get a chance, drop by one
of the upper quad dorms and
look in they're really elegant.
The people around the "Y"
tell me that Harry Phillips also
did a service to the sweltering
summer school students. Harry
seems to have produced several
square dances and a particularly
successful watermelon feast.
Harry heads a committee for stu
dent government that we hope
will give us a similar program
the year around.
"Tarnation's back and the
man responsible for the dastard
ly act more than anyone else is
Tom Alexander. We were a bit
apprehensive when we returned
to campus thought Tom might
have given up the idea as be
ing too much to attempt. But in
stead found Tom brandishing
advertising contracts and spout
ing plans for a great little hu
mor mag. Incidentally, Tom's
somewhat of a celebrity. Had
his picture on the lead article
of- the Sat. Evening Post last
week! Ah fame!
Next week you may be in
terested in coming to the first
legislature meeting. What with
dorm redistricting, an annual
chestnut, coming up, it might
be worth dropping in.
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STRATOHOPPING THE
ATLANTIC
ALOFT, June 24 I'm in the
cocktail belly lounge of a giant
BOAC Stratpcruiser happily
humming at twenty thousand
feet above the western coast of
Ireland and I don't mind ad
mitting I'm as nervous as a
nudist crossing a barbed wire
fence. I despise anything' that
takes me off that ever-loving
Earth for as long as a split
second; elevators, ferris wheels,
and upper berths included.
The only reason I chose to fly
to Europe for the Olympic
Games in Helsinki is because it's
cheaper. (The National Student
Association runs charter flights
across the ocean for impover
ished students every summer at
a cost equal to that of third
class ship travel. End commer
cial.) Some people claim they like
to fly. I think I'd rather dangle
by mpr heels over an erupting
volcano, fight Rocky Marciano
with one are tied behind me, or
walk barefooted over radioac
tive plutonium. I don't have
claustrophobia or altitude sick
ness and I'm not susceptible to
the bends. I'm just a coward.
From the minute I step into the
graceful fusilage until I'm safe
ly in bed at my destination I'm
as jittery as a sword swallower
with the hiccups.
It was a dark, misty morning
when sixty frisky, giggling stu
dents piled into this silver Strat
ocruiser at New York's Interna
tional Airport. We taxied to the
far end of the concrete strip
knifing our way through damp
layers of persistent fog prior to
the take-off.
"Aren't we going to wait 'til
the smog lifts?" f asked the
stewardess trying to appear as
though I didn't care in the least
whether we waited or shot right
up into the vortex of a hurri
cane. "Oh, no," she gurgled. "We'll
be over it all in just a few min
utes," she added thinking she
was making me happier.
I fastened the seat belt and
opened the little booklet the air
line gives you which proves that
flying with BOAC is 500 safer
than driving a used Pontiac over
a rusty drawbridge. Pm sure
the drumming palpitations of
my heart were sketching cur
liques on the seismograph at
Fordham as we kissed the
ground farewell and leaped sky
ward. The other kids were knit
ting, singing, and playing five
hand canasta. I was chewing
my fingernails so much my
stomach needed a manicure. I
uncorked my large flask of
Portuguese wham wine and
went at it with a zeal.
Two hours later we were over
the ocean, which looked like a
vast desert of gleaming tin foil,
and for the first time I noticed
I was sitting beside a beautiful
girl. She, too, seemed pertified
with fear so I lent her one of
the eight life jackets I was
wearing.
"Dull trip," she finally mut
tered. I drank to that.
"Read anything exciting late
' ly?" she continued.
"Sure," I snapped showing
her the BOAC brag-booklet. "If
we're forced down at night be
tween the longitudes forty-five
and sixty a navy destroyer will
leave Halifax and pick us up."
"Why are you drinking so
much?" she asked. "Not scared,
are you?"
"Of course not," I belched.
"My uncle got married last night
in Denver."
She traded seats with the
elderly wife of a history pro
fessor who soon fell asleep. The
only friends I have up here are
my four cartons of cigarettes.
They're a big comfort to me on
any flight. I chain-smoke and
they help me measure distance.
For instance, from New York to
Gander, Newfoundland is twelve
Camels and nine Pall Malls.
Gander to London is forty Cam
els, ten Kools, and eight Pall
Malls provided you don't stop
for supper, which I don't. From
London to Paris is a mere hand
ful of slow burning Luckies.
You can't puff as fast as before
because your mouth feels and
tastes like it's been fit snugly
over the exhaust pipe of a
speeding Greyhound all day.
At three a.m. the stewardess
nudged me in the short ribs and
whispered, "Would you like a
cup of tea?"
I screamed. I thought she
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The Washington Merry-Go -Round
WASHINGTON. A lot of
people have been wondering
how dynamic Dick Nixon, 39
years old and a newcomer in
politics, managed to latch on to
the No. 2 spot on the Republi
can ticket at Chicago.
The story is one of an ex
tremely astute and opportunis
tic young man plus the hit-and-miss
habits of a political con
vention in picking its candi
dates especially the Vice-President:
Nixon, a resident of Whittier,
California, near Pasadena, had
come to know an automobile
salesman in Pasadena, Paul
Hoffman, who later became
President of Studebaker and
took over the most important
reconstruction job in the world
head of the Marshall Plan.
Last winter Hoffman became
one of the three top advisers to
General Eisenhower and head
of the Citizens for Eisenhower
Committee.
Prior to the Chicago conven
tion, Eisenhower cohorts were
casting around for a way to
wean the powerful California
delegation away from Governor
Warren and over to Ike. Nixon
was approached by Hoffman as
to how this could be done.
