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EDITORIAL OFFICERS
BETTY B. CATHER Westhampton College Edit or CHESTER BECK Richm ond College Editor
JEAN BISHOP Art Edit or JOHN PATTILLO Phot ography Edi tor
GEORGE TAYLOR Feature Editor
MARYGLEN COOPER Exchange Editor
CHARLES M. SHAW, JR. Circulation Editor
MILLY WRIGHT Copy Editor
LEA THOMPSON Layo1tt Editor STAFF
Carl Barefoot, Jr. , C. S. Taylor , Barbara Covington, Dick Fitz, Millie Waters, Sam Patterson, Bobbie Brown, T. G. Harper, Walt Preston, Ann Wiley, Phyllis Barnes, Marvin Menkes, Louise Triplett.
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The University of Richmond MESSENGER
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From the Editor's Desk .
Edi-tor, THE MESSENGER
I may be mistaken, but after consulting 19 dictionaries and two encyclopedias I feel qualified to say that you spelled "Kokomoconspecitait:ional" incorrectly in your last issue. This sort of thing is most distracting. Please cancel my subscription.
DEAN GRAY
Dear Editor:
Some guys and me was sittin ' over at the " Bean ery" discu;;sin' the well-worn topic " dames." Now the one fell ow says ,to me that the best way to trea-t a babe is to beat ' em through -' til they ' re black ' n blue. Another fellow's advice was to treat 'em nice, until they fall, then fluff the doll. Now my opinion about the subject women is to keep ' em guessin ' and continue messin' with others in their lot-so as I don ' t get caught. Seein' as you ' re so wise, we thought you might tell us guys just whac woiks with these things called "skoits. " AMOROSA.
Sir :
My space and vocabulary is limited. But as I can see, you ' re all just hicks, you think you know all ,the tricks. So you want to know what woiks with " skoits " ? My reply to you is-not you " Joiks. "
Mr. Don Wilson
MESSENGEREditor
University of Richmond
Dear Mr. Wilson :
I hope you won ' t think I am just a fresh girl because I have a real problem and I'm sure you can help.
I have been a student at Westhampton for over a month now and I have never had a date with a fraternity man. Of course, my whole existence does not revolve around men alone and I don ' t want you
to get that impression; I am also interested in English and Military Tactics. But to get back to my problem-I am not at all bad looking, in fact , my mother conside!S me to be one of the most beautiful Westhampton girls she has ever seen. I did have a date a couple of weeks ago, but he didn ' t belong to any fraternity I didn't have a very good time that night anyway. I was alone most of the time because he was from Furman and we went to the Furman-Richmond game and he sat on the Furman side and I naturally sat on the Richmond side because I am just full of school spirit. After the game I met him at Phil's Place and he didn ' t talk to me at all. In fact he wouldn ' t even buy me any beer. As I have a great deal of pride , I of course, didn ' t ask for any.
I have looked over the various fraternity pins as well as those who have houses. The Phi Ddt pins are very nice. The shields give them a bold knightly look I like the KA pins too. The cross on them makes me think they must be deeply religious The Kap Sig pins are plain but they sure have a humdinger of a house because it is so modernistic besides being so near the woods, if you know what I mean. The Theta Chi ' s have a nice house too and I'm sure it must be the largest because I've heard it referred -to as a hotel. Just what kind of a hotel they mean , I don ' t know.
I hope you can help me get a date with a real Fraternity man.
Thank you very much.
Editor Wilson :
APHRODITE.
Thinking only of posterity , as all chemists must , I would like to call your attention to a scientific. fact that may have escaped your attention. The process by which the refectory hardens their green peas should certainly be macdeknown to the world. This is an age of universal scientific knowledge.
Just think of the possible uses; ball bearings , safety valve plugs, marbles for dining hall attendants , and super -shot for little boys' blow guns. Any student who has exposed his molars to these teethshattering little pellets knows what I mean. There must be some secret petrifying process; things like that just don't happen accidentally.
DR. TROUT .
Campus Notes and Anecdotes
WE WONDER what the fads will be on ye old campus this year. Already girls are wearing burlap bag skirts. It's becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish a Westhampton upperclassman from a sack of potatoes, U.S. No. 1 size B. Shingled hair seems the thing for coeds. If this idea of short hair keeps up, Richmond College men will have to wear blue bootees. Straw hats wi1th red and blue bands are gaining in popularity with RC men. Red and blue Model A's are quite the thing too. We' re keeping our eyes peeled for racoon coats.
There was a rumor when school first opened that Shirley May France, the girl who attempted to swim the English Channel, had enrolled in Westhampton College. The story was that she would attempt to swim Westhampton Lake. We speak to grease her if she does.
N6 longer is bridge the chief attraction of fraternity rooms and dormitories. There's a new game called Canasta that everyone is wild about. Soon the old followers of Culbentson will be extinct if Canasta's popularity becomes as widespread en the University of Richmond campus as reports tells us the game is achieving on other campi of the country. To be really popular, you must learn how to play this card game. It makes no difference if you have a gift for gab, a car ( recenit model), fraternity pin, etc., if you can't play Canasta ... well, your best friend won't even tell you.
We just read of a new way to tell fortunes. It's not with the palms of your hands but with your feet. It seems that the lines on the bottom of your feet are just as significant and full of meaning as the lines in the palms of your hands. Try iJt:out at the next party you attend. First make sure your socks have no holes before you suggest reading feet. Take note girls, you can easily find out whether your date is a heel or not.
Have you read the new book, One Thousand and One Ways to Sharpen A Pencil? This book describes new techniques, beginning wiith the simplest one and leading up to the flourishes and showmanship of the expert. This volume is recommended to students of the college level. If you can't afford the price of the book ( $20.00), send for the book jacket and read the summary on the inside flap.
Here's a tip to chronic frnternity pinners. Beware! It's a legal bind that you are engaged to be
-by HARPERand PATTERSON
engaged. You can be sued for breach of promise if you ask for your pin back. Also you might get a knock on your head. Any girl who would like legal advice might contact us.
All campus organizations are fighting hard to win the television set in the Philip Morris contest. Several Richmond College men were almost arrested for vagrancy while picking up wrappers on downtown streets. The policeman thought they were picking up cigarette butts. Richmond's Sanitation Department has laid off several street cleaners since the contest started.
We' re going to miss the big dances this year, and the stories that were told and retold for weeks afterward. A school this large should be able to support a name band dance. What's your best girl back home going to say when she learns we have no Midwinters when she knows that University of Virginia does. Oh, the life of underdogs!
We' re going to surprise everybody and not run down the "Slop Shop" in this column. We love it~ The loud music ... coffee spilled on the front of y~ur new sulit the choice bits of gossip that you pick and you can eavesdrop too. We'd like to predict that in years to come, when names of your professors and classmates have long since been forgotten, your fondest memory of the University of Richmond will be the "Slop Shop ."
A minister in a small town was called to perform his fi!st marria~e ceremony. The bashful couple remamed standmg after he had finished the rites and in a brave attempt ,to round off the affair he stammered: "It's all over now. Go and sin' 110 more!"
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LET'SMEETOUR OPPONENTS
-by GEORGE D TAYLOR, JR. DUKE UNIVERSITY
The second oldest college in the U. S., it is also the birthplace of the first Greek letter fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa.
VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE
The West Point of the South, VMI, will attempt to increase its total of 567 points in 32 games when it meets the Spiders in the Tobacco Bowl game. Scoring a total of 183 points in the rivalries, the Spiders will be attempting revenge for last year's 9-0 defeat.
Duke University Chapel
The Blue Devils of Duke University met the Spiders this year for the first time since 1946. Rolling up a total of 338 points in eight gaµies to the Spiders' 16, the Blue Devils have bowed to Richmond only once. That once was in 1926 when Richmond handed Duke a 9-7 def eat.
