Friday, December 15, 1944
THE NEBRASKAN
QdJivl
NINA SCOTT.
Teepwreeters are wonderful
things ... anybody can sit and
pounce on a key and this is what
comes out of the process . .
Pink elephants and mistletoe
are the vogue this holiday sea
son . . . the DG's used them last
Friday at houseparty and tomor
row nite the Pi Phi's Mistle-Toe
Inn will be decorated as such
Betty Lysinger and Phi Delt Joe
Kessler, Nancy Baker and Phi
Delt Buzz Hollins, and Natalie
Newcomer plus DU Augie Chris-
tianson will enjoy and employ the
above at the above latter . ,
Dorothea "Dux" Duxbury is in
seventh heaven now that her pin
mate Steve Devoe is home from
overseas . . . she a Pi Phi pinned
to a Phi Delt . . . another furlough
is expected by Bob Hendrickson
who will come Saturday to see
Oamma Phi Helene Rahn . . . and
in the same breath Lois B. John
son, Gamma Phi, and Sgt. Art
Denker . . .
Credit to Klork.
Hilarious happening of the week
with credit to Barb Klock .
after a hurried ride to the "Rag"
oniee the other day she peeled
oil her coat ... no skirt ! !
The Alpha Phi's hoped that Dale
Kadavy and Dick Klopp would
fare well in the Army when they
gave a party for them last week
. . . brother Beta Bill Olson came
along for moral support . . . Chi
O Ann Atkinson and Sig En Bovd
Hecht have not yet decided who
shall keep the Sig Ep Pi's .
they've been playing ping pong
with the heart . . . where are the
flowers? . . . Ruth Goldberg has
them at the SDT house ... an
orchid and 12 roses arrived on the
same day . . .
Chi O Helen Plasters and Sigma
Nu Ward Quilder decided to be
pinned and attend the Chi O
Christmas party last Saturday
Trite . . . seen Christmasing also
were Kay Blue and Fiji Lee
Gartner, Lynn Nordgren and Sig
tp cnariie Thompson and Kath
leen Brickall with Harold Har
shaw, Sigma Nu (going steady). . .
Some people have all the luck
and flowers and candy and wings
. . . the first reference applies
to AOPi Marge Muffitt ... the
middle to what she got . . . the
last she got from Bill Lucas of the
Air Base ... all on a Thursday
nite . . . Tri-Delt Janice Pauly
will spend Christmas with the pin
mate, Keith Atkinson, when he
comes home soon . . . he's a Sig
ma Nu . . .
Anyone know a printable joke?
Beta Ed Robinson has a store of
them and calls up former ninmate
DG Sallie Emerson at 2 a. m. to
tell her all about it . . . the pin
is Pack, but thy're dating even
more than before . . . Dave Hoi
lins, Farm House, is "leaving" at
home with navy wines . . . catch
ing up with all the old girl friends.
Why doesn't Sig Ep Tom Bauer
give Theta Jane Sutton his pin?
... on an average of six days
per week they sing "Together
... 'nother close contact couple
is Beta Sig, Virgil Dissmeyer, and
myitis &nyder of the dorm .
contaaaaaasctttttt,
Theta pledge Joanne Ackerman
and Lt. Lee Goodwin, on leave,
spelled FUN last week-end at the
Pike and various places ...
That is absolutely all you ket
to read today . . . maybe one lit
tie joke ... just one . . . thas all
. . . Ka wote . . . "Virtue is learned
at mother's knee, but vice at some
other joint" . . . that's profound
... wish somebody else had found
It . .
'No-school' Songs
Take Precedence
As Holiday Nears
. BY JOYCE LINDBERG.
Though the unique "Trolley
Song" took Hit Parade top honor
this week, UN has different ideas.
Todays version of "the" UN song
of the week is a merry "Five More
Days 'til Vacation "
Each day the first word of the
lyric grows shorter and each day
students don a merry festive
mood.
As the "five days" dae slowlv
by, the typical character of the
week Is a lone figure hurriedly
gathering gaily wrapped packages
irom a slippery walk and mutter
ing weird sayings through chatter
ing teeth.
Chants of "What can I get Aunt
Mabel?" "What didja get yer
pop?" and "Oh happy day Dick's
coming home for Christmas," fill
tne air.
From houses all over the cam
pus blares the next line of "the"
song of the week.
'Then we'll go to the station."
With the ecstatic chant comes
dreams of an exciting ride home
via bus or train, chattering hap
pily with a tall dark lieutenant
who happened to sit by you. Of
course the lieutenant usually turns
out to be a bashful pfc with a
shy air and buck teeth, but a gal
can dream can t she?
Thoughts of a huge family din
ner, presents 'neath a lighted
tree, and the soft strains of
Adeste Fideles" in the snow, ac
company the noisy chant "Back
to Civilization, the train will carry
us there."
And so the UN "song of The
Week" echoes and re-echoes
through the campus. (For the sec
ond verse listen carefully while
trotting down 16th at meal time,
it s there.)
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dinky 44 ft. tree in the Corn
husker office, but the one which
takes the prize is the great lit
tle tree ia the Nebraskan office.
It's all of three feet tall and has
the prettiest shape anyone could
ever ask for. Mac, the janitor,
brought it and made lights for it
and decorated it so nothing else
ran miitA rnmnarp Thanlrc l.Tat
i - 1 . - . .... ... .
No Christmas spirit could be
complete without carols and al
most every noon students gather
around the organ in the lounge
to sing, while Myron Roberts or
Ruth Way plays. Understand
there will be more caroling Sat
urday night from 10 to 12 in the
lounge at the party.
