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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Thursday, October 31 , 1946
BY JEANNE IIICKEY.
This weekend promises to be a
gay one. The men, well aware of
the shortage of women, have em
ployed wiles we didn't know they
had. Rhea Kinnier and Jess Jes
sen, Phyl Bloomendahl and Tom
Smiley, and Phyllis Snyder and
Art Schncker will be dancing to
the music of "The Young Man
with the Band" Friday. Rosemary
Biegler's fiance, Joe Workman, is
coming up from Peru to share in
the 'festivities. However, it looks
as if Elaine Hensel and Bob Korte
have included Omaha in their
plans for Friday night. Not to be
satisfied with what Lincoln has to
offer, Liz Quante is journeying to
Michigan to see her heart interest
Homecoming; Plans.
Corn Cobs have been spending
their spare moments making novel
signs and clever ditties about the
wonderful orchestra while' soror
ities and fraternities are giving
their pledges a workout on the
decorations.
Dates are arranged and Phyl
Kokjer is looking lorward to a
wonderful Saturday night with
Bob Diers, Glenn Blinde will De
at the homecoming dance with
one ' and only Shirley Coalman,
and Blackie Blanchard and Kenny
Younger will be seen together, as
usual. This will mark the recon
ciliation date of Milt Meyer and
Shirlee Hammond. Norbert Tei
man will escort Dorothy Becken
hauer and Lucky Seamore (ap
propriate name) has -made plans
with Kay Kinsey. Tom Nye is
making the journey from Colorado
to be back for the game, and Nan
Lilley will come from Omaha to
be with true love, Walt Simon.
The newest handle hung on
"Baldy" Loisel by his appreciative
fraternity mates is "Stebbin"
Fechit get it?
According to opinion on the
campus, it won't be too long be
fore Kent Kratz and Bobbette
Walters will call it a pinning, this
week-end, perhaps. Speaking of
deals, is Howie Esser going to
De Pauw or isn't he?
To whom-jt may concern: Bill
Moomey is free Sunday night and
asks all interested to apply thru
his secretary, Bill Vlcek at the
D. U. house before Saturday. The
ATO's are going to spend a rather
novel Sunday at the little Sunday
theatre off Times Square pledges
will stand the actives in a rous
ing game of football and loser
pals . . .
In reconverting from war to
peace, certain intangible posses
sions are being lost. Snafu, Ts,
"off and on," and similar delight
ful phrases coined by the armed
forces are gradually dying, and
nothing in the civilian world can
replace them.
It took a war to bring out our
best originality in picturesque
speech, and without that stimulus
they can't be replaced. Sad, in
deed, will be the ray when Kilroy
fails to pay visits, and a bitter
tear will drop when Smoe loses
his grip on the fence and stops
watching us. When Smoe and Kil
royTiave died, we will know our
esprit de corps has been crushed,
and once-proud legions will have
vanished into the dust of civilians.
History texts will carry an ac
count of our war, true, but the
vigor and life of our spirit will not
spring from the pages. Our only
hope for a lasting place in the
daily lives of the people lies in
the frequent use of the familiar
phrase, "Dear John."
Yea
Yes, it got to be a form letter
from the Girl Back Home. It be
gan "Dear John,' and continued
something like: "I am writing this
to tell you how much I appreciate
how nice you've been, and I'll al
ways cherish your diamond. But
I have just fallen in love and mar
ried a very nice .." The V-mail
negatives on . these letters alone
stretch to Moscow and back.
It goe to be a classic, the "Dear
John" letter, and everybody
William Bendix forsakes heavy
dramatic roles by assuming an
all-out comedy portrayal in Para
mount's "Where There's Life."
The popular star will play a
thickheaded, blustering Brooklyn
cop.
Eddy Albert, appearing in "The
Perfect Marriage,", Hal Wallis
production for Paramount, lists
pork dressing as his favorite dish
but adds that the best was to pre
pare it - is to wangle an invitation
to his mother's, house.
The greatest building boom of
all time is approaching for Amer
ican universities and colleges.
Federal government sources esti
mate that the stateappropriations
for theacademic year 1946-47 will
exceed the pre-war peak and gen
eral expenses may run more than
250 million dollars.
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Courtesy Lincoln Journal
The engagement and approaching' marriage of Miss Janet Johnson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Johnson, to C. E. Johnson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. VV. II. Johnson, was recently announced. Miss John
son, a University student was a member of Alpha XI Delta. Mr.
Johnson, was just discharged from the marine corps. The wedding
will take place September 14 at Trinity Methodist church.
knew someone who had received
one or two. Many of these men
now fear that this, too, will die.
But wait! There is hope...
Same Old Story
She was a cute little wench, just
about right size, and seemed nice
in her own little way. They'd
danced several times, then sat
down at a booth and drank cokes.
Then more dancing, more cokes.
The conversation drifted around
without much direction, and after
a while came down to a date. Fri
day? No, big test next day. Satur
day? Afraid not, previous engage
ment. Well then, take you home
tonight? Why, haven't you heard?
"Girls never leave bars
With men without cars!"
"Oh, hello, Charlie. John, this
is Charlie he's- my steady boy
friend!"
"Oh-h? Well, thanks for telling
me before I wasted my whole eve
ning. But nice try, huh?"
"Yeah, I'll say. You and Beau
Geste. Say, John, there's Miriam
over there I just know you'd
like .."
"Uh no thanks, kid. Nice of
you to want to be one, but I al
ready have a sister. So long . . "
And now, if you'll pardon me
I have a previous engagement.
Think I'll go push some little
ducks in the water.
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