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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1946)
Page 4 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN ' Thursday, October 10, 1 946 , V L-- ' ( mirtrfty l.lni'iiln louriiHl. Announcement had been made of the betrothal of Miss Elinor Jeanette Paulson, daughter of Mrs. A. M. Paulson and the late Mr. Faulson, to Warren D. George, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. George of Schuyler. The couple are graduates of the University of Ne braska where Miss Paulson was a member of Kappa Phi, Towne Club and Pi Lambda Thcta. She is now associated with the weather bureau at the Lincoln army' air field. Mr. George was a member of Phi Tau Theta. lie served three and a half years with the army in Hawaii and on Iwo Jima. The w edding will take place in the late autumn. Fate Flops for Frills Or Campus Caperings MARY CONTRARY. I used to think the ill-starred duke and the righteous little gov erness in Rachel Field's "All This and Heaven Too" exemplified self-restraint, well . . . well, any way, exemplified something along that line, in its highest degree. Bui I have changed my mind. I wit nessed a little real-life drama which made that couple's heroic control over emotion look a little sick. It all began when Sam and I picked up another couple on our way home from the - Rialto last Wednesday night. (We had just seen Greta Garbo in "Camille" for the fifth time. Sam is in love with Miss Garbo; he only takes me out because he thinks our noses are alike, and we wear the same size shoe.) Auld Acquaintance. We picked up this couple for two good reasons. The first one was that Sam recognized the fel low as having been in his Sunday school class 12 years ago; and Sam's the sort of person who heartily agrees that auld acquain tance should never be forgot. Not when he needs 50 cents to buy the tickets to "Camille" tomor row night. The other reason was that we almost ran over them as we turned the corner, and we knew that if we didn't herd them into the back seat and safety, they'd be killed before the even ing passed. ; They had eyes for only each other as they waltzed up O street on their private pink cloud. Ob livious to traffic or people, they drifted across the street, utterly engrossed in love's young dream, while the truck drivers sput tered savage oaths and the police man patrolling the intersection danced a jig of rage. Observation. When Sam stopped and the two floated into the back seat, I turned as far around as I could, in order to get a better view of the fascinating pair. After all, Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor seemed pretty good the first four times but, with the fifth perform ance, I'd decided that their tech nique was really pretty juvenile. Right away I detected some thing strange in the proceedings in the back seat. He had taken her into his arms, of course, and Bing Crosby, currently appear ing opposite Joan Fontaine in Paramount's "The Emperor Waltz" has organized a softball team among the Paramount technicians and plays second base on the out lit. Batting in lead-off position the other night he made tnreehits the first three times up. was still gazing at her with that tender pledge of devotion that al most made me cry, it was so sin cere. She was looking at him, too, her eyes mirroring his pas sionate promise. lie tilted her chin and bent over it, their lips drawing closer with that magnetic attraction so Inevitable when lov ers embrace "Here it comes!" I thought. "This'U be a kiss that is a kiss!" Tragic Love. I clenched my hands and leaned farther over the seat, hoping to get a little "charge" myself, out of this burning osculation. But just at the instant that their lips began to fuse, she uttered a plaintive little cry and drew away. ' "Aha," I reasoned, "first im pressions are deceiving. She can't stand the lug." But, even as I thought it, he gathered her to his breast in fierce abandon, and they both looked toward heaven with the most tragic expressions I ever hope to see. This heart-rending pantomine occurred several times. I searched my mind for an answer, but none presented itself. Was kissing out moded, I wondered. Were they trying to conform to some new social order in which the tradi tional lover's seal was branded taboo? If ever two people were in love, I was looking at them; two people who mysteriously wrenched away from each other every time their faces touched. Mentally, I wept for them, but I was darned if I understood them. I learned the secret yesterday Gracious that trench mouth is terrible! The greatest building boom of all time is approaching for Ameri can universities and college. Fed eral government sources estimate that the state appropriations for the academic year 1946-47 will exceed the