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SUE SANDERS for Graham Proffitt PEGGIE BUSBY for John Castanes Cozzens' Is A Stud "I do not understand music, I am little interested in art, and the theatre seems tiresome to me. My literary preferences are for writers who take the trouble to write well." These are the con victions of James Gould Cozzens, Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Cozzens is a strange, quasi understood artist. He would rather have had some other pro fession, for Cozzens knows his deceased father would have thought writing a weak occupa tion. The "woman behind the man" in Cozzens' case was his mother; she made a bookish boy of her son, and his now attained stature was the pot of gold which she sought during Cozzens' youth. Swift Fan While at Harvard, Cozzens wrote his first novel, Con fuaion (1924), which he considers his most perfect work. Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Faulkner, Stein beck, and the writing,s of the 'thirties are all criticized blas phemously by Cozzens--his fav orite: Jonathan Swift. Since his first novel in 1924, he has written 12. Cozzens feels that he did not hit his stride' until his fifth novel. His best known work is Guard of Honor, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and which is an analysis of a soldier; others have con cerned a doctor, a minister, and, his latest, a lawyer. -Study of Love This latest novel, released in the fall of 195'?, Is titled By Love Possessed. It Is an intense study of love in all its forms that man possesses. Cozzens' novel has as its main character Arthur Win ner, a small town attorney and confidant to everyone there. Win. ner Is made saintly which takes away from this character's re alism; even so, the other Inhabi tants of the town arp as real as any could be. Even though the author's sen tence structure is heavy and am biguous in sections and In whole chapters, his style is a joy to de cipher. Cozsens' style was one as clear as crystal, but now it has become. bubble filled. Loe Is one of the few modern novels that compels Its reader to put forth some effort to grasp it. PressionaI Man It Is definitely more tha a on Is T The Carolina Cotillion Club will hold Its annual Spring Dance tonight from 8 til 12 in the Hotel Wade Hampton Ballroom. Jimmy Farr and his orchestra will pro vide the music for the evenidug. The Cotillion Club is composed of members from 12 social fra ternities on campus. Officers of Cotillion are Graham Proffitt, president; George Nettles, vice president; Jqhn Castanes, secre tary; Dick Stanland, treasurer; and BIl Cain, dance chairman. W SUZANNE STANLAND . . . for Dick Stanland Latest Nc Fa y Of Lovo coincidence that Cozzens was the same age of his main character when he wrote Love. Considering that Cozzens dis likes Sinclair Lewis intensely, it is interesting to note the fact that By Love Possessed is oppo site in treatment to Lewis' Bab bitt. In Babbitt, its main charac ter represents the typicality of a professional man of the 'twen James Gould Coinuens ties, and Lone illustrates how a lawyer fights against being typi cal of his town's inhabitants. One wonders during the course of reading Cozzens' novel if Arthur Winner can keep up his battle THE GLAMOUR OF HOLLYWOOD FRANCISCO.. .THE WHITE BEAC THE SERENITY OF THE SACRAlN For Summer Session education ir choice of four campuses where y and undergraduate courses, educ conducted by a distinguished fac Berkeley / Los AngeIql write for free cat alo 4 ( Director, Statewide Suu,tti DEPT. SC 2o& Uis summer it's. onight CORNETIE KOHR for George Nettles ELIZABETH HAZELHURST . . . for Bill Cain ovel to the end, but the significance of the character's last name might reveal the victor. By Love Posseesed should un doubtedly receive the Pulitzer Prize this year. Booth Tarking ton has been the only novelist to have gotten this award twice. This reviewer believes Cozzens will join Tarkington via this masterwork. Not Revised It is heartwarming for a reader to know that he is reading substantially the identical penned thoughts of the author and that the book has not been almost re-written by the publisher. It has been vowed that the novel in print is the same as the copy handed to the publishers by Cozzens. Even then only a third of the book was published, be cause the author destroys two of every three pages he writes. Reader's Digest has paid a large sum to have the rights to condense this novel, and a motion picture corporation has likewise obtained rights to film it. There will be a great deal heard of By Love Possessed in the near fu ture. James Gould Cozzens has been quoted to have said, "I am a her mit and have no friends." Soon his seclusion will be interrupted by his demanding public and his great novel will win him a great many friends. -M. Byars .THE EXCITEMENt OF SAN HES OF SANTA BARBARA... ENTO VALLEY California, you have a unique u can participate in graduate ition workshops and seminars ty ri for New Dan Has Beer Kappa Alpha, Sigma All Sigma Nu social fraternities of a new dance organization,I society has been organized winter