The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, November 9, 1956 Page: 3 of 8
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NOVEMBER 9, 1 M
THS THRESBEB
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Cinema Scoop
'Attack' Not Typical
'Girls-Glory' Movie
BY HERB SIMONS
AND BILL LANDFIELD
Attack—Loew's (last week)
People who go to this movie
expecting to see the type of wkr
picture we are usually subjected
to will be in for quite a sur-
prise. Attack is definitely not
one of tons - of - glory- and -
one - last - fling - with - the -
girls type of war story. This
movie actually concerns a co-
wardly American captain (Eddie
Albert), whose incompetence is
responsible for the annihilation
of several of his squads. The
army refused to help in the pro-
duction of the movie and even
tried to have it suppressed.
Suppression, however, cannot
solve the problem of cowardice.
True, it might be demoralizing
to let the public know that
people act like this in battle but
it is not a false picture for un-
doubtedly some soldiers do crack
in war.
Possible Harm
The possible harm which this
movie could" do to our army is
made up for by its portrayal of
the bitter horror of war. We are
reminded of the deterioration
war causes in people, the violence
and outrages which people are
capable of in battle, and ho<w
close we can come to animals.
Unfortunately, Hollywood has
let a possibility for excellent
drama slip through fingers.
Jack Palance, who plays the
heroic antagonist of the coward-
ly captain overacts his part to
the utmost. (Perhaps this is
merely a reaction to his vultur-
ous visage.) Often in his valiant
attempt to add to the realism
of a scene he reduces it to bur-
lesque. Eddie Albert succeeds ex-
cellently in making us hate his
guts, but as he is all "black"
the picture can never achieve
really tragic consequences.
■' Audience Claps
The other lead, Robert Eaton,
(or something like that) finally
exterminates the captain (the
audience claps here) and despite
the warning of the bad major
turns himself in for shooting his
commanding officer. Our only
hope is that he got E. Z. Ber-
man to defend him.
Don't be completely misled by
this review on the whole we en-
joyed the movie, but we don't
have room this week to enum-
erate the good points.
At the Theaters
Metropolitan — The Mountain—
Ascends to great heights
Loew's — The Unguarded Mo-
ment — Guard yourself
Majestic — Giant—James Dean!
River Oaks — Guess
Alabama — Tea and Sympathy
—Nearly excellent. m
Delman — The World in My
Corner, Day of Fury — Con-
cerns a punching preacher. . .
Bellaire — Bandido and Moby
Dick — bad men and bad
whales
Village — Towai'd the Unknown
—bring your own oxygen.
Avalon — The Unashamed —
Sunbathing can be fun.
SLIME...
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girls decided that they didn't
want to go through with this
ordeal (possibly they didn't want
to catch glandular fever). The
ten or fifteen girls that did
show up got more than their
share. In fact, two of them faint-
ed due to the excitement and
lack of air.
Seeing that all was nought,
the slimes turned to starting
grabs with the Sophs. When this
lost its excitement, they decided
to support the Freshman foot-
ball game. About fifty slimes
and twenty Sophomores went
down to the almost empty stadi-
um to perk things up. Although
the Rice Frosh seemed to b£
doing very well on their own,
a couple of Frosh decided that
& little cheering would help the
boys. So they hopped onto the
field in their red-with-white-
polka-dots night shirts and night
caps and took on the job of
cheerleading.
During the halftime intermis-
sion about forty slimes and
Sophs put on an exhibition game
on the field, displaying the
merits of eight-man backfields
and twelve-man lines.
Otherwise
Texas Coach's
Dummy Hanged
By MARGIE WISE
AT TEXAS . . .
A crude dummy was found
hanging from the front of a
business' building on the Drag
at T.U. last week. Under the
dummy hung a sign lettered "So
Long Ed." These words marked
the third time head football
coach, Ed Price, had been hang-
ed in effigy within the space of
a few days. The Daily Texan re-
ported that the dummy was put
up "apparently in protest of the
Longhorn football team's recent
losses." Four days later, Ed
Price resigned, stating that no
"official" pressure had been
placed upon him to resign.
AT NORTH TEXAS . . .
Illegal voting practices
charged! Once again, university
campuses are complaining bitter-
ly of election practices. North
Texas students protested a re-
cent election and asked for more
carefully supervised voting pro-
cedures. Four names were mis-
spelled on the ballot and charges
of students making their ballots
outside the polling area were
made.
AT TCU . . .
The election fever is also ram-
pant at TCU, where the Junior
Class election was thrown out
last week because some "irreg-
ularities" were discovered. These
"irregularities" consisted of the
disappearance of the voting list.
The fact that only one vote divid-
ed the would-be president from
an "also-ran" made the whole
process more interesting.
AT COLLEGE OF PACIFIC . . .
The honor system, long a part
of Rice tradition, is being con-
sidered at the College of the
Pacific. An honor seminar will
conduct a series on the honor
system and cheating. It seems
that cheating is a serious pro-
blem on the Pacific campus. An
even graver problem, it is hoped,
will be solved by the honor semi-
nar—that problem of what is
cheating.
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A Campus-to-Career Case History
Don Gundersen (right) discu
\ssing characteristics of a transmitting horn on a radio relay toner.
Young man on a mountain
If Don Gundersen isn't in his office, he's
probably on a California modntaintop
making tests and surveys prior to the
raising of a radio relay tower.
That's part of Don's job as an engineer
with Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
Company. With other young engineers
he makes field studies, then analyzes the
data and decides where to locate equip-
ment for mobile radio, radio relay and
point-to-point radio links.
He has to answer a lot of questions,
such as "How high must the towers be?
How much will acces's roads cost? What
will the control circuits cost? What are
the chances of transmission interfer-
ence?*' And those are only a few.
"The answers have to be right, too."
says Don. "The recommendations we
make control hundreds of thousands of
dollars' worth of construction. There's
no way in the world of 'burying' a mistake.
''But I like responsibility, and the
chance to make real contributions. The
telephone business is growing so fast, and
technological improvements are coming
along in such volume, that opportunities
to get ahead are excellent. If the business
looks remarkable today, think what it'll
be like twenty years from now!"
Donald L. Gundersen graduated from the University
of Washington in 1949 with a B.S. in Electrical Engi-
neering. Other interesting career opportunities exist
in all Bell Telephone Companies, Bell Telephone Labo-
ratories, Western Electric and Sandia Corporation.
Your placement officer can give you more information.
BILL
TILfePHONI
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, November 9, 1956, newspaper, November 9, 1956; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth231039/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.