Page 2 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Saturday, June 3, i r 1 i f i l 1 1 i 1 r if I v ive uwm or 11 age Features OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CAROLINA PUBLICATIONS UNION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Published daily except Mondays, Examination periods and the Thanks giving:, Christmas and Spring holi days. Entered as second class matter at the post office & Chapel Hill, N. C., under act of March 3, 1879. 1941 Member 1942 FbsocidedGol!e6iciie Press epwEseMTKO rom national advbitiiho y National Advertising Service, Inc. College "ublishen Representative A 20 Madison Ave- New York. N.Y. CHICAGO BOSTOH LO ANeeiM FMMCMCO Subscription Rates 1.50 One Quarter $3.00 One Yeai All signed articles and columns an opinions of the writers themselves nd do not necessarily reflect tht opinion of the Daily Tab Heel. For This Issue: News: BOB LEVIN Sports: BILL WOESTENDIEK Orville Campbell . - - - - Editor Sylvan Meyer - - Managing Editor BUCKY HARWARD - Associate Editor Bob Hoke - - Ass't Managing Editor William Schwartz '. - - - Business Manager Bill Stanback Associate Business Manager HENRY Zaytoun . Acting Circulation Manager Editorial Board: Mac Norwood, Henry Moll, Walter Damtoft. Columnists: Marion Lippincott, Harley Moore, Elsie Lyon, Brad Me- Cuen, Tom Hammond Marie Waters, Stuart Mclver. News Editors: Paul Komisaruk, Hayden Cairuth. Assistant News: Walter Klein, Westy Fenhagen, Bob Levin. Reporters: Billy Webn, Jimmy Wallace, Larry Dale, Charles Kessler, Burke Shipley, Elton Edwards, Gene Smith, Morton Cantor, Nancy Smith, Mary Lou Taylor, Jim Loeb, Jule Phoenix, Janice Feitel- berg. Photographer: Hugh Morton. Ass't Photographers: Tyler Nourse, Bill Taylor, Karl Bishopric. Sports Editor: Mark Garner. . . Night Sports Editors: Earle Hellen, Bill Woestendiek. Sports Reporters: Ben Snyder, Thad Tate, Phyllis Yates. Advertising Managers: Jack Dube, Ditzi Buice. Durham Representatives : Charlie Weill, Bob Bettman. Local Advertising Staff: Betty Hooker, Dick Kerner, Bob Crews, Eleanor Soule, Jeannie Hermann. Office Manager: Marvin Rosen. Typist: Ardis Kipp. Circulation Office Managers: Rachel Dalton, Harry Lewis, Larry Goldrich, Bob Godwin. 0 Opinions 0 Columns o Letters V, -... 1- 6 !& Lyon ''Hark The Sound' Needs To Be Heard Now Just As It Was Twenty -Five Years Ago It has been a quarter of a century now. Measured in the weathering of the brick in Old East, that is hardly time enough to tell. Counted in the concentric circles beneath the bark of the Davie Poplar, it is hardly a trace of time. Members of the Class of '17, who also are re uniting here this weekend, doubtless regard us still as a cluster of green shoots, barely out of Alma Mater's pod. At this reunion, as almost certainly at Silver Anni versaries everywhere, we count the years in each other's faces, and it is there we discover, sometimes to our surprise, sometimes to our dismay, that twenty five years has been quite a while: The erosion of time is immediately evident in our faces, of course, but then we begin to detect in other ways the wear of twenty-five years. Too often there is also an erosion of the spirit loyalties faded, great promises forgotten, lofty ideals beaten down, and sweet dreams gone sour. ' One of the things we remember well, as we left Here twenty-five years ago, smooth-cheeked, bright eyed and full of beans, was the undying loyalty pledg ed by the Class of '42 to this University. We might forget the intellectual burden of an Introduction to Philosophy, the date of the Battle of Hastings, and the score of that last Carolina-Duke game. But one thing we would never forget was our great debt to this mag nificent University, the place that took us in, blew some of the cobwebs cut of our minds, and turned us out into the Great World, if not to beat it cold at least to meet it on better terms. Oh no, we would never forget Alma Mater. Well, we do forget, most of us, and those who do remember dredge up those student days, reflect on them briefly and put the memory aside in the way that you might take a memento from a chest, look at it, turn it over and toss it back. The University deserves better from us and, to tell the truth, it needs more from us. To re-coin a saying that is a lot older than any of us: The thing that makes this University great, in addi tion to Heaven's blessings, is the people who