Owing its existence largely to a charitable trust fund set up by James B. Duke by an indenture in 1924, Duke University was placed under the ownership of the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1856.
The Southeast's largest privately endowed university which boasts a 3 5,000-seat stadium, Duke is built around Trinity College. From a small beginning in the northwest section of Randolph County, North Carolina, with the Rev. Brantley York as principal, the University has expanded until today it has an enrollment of approximately 5,000.
COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY
The Indians of William and Mary will again be on the warpath when they meet the Spiders at the Richmonders' annual homecoming game on October 29 in City Stadium. Marking the 59th game between the two schools in a very heated rivalry, the Indians will be attempting to even up the short end of a total score of 500 points to Richmond's 661. The local boys will be abtempting their first win since 1938 when they handed the Indians a 10-0 defeat. Coach Rube McCray will again have last year's regulars Jack Cloud at fullback and Lou Creekmur at tackle.
FURMAN UNIVERSITY
Meeting Richmond for the sixth time, the Purple Hurricanes of Furman University attempted to get revenge for last year's 7-0 defeat.
A fell ow Baptist institution, Furman was founded in 1825 by the South Carolina Baptist State Convention largely as the inspiration of Dr . Richard Furman. Situated in Greenville, South Carolina, Furman is coordinated with Greenville's Woman's College.
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
The boys in orange and maroon from VPI, attempting to clear up last year's 7-7 tie will again feature stand-bys such as Jack Ittner at center and Sterling Wingo, doing his fancy .field running. Coach Bob McNeish thinks his Gobbler line is stronger and hopes to abolish last year's viotory-less campaign.
Situated in the Alleghany Mountains in Blacksburg, VPI, a land-grant college, loafs over 200 acres
Burruss Hall, VPI
in the college proper and boasts 66 principal buildings. The Corps of Cadets, noted for their strict discipline and especially for their midnight drumming-out ceremonies of dishonesit cadets, is the largest of its size in the state. Including Bluefield, Danville, Richmond, and Norfolk branches, VPI has an enrollment approaching 5500.
NORTH CAROLINA STATE
Not having played Richmond since 1942, North Carolina State will be attempting to hold the Spiders to their record of only one tie and no wins in ten games, when the two teams meet in Raleigh on November 5th. The Wolfpack will have stalwarts with them such as Bill Thompson, Ed Mooney, and the holder of the Jacobs Blocking Trophy of the conference, Bob Bowlby.
DAVIDSON COLLEGE
The Wildcats of Davidson will be attempting revenge for last year's 6-0 defeat when the Spiders invade Davidson on October 22. The game, which is the seventh between the two schools, will decide whether Richmond can even up the total number of games won in which Davidson has won 3, tied one, and the Spiders have captured two.
Located 20 miles north of Charlotte, North Carolina, on the Davidson College Highway, the college was founded in 1837 by descendants of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. Named for the memory of General William Lee Davidson, a Revolutionary hero who opposed Lord Cornwallis, Davidson now participates in the Duke Endowment.
WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY
The W ashing,ton and Lee Generals of Coach George Barclay will be seeking revenge when they meet the Spiders in this year's Thanksgiving Day tilt. This game, latest in ,the series which dates
back to 1890, will see eleven Generals operating from behind a split-T.
Washington and Lee, which joins the campus of VMI in Lexington, this year celebra.ted its bicentennial. W&L is headed by a Richmond alumnus, Dr. Francis P. Gaines, class of 1912.
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
The University of Delaware's Blue Hens this year met the Spiders for the second time. Situated in northwestern Delaware halfway between Phila. delphia and Baltimore, Delaware handed Richmond a 7-0 defeat in the first game back in 1931.
Now located on 86 acres in the heart of Newark, the University can trace its history back to a little institution of colonial days founded by a Presbyterian clergyman, Rev. Francis Alison, in 1743 near New London, Pennsylvania. Delaware College and Woman's College were united in 1921 under the name of the University of Delaware and in 1944 a new administrative structure was adopted completely merging the two schoollS. In the undergraduate department now are about 2000 students.
RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE
The oldest Methodist college in America by date of incorporation, Randolph-Macon College at Ashland, faced Richmond for the 79th time this year. In a series of rivalries dating back to 1881, the Yellow Jackets have won 23 of the games played, tied seven, and lost 49.
Moved to its present location from a spot in Mecklenburg County near Boydton, RandolphMacon is now located at the intersection of U. S. Highway No. 1 and the Thomas Jefferson Highway.
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Chambers Hall
Old College, University of Delaware
Randolph-Macon College Alumni Gymnasium
Bluestocking ... Theater and Music
THEATER
Fall shorts the Straw Hat circuit and turns up the footlights oh Broadway and theatrical capitals abroad. England's prize package is the newly opened T. S. Eliot play, The Cocktail Party, the main theatrical event at the Edinburgh Festival. Seldom has Eliot written comedy and seldom written as well as in this ingeniously devised social satire.
· Across the Channel the theaters of Paris run the gamut from Satre in the existentialist mode to tawdry melodrama. Working on a scanty postwar stipend, Paris now has forty plays on the boards as compared with Broadway's meager sixteen (Ice Show included). Forty million Frenchmen can't be wrong when they are enthused about Andre Gide's translation of Hamlet! Etre ou n'etre pas.
Back on Forty-fifth Street the lates:t Rialto gossip centers around the stage adapt:iation of James Joyce's controversial novel Finnigan' s Wake. The producers are trying to sign Barry Fitzgerald for the starring role.
Broadway needs a few tricks up its sleeve for the coming season. South Pacific and Death of a Salesman, carry -overs from last season, afford keen competition for any new productions seeking a claim to fame. Twelve new productions are promised for October openings. Twelfth Night comes to Broadway from Michigan's Ann Arbor Drama Festival with most of its non-Broadway professional cast intaot. Lost in the Stars, based on Alan Paton's novel, Cry, the Beloved Country, has the combined efforts of an unmatchable duo-playwright Maxwell Anderson and composer Kurt Weill.
Backed by her former successes, Watch on the Rhine and The Little Foxes, Lillian Hellman returns to Broadway with Montserret, adapted from the French and dealing with Venezuela's revolt against Spain.
For the hedonist, George Abbot's new musical Touch and Go provides an evening of light entertainment.
Locally speaking, November seventh and eighth will find Tallulah Bankhead at the WR VA Theater in Private Lives. The University Players also face an opening season which includes Carl Capek's R.U.R. and Tennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie.
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MUSIC
Amid the ostentatious finery of first nighters, curtains go up on the Metropolitan Opera November twenty-first, the initial performance being Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier. Since the composer's death a few months ago, he has been in trhe column of every music critic, each giving his appraisal of this daring innovator's works. The excellent reception of Ljuba 1Velitsch in Salome last season doubly assures that Strauss will often be repeated this season.
Columbia threw a bombshell into the record industry with their L.P.'s (Long Playing records). An entire forty-five-minute symphony or musicalcomedy score recorded on a single twelve-inch record is revolutionary. This is accomplished because the grooves are extremely narrow ( threehundredths of an inch) and are played at less than one-half the time of the standard old style records. For ,the music lover it i:sa thing of joy forever to be able to listen to an entire symphony without inter'ruption. Because there is an expansion of the frequency range much more scope and depth of tone is obtained. The recordings available on L.P.'s are ever increasing-from Campus Song recorded by Kay Kyser to Organ Music of Bach performed by E. Power Beggs. Musical comedy scores such as songs from South Pacific sung by Mary Martin and Pinza are breaking all record sales.