pre-war peak and gen eral expenses may run more than 250 million dollars. MacDonald Carey has broken a tooth and he wasn't in a fight. The actor got it by biting a sup posedly de-stoned peach canned by his wife. With five full-length golf courses nearby. Bob Hope's loca tion trip to Monterey for "My Favorite Brunette" was the most pleasant of his career. Four professional card sharks from Las Vegas have been im ported by Paramount to teach Elizabeth Scott how to shoot a hota game of craps in "Desert Town." A typical gambling casino has been erected at the studio. BY BARBARA KlECHEL. Today was one of those days Mother told me about. I knew it instinctively, from the first peal of the alarm clock. But, with the stupid determination of a foolish mortal trying to plot against fate, I lay in bed scheming for an hour or Iwo. The first thing to do, I reasoned craftily, was to decide which -was the "right" side of the bed. If I got up on the "wrong" side, nat urally my disposition would be horrible, and I'd undoubtedly go around falling in manholes all day. But if I rolled off the "right" side, 1 couldn't possibly be tricked. It was against the law of gravity, or something. The only problem now was . . . which side was which? Another fiTteen minutes of earnest concentration, and I reached a conclusion. I climbed out over the foot of trie bed. Humming softly to myself be cause of the way I'd cheated des tiny, I poured ointment on the knees I'd skinned while scaling the bed post, and got dressed. I was still wallowing in the illusion that I had outwitted doom when I tackled my hair. I'd set it ac cording to instructions in the new issue of "You Can Be Beautiful" magazine. I removed the hair pins, eagerly gazed into the mirror, waiting for the Maria Montez transformation guaranteed to take place. Something backfired . . . I stumbled downstairs looking like .a reasonable facsimile of Harpo Marx. From then on, I gave up. My egg was watery, the toast burned. But I stoically resigned myself to fate's morbid policy, and gobbled them up. The sun played hide-and-sepk with a thunder cloud . . and lost! I turned my'r.nkle running after the bus, dropped my white mittens in a mud puddle. I mis took a bottle of cleaning fluid for my favorite cologne and reeked of kerosene all day. I got hic cups in my French class, and we had liver and pineapple for lunch. (In my conception of hades the daily menu is always liver and pineapple.) Two envelopes were in my mailbox One was a chilly letter from my bank, reporting that I was $172.04 overdrawn. The other was the unsubtle "kiss-off" from the light of my life. Hollywood parties are back in vogue. Take the one at David Selznick's tennis court. Electrical ly lit fruit salads each salad set upon a tall silver plae equipped with light bulb and liny batteries were served! Union Weekend Includes Recital, Saturday Dance Weekend activities in the Union will be headed by the dance Saturday night in the mam ballroom. The Smith-Warren orchestiti will furnish the music from 9-12:30. The Faculty recital will be held in Ihe ballroom at 4 Sunday after noon. The weekly Variety Show will follow at 8 in the ballroom featuring Gregory Peck and Thomas Mitchell in "Keys o the Kingdom." Buffet supper will be served in the Union main dining room from 5:30 to 7 Sunday evenings. Travelers. ... 1- (Continued from Page 1.) must appoint a member to take care of the petition. Cost $11. A round trip of less than 24 hours, the migration train will leave the Union Pacific station at 7 a. m. Saturday and will return to Lincoln by 5:30 Sunr'ay morn ing. WAA will supervise con cessions aboard the train to and from Lawrence. Inclusive of Hie game ticket, the entire trip will cost a minimum of $11. Miss Easterbrook an nounced. Tassels and Corn Cobs must ob tain petitions for their organiza tions at the poll booth in the Union. . Moral of Story; 'See Your Dentist Twice a Year Q. A. How long is a second? Sometimes it's 3K YEARS One -second is not always one-sixtieth of a minute not in tele phone mathematics. Suppose, for example, you find a new method that clips just one second from the time it takes to process a toll ticket. Then apply that saving throughout the Dell System where eome 115,000,000 toll tickets are' handled a month. The time saved every thirty days equals 3 years! Important? From seemingly minor changes or savings frequently come the major improvements which mean heller working conditions for telephone men and women and better telephone service for everyone. In this industry, even long established methods of operation are never considered beyond improvement. For men with ideas and ability, that viewpoint is a stimulating challenge. THERE'S OPPORTUNITY AND ADVENTURE IN TELEPHONY BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM