The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 167, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 13, 1956 Page: 2 of 8
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Spare Time Survey Shows Sooners In Sack
By PAVLA PAT EVANS
Spare time on their hands puts
pior-t Soonci-s on their 1 tacks or so
h survey of coffee-ilrinkers in the
jl'nion Tuestliiy would indicate
1 Answer to the question “What's
Vour favorite summer pastime?"
ranged from ridiculous to risque
hut a majority put some form of
Inactivity at the head of the list
i “In a word sack!" was one stu-
dent's description of an ideal sum-
mer afternoon His delight in the
did fashioned sMrt of sleeping al-
ptost forgotten during the last
weeks of the spring term was
fchared hv a cross section of stu-
dents ranging from lanky juniors
carrying books of differential equa-
tions to ponv-tailed freshmen
- Toffee" Is Favorite
Other effortless ways to kill
time inx-olx-ed “just plain loafing”
air-conditioned movies and reading
Mildred Clark Noble mentioned
Hie coffee break as a favorite pas-
time but continued that in the
glimmer she enjoyed “just what
happened to be handy"
i "Who has spare time?" was the
comment of Jan Rice Lawton She
has an afternoon lab every day but
Confessed that she and lier room-
mates did manage time for a bar-
beque in the barkvai-d of their
Apartment occasionally
Playboy Kates
One group of girls interviewed
giggled and confessed they liked to
get together to listen to Elvis Pres-
ley recoi-ds and read Playboy maga-
zines but added “please don’t use
our names!"
A few tanned dissenters appeared
to shake the iinpresion that Soon-
erland is composed of refugees from
a mattress factory Several husky
men came out for the glories of
outdoor activity and the joys of
physical exercise
“Anything out-of-doors” is the
Robeson Cited
For Contempt
STAMM Mi OX THE COIINKK OK SWINGING OX THE rOVKTS-Sooners rlioore varied pastimes as the
hot sn miner months approach Myd Whitting Wrleetka sophomore lifts a long backhand to her opponent
in a tennis match on varsity courts but Bill ('ouch Alva demonstrates an easier summer activity Seems
something new has been added to the scenery behind the Vnion as Kuth Ashmuhs Oklahoma City and
Donna Karlen Norman stroll by Pretty summer skirts perhaps?
preference of Bob Wantland Sem-
inole for summer activity “After
studying al day people nce I to get
out and exercise their cells It’s
good for the organism" Wantland
continued although he didn't ex-
plain what was good alxiut strained
muscles and burned skin
Coif Is Liked
Golf came in for high praise from
several of the athletically inclined
“It's fun healthful and gives a
good tan” said Bob Richardson
Duncan “It's also good to keep in
practice" he continued Rit-hai-dson
is a member of the uriix'ersity gulf
team
"Golf from 4 to 7 pm study from
7 lo HUM) pm and then bed — that's
the perfect arrangement” said Jim
Meyerson Milwaukee Wis A fell-
ow' coffee-drinker agreed with him
but added that “study time should
he changed to think-alsmt-studying
time” for the ideal arrangement
Imaginations Help
Although a majority of students
solved the problem of time on their
hands in a con-entional “swim-
ming gulfing loafing” manner
two revealed almost frightening -riginalitv
and imagination in their
solutions
One pale young man Insisted he
spent his afternoons in an air-conditioned
suite watching a floor-
( Photos by Frank Wirgrs)
show and sipping something “nice
and cool" His companions didn't
say a thing They just laughed
"Playing Siqermun" was another
student’s answer to the problem of
surplus time However his favorite
pursuit is not based upon the fic-
tional hero's physical exploits but
on the famed X-ray x ision
Going out to the swimming pool
is “just too tiring" so he selects a
comfortable and well-traveled spot
on the campus to “watch the girls
go by and imagine what the)' look
like in a bathing suit”
WASHINGTON — The hou-e
committee on Vn-American Activi-
ties Tuesday initiated rnntcmp of
congress art ion against Paul Unite-
son after an uproarious reoinn ill
which the Negro singer declared
“You are the bad Americans
You ought to be ashamed of your-
solves" A flushed Chairman Waiter
Ill-Pa) abruptly adjourned th
group’s public hearing after a table-
thumping exchange with the left
wing entertainer who was given a
Stalin Il-ace lYize in 1952 "
The- committee then went into
closed session and X'oted unani-
mously to recommend that Itolie-
Min lie cited for contempt Because -tile
group technically was sitting as
a sulNiiimnittee it plans to meet
again Wednesday to formally rati-
fy its action
A recommendation from the com-
mittee would go before the full
house which would deride whether
to vote an actual contempt citation
Walter said the commute wan
Itasing Us action on Robeson's “en-
tire conduct" at the hearing “per-
sonal attacks on the committee’
and “the smear on a senator"
Indian Modem Art Planned
For Museum Summer Exhibit
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The summer schedule at the ait
museum includes two ait education
fifyn showings a loan exhibit of re-
productions of works by three mod-
ern painters and an open house
iMrs Wilma Cot-saw supervisor
of-the art museum said the film
showings will be at 730 pm Mon-
day July 2 and Wednesday June
20 in the Holmlierg auditorium
The July 2 films will be “The Old
Chiefs Darne" “Totems" and
“Loon's Necklace" to open an In-
dian exhibit from the museum's
permanent collection to be shown
July 2-17
' The second series of films will
be shown In connection with an
exhibit of reproductions from the
modern masters Picasso Renoir
and Seurat The films will he
“Painting a Fresco” with Henry
Tarnum Ioor “The Face of Lin-
eoln” and “Namajfra The Painter”
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Mueller Attends ‘
Philosophy Meet
Dr Gustav E Mueller research
professor of philosophy recently
attended a meeting of the American
Philosophical association at the
Vnix-ersity of Indiana Bloomington
Ind
In the Business meeting Dr Mue-
ller represented the Southwestern
Philosophical conference which was
accepted as an affiliated conference
of the APA In the meeting he pre
rented the outline of his new book
‘The Interplay of Opposites A Dia
leetical” which is due off the press
of Bookman Associates tills month
Germany Lores to British
Argentine Upstart
Is Reported Shot
Bl'ENOS AIRES — W— General
Juan Jose Valle who tried to win
the Argentine presidency with a re-
bellion last weekend w-as captured
early Tuesday and reported shot by
a firing squad '
There was nnirflatfdiaie official
communique onyrityiotnT
a source close to gevernment house
amplified the statement of an in-
tellegence officer that Valle had
been executed
It appeared that the govern-
ment's death sentence had been
can-ied out at an army base in or
near Buenos Aires
The government also announced
the execution of retired Lt Juan
Alberto Abadie second In command
of the uprising at the 7th Infantry
regiment in Ia Plata His superior
Col Oscar Isn-enzo Cogamo was
among those executed Mondey
A Civilian source close to govern-
ment house disclosed that the gov-
ernment had commuted to life im-
prisonment death - sentences Im-
posed on between 150 and 200 rebels
Air Force Changeover Planned
WASHINGTON — WV- The Sen-
ate Air Force sulx-ommittee Tues-
day made public air force plans
to complete the heax-y bomber j
changeover from outmoded R30k to
fast high-flying 1152 jets apiar- j
ently within a year
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STOCKHOLM — P)— ThreeBrit-'
ish riders overcame a heax'v deficit
Tuesday to take first place in team
standings away from Germany in
the dressage section of the sques-:
trian Olympics' 3-day trials '
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