Let ).'.Our .,; ·•· . ~: Zone tell you why ~­ More people are smoking Camels than ever hefore! • Now that people can get all the cigarettes they want ... any brand . .. now that they once again can choose their cigarette on a basis of personal preference . . . more people are smoking Camels than ever before. Why? The answer is in your "T-Zone" (T for Taste and T for Throat) . Let your taste . .. your throat . . . tell you why, with smokers who have tried and com­ pared, Camels are the "choice of experience" ! CllOICE OF £XPE£1E!VCE.I According to a Nationwide survey: MORE DOCTORS SMOKE CAMELS THAN ANY OTHER CIGARETTE When 113,597 doctors from coast coast were askecl by three independent research organize· tions to name the dgarelle they smoked, more clortors named Camel than any other bran cl! Sunback dress in S cord . tonecutter . . 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He hurried home and explained to his wife. That evening he called on the old maid. At nine o'clock his wife became nervous and called him on the phone. "It's all right, dear," he explained. "She has cut off the art museum and the library, and if you'll let me slay another hour, she'll drop the Y.M.C.A."-Hi-Y • An elderly woman visiting the zoo wanted to ride a camel. The keeper hoisted her up but was unable to make the camel move. At last the lady dismounted and started to pet it. Suddenly it went running off as fast as it could. The keeper turned to the old lady. "Madam," he said, "what did you do to him?" "I tickled him," she replied. "Well," said the keeper, "you'd better tickle me. I've got to catch him." MAY 1948 Checksee~uckersunbock dress with jacket. 22.95 Double-duty dresses that bare yoiir shoulders to the sun ... or cover them, prettily with jackets in cool seersuckers and chambrays. 15.00 to 35.00 TEXAS RANGER CUSTOM-TAILORED,. COMFORT During the warm weather, you can remain well dressed and comfortable. Let Norwood's take your meas­urements for a tailor-made suit of a lightweight ma­terial that your personally select. For cool relaxa­tion during the s u m m e r months, order a pair of slacks to be made right here in our shop. SLACKS FROM $12.75 . SUITS FROM $42.75 ON THE DRAG AT 2548 GUADALUPE BO ·OKS Man: I want a loaf of Mumsie's Bread, a package of Krunchies, some Goody Sanny Spread, Ole Mammy's Lasses, Orange Pully, a pound of Aunt Annie's Sugar, Bitsey Bite size. Clerk: Sorry, No Krunchies. How about Krinkly Krisps, Oatsie-Toasties, Malty­Wheaties, Ricelets or Eatum-Wheetums? Man: The Wheetums, then. Clerk: Anything else? Tootsie, Tatery Chips, Cheesie Weesies, Gingie Bits, Itsey Cakes, Sweetie Toofums or Dramma's doughnuts? Man (toddling toward meat counter): Tan't det anysing else. Dot to det some meat. -A&P News • "How did you find the ladies at the dance?" "Opened the door marked 'Ladies' and there they were."-The Woman • Sherlock, the famed detective arrived on the scene of the crime. "Hell," he said, "this is more serious than I figured. This window is broken on both sides." -Horrors • The sergeant strode into the barracks and shouted, "0.K. you lazy ce/ & ()relo/o 's hop to and fall in." The soldiers grabbed their hats and lined up-all except one, who lay on his bunk blowing smoke rings. "Well,'' roared the sergeant. "Well,'' said the soldier, tapping the ashes off his cigar, "there certainly were a lot of them, weren't there?" -Stars & Stripes • "What lovely antique furniture. I wonder where Mrs. Smith got that huge old chest?" "Well, they tell me that her mother was the same way."-Bassoon • "My first million." MAY 1948 SMARTEST SPORTSWEAR IN Tl-IE SWIM McGregor "BRILLIANTS" COMPLETELY WASHABLE SHIRTS AND SHORTS DESIGNED TO BLEND PERFECTLY IN ANY COMBINATION. "Brilliant" Interlock Basque Shirt Colors that glow with a rare radiance, in fine combed cotton, specially yarn-dyed to match or blend with the shorts. $1.50 eynolds "Brilliant" Zanzibar Basque Shirt A repeating three-striper in a sparkling collec­ enland tion of colors. Fine combed cotton-cool as the ocean, light as a sea breeze and washable as a mermaid. Action knit for complete comfort. $2.00 Austin's Finest Man's Shop TEXAS RANGER just about Everything WHEN Floyd Wade assumed editorship of the Ranger, he asked for more ma­terial, including "any New Yorker re­jects you have around." We received the . following: Editorial Offices THE NEW YORKER Gentlemen: I was so delighted with Gerta Ken­nedy's poem in your March· 6, 1948, issue that I promptly wrote a take-off on it. Naturally I would be delighted if you considered it good enough to use in some spring issue.