The Union is fairly glowing
with Christmas spirit this year
and every little thing counts:
Such as the sprig of mistletoe
above Harold Andersons' desk in
the Nebraskan office; the glue,
scissors and Christmas wrappings
scattered about on Charlotte Hill's
desk in the Cornhusker office;
and the tiny red and green
wrapped gum dfop residing in a
place of honor on Pat Lahr's desk.
Yep, better be good, kids!
Christmas is just around the corner.
Shopping, Snow
Carols, Capture
Christinas Spirit
BY BARBARA KEICllEC.
Christmas shopping and the
same old story again. Why can't
people ever keep their New Year's
resolutions and begin in October?
But good intentions are of no
use; the spirit doesn't overtake
the world until snow is on the
ground, juke boxes start playing
Bing Croby s "White Christmas
and the stores are full of people.
About the time the radio an
nouncers start reminding her that
there are only ten more shopping
days till Christmas, the con
scientious coed wakes up and
starts to Dlan her campaign in
earnest. So, with v a carefully
drawn up list it oughta' be good
she spent all math class making
it out . her trusty check dook.
and her brass knuckles inside her
mittens (the better to combat the
crowd) she's off for a merry and
nrofitable afternoon.
Crossing streets is reminiscent
of the football season. Mobs of
men. women and children are
lined up on each side, and then
the policeman blows his whistle,
everyone rushes blindly for the
other side. It's every man for
himself in this game, and a good
onnortnnitv to learn what the
biology book means by "survival
of the fittest." Some ingenious
individuals make a came of it
twenty points for a lieutenant, and
so on. It's surprising how many
DeoDle can be knocked down in
one clean sweep, and the beauty
of it is, they never know what
hit them. (The guilty one is al
ready half way down the next
block before her victims regain
their senses.) She may have
emerged minus her left shoe, but
the heels were probaby run down
anvwav. Besides, she 11 undoubt
edly come out one ahead at the
next corner.
The actual shopping isn't such
a problem. The main thing is to
know what you want and go aft
er it. For instance, it isn't two
minutes until she catches sight
of a flannel shirt that's just what
her brother's been hinting for all
year... She would have had it,
too, if that woman hadn't spotted
it at the same time and tripped
her iust as she reached for it.
Trvine on jackets for sister is
fun. None of them fit, of course,
because the unforunate girl was
squashed into an elevator corner
on the way up, and is now three-cornered.
Dad's present is a little more
difficult. The poor boy always
seems to get left out. Especially
since the war started. Mother
used to give him beautiful pres
ents washing machines, electric
mixers but now such things
just aren't available. She finally
decides on striped flannel pa
jamas, being sure to get a pair
without the preshrunk label, so
that they'll come her way after a
couple launderings.
The merchandise seems to be
pretty well picked over by the
early birds. It's almost impossible
to find many 98c items. But
patience is something she has
plenty of; cool, calm, and col
lected, she goes from counter to
counter, selecting the things she
knows will appeal to her friends
and then quietly replacing them
after she. glances at the price tag.
After taking in a movie to
sooth her jangled nerves (she
slipped on the ice and by the time
people stopped kicking her down
the street, she was right in front
of the theater so what was she
to do?) our heroine trudges home
weary, wan and almost empty
handed. Maybe with a good
night's sleep, a double dose of
vitamin pills, and tomorrows
physical fitness workout, she'll be
in condition to brave the crowds
again. No need to rush this
thing after all, there are still
eight days!
Yearbookies Go
On Holiday Jag
Christmas cornea but one a year and
It'a lucky for the Cornhusker naff. If It
came oftener. the editor wouldn't be able
to ride the bus out to ag, let alone trek
up to Minnesota and sundry other places.
The coke flowed like WHter. apple cores
flew like rohomba, and the pennut hulls
were knee deep. And that wasn't all the
staff also treated the workers and them
selves to apples, fudge and a gift for each
person (over SO of 'em).
At 4 o'clock sharp Santa Claus. alias
Carl KoenlK, came down the Cornhusker
chimney the Union stairs, through the
NEBRASKAN office and into the annex.
With the help of Bill DeVricndt the many
colorfully wrapped Rifts were distributed
and opened. The gifts for the most part
consisted of toys which will be given to
tne Toy tor Joy drive.
After corcinn themselves the nartv mur
dered several score of carols and trooped
back through the NEBRASKAN office.
Here's to more and better Christmas
pnrties and the Cornhusker'a waa res IK
tops!
Included in the electrically-re
corded groups are band music, or
chestral specialties, instrumental
solos, and songs by popular solo
ists and by choral gi-oups.
Music Honorary
Celebrates 34th
Founder's Day
Delta Omicron, honorary music
sorority, will celebrate its 34th
annual Founder's Day with initia
tion and a banquet in the Union
today begining at 6 p. m.
The event will begin with the
initiation of Margaret Shelley, a
pledge of last spring, to be held
in the faculty lounge followed
by a banquet for alumni, actives,
pledges and patronesses. The ban
quet will start at 6:45 p. m. in
parlors XY of the Union. Joyce
Stuve, pledge president, will offi
ciate as toastmistress.
A birthday cake ceremony,
planned by Elaine Lebsock and
presented by the pledges, will
conclude the evening's activities
in the faculty lounge.
As special guest of honor, Mrs.
Robert Spence of Denver, newly
elected president of Gamma Prov
ince, will be present for the cele
bration and will spend the week
nd in Lincoln.
Symphony . . .
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Violin Concerto in D major is
the solo work which Miss Morini
will perform Sunday. The rest
of the program includes Weber's
Overture to "Oberon," Smetana's
descriptive "Vlataba," and "Till
Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks," a
legendary story set to music by
Richard Strauss. The symphony
broadcast begins at 2 p. m.
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