-by PHYLLIS BARNES
FootballFanfare
Fashions go as gay as leaves this season with a bevy of bright fall colors . Vivacious Barbara Ferre of Miami, Florida and her escort Fred Thrasher of Pulaski, Virginia are all dressed up in the latest for the Tobacco Bowl Festival game. Barbara has chosen a Chinese red wool dress with devastating touches of red and a black and white tweed jacket lined with grey krimmer lining and a black velvet beret.
Fred wears a brown jacket and yellow sweater vest, with gray flannel pants, and a snap brim felt hat.
The Messenger's Gu ide to Fall Fun
By FAR AND LARGE the most dazzling event on the fall calendar for Richmond entertainment is the First Annual Tobacco Festival slated for this week end. Richmond goes gala for three confetti-colored days imbued with Mardi-Gras flavor, as 100,000 people stream into Richmond from all over the south Festivities start with a bang-the historic Tobacco Pageant on Thursday and the presentation of the Tobacco Queen and her glamorous court on Friday. Saturday is the big day, teeming with events-the Queen's coronation, a U. S. Army band concert , and the Festival Parade with its forty floats which leads to the gridiron where the Richmond Spiders grapple with VMI eleven. The jamboree is climaxed that night with the Festival Ball at Tantilla Garden, with a special floor show by Hollywood Greats, including Frank Sinatra. Blue Barron holds the baton for this dance. WRVA ' s barn dance comes off as usual on Saturday night , featuring some of the nation's leading hillbilly stars. The big little town is really booming this week end.
Come Monday morning and Richmond goes back to normal , but anticlimax there is none, for Richmond provides numerous lovely ways to spend an evening and dull moments are few and far between. To insure your fall ' s entertainment THE MESSENGERhas elected to set up for you a guide to Richmond fun.
FOOTBALL FANFARE
Three more times this year the U of R meets its opponents on home territory in Richmond Stadium ... October 29 sees the Spiders battle with William and Mary's Indians at the Homecoming Game, also the occasion of the stadium dedication Frat parties and the Homecoming celebrations on campus provide the traditional festivity ... The Spiders weave their web for VPI' s Gobblers here on November 12 at two thirty ... Richmond plays host to Washington and Lee at the annual Thanksg1vmg game.
OPERATION VITTLES
The South is fabled throughout the land for its food, and all Richmond's restaurants keep up the tradition in the grand manner ... the Occidental, located in the heart of the city is an excellent din-
ing spot .. Opposite the John Marshall is Ewart's Ca£eteria where the best is ... Right next door is the newly opened Howard Johnsons ... White ' s, located at 513 E . Grace and 2906 W. Cary, serves breakfast, lunch and full course dinners ... The Oak Leaf on West Broad Street Road features sea food as does the Venus Restaurant, 201 W. Grace ... Try the Wakefield Grill (West Broad) for chicken-in-the-rough or an after the dance snack ... Shenandoah Inn, 501 North Allen Avenue, is quiet and pleasant with the accent on sea food ... For sizzling steaks, dine at the Hotel Rueger ' s Grill ... Go to Phil's place in Westhampton to meet the gang and for good home style cooking ... Capri, Richmond's famous Italian-American restaurant, specializes in Italian cuisine ... Try Chiocca's ('2915 W. Cary Street) for excellent Italian spaghetti ... The Ding Ho (1517 W. Broad) serves Cantonese style Chinese food ... When in Westover Hills stop as the sign of Cox ' s for good food and good service.
DISTINCTIVE DESTINATIONS
To put up a week-end guest or for dining we suggest any of Richmond's excellent hotels : John Marshall ( 5th and Franklin), Hotel Jefferson (Franklin and Jefferson), Hotel William Byrd ( opposite Broad Street Station), Hotel Rueger ( opposite State Capitol), Hotel Richmond (9th and Grace) or Hotel King Carter ( 8th and Broad) The latter has a pine panelled grill with a cellar atmosphere that is excellent for quiet evenings.
SNACKING
Try Bill's Barbecue or Uncle Jake's Drive-In, . opposite each other on West Broad. Both have curb service ... The River Road Tavern is excellent for cheeseburgers and near at hand. To give: your taste cells a positive pleasure, try Max's fo1 Snaxs-where fastidious Richmonders meet to eat.
DANCING
For a big evening try the Westwood Supper Club, located west on Broad Street Road. Dance to the music of Harry Jones and his orchestra . _ Tantilla Garden (3812 West Broad) has long been dubbed "the South ' s most Beautiful Ballroom" and is open on Friday and Saturday nights, but dial a number, young man, it's for couples ; [ 8 J
only . . . Open Monday through Saturday, the Paddock (3215 W. Broad) is good for dinner and dancing. They offer superb cuisine, specializing in fork-tender steaks and sea food eight hours from the ocean. After ten o'clock there is a cover charge of one dollar ... Try Chelf' s on the Mechanicsville Pike for Saturday night fun
MUSIC AT THE MOSQUE
But man cannot live by bread alone , and who ' d want to with the Mosque (M a in and Laurel) constantly offering the finest in music. The fall program bulges with great names ... Ormandy conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra Odober 17 Rudolf Serkin , famous pianist , appears October 3 1 The Sadler ' s Wells Ballet comes November 9 You saw them last year in the movie R ed Sh oes ; now see them again in person . . . Nelson Eddy warbles November 19 a nd Horace Heidt g ives a performance November 26 . Charles L. Wagner ' s traveling opera makes its appearance on Wednesday night , December 7. It will present the double bill " Cavalleria Rusticana " a nd "I Pagliacci."
THEATRE
For those with footlights in their eyes, the thrill of the fall is T a llulah Bankhead ' s a ppearance in Pri vat e Liv es November 7 and 8 at the WRVA Theatre on East Broad . . The Barter Theatre a lways good, makes a two-night stance there begin: ning November 24 ... Every Saturday night is the Old Dominion Barn Dance , hillbilly attractions with Sunshine Sue as mistress of ceremonies. Performances are at 7 : 30 and 9: 30 , and admission is under a dollar. If you ' ve never been , make this a must on your fall calendar ... Apropos there are
" So I sez to him, take back your damn fraternity pin. "
two plays slated for the fall by our own University Players. R.U.R. (Rossom' s Universal Robots) plays October 26-8 , and Tennessee Williams ' Glass Menagerie has a three-day run starting November 9 . Support your campus players and keep these dates open .. The Theatre Associates of the Richmond Professional Institute will welcome you to their season ' s opener A rsenic and Old L ace late in October.
ART
Spend an afternoon in the Virginia Art Museum, browsing among their collections, from Italian primitives to local Virginia artists, from island masks to Russian jewelry Admission is free on Wednesdays and Sundays
SIGHT-SEERS' GUIDE
For Sunday afternoon we suggest a ramble in two of Richmond's parks, the Byrd located at the Boulevard - or Maymont Park-beyond Byrd Park. Richmond also boasts several historic shrines reflecting the South ' s past glory, that are well worth your time See Capitol Square in the center of the city which houses the Capitol building and the governor ' s mansion ... visit the Confederate Museum , Twelfth and Clay , formerly the White House of the Confederacy . . . Browse in Battle Abbey, the Confederate Memorial Institute, an imposing monument to the South's " Lost Cause" at Kensington Avenue and Boulevard . At 707 East Franklin is the Robert E. Lee House, with its valuable collection of Virginiana ... The Valentine Museum, built in 1812, Eleventh and Clay , speciali zes in local history ... See St. John's Church (Twenty-fourth and Broad) where Patrick Henry declaimed his famous Liberty-or-Death speech
TO KEEP IN TRIM
Skate away to organ music at the Cavalier Arena, " Richmond's finest roller rink," located one block north of 3300 W Broad Street . . Knock down the tenpins at Tiny Town's Bowling Alley , 3812 West Broad ... Swim at the Y.M. (2 West Franklin Street) or the Y.W (6 North Fifth) . .. We can plainly put Q.E.D. by the statement that Richmond has no lack of extracurricular fun. Here ' s to bigger and better week ends.
-by BETTY B. CATHER
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lanntn Your a-reer
-by DICK FITZ
YOUR CAREER. Copyright 1947, '48, '49, by Cunningham and Reed.
PHYSICIAN
Your Outlook
WITH 203,000 licensed physicians in the U. S. the national ratio is one doctor for each 1,082. The annual physician death toll is 3,300-3,'.">00.In 1948 the graduates of medical schools numbered 5,543 and an estimated 5,157 were to 'be graduated in 1949. At present the medical schools are at maximum enrollment although the entrance requirements are becoming increasingly rigid. Some authorities recommend that only the top third of premedical students be accepted for professional study. Nine of ,the U. S. medical schools do not admit out-of-state students and others limiit their total. The need for physicians will be increased by the larger peacetime military forces and the new veterans' hospitals. The physician shortage is the most critical in the rural areas of the Southern and Rocky Mountain states.
You Need
The minimum premedical training is 2 years of
college but many medical schools demand 3 years. There are 4 years' professional study leading to an M.D. degree which is generally followed by 1-year internship. Six U. S. medical schools require internship before granting degree. The estimated minimum cost of education is $5,650. Twentythree states and D. C. require 1-year internship prior to licensing examination before the State Medical Board. Specialization requires 1-5 years of additional study before the certification exam of the Medical Specialty Board. Thirty-six per cent of the students in 15 medical schools planned to specialize. Premed students should stress quality not quantity in the sciences and they should also include in their background such subjects as sociology, political science, psychology, literature, etc., to get a broad education. Personally a physician needs a pleasant personality, ability to inspire confidence, stable temperament, skillful hands, good health, willingness to work hard; sympathetic, yet practical, regard for human suffering.
You Do
Physicians diagnose, treat, and prescribe medicine for diseases and disorders of human body. They also perform surgery and operations. The general practitioner has regular office hours but also must make house and emergency calls. He reports births, deaths, contagious diseases to local health board. There are many fields of specialization: among them are internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, opthalmology, otolaryngology, dermatology and syphilology, psychiatry and neurology, urology, orthopedic surgery, radiology, pathology, neurological surgery, anesthesiology, and plastic surgery.
You Get
Most interns serve without pay, getting only room and board. A 1947 survey showed average net income of U. S. physicians in private practice was $11,300. Female doctors' net income was $7,929. General practitioners netted $9,541 compared to $14,442 for full-time specialists. The advantages are satisfaction of serving humanity, community prestige, and the constantly challenging work. However , there is a constant physical strain, heavy responsibilities, long and irregular hours, large initial investment in time and money , and the ever-present need for further study.
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You Should
Read: Do You Want to Become a Doctor? by Morris Fishbein (Frederick A. Stokes Co.) Doctor in the Making , by Arthur Ham and M. D. Salter, (J. B. Lippincott Co.); Medicine As a Profession, by George H. Murphy (Ryerson Press). Write: Council on Medical Education and Hospitals, American Medical Association, 535 North Dearborn Street, Chicago 10, Ill., for list of 78 A.M.A. approved schools; also any further information
TEACHER Your Outlook
If untrained emergency teachers could be eliminated and faculties brought up to prewar numerical efficiency, there would be a need for 75,000 additional teachers plus the current annual demand for 80,000-85,000 new elementary and high school teachers. In 1948-49 there were 900,000 in the teaching profession but this was still far short of the ,total 911,835 in 1940. As a result of this shortage 1,500,000 children are annually deprived of one full year of instruction . The U. S. teachers' colleges have an enrollment of 162,000 but many of these students because of the low salaries will not enter the teaching profession. If recommended l~vels of classes could be obtained rhe necessary S1Zeof the teaching corps will be 1,300,000 by 1960. California , New York , and New Jersey are the states offering the best salaries. Teachers of ~cience, math, and the more specialized subjects are m greatest demand.
You Need
Thirty states require a college degree as a minimum for teaching in high schools and fifteen states demand a degree for elementary teachers . Five states require 5 years of college work for high school teachers. Written and physical examinations are often required by state and municipal boards. Personally teachers should have an interest in reading and study, cheerful and friendly nature, fondnes~ for children ,' ability to lead, sense of humor, patience and fair-mindedness.
You Do
The average classroom working week is 35 hours . During this time the teacher conducts class gives_guidance to individual students, and take~ part m the pupils' extracl!rricular activities. An additional 10 hours a week is spent on keeping rec-
ords, making reports, preparing classroom work, meeting with parents and other professional duties. Average working year is 175 days.
You Get
National average income for all teachers in 1948-49 was $2,750 with the salary of the elementary teachers running approximately $500 less than high school teachers. In 1946-47 high school teachers received $2,274 and elementary teachers $1 ,864 in towns with population of 2 , 500-5,000; in cities of over 100,000, $2,897 for elementary schools and $3 , 593 in high schools. A teacher gets the satisfaction of molding children, good hours, and long vacations; ,tenure and pension provisions are increasingly common . Restrictions on teacher ' s personal life in certain communities, frequent afterhour duties, and the salaries which do not measure up to those requiring comparable education are some of the disadvantages of teaching.
You Should
Read: Requirements for Certification of Teachers and Administrators for Elementary Schools , S econdary Schools and Junior Colleges , by Woellner. and Wood (University of Chicago Press) Write: U. S. Office of Education Washington , ' D C., for government publications on the profession. Contact: Your state Department of Education, or the National Education Association , 1201 Sixteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D. C., for further information . .).
"-All right for you, Agness Jefferson! Agnes! · · · Agnes! This is GOODBYE FOREVER AGNES! Agnes! Agness!" '
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Fraternities,Yes!-
THE "FRATERNITY QUESTION" is one which has been under fire for some time. As an undergraduate and fraternity man at the University of Richmond I feel privileged to write this article. Because we are all members of the same community I shall keep my thoughts confined to our own campus and experience.
Eleven national fraternities are represented on this campus. We also have a local ministerial fraternity. We may safely assume that we have a good cross section of nationals for a school of this enrollment. Last year just under one-half of the student body of Richmond College wore the badge of one of these organizations. The fraternities justified their existence by these activities.
Homecoming exercises were improved by the presenting of eleven floats for the parade. A set of dances, featuring a "big-name" band, accompanied this week end. These dances were ,the direct responsiibility of the Interfraternity Dance Committee which tried hard to make them a success. Because they lacked general student body support they failed and the losses incurred were made good by the members of the committee. A Greek Week program was presented in April. This included a skit night, song fest, track meet, and dance.
Two years ago when the new Spider Band gave their first concert each fraternity was called upon to underwrite the affair by the purchase of a certain number of tickets. This aid was forthcoming quickly and cheerfully. All fraternities have always encouraged their membership to participate in all school activities. The band, glee clubs, literary societies, religious organizations, and athletic teams forever find fraternity men among their most enthusiastic and contributing members. The list of fraternity men who participate in publications work is long and distinguished.
Scholarship is a field which constantly demands and receives attention from all fraternal organizations. Here there is a double check. The Interfraternity Council has ruled that no man will be initiated into any fraternity who does not carry at least a "C" average. The second brake is applied by the officers of the national fraternity. When a member chapter falls off in scholarship they want to know why, and how soon this condition will be rectified.
As a fraternity man I can't claim that joining a fraternity will make a man of Johnny, or make a bandit of him either. Being in a fraternity, if he is the least bit alert, will provide him with a great deal of experience he might not have the opportunity to have otherwise.
Let's take a look into the proposition that fraternities are agencies that contribute to the enforcement of caste systems and generally discriminatory practices. I for one can't see why the good people who have seized upon this situation focus such attention upon fraternities when the place where basic issues of antisemitism and other prejudices is the home and certainly not Richmond College.
Every man isn't cut out to be a fraternity man. If you feel that belonging to such an organization would hinder you, by all means don't consider joining one. You would only succeed in hurting yourself and the fraternity that accepted you. Though the fees involved by joining Richmond College fraternities are nominal, don't consider going into debt unless you are sure you can see daylight quickly. No fraternity wants to become a hardship upon any student or his family. However the amount of money involved is not a sum unobtainable by any man who is willing to extend himself slightly. ·
This article has been written with the idea in mind of presenting to the new student the part played by fraternities on this campus. It has hardly touched upon the traditions involved, the backgrounds of the individual organizations, or the standardized defenses which are so often printed. What I have tried to do is present some of the standard criticisms and answer them in light of the conditions which prevail on our campus.
At this stage of your college life, choosing fraternity or eliminating it, is an important decision. The thinking man has a good chance for coming up with the right answer. For each of us the answer is somewhat different. If you choose fraternity, go into it with the idea of getting only the best of what is offered. With such an attitude you will find that your life will be enriched. Remember always that it is a heavy responsibility you are assuming, but more important, remember your responsibility to your University and to yourself.
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Fraternities,No!-
FRATERNITY?" "No, no, a thousand times no ... " One little word, holding power and pull in the university and college system of our country; one word that can make a "wheel," or break a capable man.
Aside from the question of early classes, the foremost problem of college students is fraternities -the right one, the wrong one, the big one, the best one, the richest one, any one. To a freshman they are secret orders masked in handshakes, pins and terrible things called Hell Week. To a frat man they are the magic words that can open up the gates of glory, fame, and Westhampton.
Advice to freshmen: "You'd better be good, you'd better watch out ... " speak, smile, be ready to lend everything from your toothbrush to your best girl-that's it, impress the big brothers. Impress, depress, repress, but get into a fraternity-and you too, can have a prettier complexion.
Someone has said, "Most men who join fraternities join them because they want to meet fraternity men, and all they meet are men who wanted to meet a fraternity man." This, you will agree, is a waste of time, effort, and money. What this means is that the fraternity system appeals to a basically weak side of a person: the desire to belong to a group, to be thought better on that basis than others, and to solve problems through the group with little incentive for individual action.
But you are in college, have early classes, and fifty dollars or more ( never less) ... now worry about being pledged. This is a word frat men use meaning "pull 'em in, boys, our treasury is low." Two weeks pass, and you're not in. No one has approached you except a used-book salesman. Why? Let's face it-you're a nobody. A failure. Should you commit suicide? Don't do it; people have been known to live quite happily without a fraternity. Of course frat men will deny ,this emphatically.
Aside from the facts mentioned, let us consider the initiations. In an institution of higher learning the various id iotic acts pledges are forced to commit an~ revolting, and when one laughs at these it must be at, not with. The ritual of the "big" night is sickening and degrading. All in fun. He-man fun. Yeah.
What do fraternities do? Let me quote excerpts
from the fraternity write-ups appearing in the 1949 Web: "An elaborate banquet was held a medium membership has been adhered to, resulting in a closely knit organization ... the year's social program was the best yet ... all fraternity men on the campus were invited ... social functions were being planned ... there were many parties given ... the Christmas Party for underprivileged children ... "
Out of twelve fraternities, one mentions a truly worthwhile undertaking. Maybe the others were just modest. Had enough? Let me go a little further. The fraternities also: present four "name band" dances a year ( this has been discontinued, however, due to financial troubles. Ask any frat man about subscription tickets), form an Interfraternity Council ( to promote friendship between the fraternities on the campus doesn't the word fraternity mean brotherhood?), keep pertinent test material ( notes, old tests, even exams) on file for the good brothers to use.
Speaking of brotherhood, how many fraternities will admit Jews to their little social order? How many will admit Negroes? Only a short time ago a prominent college fraternity in one of the better known colleges ~as dropped by the national headquarters because it pledged a Negro. Liberty, equality, fraternity ... and the greatest of these is fraternity. Brotherhood? Only in the marriage of caste system and intolerance. ·
One cannot say truthfully that they are all good, or all bad, that is not my purpose. I will not say that they are the moral downfall of many saints, for that would be ridiculous and childish. The adjectives "threatening" or "dangerous" are not proper either. Rather, let us use the word "ludicrous." Their basis seems to be purely economic, and, I think, they have never risen above that basis.
Fraternities, like bunions and measles, are with us. Nevertheless, they are unhealthy for the individual and the college. Like a house with roaches, they must be tolerated until an exterminator comes along.
HIM: "W hy is it you have so many boy friends?"
HER: "I give up. "
A university is an institution which has room for 2,000 in the classrooms and 50,000 in the stadium.
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GEORGE I, A New Era
had five barracks removed from the Richmond Army Air Base and re-erected on the Richmond College campus. This met one pressing need. For the married vets forty-five apartments were converted from ,three barracks that formerly belonged to the Naval Diesel School. To make additional classrooms and faculty offices another temporary building was erected on the campus. This is the structure known as the Faculty Building and now used by the newly organized School of Business Administration.
George M. Modlin, Ph.D. ,, President
MOST PEOPLE who have had no more contact with college than through the cartoons in magazines are apt to think of college presidents as grey-bearded old men who live in a world of academic isolation. No one could betiter refute this idea than our own Dr. George M. Modlin .
Dr. Modlin has been president of the University of Richmond for only three years but in those three years he has shown himself to be quite capable of performing the exacting duties demanded of him. He was elected president June 15, 1946, succeeding Dr. F. W. Boatwright who had relinquished the post of presidency to assume the position of chancellor.
It was not a position of tranquillity that this newly elected president had entered. The influx of veterans had begun to pour in and hasty but adequate arrangements had to be provided. Enrollment of Richmond College jumped from 800 to 1200. New faculty members had ,to be hired. Dormitory rooms had to be furnished. Some method of meeting the married veterans' living needs must be met. Dr. Modlin rolled up his sleeves and began to work. In making these arrangements there was one thought that he kept in mind. Although every division of the University was expanded to the maximum to meet the hea"y demand, never should the high standards of scholarship be sacrificed.
To meet the living quarters question Dr. Modlin
It has long been a traditional policy of the U of R that ,there always be a personal relationship between the faculty and the students. Keeping this thought in mind Dr. Modlin secured the services of twenty-nine new faculty members at a time when competent instructors were hard to find After his first year the Board of Trustees could feel safe in the knowledge that they had chosen the right man
Dr. Modlin has an excellent background for the administrative duties of a school such as the University of Richmond. Previous to his position as president he was Dean of the Evening School of Business Administration. It was probably his work at this position that brought his name to the attention of the board of trustees. Under the direction of Dr. Modlin the evening school of business grew until it had an enrollment of 735 and was one of the most progressive units of its kind in the South.
To feel the vitality of our president one only has to go into his office for a few moments. The telephone rings repeatedly, people are always waiting to see him, there are endless letters to be wriUen yet Dr. Modlin goes about his tasks in a calm efficient manner. He is a man who does his work at top speed but it is not a "haste makes waste" speed . He seems to be a man who can make plans speedily and execute those plans equally as hastily.
Probably one of the most outstanding things that have occurred on the campus under the direction of Dr. Modlin is the establishment of the newly organized School of Business Administration. By number of enrollment this is now the largest division of the University of Richmond This new school was established under the same principle that no division of the school should become so large that the close relations between the faculty
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and students be destroyed. The separate business school was created to continue this close relation.
Dr. Modlin is quick to follow the trends in education and apply them to the school he directs. Such a progressive move is found in the formation of a committee of the faculties and administration of the University to study the educational objectives of the University and to formulate plans for achieving these objectives. The report of this committee is due to appear soon, and will be invaluable for making plans for the University .
One project which takes a great deal of our president's time but which aids our alma mater is the Richmond Area University Center. Dr. Modlin seems very proud to have U of R affiliated with this recent educational development. Some of the important projects conducted by the University Center are departmental conferences of professors, visiting scholars program, fine arts program, cooperative professorships, adult education, in-service education, faculty research, library coordination, and cooperation in graduate instruction. The formation of the Richmond Area University Center is of important interest to our president because , as he says, "The University of Richmond has more to contribute and more to gain from the University Center project than any other of the cooperating ins,titurtions."
Dr. Modlin is a religious man and tangible proof of ,this. is shown in the great interest he takes in fostering religious activities on the campus. In the first year of his office the first director of religious activities in Richmond College was employed. To meet ,the need for greater religious training additional classes were inaugurated in the Department of Religion. In the first three years as president Dr . Modlin has seen the Religion classes grow to the largest in history.
lit is Dr. Modlin's belief that religion should play an important role on the campus for he holds to the idea that a university should help build character as. well as give the student a well rounded education. It is this. idea that causes him to operate the school as a businessman and a Christian
Dr. Modlin is not one to rest on his laurels and let the University continue on of its own momentum. He is already looking forward to the future when the University will be greatly expanded and strengthened Although the University is in the mids,t of a big building program Dr. Modlin is visualizing past that to the time when additional schools will be added.
There are many who will think that three years. is not enough time to judge the qualities of a man filling the post of such an important position as President of the University of Richmond but we take the opposite view We feel ,that the three years that Dr. Modlin has been in office have shown only a few of the things. which he is capable of doing and, the future will bring additional achievements to prove that Dr. George M. Modlin is the leadership the University of Richmond deserves . -by T. G. HARPER
When Clare Boothe Luce visited George Bernard Shaw in London , she found him wriiting as. she entered.
"Mr. Shaw, " began Mrs. Luce, trying to fl-atter him into thinking she had come to Europe for the sole purpose of seeing him, "you are the only reason I am standing here."
Shaw replied: "Who ' d you say your mother was, my child? "
'.'· , , Ar~ you the one that ordered a 5-lb. steak, 2 inches !hick, smoth~red in onions, sauce Borde.laise , imported ca1 1iar,, and 25-year-old wine?"
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Festival Ball ... Parade ... Barn Dance ... Tobacco Queen ... Concert
]CAVES won't be the only objects falling this month-people by the thousands will be falling in line to take in all the events of a threeday Tobacco Bowl Festival, to be held in Richmond Oct. 13-15.
The highlight, of course, will be the University of Richmond-VMI clash on the gridiron on Saturday of the f estival. But quite aside from that , there'll be other features which may prove interesting to the more aloof students.
Stars of the Festival will be blonde Miss Dorothy Kirsten , who will be queen, and swoon-crooner Frank Sinatra, who will place the crown on her head during the half at the UR-VMI game. Miss Kirsten, well known for her beauty and personality, has been called "the darling of the Metropolitan Opera. " She has recently switched to popular music via her five-times-weekly radio show on NBC.
Frankie, of course, needs no introduction. Besides wowing ' em with personal appearances, numerous records, and through radio broadcasts, he has made several movies recently in Hollywood, such as "Anchors Aweigh " and "The Singing Bandit. " Native of New Jersey, he got his start as a vocalist by winning an amateur night program , and went on to make history with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey's musical crews.
" The Hit Parade ," on the air for 14 years, will be broadcast from the Festival on Saturday , with Miss Kirsten and Mr. Sinatra as guest stars. There'll be the usual personnel in addition-Eileen Wilson and Bill Harrington to make with the ten top tunes of the nation, and Mark Warnow and his orchestra to play. In addition, the American Tobacco Company is planning to send L. A. "Speed " Riggs , doubletalking tobacco auctioneer, who'll speak his spiel for the spectators, of which ther e will be about 5,000 .
But to begin at the beginning-the opening night of the Festival will feature the Tobaccorama, a musical play depicting the growth of the tobacco industry in the Old Dominion, tracing the weed from the days of John Rolfe and Sir Walter Raleigh to the present, when tobacco is a multimillion dollar business for Virginia. There'll be a cast of about 200, with full orchestra and chorus
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The play is under the direction of the City Recreation Department.
On Friday night of the Festival, Queen Dorothy will be presented at a musical show which will include tunes by Dean Hudson and his orchestra The 20 "princesses," representing the tobaccogrowing districts of Virginia, North and South Carolina, will be introduced, and there will be entertainment by a host of stars.
On Saturday, the big day of the affair, festivities will begin at 10 a .m ., when the U. S. Army Band gives a concert on the grounds of the State Capitol. At 11 a.m., there'll be a sight worth cutting all classes to see-the two-hour Festival parade. There ' ll be 15 bands , the 1,000-man VMI cader corps, soldiers, sailors, marines, all kinds of celebrities, and approximately 30 gorgeous floats made by the company which constructed most of the floats in the Inaugural parade of President Harry S. Truman last January. The parade will form at the Capitol and travel down Broad Street to the Broad Street station. The entire parade route will be decorated, and stores along the way will feature special window displays of "tobacco-brown" clothing, etc. The floats will head on out to City Stadium after the parade, and will appear at the football game, in case anybody missed them at the parade.
At 2: 30 p.m., the fracas between the Spiders and Keydets will begin , with the half time to-do as already stated. At 9 p.m., the Hit Parade broadcast will bounce on the airwaves. This is the first time in the history of the program that it has originated from any place other than New York or Hollywood.
Following the bro a dcast, the Festival ball will begin at Tantilla Gardens, with Blue Barron and his famous band playing until the wee hours. At the same time, a huge barn dance will be held at the Rural Exposition Grounds, with the outstanding hillbilly recording artists of RCA Victor furnishing entertainment.
The whole thing is sponsored by the Richmond members of the Optimists International, the American Legion, and the Police and Fire Boys' Club of Richmond, with proceeds going to further youth work. The Festival will be a yearly affair, eventually stretching to a week.
UNLAWFUL HABITATION
James Blount, age, 23; sex, male; race, white; home address, Macy's Department Store ...
-by CHARLES S. TAYLOR, JR.
IN A CITY as big and as sprawling as New York, a man not inclined to follow society's laws or conform to the approved way of living can find all about him the beckoning finger of temptation.
I had it pretty well licked until about a year or two ago when I first met Jimmy. Jimmy knew how I felt, although we didn't talk about it. But I could tell he felt the same way because I'm convinced that indirectly the giant enigma of New York was responsible for what he did.
It was snowing hard that day when Jimmy and I met. I'd given my last story to some little runt of a copy boy who was new at the job and was standing by a window in the city room of the Tribune office looking at the office building across the street. It was quiet. Christine, the only woman court reporter the Tribune had ever hired, was powdering her nose, furtively watching the old man, who didn't like females and didn't give a damn if she knew it. Jenkins, the other of three City Hall reporters, was putting a new ribbon on his Remington, and Don Hankins, who worked with me on police news, was sprawled in his desk chair waiting for a telephone call.
But that day the quietness was broken by Hankins calling to me.
"Hey Dan. Wake up. Telephone. It's Larry, I think."
