LETTERS ~#.~~~~~r To the Editor: I suggest you spare us the pictorial enormities of C. W. Nelson, and I mean no offense to our campus wits turned writers when I say I'm ready to read .:<"'" \,'j<~ something in the Ranger with a little more to it than this pastromi rubbish ~' ·'"" and your write-up on the Cactus Theater. Don Manning ···/,~~ ~ ..__,~,;?. .·. r# //' ~ e Dear Sfr or Mada1n : You may be ~~ -~F-~~11 / t• Ai:~:~~ ~-right.-ed. ~ ? ." ( ¢{'<,\ ·t· ~) ~ ;:~ bet she'd love a box of per­sonalized stationery -or a cigarette lighter with her in-Jf\:. enormity? itials engraved on it-or just .~ about anything with a "sweet To the Editor: I have just finished reading the first nothing" from you printed issue of the 1949-50 Ranger. It is, with­ on it. out any qualifications, the best Ranger I have ever read, and I have read quite All gift items printed right, a few the last nine years. The firsi f twenty pages were especially enjoyable. Mrs. Eugene Prashner Corpus Christi, Texas foster, more efficient, and better service. Remember, nothing will make her eyes BBA '43 ~ sparkle more than a thoughtful, personal- e Just start in the center of this is­ ized gift from you to her from . . . ~ sue; there's twenty pages each way.---ed. To the Editor: You are right, it's a great Ranger. But it definitely isn't the biggest college -~ ~ comic ever published, and I doubt if it is the biggest UT humor publication. Seventy-two pages is a lot, but some old Yale Records went above a hundred and the California Pelican used to have some fat issues. You guys have gone a long way from the days when I was· on the staff, '31 to '35, and I approve of every step. More alert, more aware, and -perhaps­funnier. Sid Pietzsch WFAA, Dallas, Texas e -Perhaps.-ed. (Continued on Page 4) The TEXAS RANGER is published once a month .during the mont~s ?f September, October, November, December, February, March,• and April by Texas Stu­dent Publications Inc., University of Texas, Austin, Texas. S11bscnpt1on rate: $1.50 per year. Single copy: twenty~five cents. Volume 62 no 3 November, HM9. Application' f 21 Gl )> 23 N FICTION z rn 15 20 0 FEATURES -1 6 I rn GIRL OF THE MONTH ............................................................... . 22 TEXAS FOLKLORE 27 c z BOP TO BACH .. 28 FACULTY CACKLES 37 < rn CARTOON CONTEST 40 ;;a l/) F. B. (Bill) Yates, editor; Tony Guerra, associate editor; Liz Smith, managing editor; Olan Brewer, feature editor; C. W. Nelson, art editor; Bill Prince, fiction editor; Rowland Wilson, cartoon editor; Bill Bridges, Don Spencer, humor editors; John Wolvin, picture editor; Fred Sanner, sports editor; Maxine Smith, fashion editor; Kenneth Roberts, publicity and circulation; Tom Carter, H. E. Brunson, staff assist­ 0 ants ; Ted Nelson, Walter Rundell , music columnists; Harrell Lee, editorial super­visor; Cal Newton, business manager; F. R. Moerke, advertising manager; Ken Rice, Bill Sears, advertising-salesmen. rn x Printed by Von Boeckmann-Jones Co. )> Austin, Texas l/) • The typical "Aggie" on this month's cover is none other t han ardent UT graduate student, Jerry Dalton, who cried when he saw the finished product, "My friends are gonna hate me." Jerry. who is studying marketing in BBA, is a diminutive big wheel in the University Co-Op. That's where you've seen his face before, not behind the plow. LETS TALK TURKEY DAYS Aggies a pushover? Let's reminisce with some big boys who remember when . . . by fred sanner drawings by bill bates e AS THANKSGIVING approaches, that feathered phenomenon, the turkey, quakes in apprehension throughout the land. But he need have no fear on the beau­tiful Texas campus or the fertilized fields of Aggieland. 'Cause on November 24 the Aggies and Longhorns will be out for each other's hides for the fifty-sixth time. Although the Longhorns have won thirty-five while losing only fifteen and tying five of the Turkey Day free--for­alls, nobody can safely predict which hide will be nailed to the barn this year. When the strains of "The Eyes of Texas" and "We Are the Aggies" float across the field, comparative records, weight advantages, experience-al! go overboard as the Farmers lock their pitchforks in the tossing horns of the Steers. Take the 1940 game. The Longhorns did. The Aggies were on their way, prac­tically prancing in their burnished boots in the Rose Bowl clover. And then an old jinx, aided by thirteen determined Long­horns, rose up to derail the Pasadena Special. Seems like an Aggie football team had never won on Memorial Field. When the final whistle blew that glorious Thanks­giving afternoon, the Aggies were just another football team. Or last year, for instance. The Aggies had lost nine straight while the Long­horns had won six and lost only to North Carolina, Oklahoma, and SMU-all of which played in bowl games last Jan­uary. The Aggies almost reached Valhalla. In the fourth quarter, while two Long­horn defenders banged heads in their eagerness to bat down an Aggie pass, the intended receiver entered the Farmer's Hall of Fame by grabbing the deflected pass and running like Bevo was on his tail. The result: Texas 14, A&M 14-a moral victory for A&M. The Aggies will be definite underdogs again this year, although the game will be played at sacred Kyle Field in College Station. But such was not always the case, as seven members of the University Ath­letic Department can tell you-not merely from having watched the Aggies in times past, but bEcause these seven gentlemen have in their collective possession eigh­teen football letters -earned against Aggie foes. An eighth gentleman, Dana Xenophon Bible, University athletic director, can also speak from experience. He has coached from both sides of the field­guiding Aggies and Longhorns in both victory and defeat. Grandpappy of all the lettermen is Clyde Littlefield, head track coach since 1921. Although he won four letters in football, Littlefield only faced the Aggies once, his senior year in 1915, and the Aggies triumphed, 13-0. However, the game's chronicler wrote: "Clyde Littlefield, at half, also played consistently." "Consistently" was good enough to earn all-Conference rating for the man who won twelve letters in his college career. The second of our seven came along in 1918. In those days he was known as "the handsomest athlete on the campus." Now he is the molder of Steer baseball champions-Bibb Augustus Falk. Bibb tasted the sweets of victory and the dregs of defeat against the Aggies, for the Steers won, 7-0, in 1918, and lost by the same score in 1919 to an Aggie team that finished th'e season with 275 points to its opponents' none. But listen to the writer of football history: "Gohmert and Falk were towers of strength in the Texas line. Falk repeat­edly broke up the Aggie line rushes." Moving on down to 1921, we encounter Howard (Bully) Gilstrap, currently the Longhorn end coach and after-dinner speaker supreme. Bully and his Longhorn mates fought the Farmers to a 0-0 tie in 1921, lost to the Aggies in 1922, 7-14, but broke the Kyle Field jinx in 1923, 6-0. It was the first Longhorn touchdown ever scored on Kyle Field. The writer of the day tells us "Captain Lane Tynes did imprison that wriggling ball in the curls of his anatomy." "That wriggling ball" was an Aggie fumble. Dana Bible, who was on the Farmer side that day, and was "the master­mind of this section" maintained "his customary silence, holding this as the supreme of virtue." Our next man came along in 1925. He raked in passes in those day, but now, as business manager, Ed Olle handles the cash of avid ticket seekers. Like Falk and Gilstrap, Olle is all-even with the Aggies. In 1925, he and the Longhorns absorbed a 28-0 defeat, but in 1926 the Steers beat A&M, 14-5. Olle's catch of an 18-yard pass figured heavily in one of the Texas touchdown drives. Longhorn stalwart number five-Ed Price, who now coaches Steer linemen and is major-domo-in-charge-of-keeping­athletes-eligible, holds a one-game edge on the boys from the outskirts of Bryan. In 1930, Price and Texas won, 26-0, despite the passing efforts of a guy from Smithville named Harry Stiteler. 1931 was a different story. Although the headlines blazoned "Bell Pessimistic Over Aggie Chances Against Steers," the Aggie cohorts won, 7-6. Price blocked a kick to initiate the Longhorns' scoring drive. And in 1932, the Longhorns, with Clyde Littlefield at the helm, sent the Aggies home defeated, 21-0. In this, his senior game, Price was the middle man on what they called a "triple pass." The quarterback tossed to the end (Price) who lateraled to another back­just about the same kind of play SMU pulled on the Steers in 1948 to send Kyle Rote across the goal. Jack Gray, Steer basketball coach and head football scout, took over at end where Price left off. In '33 the Long­horns tied the Farmers, 10-10, but Gray didn't achieve full stature until '34 when Texas, under Jack Chevigny, beat the Aggies, 13-0. "Stopped by Gray" was the decisive tagline. A headline read: "Texas Ends, Sanger and Gray, End Careers in Glory­land." And the story went on: "Flashy Phil Sanger and stalwart Jack Gray, two of the greatest wings that ever graced a Longhorn footbal! eleven, also completed their college footbal! careers with colors flying. The last of our seven is Buddy Jung­michael, present Yearling football coach. Buddy sat on the bench in 1940 while the "13 Immortals" stunned a Rose Bowl­bound John Kimbrough-led Aggie eleven, 7-0. But Buddy must have caught some of their fire, and spirit, for in 1941, when the Longhorns defeated the Farmers on Kyle Field, 23-0, one sports scribe wrote: "There was Buddy Jungmichel, turn­ing in the greatest guard play this fab­ulous field has seen since the all-America days of Joe Routt, all-time Aggie great." And Dana X. Bible? Well, he's some­what of a split personality every time Thanksgiving rolls around. While one side remembers the thrills and chills of eleven years of coaching from the Aggie bench, the other side harks back to the ten-year period when he guided the Long­horns. The man who led fourteen teams to conference championships-five at A&M, three at Texas, and six at Nebraska in the Big Six Conference-also holds an edge in the Texas-A&M battles in which he has coached. His Aggies won seven while losing two against the Steers, and his Longhorns broke even with A&M, winning five, losing five, and tying one. Thus Bible's combined record is twelve victories, seven losses, and one tie. The sweet and bitter have remained with Bible over the years. Sweetest of all were the 1927 Aggies, sparked by Joel Hunt (scorer of 125 points that year) and Siki Sykes (now head coach at Kansas) whom he calls his "greatest Aggie offensive team," and the 1940 Longhorns who halted the Aggies on their way to California. And his bitterest moments came when the 1920 Aggies, previously unbeaten, untied, and unscored on, lost a 7-3 deci­sion to Texas on a fourth-quarter pass, and when the 1941 Steers, seemingly unstoppable, stumbled to a 7-7 tie with Baylor, and toppled before TCU the fol­lowing Saturday. So November 24, if you look real close, you']] see, besides the twenty-two au­thorized players, the shades of seven Longhorns, and the spirit of a dazed little man, wandering uncertainly back and forth with his loyalties along about the 50-yard line. observer remarked, Radio House "ex­tends the boundaries of the campus to the borders of the state and beyond." RADIO HOUSE Celebrating its tenth anniversary, "The Voice of the University" is going strong by jack harwell e WHAT MAKES a heart beat faster? Or slower? Regardless of what cardiologists may say, students at Radio House have their own solutions for altering heart beats. And altering heart beats is but one of the many activities that transpire in Radio House, the center of the Uni­versity's broadcasting and radio edu­cation activities. In transcribing a series of Edgar Allen Poe stores, one of the stories entitled "The Tell Tale Heart" required a heart beat. Not a beat could be found in all the collections. Remembering a record which used Rita Hayworth's heart beat as the tempo for a popular tune, one student grabbed a pressure microphone and strapped it to his chest. The script called for the heart to go faster and then slow down. He thought of Ann Tynan and the beat went faster; then he thought of Peppy Blount and it slowed down. For the last ten years, radio students on the Forty Acres have been solving similar sound-effect problems as a part of their extensive radio training. This month marks the tenth birthday of the University's Radio House, but ac­ tually the University had a ham station some thirty-five years ago. The first broadcasting activity on the Forty Acres was begun just prior to the first World War atop the Physics Build­ing in a small unit called KUT. Five year later KUT was moved to the Old Main Building, but lack of operating funds brought about the end of KUT. Its operating license was transferred to an Austin businessman and grew into Austin's KNOW. Thus, for twenty years the University was without broadcasting facilities. In 1939 the present Radio House came into existence in the old Littlefield carriage house on the northwest corner of the campus. Today, under the direction of Thomas H. Rishworth, who assumed duties in 1946, Radio House serves a two-fold purpose; that of radio education and that of radio production. It pro­duces shows carried throughout the state by various stations and networks. As one Examples of shows produced at Radio House with campus talent are "Texas Tower Time," a series of weekly pro­grams from the Texas Union; "Healthy Living," a group of health broadcasts which won a first-prize award from the Institute for Education by Radio; and "It's All Yours," fifteen-minute shows designed to inform the people of Texas about the University and its benefits to them. Professional and technical skills are not neglected. Students gain experience in skills by participating in both actual broadcasts and programs arranged pure­ly for laboratory purposes. Radio House Workshop is the laboratory and produc­tion unit. All radio students must take part in the "live" programs produced by the workshop. Stations take programs from Radio House as part of their public service of­ferings. Local civic and welfare groups such as the PTA go to radio stations and ask for time. They are then sent to Radio House to have the program com­posed. There is little doubt that the greatest gain to students assisting in the produc­tion of shows comes in experience re­ceived in learning to handle the latest type of radio equipment, using their own imagination and resources, and studying the programs and work of someone else. Students learn to produce every kind of sound from a gunshot to a turkey's gobble. A library of 250 recorded sounds is supplemented from time to time as new demands are made. When it is impossible to produce a sound satisfactorily in the studio,. the student takes a portable wire recorder to the desired sound. When one student wanted to record the sound of running water, he took a recorder to the bathroom, flushed the commode, and made his record. The University is one of the few in the country whose radio degree require­ments meet the standard established by the University Association for Profes­sional Radio Education. .Its radio gradu­ates find ready employment in stations and businesses throughout the state and country. An honor never granted to any other student recently came to Dick Lyons. He spent two weeks as guest of George Santayana in Rome. ·Santayana is one of today's greatest living philosophers. Jack Summerfield was one of two college students chosen to participate in the New York Herald-Tribune Forum broadcast coast-to-coast. Notables on the program included Bernard Baruch and Tom Dewey. As to the future, the University's own radio station may not be too far distant. (Continued on Page 36) NOVEMBER, 1949 ({,,·/\r' ~ .... I ~.· f f "IS Raford coming, mama?" the little girl asked. She was sitting on the concrete steps of the house with the skirt of her afternoon dress pulled down over her knees. The summer twilight was fading into a kind of darkness that blurred the features of the four people sitting on the lawn. "Darling, I don't know whether Ra­ford is coming or not. Now stop asking me." The mother fanned herself with a white linen handkerchief and looked at her guests. "Aren't children exasperat­ing at times? Honestly, one doesn't know what to do with them when they get bored." "Bored?" grunted her husband from the depths of his lawn chair. Its canvas bottom was sagging dangerously close to the grass. "Kids don't get bored too, do they?" "Well, I suppose they do," remarked the lady guest, who was moving her drink just enough to make the ice tinkle against the side of the glass. "What do you think, Charles?" she turned to her husband. "How should I know? They're human, aren't they? Maybe they do." He pulled up a handful of grass and let it run , by liz smith illustrated by c:. w. nelson through his open fingers. "Fine summer grass, G. W., did you all plant it?" The street lights came on suddenly at the end of the block, causing the figures on the lawn to cast a lump of shadow on the grass. The little girl stood up and dusted off her dress. "Now the bugs will come, mama, and then when Raford gets here, he'll take me down to stomp." "For heavens sake," said the lady, "Whatever is she talking about?" "Oh, Louise," said the mother, "we go through this almost every evening. Ra­ford is married to our flolored girl, Lillie Mae. He doesn't come around very often. I think he works downtown or somewhere (Continued on Page 30) MISS TEXAS' MR. So you think you want to date a beauty queen? Keeping pretty requires more than a smile. But a smileMiss Texas rides anain. Her date walks again. The Cow­from a beauty queen goes a long way in getting her dateboys' plans for Miss Texas to gallop around the football field to run a few errands. didn't include her date. It was Bob's date but Ysleta went with the horse. Ever heard of washing dishes to pay a check in a fancy restaurant? Bob works as a "chemical engineer'' at SRD to pay for his own meals, so he can treat Miss Texas royally. NOVEMBER. 1949 e THE MAYOR kissed her. Oilman Glenn McCarthy crowned her queen. A local merchant gave her a $300 check. Photographers popped their flashbulbs at her. "Stand back," a photographer told the man standing beside her. He stood back, watched and waited until everybody else had a kiss or photo. That's part of the price you pay when you date a "queen." Escorting a beauty sounds like classy work. After all, if you get a date with one of the Big Ten, Miss Something or Other, or Queen of This or That, you must be pretty good. Not every boy could get a date with her. Not every boy would do what her date has to do, either. "Date" is hardly the word for per­forming the civic function of playing lackey to a crowned beauty. For if you take a second look at the boy riding be­side the Queen in her convertible, you'll find his date is a duty. But first you must realize that no one ever actually does take a second look at the boy. That's his whole story. He may have a date with the Queen, but who knows it? Ysleta sandwiches dates between duties as Miss Texas. Bob gets the " poop." Ysleto's trips to Houston and Fort Worth burned bO gallons of Bob's gas. Maybe the people who watch him run all the errands will know he's dating the "big time." As part of his date, the escort may have to run by and pick up the beauty's laundry, reserve her plane or train tickets for a future "appearance," wait while she shops or buy her a ham­burger when she doesn't have time to eat. But that's not the half of it. A queen's escort must stand calmly by while his date kisses anybody that wins anything or can think up any other reason for de­serving official recognition from the state's Royal Lady of Beauty. He must sit in a corner or stand on the sidelines while she smiles her teeth out. He may have to stand by while she parades across a platform in a bathing suit or gallops across a football field on by horace ainsworth photos by john