* MARCH This is the season of banked fires, red unreason and black desires. Voluptuous dreaming's no longer hid, hiss is scheming pushes the Ii~. This is the season of Moon and Mars; count on treason and long black cars. -Gerta Kennedy APRIL (with apologies to Gerta Kennedy) This is the season of hearts lit wit.h arson, showers and flowers,. demands for the parson. March's banked fires come aglow with a start and the world is on fire from the flame in my heart. This is the season of desire that's assertible. Count on some lust in a yellow convertible. -M. E. Smith *They didn't print it, but we did, with wpologies to April. R ed Oak) By Gum! E don't want to appear to brag, butWthen we don't believe in hiding our lights under a bushel of old jokes, either-. We just thought we'd let you know that we're pretty good at picking short stories -sometimes. The hero of this tale is Joe K. Phipps, whose "Coming Home in Style" and "Stars Ain't Worth Seeing" appeared in our October and December issues. Mr. Phipps has recently been selected as the University of Texas representative in the Dallas Times-Herald college con­test, with a group of short stories (in­cluding the above). This proves, we claim, that we were perspicacious enough to grab off the best stories being written on the campus. The contest here was judged by visit­ing professor Walt.er Pritchard Eaton, former drama critic for the New York Suri, and a rather astute literatteur. The final prize will be awarded from Dallas, of course, with entries from colleges all over the state. Red Oak, by the way, is no longer Red b MAY 1948 //~ 14 OLLIS "M111JJbe I have a little extra gas here in the trunk." • Oak. Mr. Phipps checked up and found that there was a town named Red Oak in Texas, so he changed the locale of his stories to White Oak. We're sentimental, though, and Jody Watson and Good-eye Carrington are Red Oak folks to us, come hell or high water. # Exes THERE recently came into our hands a fancy volume called The Inauguration of WILLIAM VERMILLION HOUSTON As President of The Rice Institute It has some good reading in it-a speech by Dixon W ecter, chairman of research at The Huntington Library, author of a fine book on veterans, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, and native Tex­an. We'd like to lift quite a bit of the address, but this stuck with us longest: Texas has not yet produced any impor­tant body of literature, although a recent article in the magazine Holiday goes much tqo far in announcing boldly that the state has only one considerable writer, J. Frank Dobie. One thinks im­mediately of his running-mate Walter Webb, of bright young men like George Sessions Perry, Henry Nash Smith, and Edwin Lanham • We point with pride to the fact that Mr. Dobie and Dr. Smith were formerly associated with The University of Texas. # If you like poetry of the tough-but­sensitive type, we'd like to recommend Losses by Randall Jarrell, former in­structor in English at the University. Some of the poems in the little book pack a wallop-we're especially touched by "Lady Bates," "Death of the Gods: Record Reverie WE were all ·set to vent our spleen on the latest recorded tripe that is so prevalent these days. But what's the use? Even the jazz the real boys are putting out of late gives off (to put it mildly) rather sad odors, too. Oh, we could say that Harry James has a new platter out, nice, danceable, a little spark of his first great band. Or we might mention that Stan Kenton has at last presented what he evidently has been trying to do all these years in a thing called Thermopolae composed and arranged by Bob Graettinger. But Stra­vinsky might claim that he's been cook­ing up stuff like that for years. And we could say that Claude Thorn­hill, who leads the finest dance crew to­day, has out a smooth little thing called Robbins' Nest backed by another top­notch vocal offering by Fran Warren. And Johnny Guarnieri and Slam Stewart pull some neat jazz punches on a Savoy discing of My Blue Heaven and New Ex­ercise in Swing. But that's all. You see, the record business evidently regards Austin like the band business­lhe Steppes of the Sticks. The smaller, lesser-known labels, such as Majestic, Mercury, Keynote, Savoy, Disc, Asch, and others, seldom reach the Austin • I 0 ~ hinterlands. And these small labels, not the Big Four, carry the best in progres­sive jazz. There is a possible solution, although a slow and tedious one. Just stop buying all the junk i,,sued by the Jameses, Ben­ekes, Carles, Lombardos, Kysers, Kayes, and Kings, and write scorching letters to the Big Four home offices asking them to re-issue the old, and good, masters. When sales subsequently drop and letters pile up, you can bet your "un-Texan" attitudes that there'll be a change in the music weather eventually. After all, these companies only love their musicians as Jong as they bring in the moola. And when that stops, they break off the romance quite abruptly. In the past three years of the record­ing boom, never have so many people paid so much for such poor music. With current platter prices up, it would be nice to get just ten per cent of your money's worth. But, as the Republican said to the Democrat, the situation is difficult in all localities these days. So keep going to your favorite platter palace, spin all their latest releases, put 'em back, and at least you'll save wear and tear on your phonograph-a device which is rapidly becoming a museum piece. But aren't we all? -E. GARTLY JACO. • r 1945," and "Burning the Letters." "T9 the tables down at Mary's .. " TEXAS RANGER KRUGER'S Austin's Greatest Silver Center ON THE DRAG 51 STERLING PATTERNS • TOWLE WALLACE GORHAM ALVIN HEIRLOOM INTERNATIONAL REED & BARTON LUNT WH ITING MANCHESTER b PC. PLACE SETTING FROM $22.63 ASK ABOUT OUR SILVER CLUB PLAN KRUGER'S al coulzde 2236 GUADALUPE Owned