attend her those here now, those to come and, not least of all, those who have already been here. To those who already have been here, more than to any others, it falls the lot to give this . University the moral, financial (if possible) and most of all the unswervingly loyal support it must have to survive. We owe this to ourselves, as well as to this Univer sity. Whether we willingly acknowledge it or not, as alumni oL; theUniyersityj of North Carolina we are 3 part and parcel of tradition. It is "ours to say whether, in the rich tapestry of the University, the Class of '42 will be a threadbare patch, thin in loyalty and devotion, or a fine weave consistent with all that we believe this University stands for. If this reunion serves no other significant purpose, we would hope that it might stir in us once again that firm resolve of twenty-five years ago when we pledged undying love, loyalty and dedication to Carolina. Ad on the YMCA bulletin board: "Wanted, blonde, 1942 model, super-charged stream lined." . Example of concise outlin ing presented by Phillips Rus sell to his creative writing class: "Theme, (for a letter home) I like college because: (a) You should see all the funny people here; (b) It's dif ferent from home; (c) The food is good; and (d) if you see Margy tell her hello." Add pearls of wisdom from the profs: Dr. Taylor telling his Milton, class that angels are the MP's of heaven. .- Phillips Russell, "Write about something with which you're acquainted." Grotz, the magnificent, "My short story plot is about the distressed father who watches his son grow up in a chaotic world, and I don't know any thing about that." Comment: "Let him explore the facts." "Give him a week for re search." ! i "7 i f ' 1 Oh Battle By Jack Dub This Is Sylvan Meyer's Kind Of University Gainesville, Ga. Old grad nostalgia, usually a subject either for derision or an excess of sentimen tality, seems to me now a healthy, upstanding atti tude. Indeed, I'm prepared to go to the line in its defense on eminently human and practical grounds, even for going the handy abstractions of loyalty, duty, school tie and those 25-year old initials on a desk that prob bably isn't there any more. Why else, for instance, should I walk around the campus at Chapel Hill with the feeling that I own the place when I cannot enter my own dwelling house without recalling that the mortgage has another 18 years to run? Why else am I acutely aware, when in the com- It's Still Chapel Hill By LOUIS HARRIS A common experience of most people going back to a place of their youth is to have the sense that everything has shrunk. Stone walls are shorter, walks are narrower. Oddly enough, this experience has never been true vyhenever I've returned to Chapel Hill. To the contrary, the familiar land-marks of the late 1930's and early 1940's now seem more permanent, more solid, larger in their symbolism than they were back then. This obviously is less a tribute to the maintenance of the old campus than to the roots of understanding so firmly planted in the minds of students. The same Memorial Hall that heard Fascist Law rence Dennis and Communist Earl Browder seems spa cious and secure. -The same Graham Memorial where meetings were' held to seek admission of Negroes to the graduate school seems full and splendid. Chapel Hill and the university campus of the pre? World War II era was big enough to house the most dissident of views, to absorb and to sift the most di verse expression of opinion. The land-marks, as all inanimate objects, are only alive as the living make them. I hope that 25 years hence, they will not be shrunk en for the generation that now resides there. pany of my children and their contemporaries, of the yawning generation gap and yet can mingle with the flow of students at the Book Ex with the conviction that time has stood still for all of us? That my daughter will enter the University in the fall as freshman, and a female freshman to boot, al ters this perspective and not an iota of a whit. Thorough ly indoctrinated both deliberately and subconsciously since infancy, she confidently expects the University to be like Daddy says and whereas daddy's other views may be blithering anachronisms, his assessment of Chapel Hill is beyond cavil. She has discovered that the announcement of her acceptance by the University draws the same respect ful response that we are accustomed