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4 Male Contest Is. Open Nominations are now open for the Best Dressed Man on# the Carolina Campus contest which is held annually, sponsored by Britton's Men's Store and The Gamecock, Jim Herring, Tho Gamecock Advertising Manager, has announced. Organizations may nominate by, letter or one may be nominated by petition. Letters should be ad dressed to Jim Herring, Box 1543, Campus. Voting will take place on Feb. 17, 18, and 19. The fashion show announcing the winner will be held at 8:00 p.m., on Feb. 19, in the Russell House Assembly Room. The first place winner will re ceive $100 prize, second place will receive $50 prize, and the or ganization sponsoring the winner will be awarded a trophy. As in past years, coeds will be allowed two votes, while males are only allowed one -vote. TASiW STEAK 1BY L.GW MMOSM -- . ? Students Greeted Sunday New students arriving be tween the hours of 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. last Sunday night were greeted at the Administra tion Building by a committee of students. Meeting the new wo men students were co-eds Jean Huffman, Gam Glenn, and Jo Harper. Greeting the men were Jim Leventis, Tom Caskey and Bill Berne. The women students were then shown to their dorms where they held dorm meetings. Mrs. Person was in charge of the meeting in Wade Hampton with Lynn Morrison and Bar bara Blair assisting. Mrs. Ball was in charge of the meeting in Freshman Dorm with Skippy Canady, president of the dorm, attending. After the dorm meetings the co-eds visited with Dean Clot worthy in her apartment where they were served coffee and cake. tAYS" SKS MUSIC, PLEASE . .. Larry El music tonight for the annual Ai-@ the hand is soloist Don Forbes. years ago and at that time was Les And. Play For The Afnual Military Ball spon sored by th.e William Farrow Squadron of the Arnold Air So ciety will be held from 9 p.m. 1 a.m. Feb. 21 in the ballroom of the Wade Hampton Hotel. Les and Larry Elgart and their or chestra, featuring Don Forbes, Kappa Delta Has National KD Visitor Beta Zeta Chapter of Kappa Delta Sorority will have as its visitor from National Kappa Delth, Mrs. Frederick T. Morse of Charlottesville, Va., Feb. 4 Feb. 9. Mrs. Morse is the Na tional Editor of Kappa Delta. Mrs. Morse was graduated from the Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, where she was scholar ship chairman for her chapter, Alpha Chi of Kappa Delta. She is currently serving as the Pan hellenic qdvisor for Beta Alpha Chapter at the University of Vir ginia, where her husband is a member of the faculty. A member of the University of Virginia Hospital Circle, Mrs. Morse was president from 1947 until 1949, and is now a member of the Board of Directors. She was the regent of the Jack Jouett chapter, D. A. R., from 1946 until 1950, and from 1953 until 1956 served as the State Corres ponding Secretat-y. She is now the State Vice-Regent. Since 1953 Mrs. Morse has been editor of the Virginia D.A.R. News Bulletin and since 1956, a member of the Commit tee on Revisions for the National Society, D.A.R. Mrs. Morse num bers among her affiliations mem bership in Magna Charta Dames, the Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth'r Century, and the Mental Hygiene Society of Vir ginia. She was State Recording Secretary for the Daughters of Colonial Wars from 1950 to 1953 and is now serving as State Pres ident. Mrs. Morse has published a volumne of poems, Through the Years, and Other Poema in 1945. A smiOR$K1 TO lUTCU 1 io aUELC garl (feft) and brother Les (above) old Air Society Ball at the Wade It The Elgart'Bad played at the air a big hit with the students. Larry EIA Military will play for the event. The William Farrow Squadron of the Arnold Air Society is the local chapter of the National Air Force N.R.O.T.C. Admission into the society is limited to advanced Air Force R.O.T.C. cadets who have outstanding basic records New Cante Slater System, at the sugges tion of the Student Union Com mittee, has recently opened an other canteen on the ground floor of Russell House in what was the old game room. The new canteen, under the direction of Mrs. Weathers, serves everything that the Gamecock Room serves ex cept grilled sandwiches. The new canteen is designed for fast service, and is primarily JAZZ KING Bix Be - By BOB GROSSE Music Analyst (Editor's note: This is the first of two articles about Bix Beider becke, the famous jazz man.) It is 1929 and the fabled orches tra of Paul Whiteman is broad casting direct from the roof of New York's Astor Hotel. The band Is playing one of its famous concert-jazz arangements, scored for over 40 instruments includ ing strings, flutes, and a syrupy sweet saxaphone section; the par ticular song is "Swveet Sue." The dancers on the floor and at the little tables on either side are growing a bit restless as the vio lins wheeze through the familiar melody, wheni a slender, sandy haired young man stands up in the rear of the orchestra to take a solo. Suddenly art electric charge sweeps through the room as he IKORSKY SAIRCEAI AMRCRMfT RE?REI II PER$OU TO TEl 0111 EUBIUEERIU S WEDNEI and orchestra will furnish the ampton Ballroom. Featured with mual Carolina May Dance a few rart To gall and who meet the scholastic re quirements. Attendance at the dance will be restricted to members of the Air Force R.O.T.C. and Air Force Personnel. Tickets are $4 and may be purchased from any Ar. nold Air Society member. en Opened for those who wish to take food out of the building. In warmer weather, the patio outside will be furnished with tables and chairs so that students may enjoy the sunshine while they eat lunch. The room is decorated in mod ern decor with woodpaneled walls on one side and brick on the out side. The inside wall is painted pink. The grill is open from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. iderbeck raises his qornet and lets the crisp, bell-like tones fall upon the amazed crowd. The same charge hits the musicians on the stand and the entire band is trans formed with new life and vigor; it is as if someone had opened a window and let the sweet, fr'sh air in. Bix Beiderbecke Soon, too soon, the half-chorus solo is over; the violins take up their theme; the musicians slump back in their chairs and peek at their wristwatches; and Bix Bei derbecke-half-man, half-legend, all musician-again takes his seat in the Whiteman b)rass section. Leon Bismarck B3eiderbecke was born March 10, 1903 in Dav enport, Iowa - that's a known fact. He received most of his early music lessons by playing along with records of Nick La Rocca and The Original Dixie FURE. BDAY MY'. Calendar Friday, 1:00 p.m.-Jr.-Sr. "Y" I sembly Room, Russell House 2:00 p.ms-Pep Club Try< House. Saturda: All Day-State IRC Conv sell House. Monday, All Day-Religious Empi Rooms 204 and 206, Russell . 10:30 a.m.-Hillel Fouri House. Tuesday, *All Day-Religious Empl Rooms 204 and 206, Russell 10:3Q a.m.-Hillel Foundat Wednesda: All Day-Religious Emplh Rooms 204 and 206, Russell 10:30 a.m.-Hillel Foun House. 5:00 p.m.-Pep Club, Roo 7:30 p.m.-Committee on Russell House. Thursday 10:30 a.m.-Hillel Foun House. 1:00 p.m.-Sophomore "'i House. 3:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m., an( Movie, "Cruel Sea," Assembl; 5:00 p.m.-International Russell House. ZTA Offers The Zeta Tau Alpha Founda tion offers annually scholarship awards to worthy students at both the graduate and undergrad uate level. In reviewing applica tions, preference is given to seniors and to students in the field of education, although this does not limit consideration of students of other rank or area of study. A special award is avail able in the field of physical ther apy, speech correction, occupa tional therapy, or in the teaching of handicapped children. Major consideration is given to financial need. Lives In I land Band - that, too, is fact. How much of the rest of Bix's life is true and how much is part of the Beiderbecke legend Is a fascinating question. Legend or Face? For example, did he really sit* in on a Mississippi River Boat session with Louis Armstrong? And did Bix ever play for King Oliver in the famous Chicago speakeasy, The Royal Garden? Some less important facts are equally hypothetical, like the hun dreds of persons who claim to have been his roommate at Lake Forest, or the thousands of fans who say that they sat up with him in all-night jam sessions if they are all correct, Bix must never have gotten any sleep. But to put the known facts In order, Bix lived in Davenport un til he was 17. He came from a musical family and all through his childhood was interested in music. When he was about 12, he taught himself to play the cor net. Since he learned without in structions and didn't know that trumpet players normally use only the first two valves, Bix used all three valves indiscrimi nately, playing some notes the wrong way. Later, this technical aberration allowed him to play normally difficult passages with great ease. Campus 11r. After a few dismal years at Davenport High, the Belder beckes sent Bix to the Lake For est Military Academy in hopes that the more formidable atmos phere there would make a scholar of him. Instead, Bix organized a small band and became a cam pus hero, playing at school dances and Friday night socials. Mean while, he spent his weekends in MASTER CLE Main PMan 19074S BLOS 1447 SUKTr3N 8851 VOl 48W1 "SERVICE and $ Of Events I Feb. 7 ouncheon, Russell House As. uts, Assembly Room, Russell r, Feb. 8 ention, Assembly Room, Rus Feb. 10 asis Week, Assembly Room, Flouse. dation, Room 204, Russell Feb. 11 asis Week, Assembly Room, House. i,on, Room 204, Russell House. r, Feb. 12 asis Week, Assembly Room, House. lation, Room 204, Russell m 206, Russell -House. General College, Room 101, Feb. 13 lation, Room 204, Russell I," Assembly Room, Russell 1 9:00 p.m.-Student Union r Room, Russell House. Relations Club, Room 204, Scholarship Awards vary in amount ac cording to need. Undergraduate awards do not exceed $300. Grad uate awards may be greater in certain instances. Grants are made on an annual basis, but may be renewed upon written request. Applicants must maintain a scholastic average of B or better in all college work and must have the highest character recommen dations from the personnel of the college they are attending. Application blanks are avail able in Dean Clotworthy's office. Applications must be submitted before May 15. Applicants are notified by July 16. ,egend nearby Chicago, listening to Louis Armstrong, Kid Ory, Bes sie Smith, Jelly Roll Morton and the other great Negro jazzmen who had begun to drift up from New Orleans in those early Jazz Age days. After a couple of years at Lake Forest, Bix set out to make a ca reer of jazz. He jobbed around the Chicago area for a while and then formed the Wolverines, the first white, non-New Orleans jazz band. With the Wolverines, Bix made some recordings for thre Gennett Company, his first re corded performances, and gained the first Inkling of the national attention he was soon to receive. During that time, a student at the University of Indiana named Hoagy Carmichael took an inter est in the- Wolverines, booked them for his fraternity's dances, and even wrote a song for them called "Riverboat Shuffle." Wolverines The Wolverines were a free wheeling lot and they probably gave Bix his first real taste of musicianship, as well as his ac quaintance with prohibition whis key and bathtub gin. But BRx soon outgrew them and decided to come East in search of greener pas tures. Thus in 1924, Bix packed his horn and a clea'n shirt or two and caught a train for New York an4 the famous Gene Golakette band. In next week's column, we will continue the story of Bix's life and describe the New York mu. sic scene in the late 20's, Bix's rise with the fabulous Whiteman organization, and his final fall. The Last Chor.s The music of .Mantovani and his lunch-money violins will be featured at the Township Audi torium tomorrow night in another concert of the Columbia Music Festival Society. The British con duttor will play a program of pop and light classical music. The downbeat is at 8:80. MilRS, hue. BOM STRERT SwE