and Operated By TEXAS EXES RANGING A S depleted bank accounts slowly sink behind mile-high piles of unpaid bills, we come to the end of another school year. On the campus in 1947-48, the GI metamorphosis from number to name was almost complete until Harry Truman's speech to Congress caused vague mum­blings of war talk among the boys. It continues. The girls, as always, remained calm and watched for opportunities for ad­vancement. The Ranger has had what we jovially call a successful year. B'ryson's drive in reviving the magazine last year carried over to this year's staff, and Candy suc­ceeded in putting out a number of pop­ular editions. The Ranger's sober tone has reflected, perhaps, the senility of its staff members. Significance, however, was the goal. And Candy boosted the Ranger several notches above the usual college joke book. The people he would thank for their help during the year are aware of his appreciation. My efforts as editor were confined to the last two issues. For sleep lost, I'd like to thank Bill Bridges (and Ann) and Ben Jeffery, whose taste and talent showed up on every page. For their many contributions, I'd also like to thank Bill Yates, George War­mack, Ralph Marks, C. W. Nelson, Betty Wallace, and the staff. Also Werner Jessen and his tolerant printers at Von Boeckmann-Jones Print­ing Company. -F. W. # EDITOR'S NOTE: We were planning to nm a story by Hart Stilwell entitled "An Ex-Student Looks at the Univer­sity," together with a story by President Painter on "The Future of the Univer­sity." But Dr. Painter's administrative duties prevented his writing his story. Stilwell wrote his a couple of months ago and it was set up in type. But our censors requested that we hold Stilwell's story until it can be run alongside the opposing point of view. In the meantime, read Ralph Martin's account of UT in the May Cosmopolitan. • The latest hits as well as the old favorites are at Maurine's, one of the most extensive stocks in the entire Southwest. • CLASSICAL OR POPULAR PIECES • RADIOS AND RECORD PLAYERS Ask about our FREE RECORD DEAL! MAURINE'S "A NAME TO REMEMBER" RECORD SHOP 819 Congress Ph. 2-4b79 Open 9 A.M. Close b:30 P.M. MAY 1948 Forging Your Future, finances running smoothly by an understanding and efficient bank. 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Secretary, Euthanasia Literary Society MAY 1948 a short story "As long as yon~ve got to why not let a friend do it, instead of some Kraut yon ean~t O N MY way back to the outfit, I stopped in at battalion rear CP switchboard to see Stoneman, ,who'd been transferred back from our platoon before the division had gone into action in November. Stoneman was just about to take off forward with a portable switchboard when I got there, so I offer,ed to help him carry it up. The switchboard was fitted with pack straps for one man, so Stone­man started off with it, and I came up behind, and we walked along talking like two GI's who hadn't seen each other recently, which he hadn't. Once outside the little valley village the battalion had set up their CP in, the road began to steep!)n, and Stone­man and I had to take turns pretty often. We'd gone for about an hour, changing every ten minutes or so, and I'd begun to sweat and blow pretty hard. I'd just come up from the medics and I hadn't counted on working my way back to the outfit, but it was worth it for two buddies like Stoneman and me to get to gab awhile. We'd gone about an hour, like I say, and had got about three-quarters of the way up the road to the top, when all of a sudden Stoneman cut off the road, and started heading straight up. I asked him what the hell, and he said that we had to follow where the wire went, and here it went up instead of by' the road. It was logical that we should follow that wire, or what good was the switchboard, but I thought my God, you ain't even back to the company yet, and you start cutting over mountains, Sam Wilder. I said to Stoneman that the joes that laid out the wire must have had a Loyt­nant with them, or· they'd sure have gone around, even if it took all the wire they had, which would have been even better, because they could have knocked off and gone back to the CP and sacked up where it was warm. Stoneman said yeah, and he kind of puffed when he said it, so I took over the switchboard for a while and quit gabbing. I'd just begun to wonder just what kind of a bastard would stick pack­straps on a piece of lead like that switch­board and call it portable, when we came over a shoulder of the hill and right be­low us was the road, which had come around and was running level now, and looked to head down the other side a little farther on. I immediately felt much better, and said to Stoneman that those joes weren't so dumb after all, laying the wire like they did. It wasn't so steep or so far up that hill, and we'd saved by not going with that damned twisting road. Stoneman agreed, and said that if the Jumper had known about a road like that, he'd probably have taken it, in­stead of the short cut, just for meanness. The Jumper was L Company's CO, and Stoneman hadn't forgotten. We'd sort of stopped there above the road for a breather, so I let the switch­board down and we decide