The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, September 21, 1945, Page Page Two, Image 2
Co-Ed Ci)
Proceeds Soar
On Final Acce
Hitting Columbia with a violence
only slightly overshadowed by the
havoc wrought by the recent Flor
ida hurricane, the Co-Ed Circus
swept the town last Saturday night,
leaving in its path sides burst with
laughter, feet burning with pedi
sitis, and minds wheeling from the
strange subterfuges. The gals col
lected a total of $1900! %
One of the outstanding events
on the social calendar for the year,
the Circus showet a substantial
profit, -hich will be utilized for
renovation of the University Chap
el.
All afternoon, undaunted by
cloudy, overe-.st skies, coeds scur
ried about the campus aided by
obliging male members of the stu
dent body in preparation for the
big show. Melton Field quickly took
on the proportions of a Barnum
and Bailey production, with the Big
Top, surrounded by varied side
shows and concession stands.
Festivities commenced with a pa
rade heading south on Main Street,
and continuing to the scene of the
gayety. Scantily and attractively
clad performers lured swarms of
admirers who rounded the corner
at the Gym in droves, to give the
show its initial impetus.
Main interest was garnered at
the Big Top, which staged two one
hour shows, featuring campus
characters and downtown artistes.
Stealing the show were the
clowns, Shoenberger, Rosenber,
Mann, Doug Smith, and the Davises,
J. E. and D. R., all RO's whose an
ties kept the spectators in boister
ous mirth.
Then there was the tumbling act,
which under the able tutett! of
Joe Reit.ies. awed the crowd with
their daring feats. The other he
men of the act were Dick Toupin
and Boho Jennins; while beauty
was added to the acrobatic group
In the shapely forms of Peggy Jo
Greer, Sara Cline, Martha Row
land, and Martha Mabry. This act
has received offers to display their
wares in productions throughout
the metropolis.
The long-awaited announcement
of winner of the Male Beauty Con
test was,made, with Buddy Riggs
copping the title of "Mr..Carolina
of 1945." Runners-up for the honor
were Jaguar Adams and George
Farris. The weird voice of Adams
amused the audience through his
Inimitable rendition of "Precious
Jewel."
The trained seals, with "Goldi
locks" Chapman as traintr, showpd
professional abilities in hall bal
ancIng and goldfish devouring. The
wallowing amphibs included Mayor
Marshall, Captain Needham, Eco
nomics Professor Waterfall, and
Messrs. Hawkins and Fulmer, city
businessmen.
A smiling South Sea Island dam
sel in native garb dashed across
the stage with three clowns hot
on her trail-the first with a lawn
mower, the second with a pair of
snippers, and the third with a blow
torch. WVhat happened to South
Dakota Hirsch in that act???
Jinx Giles, resplendent in brief
pink satin, kept the cr'owd agape
with her daring antics of bareback
feats on her pinto.
The Two Nuts from Broadway
staged a skit featuring "Stella"
SanFrantello, the girl with the high
morals, and "Phil" Simpson, the
wolf with a wander-lust,
A Gay Ninety hiss and hero show,
"Amanda of Sunny Brook Valley,"
brought forth Chick Shiels, an
nouncer and hero; Doris Schmuker,
heroine, and Herb Beitel as the
horrible villian.
A volunteer corporal jumped the
gun on a planted stooge in the au
dience to afford much laughter
when he was to try to drop a half
dollar resting on his forehead into
a funnel placed Inside the belt of
his trousers. The stooge was to have
a balloon which would hold pitcher
after pitcher of water poured into
the funnel, unsuspected by the vic
tim. The soldier didn't.
An unidentified Chinese magician
kept the people intrigued with his
sleight-of-hand tricks.
Hats off to Ring Master Nichol
son who handled the acts wIth a
professional touch.
What circus would he complete
Without its Freak Sideshow? Where
the coed freaks on 'display' hide
on the campus is a mystery, hut
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unting Total
there was the world's tallest wom
an--6T' of pigeon-toed femininity;
the tattooed lady, the fat lad:- with
a thyroid affliction, and Carolina's
bearded lady. Two pitiful sights
were the legless wonder and the
young miss who lost her elbows
in a train accident.
Mystery House of the evening
was a vacuous tent pitched on the
sidelines, with a "5c Admission"
sign tacked at the entrance.
Speculators reaped their divi
dends at the Penny Throw Boards
and at the Bingo Stand.
Greatest display of magnetic per
sonality was found at the ball
throwing stand, where Dale Nor
ment, outfitted in Carolina baseball
togs, offered only free games as re
wards for marksmanship, but kept
the stand crowded with eager con
testants.
Novelty between shows in , the
Big Top was the Cake Walk, under
the able guidance of Political Sci
ence Professor McGonaughy, pipe
in mouth. News came hack that the
first cake was won by a Smith's
College coed, and when Charlotte,
the point of consummation was
reached late that evening, someone
stepped Into the cake barefoot, and
left it devoid of all frosting.
The Leg Show attracted the stur
dier sex if only for its name. One
eagle-eyed RO who rung the black
hosed leg of a hidden beauty, was
heard to call out gleefully, "I rung
ya, c'mon out, yer mine!"
Many of those who have spent
hours in meditation since Saturday
night in an attempt to evaluate the
answers Madame Lazon. a gave to
their three most pressing questions.
The 'den of ini-cuties' or "Sa
lome, Where She Danced" occupy
ing a full corner of Melton Field.
held its throng spellbound with the
muscled arms and hairy legs of the
Can-Can "girls." The strains of the
harber shop quartet drifted over
the entire arena.
A couple of grade school kids
staged a wrestling match in the
center of the field, while a third
paI attempted to collect 5c apiece
from all spectators.
A variety of costumes, worn hoth
by' prfornirs and public, caused
many a twist of the neck-- Psvchol
ogy Professor Ilorne, daintily
draped in formal wrap and carry
ing parasol; officors and enlisted
men of enh biranch of the service.
includiig Chini-se aviation officers;
coeds in 'Corsette' garb of shorts.
iumpers. and neckierchiefs: two at
Iretiive tiondos docked out in dun
garees; clh percnn londirlin hu to
the sa of colors. Ifernian Schmitz.
the P,arrel, added contrast with his
red hair and hig black shiner and
bruised chleik, a result of the week
end's secret footbhall Scrimmage;
while tnext to him was .aim Fverett,
University Cheerleader, with arm,
shoulder, anid side taped fast,
moulding back into shape a brok
en collarbone, sustained in a dia
mondball game.
The scrihe wishes to express his
gratitude to the roving steno who
copiedthese vital statistics for
B. S. U. Will Have
Banq1uet at WadIe
Hamnptoni Hotel
On Friday night, October 5, the
annual BSIX fall banquet will he
held at the Wade llampton lIntel.
Students from the University, Co
lumbla College, the Baptist Ilos
pital, and the Columbia Hospital
will attend. Bob Franklin and Ray
Stewart are in charge of program
plans and the selection of guest
speaker.
Several of the BSUJ memnhers at
tended the annual leadlership ban
I ruet at the First Baptist Church
Wednesday, September 5,
Dr. Iharry Clark spoke on "Bring
ing Home the Catch." Dr. Campbell
brought the challenge to the lead
ers for this church year, The theme,
"Becoming Fishers of Men," was
followed throughout the banquet,
WHERE OLD FRIENDS
MEET
and the
YOUNG MAKE NEW
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The
University Grill
1008 Sumter Street
COLUMBIA. S. C.
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These art scenes fronit the- Coe
Nights dancing girl show. Top rl
center, of Charlestorn. Tiger Adin
stage before the big tent show h;
Maine" Gloria Widener tries her w
his costume if not his volee, to on
Lt. Krassmnan
Joins Staf f
Of Nary Here
.I. J. II. Nrassmaan was recvily
added to the 1'. S. C. Nm%al Staff
as an instructor in Aircraft Rocog
Iition and Navigation.
.t. Nrassiai ativnded C'ornell
Vniversity in 194:; and later trans
felred to Ohio State 'niversity for
two monihs sudl iti Itecminition.
W hen he w.as tra nsferrled to the
I rnsport, "'Elizabet h C. Sinatton,"
he cruised in wa iltrs surr oundting
Eutrope, and also in the Medtiter
Lt. Krassmani sawv duty' off the
coasts of Scotland. England, North
Africn. Italy, and Southern France.
In Jarnurary of 1944,. he traveled
through the Panama Canal to San
Francisco. Irom- thrre he went to
active durty in the South Pacific.
Two of his stations were Pearl
liarbor and Okinawa.
On his return tn the States, he
followed the same route hy which
he hadt gone to the Pacific.
L t. K<rassman is from "the place
where the tree grows," he reports.
White in Italy he was ahle to do
a hit of sightseeing. HIe saw Pom
pey. Rome, the Riv'iere, and a good
many North African ports. lie also
made ferry trips to Naples and
Southern France.
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ght. The three finalists of the m
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gan when everyone was in every
lies on male beauty Buddy Riggs
of the sideshows. (Gamecock ph
Sewimg Clinic
Is Sponsored
On Wednesdays
Mis. Louise Cole. director of the
Universit.v Home Making Depart
nient, announced this week that
Home Making offices will he open
from 2:30 to 4.30 on Wednesday
afternoons for the convenience of
stidents desiring consultation
about clothing problems.
T]he (lot hing ClInic was installed
Ilst Spring ini 'onjulnction with de
pat tnmen tal sewing (lasses. It has
beeni inac(tive during the first Sum
mer* School as the department was
not offering courses.
Mrs. Cole stated that the clinie
was for the use of all University
studients. not exclusively' those en
rolled in liome Making. Sewing ma
chines are available for alterations.
Expert Watch and
Clock Repairs
All Makes and Models
University Students Work
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Station WCOS
To Broadcast
Library Hour
The Univer-sity Library Hour, a
progiam sponsored by the McKis
sick Memorial Librmry, begins to
morrow evening. It will he a series
of quarter.-hour broadcasts. once a
week, at 7:00 p. m. on Saturdays.
The series wvill emphasize unusual
and outstandIng hooks, hoth old and
new. Dr. John V'anMale, the U'ni
verisity Librarian, will conduct the
program, which wvill consist of talks
by prominent citizens on the fav.
orite hooks or authors, intervinws
with South Carolina authors, dis
cussions of the best hooks on their
sub.iects by UiSC professors, and oc
('asional program of reviews of re.
eent hooks. The listeners wvill he
asked to send in letters about their
favorite hooks and authors to be
read over the broadcast.
Speakers who have already agreedl
to appear on the program include'
Dean Leonard T. Baker, Douglas
McKay, the lawyer, Charles Mason
Crowson, the artist, Dean Calcott,
Professor Gr~ubb, FitzH-ugh McMas
ter, andl Professor Penney.
The opening program of the se
ries tomorrowv night will feature
talks about librarIes in South Cat'
olina by Mrs. Lucy Hampton Bos
tick of the Rietiland County Li
brary, Miss Nancyv Blair of the
State ILbrary Hoard, and Professor
William II. Ward, director of the
University Extension Division.
All University students and
alumni ate cordially invited to tune
in at 7:00 o'clock tomorrow eve
ning for "The University Library
Hour,' ov~er WCOS.
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COLUMBIA,S C.
3*ptember 71, IT45
,andslide
Sailor Meeks
Back to Books
Pursues Pharmacy
Cours at USC
BY JOE DRENNAN
Jimmy Meeks, known to those
that really know him as James
"GD" Meks, really got around for
a person so small as he while he
waR serving with the naval medical
unit attached to the headlined 4th
Marine Division that has been in .
the thick of most of It out in that
once too hot to handle Pacific
Theater. But, that wan yesterday
and, now, today he Is here at Caro
lina pursuing the course of study
that has always held his interest
both before and while in uniform
of the United States Navy and Ma
rine Corpe. That course of study
being pharmacy.
Jimmy entered the navy way
back in August, 1942, AD and his
life was one great hop from this
to that until January of this year
when he took his greatest hop right
out of uniform and into blue serge
again.
While in the service Meeks' trail
led him onto the beachheads of
Saipan, Rol and Namur--two of the
major invasions in the Marshall
Island group-and, then his trail
entered him into hospital after hos
pital to bring him back stateside
and to Carolina via a short work
out in a drug store and a nice basis
ing vacation at beaches in both
South Carolina and New York.
The hospital tour that Meeks was
a chief ingredient of when looked
upon by the layman of the species
would closely resemble a trek that a
Mrs. Roosevelt would have taken in
tracking down data for her "My
Day." Jimmy was first treated for
his wounds in the battalion aid sta
tion of which he was once an im- 4
portant cog and from there it was
just one hospital after another. Of
course there was a little cruise
anoard that famed hospital ship
the USS Bountiful. This cruise end
ed for a brief stop over at Oien
Heights Hospital in Pearl Harbor;
then another change was made and
that meant for Meeks another hos
pital, this one being located in Oak
land, California. From this point
'til discharge the story reads like
excripts from a patient progress
chart . . . "patient doing nicely,
transfer to Naval Hospital, Seattle,
Washington . . . patient ready for
convalescent hospital, transfer to
Sun Valley, Idaho." Sun Valley is
that beautiful and one time play
ground of the millionaire playboys
(of which Jimmy says he wants no
part-that is the playboy faction
not the playground) and is where
Meeks herame a part of the great
est sc:hool of playboys --civilian life
and the estate of the discharge hut
ton.
Before he finally got his (that
to a uniformed person means get
ting what ev'ery' dogface, ole salt or
leatherneck is expecting--a huiet
either marked fatal or just plain
lucky), Meeks had a close call
when an LST bearing the number
of 39 blew up while they were
waiting around. -says ~Jimmy---out
in Pearl Harhor. Yet, by some trick *
of Fate he was spared to go ahead
into thr-ee, ma.jor invasions and do
his part as a field medic.
While serving as a medic in the
field Meeks received the Purple
H-eart and two Bronze Stars for his
Asiatic Theater Ribbon and his
unit, of which he is very and justly
boast ful, was t wice ci ted by t he
President of the Uinited States with
the Presidential Citation . . . this
citation brags of one Bronze Star.
There is also an American D)efense
Ribb)on that once donned, along
with these other decorations, his
shirt's left side and now are at his
home in Hlonea Path, S. C.
Aiaready this ex-sailor-marine has
shown what he is made of by get
ting himSelf petitioned into running
for cheerleader and voted in as a
part of the Booster Club. If pre
dictions are in order, your repor'ter
would say that here is a person to
watch with steady eye for if you
don't yotu are bound to miss some
thing. G;ive him a semester or so
and he, it is assured, will give you
a surprise,
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