The voice on the wire was clear and rang like a gong against my ear. "Dan? Larry. Precinct Four's got a youngster, 'bout 23. Unlawful habitation. Something in it for you if you get down there before some lawyer clams him up."
"Look, Larry," I said, "this thing sounds like small potatoes to me. Sounds routine."
He came back at me. "Have I ever given you a bum steer, Dan? I mean, have you ever known me to call you about anything I didn't really believe could grow into a damn good story?"
He had me there. In all the years I'd known Larry, who worked at main police headquarters and was a good friend, he'd never given me a tip that hadn't looked promising from the very start.
"Okay," I said. "Can you tell me any more about it now?"
"Sorry, Dan. I can't. Not now. I'm pretty rushed. But you'll kick yourself later if you don't get down to the 4th right away." The receiver on the other end of the line clicked.
About 20 minutes later I walked into New York's Fourth Precinct, hoping I wouldn't run into a crowd of other eager beavers. I didn't. Only Joe Malik, the desk sergeant, and a handful of off duty men were there.
When I told Malik what I wanted, he grunted. "Here's the warrant and arrest slip. He doesn't have a record. I'll ask him if he wants to talk to you."
I looked at the warrant, James Blount, age, 23; sex, male; race, white; home address, Macy's Department Store.
Macy's Department Store!
"He says he would enjoy talking to you," Joe said, coming back to his desk. "Come on with me."
Jimmy was lying on his bunk when I entered his cell, reading Tolstoy's War and Peace.
He did not look or act like an apprehended wrongdoer but more like an elated politician who had just hoodwinked the opposition. He had light blond hair that hung in a cowlick over his forehead. Blue eyes accentuated his fair complexion, and a straight, patrician nose set in a handsomely shaped, angular face. He had broad shoulders but not the athletic type and his body was long and slender.
Larry had not given me a bum tip. Jimmy had a story to tell and I wanted to hear it.
"Do you know who I am?" I asked.
"You're from the Tribune, aren't you?"
"That's right."
"Are you interested in an unlawful habitation charge?" he inquired.
"I am very much interested in this charge," I said.
"Are you sure you want to hear it? And if I do tell you, what's in it for me?"
" Not a thing. Publicity maybe, and cigarettes."
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''I've got cigarette money," he said. "But I'll tell you just for the hell of it. I've been doing things just for the hell of it for a long time, so why should I stop now. What do you want to know?"
"Everything," I said. "When did all this business of living in Macy's begin?"
"About a year and a half ago. That's when I got a job at Macy's."
"Oh, did you work for them too?" I asked.
"Sure. They paid me a salary until last night when ,they got wise. They furnished me room and board, too. Only they didn't know about that. It was really what you would call a soft touch.
"You see, it was this way. I've lived in New York all my life. About five years ago my father got tired of living with my mother and went somewhere out west. A few years later my mother died. I'd always wanted to quit college, so I quit then and went to work for Macy's. The damn place sort of fascinated me. It was a city within a city. It had everything any normal human being ever wanted-food, furniture and fastidiousness. It was cooled in the summertime and heated in the winter. It had toilets on every floor. When it came to clothes, well . . you could take your pick of the very best."
"You started living in Macy's from the very first day you were hired?" I asked.
"Oh no," Jimmy replied, lighting a cigarette and blowing a series of perfectly formed smoke rings toward the ceiling. He seemed calm and selfassured, as though we were discussing the pennant chances of the Yankees over a glass of beer. "But it didn't take the idea long to flower, and about six months later I took up residence there, just for the hell of it. Just to see if I could do it and get away with it. I could save money that way, too."
"Didn't anyone miss you? I mean while you lived in Macy's. How about relatives and friends?"
"There's no one left but a couple of sisters. They're both married and live in Pennsylvania. One of them, that is. The other one lives in Chicago. I write them sometimes. Don't have any really close friends but the people I know ... I just told them I lived at a certain place ... "
"But what about night watchmen, and how did you manage to hide when they closed the store every day, and what about ... I don't see how you got away with it for so long," I said.
"Macy's is lousy with night watchmen," Jimmy said, crushing the cigarette butt with his heel and relaxing full length on his bunk. "They were like
a regular police force. All of them had beats in the store and within a year I had lived on all of them. But some time ago I found one beat where the watchman was screwing off the job. He was a regular sport. He'd come on the job all spruced up. A lady killer. Then along about nine o'clock he'd take off. Used to meet a waitress who works down the street. They'd go sporting off together. He made it easy for me."
"How' d you find out so much about the night watchman?" I asked.
"I used to watch him all the time," Jimmy said grinning. "It helped pass the time. I followed him once or twice on his excursions."
"Yes," I said, "but how did you manage to hide at closing time . . . ?"
"That wasn't at all difficult," Jimmy replied. "Sometimes under counters. Sometimes on the roof, or in a stockroom. One time I made myself at home in the manager's office when he was out of town. They never checked, because it never occurred to them that anyone would try what I did. One night I found myself a room on a basement floor. It was on the beat of this lady killer I told you about. It wasn't used for anything that I could see, so I fixed it up for myself."
"You lived like that for an entire year," I said, putting it as a fact rather than as a question. "How did you get caught?"
"That was the sad part of it all," Jimmy replied, looking just a trifle downcast. "I meant to move out of Macy's this week. Being alone so much of the time was beginning to get on my nerves. But last night I found a bottle of cognac in one of the office desks. I was feeling pretty blue so I hit it hard. They tell me I made a hell of a lot of noise and that I heaved a chair through a window ... It was a foolish thing to do. The only time I slipped up, and they nabbed me."
"You told them the whole story, then?"
"Sure. There's a great deal of difference between an unlawful habitation charge and breaking and entering."
"The judge is sure to give you a sentence," I said.
'Tm expecting it," Jimmy replied, unabashed, "but it will be a light one-not over a year or two."
"You' re probably right. The damn jury will admire your boldness and originality. But what will you do when you get out?"
"Who knows," Jimmy said, picking up War and Peace again. "Maybe I'll try Gimbel's next." .
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Ladies Home Journal College Fun Quiz
Do the students at your school have fun? Yes. How? R eading the Ladies Home Journal. What do they like the most? Studying. How do you spend your time when you' re not in classes? Taking out the instructors.
Do most students spend as much time in the library as in the smoking room or college hangout? Oodles!
Do most students wait until the last minute to study for exams, write term papers, etc.? The last second. Why? It makes the exam more challenging.
How many times a day do you play bridge? Dozens. Or some other card game? We play gin rummy between bridge games.
How many students go steady? Many stagger. Forty-five and thirty-three one hundredths per cent (if you count married students). Is it the general rule or exception? Sort of in between. What are the advantages? It's steady. Disadvantages? Don't be a noisy old nosey.
Do you date on week nights? Yes. How often? Too often. What do you do? Who do you think you are, Dr. Kinsey?
Is there any special place where the gang congregates? Yes. What is it called? The John.
What makes a girl popular? Boys.
What makes a girl unpopular? Boys.
What makes a boy popular? Girls.
Unpopular? Guess I
Describe your ideal girl. A combination of Betty Grable, Lana Turner, with just an eensy-weensy touch of Margaret O'Brien . . .
Ideal man? A mannish Margaret Truman.
Describe campus activities on a recent big week end. What did you do? What didn't we do??
What do you like to do most on dates? Hal Heh Heh.
What is the deadline for girls on dating? Fortynme years.
For boys? Ides of March.
What happened to someone who stayed out later than the rules allow? lJVe don't talk about them.
Do many girls / boys own cars? Try to find a parking place near your classes and then as~.
How would you define "making love" as is meant at your school? It loses so much in the translation. Did you say this was for the LADIES
HOME JOURNAL ?
Do you m ake love on most dates? Nat most, all. What proportion of the evening? About 31.8574829403% of the evening. What proportion of the girl?
Is there a special necking spot on campus? Yes. Where? Above the belt.
Does a girl have to make love to be popular? No. Her mother may still like her.
Does a man? Duz cannot do everything.
Do you think some/ many / most co-eds have gone farther? far / f a1'ther/ furthest. Yau mean there's more?
Do most girls talk about it freely? To men. The men? To girls. It ' s the man who pays.
Do you drink much liquor? Do you? On week ends? On tables. On week days? On chairs. Only on dates? N 0000000000000000
How much does a date cost? Too much. What does this include? The works.
Do you ever have Dutch treats? No. Why or why not? H ave n't been to Holland in years.
Do 11;1ostparties end up with everybody pretty drunk? Don 't know; always get drunk first.
What do you talk about in bull sessions? Steers and heifers.
What went on last Saturday night? Whatever came off
What do you think of the men / girls on your campus? We don't like them that way.
Do you exchange many dances, or stick with your date all evening? If you're stuck, you stick. What traditional social events do you have on campus? Dances, beer parties , elections. Would you describe any special activities connected with them? Now there you go again
What is the biggest event of the year? The annual Greek Week. Describe. See page 334, Turniptop' s, "The Sexual Life of Savages."
Describe a typical co-ed; a typical college joe. A real gone personality that's hep to jazz. Who is Joe?
Do sports play a big part in campus life?. Yup! Which ones? The indoor ones, natch. How? Didn't your mother ever tell you?
What do you discuss on da..tes? Important issues of the day, e.g. sex. On casual get-togethers? Important issues of the day, e.g. sex.
Do you help each other with homework? What's homework?
What are the favorite magazines on campus? Ladies Horne Journal, MESSENGER, Sunshine & Health.
What do you like most about college professors? Only see them three times a week. Do you ever see them outside of class? Yes. How? Run across them in ABC stores.
What are somo current clothes fads? Clothes will be worn on campus this year. For girls? Plunging necklines. For boys? Plunging eyeballs. What do most girls / boys wear to class and around campus? Clothes, mostly.
What is your favorite classical music? Who's Joe?
How do you think college could be more fun than it is now? Send us more questionnaires like this one.
Section tG', East Stands -Fall 1949
We got here just in time for the kickoff. I'm sorry, was this your hat? There goes the ball! It's a high kick-let's open i:tnow-Richmond returns it to the ten-yard line--who uses chasers? It's a pass. We scored!! Hey, Coke! There goes the conversion. It's good!! Look at the large rolls of confetti everyone is throwing. Since when do they use THAT for confetti? Is the bottle empty yet? Rich mond kicks off, and-what nice looking dolls they have for cheerleaders. Why can't we have those babes on our side? We tackled on the-I wouldn' mix both of them. Where'n the hell's the guy with the cokes? Richmond scores again-hey, wave that ratcap, freshman. Come on, sing, "Up with the ... " Well, you're supposed to know the words anyway. It's half time. Let's skip out so we won't have to use the flash cards. Oh, oh, we' re caught. I wonder how I'll look with a "T" haircut? Listen to the P.A. system. "Let's do trick 47. You up , up there, turn the blue side toward you. O.K. , you've just spelled out Frzynskwyzcs, the referee's wife's maiden name. Very good!"
Here comes their band. What a band! What a shape on that br . .-W OW! She just winked at me. Boy, I can see the two of us ... her husband does what? Oh, well
The teams are coming back onto the field. Let's
sing " Hail, Richmond. " What's that about Sweet Briar? I didn't know they used the same tune. "Where'd you learn THOSE words? Listen to those out-of-town scores. Oh, hell, William and Mary scored with Sweet Briar. There goes my parlay. We want Billingsley; we want Billingsley. We want-oh, he has been playing for the past fifteen minutes. Number 82 is playing dirty! The referee has no father! Break his leg! Pass that Coke. What did you say? O.K., I'll meet you out front afterwards. How about it fellows, let's all get him after the game. You say he's the cheerleader 's boy friend. Good-Boy, this is an exciting game-Hail, dear ale Richmond. Fight-" -Mis-a-sip.
The customer beckoned to the new waitress. He said, looking rather embarrassed, "Could you tell me where ,the smoking room is?"
" Oh," the waitress replied, "you can smoke right here at the table."
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The Editor's Column
-by DON WILSON
This month, marking the continuation of a sizzling football season, the midway point of the freshman ratting season, and the end of a hot summer, marks the beginning of a new year for the UNIVERSITYMESSENGER.
Seventy-four years ago THE MESSENGERwas founded by a small group of students who joined together to create a medium of self-expression on the campus of old Richmond College. Since then THE MESSENGERhas grown , but not into anything spectacular.
We have been suppressed, but we still have something .. . under the covers We believe as Lif e Magazin e that " when better magazines are suppressed more people will read them. " Our magazine has been suppressed , pressed , washed , and repressed but we managed to survive We only hope that you are not depressed, but will keep smiling; whether it be at us , our magazine , or our material we care not-JUST KEEP SMILING!
To start out a new year, which we hope will be THE MESSENGER' s best up to date , we have begun a series of full page cartoons. We are sure they will develop into one of the more enjoyable features on the table of contents. Our able Art Editor , Jean Bishop, has been plugging all week in the execution of "We Score, " her first of the series " Miss Touchdown " is an added extra feature to this month's MESSENGER through the generosity of both Dementi Studio for the photography and to Berry-Burk for the cost of printing and engraving Both Miss Reynolds and Mr. Dementi have been most cooperative in making "Miss Touchdown" an added attraction to this month ' s magazine. We are also grateful to Miller and Rhoads for the Fashion Plate.
We hope our Guide to Richmond ' s Entertainment will be helpful to all as a calendar of events and as a source of information as to what to do on those special dates .
MISSTOUCHDOWN
MISSAUDREYHETZEL
From Leonia, New Jersey comes our presenta~ tion of MISS TOUCHDOWN for this month . With a winning smile and charming personality, Miss Audrey Hetzel certainly deserves this honor.
Lovely , quiet , and dignified, Audrey is indeed a credit to Westhampton College and her friendly manner and ladylike ways have won her many friends from Leonia to Richmond
Audrey is just what everyone has always thought a college girl should look like . Her figure is sleek , her smile is radiating with personality , and her dark hair and brown eyes blend pleasantly together to give her a queenly look and manner.
To find one of the most dearly beloved co-eds in Virginia you need go no farther than South Court. Sorry fellows, she proudly displays a Phi Gamma Delta fraternity pin . Phot o by D em enti. Sp onsored by B erry -Burk .
The L adi es H ome Journal College Fun Quiz which found its way into our midst was actually sent to us, no fooling. We didn't have the nerve to send it back to them. Maybe we should have sent them a reasonable facsimile - "A Magazine Editor ' s Fun Quiz " to fill out and return to US.
A newcomer to our staff this year is Dick Fitz, author of " Planning Your Career. " Dick is already busy investigating other careers for your consideration in the next issue of THE MESSENGER
The fraternity article was written by two outstanding Richmond College men and does not necessarily represent the opinion of any fraternity or group of nonfraternity men on our campus It is merely ,the opinions of two students on the subject of fraternities. We hope it will be an aid to all new students on our campus
Our old stand-by , George Taylor, has had his hands full collecting and organizing " Let's Meet Our Opponents, " an article on our football foes. Maybe we should keep quiet after that DukeRichmond game
This is a magazine for the students of the University and we have tried on every page to make it of interest to YOU. If it does not meet with you r approval let us know , and maybe you too can be another Amorosa in our column of Letters ,to the Editor.