to receiving to the statement that we matriculated here. We expect the response to be respectful and we interpret it that way and I have never heard otherwise, even during a year at Harvard, a place so securely impinnacled the rest of the world is referred to as "down there." All this, as I say, grows not from a mystique nor from maudlin reveries. It does not arise from mere sophomorism. " We" did not realize as undergraduates the true role of the University, but we may see it now as a moving force on the regional and national scene participat ing deeply in the changes that have involved us all since World War II. The University does go on like a river and though we stepped ashore and went '""bur own ways for a while, when we return the river is still there, with different water but looking and feel ing the same. A great' University does not merely emit a block cf graduates each year and then recoil and rest until the following year. It works in the life of its era. Notices of seminars and workshops, of research pro jects and publications repeatedly remind me that the University is a shaper, a prodder and an appraiser of what we are and where we live. It has stayed young and vital and, I maintain, we haven't done so badly either with what we've faced as a generation. 'At least, we have stayed sufficiently in tune and in love to feel, on this changed but somehow unchanging campus, that the place accepts us for what we were and what we are without intruding cruelly to em phasize the difference. Bill Seeman at the FU -Board meeting: "Moll publish es 'cheesecakes' of coeds and they call it art. I publish the same pictures and they call it sex. , He goes to houses of ill repute and they call it a 'sociological study.' I go to the same places and I get ban ned. . ." Oh, We Heard: Dick Adler told us about the prof who came to supper at the frater nity house and looked up in horror as the beets were pass ,ed when one of his supposedly ore trus'r- worthy students murmured subconsciously "I'll take a stack of those reds" . . .Bill Stanback told us about the dog who didn't have any teeth but which he was staying away from because he sure could "gum you to deaths. . . Something should be done about the telephoniacs who hog the lines to the women's dorms leaving heartbreak and misunderstanding in their Gag?' Dick the fox) Soskin telling us about the cartoon showing two witches in the air on broomsticks. . .one turns to the other and says "Look no hands". . .P. S. we did so know her name, we just wanted to see if she could talk. . .Pp. Ss. BEAT DUKE! Gageroos: Bill Schwartz told us the one about the two morons who roomed together. One noticed that his chum was sleeping with his feet out of the covers. "Why don't you pull in your feet?", he said. "What, bring those cold, dir ty, things into my nice warm bed". . .or Salvation Army again. . .the derelict who walked up to the lassie with her drum and asked her why she was so clean and shining . . ."Well," she said, "When I was young, I used to smoke, I don't smoke any more. I used to drink, I don't drink any more. I used to be a party girl, I don't party any more ... all I do is stand here and beat this golllll darnnnn drum!" Sounanfurious: Quote: "I have neither given nor re ceived aid on this exam, and am a member of Sound and Fury" Unquote. . .Orson Grotz ' warning the girls in Greens boro before selling them tick ets, that the show might be a little risque and then get ting mobbed . . . the boys have decided to do the strip tease at Greensboro. . .Glandular fever striking down Jack Pot ter in time to let Bob Rich ards and Anne Lewis make the love scenes more convinc ing. . Out of the Mouths of Babes: Doc Rosen wants to know if Mary Caldwell is any relation to 206 Caldwell. . . .Stud Gleicher says that in N'-Yawk he graduated from Public School 99 marked down from 100. - - -And from the Profs, believe it or not. . . "I'm not very good at ana tomy, but I grew up at Wrights ville Beach" and, describing a naive female character in fiction, "She hasn't had the marriage course nor a term in summer school." Creative Men By RICHARD ADLER Yesterday was a very big day! But as usual, it began slowly with an 8 o'clock class. Then at the 10:30 break at the "Y" I ran into Sylvan Meyer. We were both ordering those super 10 cent malteds to keep us going through the morning. Sylvan was busy with the Daily Tar. Heel and talk ed rapidly about an idea for a sports feature on those three great stars of last year's team Lalanne, "Stir ny" and Severin where they were now. . . . what they were doing. . .It seemed important because a year ago is a long time. I wandered outside and walked over to the steps at South Building. The "Big Four" were huddling again! Lou Harris, Henry Moll, Bert Bennett and Terry San ford. Lou is behind-the-scenes analyst and statistician tor Henry who wants Graham Memorial after he gra duates in June. Law Student Sanford was giving Bert a few hints. Bert has his eye on the Student Body Presidency next year. Interesting that these two devotees of student poli tics from different backgrounds (Lou from New Haven and Terry from Laurinburg) should be so often togeth er. . .welded by a mutual love of government of any size or form. Respectfully, I hung back from this important clus ter of BMOC, and felt proud that I was allowed to be in the "neighborhood." Henry's open smile made me welcome. He introduced me to Leu and Terry. It was the first time I had met them! They were agreeable but were too deep in discussion to pay much attention to me. The bell rang and we broke up to go to our separate 11 o'clocks. Bobby "Goat" Gersten said "hey!" He was walking with his great sidekick, All-American George Gla mack. Bobby, five foot seven and George six foot five, were the Campus Mutt and Jeff.. (I like Bobby's girl Libbie Izen from Asheville. . . So does Bob "Shuf" Shuford.) After class I went to Graham Memorial for lunch. 1 was allowed to sit with some senior girls. . . .all very pretty. Kate Lineback, Martha Clampitt, Marge Johnston, Mary Caldwell, and Margaret Rose Knight (she is my favorite, but she is Terry's girl). Bill Shu ford, Manager of Graham Memorial, came and sat down. So did my roommate Charles Straus, who is also my best friend. After lunch, I went upstairs to see Don Bishop,, editor of the DTH. I had to turn in my review of Paul Green's "Native Son." I had been sent to New York to review the opening of the Orson Welles produc tion starring Canada Lee. (I gave it a rave!) Don asked me to do a column of features called "Creative Men." Later, I walked all the way to Greenwood (which is Paul Green's farm) to talk to Mr. Green. He is helping me plan the Carolina Workshop Festival for Performing Arts. Janet, his 10-year-old daughter, brought us in some hot gingerbread she had baked all by herself. I marveled at this little baker. Mr. Green said she was also a good writer. Nancy Byrd Green, seven years older, came in. I marveled at her, too! I walked to the library to study. I checked an as signment with friend Paul Kolton, who was sitting with Morty Cantor and Jack "In Dubious Battle" Dube. At 5 o'clock Dube and I joined Stan Fuchs and walk ed over to the Playmaker Theatre for a rehearsal of "Bury the Dead." I'm playing the sixth corpse; Dube, a gravedigger; and Fuchs, the Captain. After the rehearsal, I thought I'd treat myself to an especially extravagant dinner. I freshened up at the dorm and walked to the Carolina Inn cafeteria. While carrying my tray brimming with fried chicken, black-eyed peas, okra and tomatoes, I passed Lou Harris and Terry Sanford, still huddling. Lou said, "Hey, Dick, how about joining us ! " That made it a very big day, yesterday. . . I mean 25 years ago. . . back in the Fall of 1942. By Merlon Lippincott J The cracks people make about this column are begin ning to give this columnist an inferiority complex. It was pretty bad we thought when that person said the reason he liked the column was because it meant that Friday was here. But when we watched the fan mail, or mail anyway, piling up for the other columnists and not even a post card for us we got really little depress ed. But the last crack is the final straw; quote the New Carolina Mag under Friday's Child picture. . ."Few DTH columnists delve in serious subjects, mostly play with humor gossip." In which ca tegory this column falls we really aren't sure. We read this a few minutes after hav ing a chat with what we thought one of our more ar dent fans, Dick Brooke, who pleaded with us, "Please make it funny again. You've gotten into one of those serious ruts like everybody up there." But then ho hoo it really doesn't matter. I'm quite convinced along with the rest of the campus that the Tar Heel just uses this column for filler and about its being funny again, don't think we don't appreci ate the idea that, it was ever funny because we do! Poem for early spring. Last night I sat upon a chair. . . A little chair that wasn't there. It wasn't there again today. . . But I couldn't sit down any way. Poem for later in the Spring Bees buzz Trees gruz I wonder why I wuz! music maker . . . Bj Brad McCoea This past spring Bruce Sr.v der was playing in i-'reddv Johnson's campus crew. Thin his big break came. To my Dorsey, here for Ma v. Frolics, heard Bruce. Nc in stead of playing bariior.e sax for Johnson, he's playir.j :t for Tommy Dorsey. Need" we say that Mr. Snvder is -ri top. We were talking about boa Hudson above. Dean raided Freddy Johnson's band last year to take Bob Hartse:: with him as piano-man. Bob is an outstanding piano-arranger in the opinions of mu sic critics from John Ham mond on down. On a recent Okeh recording date that this band was doing Bob was fea tured on a number of his own composition. It had not been named when the recording su pervisor asked Dean what to call it on the label. Dean thought for a while then came up with "Holly Hop." Holly is Dean's nickname for Caro lina's lad with the nimble digits. Band of the Week: Claude Thornhill. If ever there was an orchestra headed for the top. this is it. Claude is responsi ble for the success of Maxine Sullivan as he was her ar ranger. But now with his own organization, Thornhill is ar ranging for his own success. The band is the type you like to .listen to when your best girl is by your side. Crack of the Week: Tiny Hutton, new leader ol the lo cal Carolinians, says that trombonists had him fooled for a long time. He used to think that they swallowed the long slide. Says Tiny, "That ain't so. I've found that they all have holes in the back of their necks." HOT NOTES: "Blues in the Night" has 9 different record ed versions on the market. Artie Shaw first put it on wax in late September and Jimmy Lunceford, Benny Goodman, Judy Garland, Woody Herman, Harry James, Cab Calloway, Charlie Barnet, and Dinah Shore followed. It took the tune four months to catch on. . ."Remember Pearl Har bor" by Sammy Kaye was the largest selling record the country over last week.. . . Glenn Miller was appointed Honorary Mayor of Chatta nooga, Tenn. in connection with the Choo-Choo hit. . . . Cab Calloway rides the radio Bandwagon tonight at 7:30. . . Tommy Dorsey's new movie had its title changed from "I'll Take Manila" to "Ship Ahoy.". . .Alvino Rey and the King Sisters are featured in RKO's "Sing Your Worries Away" which will hit local screens in late February. . . Dean Hudson," well-known maestro in these parts, leaves his band at the end of next week for Fort McClellan where he will be Second Lieutenant Brown. His band will continue with one of the present mem bers fronting it . " MORE HOT NOTES: Frank ie Sinatra will, in all proba bility, take over the Dean Hud son orchestra. Dean is in the Army and Frankie has been looking for an already-organized crew since he left Tom my Dorsey recently. . .The University Seven open up again at the spot down next to the P. O. We believe that they start this Monday. And understand that the cafe will be remodeled in order to give the band a little better break. . . .The rumor was true about Rowland Kennedy being draft ed tomorrow. He is and Hurst Hatch will take over. Vfcce Courtney, of Duke, left also for the U. S. A. His bard has been taken over by his drum mer, Sammy Fletcher. . .Al so in the armed forces from school here are Paul Leske and Dutch Hammond from the Satterfield band. . . .Tommy Dorsey and MGM, the movie firm, got together and have started a new record com pany. Their records won't ap pear for a while but the new Elite records hit the Hill this week. Confidentially, they stunk. . .Dave Macer, ex Freddy Johnson tromboy, has jerned Tony Pastor. Tony now has three Carolina boys on slides Dave, Tommy Fair, and Hicks Henderson. . .'"Get Your Man" and "Crime Doesn't Pay, Boys" from Sound and Fury, could be na tionwide hits if given proper exploitation . . . Why don't the boys learn to do our national anthem justice. It is a cw cult piece to play but after all it means a lot to us. , . Benny Goodman has a den nite hit with his Okeh "Jersey Bounce." The tune is catchy The reverside is a steppe up version of Miller's "StrA, of Pearls." A i

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