formal dance and a s the society is limited to the Clotworthy Attends Conference Dean of Women, Elizabeth M. Clotworthy, has recently returned from the semi-annual meeting of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services which was held at the Sheraton-Park Hotel in Washington. The purpose of the committee is to provide the Department of Defense with assistance and ad vice on matters relating to women in the service, and to interpret to the public the need for and the role of women in the armed services, Dean Clotworthy said. The committee is composed of civilian women, selected on the basis of their national standing in business, the professions, and in civic or public life, with due regard to geographical represen tation. The members serve as in dividuals and not as official rep resentatives of any group or or ganization with which they may be affiliated, she said. MEXICAN CRITIC SPEAKS AT EMORY Dr. Justino Fernandez, art his torian and critic from the Na tional University of Mexico, lec tured at Emory University on April 8 and 10. The two illus trated lectures were open to the public. -The Emory Wheel Nuclear Symposium Carolina's nuclear engineering symposium will begin tonight at 7:00 with industrial nuclear ex hibits and films being shown in Russell House. The public is in vited to attend the meetings to night and tomorrow. Oil helps create A fine wool sweater owe By lubricating the threa evenly. After knitting, the springy texture ani 'wouldn't be possible Aj we Club i Formed iha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, and iave announced the formation he Westphalian Society. This ror the purpose of having a pring-formal. Membership In members of the four frater nities. Each fraternity has a senior and a junior representative with the senior representatives serv ing as the officers of the organ ization. Officers for this spring are Preston Whaley (Sigma Nu), president; Edgeworth Price (Kappa Alpha), vice-pregident; Robert Withers (Sigma Chi), secretary-treasurer; and Julian Adams (Sigma Alpha Epsilon), dance chairman. The junior representatives are Charlie Jackson (KA); Nicky Moore (,SAE); Charlie Way (Sigma Chi); and Don Allen (Sigma Nu). . This spring's dance will be held on May 28 at the Jefferson Hotel ballroom. Jimmy Farr and his orchestra will furnish the music. SAS Elects, Initiates Sigma Alpha Sigma, honorary secretarial science fraternity, re cently held its monthly meeting at which time plans were made for the annual banquet to be held this month. Initiated at the meeting were Grace Adams, Mary Anderson, Saunda Carney, Zenith Hallman, Lynne Morrison, and Ann Wylie. Betty Iigram was elected president for next year. Also elected were Alice Enright, vice president; Ann Vickery, secre tary-treasurer; Kay Sutton, cor responding secretary; Lynne Morrison, historian; and Carol Mays, reporter. Language Day Over 800 high school students of French and Spanish are ex pected on the Carolina campus today for the first Modern Lan guage Day. a new world of fas s much of its lovely look to a a la during knitting, it helps the he oil is easily removed. Wit intricate designs of today's ain ESSO RESEARCH and By BMILY M06UTCHN The SAE's celebrated with the Lion's Ball Saturday night. Delta of USC, Gamma of Wofford, and Phi of Fur man were represented. The special guests were Mr.' and Mrs. Stanford of Portland, Maine. Jack Taylor and Joyce Saunders, Rick Harrison and Polly Price, Frank Beattie and Kaye Lemon, and, of course, Pete Martin and Evelyn LaBruce, were among those in a'ttendance. SPE's Last Saturday night, the Sigma Phi Epsilon District Ball was held in Charlotte, N. C. Seven Sig Ep Chapters from North Carolina and one Chapter from South Carolina were represented at the dance. Some of the Carolina Sig Eps present were: Paul Gaye and Sybil McNeil (ZTA), Lightening Morris and June MacCauley (ZTA), Nils Jensen and Becky Finlay (Pi Phi), and John Kenney and Jean Riley (ZTA). * Lambda Chi's Lambda Chi had a party last Friday night at the Mel Rujan Room. Seen there were Zeke Tolly and Carolyn Smith, Hal Tyler and Anna Chaplin, Alan Edney and Sandra Calla han, Bob Coward and Dee Chandler. If you happened to drop by the Phi Sig house Saturday night, you would have seen Gerald Hill -and Miff Fisher, Wayne Pack and Barbara Hawthorne and many other DZ's and Phi Sigs dressed appropriately for a "Shipwreck Party.". ZETA's The Zeta's took a vacation from school work last Thurs day to perform their Stunt Night act at Clemson for the Clemson Junior Follies. Some of the girls traveling to Clemson were Alice Pruitt, Anna Boswell, Gracie Adams, Debbie Norris and Ann Vickery. Barry Goldstein and Janice Jaffee, Murray Danz and Ellen Solomon, Ralph Hornick and Judy Stone, Norm Karshmer and Lyn Roseman, Bob Roseman and Libby Bloom, among others attended the Phi Ep's 30th Anni versary Formal Saturday night. Phi Kappa Sigma's The Phi Kaps are planning a big party at Teague's Lake tomorrow. Among those expected to be out are Tom Mc Lean and Linda McDonald, George Bennett and Linda (Continued on page 5) hion woksmna..a. 0