wolvin a horse. He has to just sit and allow everyone to s1mre at his girl. He is forced to listen to everyone he knows comment about her, one way or another. He faces questioners who want to know if the girl is "actually sincere," or if she i "really 34 in the bust." He is always near enough to have flashbulbs flash in his face-but never near enough to get in the picture. And even if he does get in a picture, the newspapers always trim him off and print only the Queen. But the biggest difference between dat­ing a titled beauty and a "typical Ameri­can girl" is waiting. Pure, simple wait­ing. Everywhere you go, somebody has planned rnmething "special" for the girl. So the gentleman has to stand aside. Then maybe-if the reporters aren't poised to grab like a bunch of vultures, or if a cocktail party isn't planned, or if a convertible isn't waiting to parade through town-maybe the guy who has been hanging around like Patience can see his date. Yet, with all the obstacles, beating off competition takes work. Even with your date constantly in a goldfish bowl, a lot of fellows still want to get in the swim. Bob has his day when it comes to music. When he solos with Van Kirkpatrick's orchestra, Ysleta is just one of the crowd. Local cops are no respecters of royalty . not even beauty queens. ()J TEXAS RANGER PARIS SAYS: Original interpretations by BETTY STARICHA Sketches by WILLIAM GEE 23 SKIDOO Home ec prof Anna Marie Caswell gives the benefit of her summer in France to our fashion editor. by maxine smith e DIG THE TRUNK out of the attic, fitting them to the more active American Mama, 'cause just like MacArthur, women. they're coming back. And for the fellows who kinda' liked In another year, leastwise that's what looking at the pin-ups you'd better save Paris says, the short skirt will be back. them, cause the new bust line would make And short means 14 inches from the a fiat iron look like a sweater girl. floor. (In case your ruler's not handy, Hemlines, though shorter, will still that's just a little below the knee). be long in sports. It's the uneven droop­Our authority, Mrs. Anna Marie Cas­ing hemline again. And the evening well, home ec instructor, spent the sum­ dresses will show it too, 'cause they'll no mer in Europe and more especially in longer drag the floor. They're going to Paris, finding out the story behind fash­ be short. ions of the future. And if you're one of those gals that It's the 1920's all over again, she says. has resisted the urge to take the shearsThere'll be the "daring" styles of the to that long flowing mane, better startTwenties which puckered Papa's lips in clipping. With the new high collars, the a whistle when he screeched to a halt flowing tresses are out, but definitely. with "I love my wife, but ..." To put it scientifically, the geometricThe chemise with its bared shoulders, line is here, but to put it humanly, so isthe drooping balloon sleeve, the tight the molded body line. In other words, skirt, the little waistline, and the big fellows, clothes will fit the figure. flying collar are only a part. In fact, if the attic trunk is full, then you've got a Though Paris is no longer the dictator head start on a wardrobe for next year. in fashion she is still the inspiration. But don't get excited just yet. It's not And the inspiration says, "It's 1920ish," 'til next year. They've arrived in Paris, so Twenty-three skidoo. but American designers are just now ltow tom peeps b'I +. e//swol'fh carfe;­ ___________ -411. ________ ---------­ e WINDOW PEEPING requires in­quently show the arrests of such her­sight, m the strictest sense of the word. mits in the act of window peeping. And It takes skill. Contrary to opinions com­ that 1s the principal difference. The ar­ mon among staid non-indulgent males dent peeper 1s seldom caught. This brings up the and the majority of quest10n of why the females, peepers are peeper, far more ac­ not blundering, sex­tive in the art than mad imbeciles stum­aforement10ned her­ bling from house to mit, 1s so infre­ house with the in­ quently taken cap­sensibility of a bull tive. Information onm mating season; this was surprising­ rather are they i11­ ly easy to secure,intelligent -frus­for the sources evi­trated, if you wish, dently are unlimit­ but to no greater ed. Of the younge1 degree than pin· m a I e generationball fanatics -par­ (due to insufficient ticipants in an ex­data, female peep­acting art. ers will not be tak­Befor~ proceeding en up at this WT1t­further, we deem it mg), excluding indi­ necessary to distin­ viduals confined toguish between the wheel chairs or kept ardent peeper and the bleary-eyed hermit often seen roam­ing beaches and public swimming pools with a far-away gaze, more often seen in secluded corners at liquor stadiums or on fr0nt rows of "wayward girl" billed movies. True, police records quite fre­at home by narrow-mmded wives, 1t has been estimated conservatively that ap" proximately 64.7 per cent do, or have m recent yeai s, peeped. Clothing, 1t has been revealed, 1s of (Continue