Naive at politics, Hoffman even
suggested that Nixon himself
run for President in the Cali
fornia primary, with the idea
of weakening Warren's hold on
California's 76 votes.
However, Nixon, not anxious
to buck either Governor Warren
or Congressman Tom Werdel,
who had already been drafted
by old-guard Republicans to
run against the Governor, de
clined. Instead he suggested that
he would become a delegate
from California and work from
within to switch Warren dele
gates over to Eisenhower on
the second ballot.
Nixon figured that as a sena-
said, "We're falling into the
sea."
Within two more hours we're
scheduled to land in London, at
which time my fear will evap
orate as though touched by the
magic wand of a fairy princess.
I'll jerk away the safety belt,
curse the air line for being
eight minutes late, and stalk
down the rampway with arro
gance enough to dwarf an Alp.
"Only way to travel," I'll say
to the first nervous passenger I
meet in the waiting room. Then
I'll bark at the redcaps to hustle
my baggage through customs
and make my way downtown to
the hotel feeling as brave as a
Bulgarian stevedore and as cos
mopolitan as a comet.
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Drew Pearson-
tor, he would be given the cour
tesy of picking ten delegates,
and with this as a nucleus he
could make sure that Califor
nia was in Eisenhower's column
before the balloting had gone
more than one round.
In order to stir up Eisenhow
er sentiment in California, Nix
on sent out 25,000 letters to
registered GOP voters, asking:
"Who is your choice for presi
dent, assuming that Governor
Warren is not nominated?" This
mailing job may have been one
expense to which the so-called
Millionaires' Club donated. Gov.
ernor Warren, however, got wind
of the Nixon Plebiscite, and
never having caerd much for the
ambitious young senator from
California, a mutual friend, Ber
nard Brennan, also a member
of the Millionaires' Club, put
the quietus on Nixon's vote
results. However, Nixon arrived at
Chicago with a tacit under
standing from Paul Hoffman
that he woul do his best for Ike
inside the California delegation
and that Ike, in turn, would
give him favorable considera
tion for the Vice Presidency. At
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(The editors are happy to wel
come such a provocative and con
troversial columnist as Harry Snook
back to regular appearance in The
Daily Tar Heel. During his years on
the Carolina journalistic scene Harry
has been denounced by some as a
clear and present threat to western
civilization and hailed by others as'
the glimmering trumpet of a brave
new era.
(He has been praised, attacked,
applauded, assailed, and spat at. He
has never been ignored. ED)
Reader, be forewarned!
If you're an average person,
Nonplus will infuriate you dur
ing the next year. This column
is convinced you're a liability
to the human race.
You know little about the
important issues of life. Your
serious endeavor is apathetic to
the point of being nil. Your fun
is superficial and destructive.
And you have the gall to be
extremely smug about every
thing. '
The hell of it is that you know
this. When you think about it,
you do something about it. But
you don't waste much time
thinking.
Nonplus will try to provoke
you to thought.
Chicago, Nixon more than kept
his word.
It was he who swung Cali
fornia over to the Eisenhower
point of view when it came to
the debate over the Langlie
Amendment, and it was he who
literally grabbed the micro
phone away from Senator
Knowland, when it came to the
hot debate over seating the
Georgia delegation.
After Ike was nominated,
Paul Hoffman kept his word.
So with Hoffman backing him
and a friendly nod from Gov
ernor Dewey, plus Dick's re
cord on Hiss and the plan to
open up on Governor Steven
son's deposition for Hiss, the
young Senator from California
had the number 2 spot on the
Republican ticket in the bag.
Lost And Found
A French news agency in
Saigon, Indo-China reports that
over two hundred elephants
used in road construction have
"'mysteriously disappeared."
Gee, fellows. Did you look
everywhere?
OH.WHUTA RELIEF
BUT-?-?-ON T'OTHER
HAND WHAT
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Sex is . a sure-fire subject.
Everyone's interested in sex,
but most people have only a per
verted understanding of it.
When something as fundamental
as sex is so easily distorted, it's
not surprising how all human
relations get so snarled.
Dishonesty and ignorance
have made complicated and
vulgar something that is utterly
simple, naturally beautiful and
vastly important. Nonplus can
blast away at conventional sex
attitudes and enjoy a worthy
cause.
Then there's religion.
Humans are innately reli
gious and most of them recog
nize the absolute necessity of
faith. But look at the sticky
mess most of us erect in the
name of faith.
It is astounding to witness the
childish and suicidal efforts of
those who substitute church at
tendance for religion, dogma
for faith and ritual for genuine
humility. With our churches'
we seem to have chained our
selves to phantom gods that
make it impossible to enjoy the
life we have or to make im
provements. Exposing the deceit hidden
within many church structures
won't be difficult. Hitting super
ficial Christians where it hurts
will be a pleasure.
Campus affairs, including our
hypocritical "honor" system, are
certain to get many lusty whacks
in Nonplus. Too few of the stu
dents at large are aware of the
power of student government,
wielded . by a handful of self
glorified do-gooders. Calling for
a lot of publicity is the role of
the university administration in
manipulating student govern
ment as a tool for its own de
vices. Great things are happening
at Carolina. Many projects and
quite a few individuals deserve
attention and credit. Nonplus
will ferret out as many of these
as possible.
But the column's primary
function is to criticize.
There are plenty who shout
their own virtues, butter up
others for theirs and generally
muddy the waters of progress.
Because someone's toes always
get mashed when there's criti
cism, everyone's too eager to
overlook matters that need
corrective attention.
Nonplus isn't.
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