Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Dear L, * ar Lisa: I have just transferred from Radcliff because I was sick and tired of all that cold weather and those crude yankees. Now I really don't want to say a bunch of awful things about this wonderful University of South Carolina but there is no one that I can talk to. No one here has read Kerouac or ee cummins or - what can i do? Is there no-one in this vast sea of humanity who speaks an intelligible form of English? Oh, help me Lisa. I am drowning in a great void of an education ma chine. Desparately, hellery cambridge. Dear Hellery: This is indeed a depressing problem but don't give up hope. Sweethear The members of Alpha Tau On their Sweetheart for the year 1963 lovely Sophomore from Seneca. Mie cation major, is pinned to Ed Hick for Gentle ISt * eee@e Why just today i saw a student, i.e. a member of this community, glancing through a copy of the New Republic. There is a slight possibility that he could have a few original ideas. I would sug gest that you stake out a study spot near the magazine rack in one of the fine libraries here in hopes of spotting this student. In the meantime just keep making good grades and perhaps one of your instructors will offer to m a k e stimulating conversation with you. Lisa Dear Lisa: I have met a fine young man here! I think that some day we will settle down and raise a family of lovely children. But if that will come is my problem -- 't Of ATO ega fraternity at USC have chosen &4. She is Miss Leslie Bashnan, a s Bashnan, who is a Physical Edu . . ....By LI1 he spends all of his free time p1 working for the Bulgarian Youth al Movement here. Yes, he does call a me after these meetings but this tk is not enough - i want to see ar him. Can you give me any ideas b< on how to get him more interested h< in me? ni Hopefully, H Inez Kennedy i DearK: Join the Young Americans for Freedom. DE Dear Lisa: I have this really fierce type fe problem and I rally do need some yc of your sage advice but it is sort ~ of hard to talk about it and . . co well, anyway, you see i have or o rather i should say had this great yC girl friend. This summer we got along just great and i had hoped D< that we could continue in the same way up here at school. To- - day, after all my wondering why pl things were not the same as dur- ha ing the summer i finally caught wl her; i saw her in Mckissick li- to brary - in the reference room. I Oh, Lisa, she leaves me alone for let hours saying she must study and i know that no one studies here. fcai Por the past week and a half she ca would leave her room and tell her room-mate not to tell me where she was or anything. I know some thing is going on between my in nocent Susie & one of the grad aate students. What can i do to stop this mad, wild affair with N those dangerous graduate stu lents ? ? Book-worm [Dear book worm: Get a job at the library. They Pay a terrific salary of 65 cents er hour and you get an oppor ;unity to go into the stacks. Be uides getting the only copy of the book available for one of :he history courses you can check : m what is happening to your poor iweet female friend who has got en mixed up with that dangerous, sducated graduate student. with love. Lisa It [isa, cherie: I You must help me. I am faced ca with a most horrendous situation. nS [ came here after several years sf school in Zurich. I thought that my wardrobe would be quite fash- Di lonable but I have nothing to wear. My Dior, Fath & Channel a mits are all wrong . . . the peo ek to the Halls of Ki Gentlemen of learning exercis they solect a university wardr tor's presentation. Notable is tl lens and the strength in the col ural or made-by-man. An entire be chosen under this one roof. Ties from.............. Vested Suits from. Herringbone Sportcoats fra Worsted Slacks from . Creighton Stripe Oxford S~ Creighiton Sportshirts from Nylon and Wool Parkas Classic V-neck Sweaters. Blazers (Camel, Burgundy, Bottle Green) from .. GAftBi@tE IA LENNOX u here are wearing a fantastic ly amazing type of clothing eryone looks the same. All o a girls are wearing pleate< d wrap around skirts and th4 ys wear this crazy shirt with uk on the back. Of course it ii ce, i guess, but i look different )w can i ease this feeling tha am the center of attention', hat do I put on for class? Sincerely, the fashion plate car F. P. Welcome to a wilderness of i w fashion ideas. A solution t< ur problem is really very eas simply buy an old mattres: ver and cut three holes in it e for your head and two fo: ur arms. Lisa ar Lisa: Actually my problem is quiti nple - I have found a glorious tce to keep my austin healy, I ye a permit for the area ir ich it is parked and it is easy get a space there but what d( lo about the M. G.? They won' me get a permit to park it or rnpus. There is some sort of >lish rule saying that students i have only one car on campus Miss Lisa Lennox is essential to my standing thai )e allowed to have this car or npus. What am I to do aboul poor little defenseless MG? Wheeler and Dealer ar W. and D. For a simple problem like thal simple solution: get a horse. Lisa owledge e superior taste when obe from this proprie te muscle in the wool ors of every fibre, nat course of fashion may 2.50 to 3.95 59.95 m 29.95 12.95 ir ts 5.95 & 6.50 .5.00 to 8.95 7.95 to 12.95 9.95 to 27.50 Navy, and .............. 29.95 La.va $ilopp r Sue Smith, a Business Education good-looking, charming, and modest ferring from Wingate Junior Colleg pecan pie and steaks. Although shi she does enjoy horseback riding. A ence, Sue is Miss VFW for Florence test she was first runner-up, and se Fun Pageant. Her talent is popular hair and blue eyes. Today she will Tobacco Festival. Emptors,I Grass on the scope? Gaft it - I and maybe add a klooge. Then get out the shaker, and we'll end up with an A-Okay emptor tempter! Sound like teenage slang or space-talk from Planet X? It's really everyday language used in the testing laboratory of one of America's oldest and largest de partment store chains. In the lab oratory, technicians are constantly testing and checking emptor tempters. What's an emptor? It's the Latin word for you, the purchaser or buyer - deriving from one of the oldest surviving Latin say ings: Caveat emptor! (Let the buyer beware!) You may remem ber this as the "motto" the roguish Rhett Butler persuaded Scar You are invited t Ur exclUSIVe "Gamecock"4 set a fashion pace ~g:~ ; lujor fromt Florence', is not only but she is also ifntelligent, tran L' with a (;PR of 3.4. She loves says she isn't the outdoor type. ong with the' title of Miss Flor In the state Miss Universe Con eond( runner-up in the Miss Sun singing. Sue is 5'7" with blond be traveling to Mullin. for the Neware Of et 'Hara to hang over the front oor of her hushand's modernized tore in Gone with the Wind. Vhen the lovely heroine later dis overed the meaning of the two atin words, it's said the color f her face matched her name. historians trace the use of mptor in the English language o English Judge Sir Anthony ooitzhrberbrt's Book of Husbandry 1523) -- the first published work n agriculture in the English 4an Vuage. Fitzherhert wrote this ad ice to horse buyers: "If he be ame, and have ben rydden vpon, han asuet eiptor. heware the >yer." To thrift-conscious emptors of oday, there's no horsing around vhen it comes to judging what's bargain and what isn't. A real Tuse u harge Account - - - - - - - A Bride's Collection Of Boners With all the lovely weddings that have appeared in the paper recently, naturally one always finds a few mistakes. Neil Plum mer, head of the University of Kentucky School of Journalism, collected some of the typographi cal errors, including: "The bride was given in marriage by her father, wearing her mother's wedding gown." "The bride wore a strand of tiny matched pears." "Her gown was of vile green." "Her accessories w e r e plain punk." "The bridegroom's mother was attired in a lace dress which fell to the floor." "The maid of horror wore yellow tulle." "The flower girl wore a maize gown with puffed sleeves touch ing her ankles." "The bride's mother wore a dawn blue chiffon and a black stray hat." "The nuptials took place in a set ting illuminated by lighted Roman candles." "The couple exchanged their cows." "The bridal couple then passed out and greeted the guests." 'The ceremony was attended by only a few loose friends and relatives." Temptors amptor-tempter is a product that begs to be bought - usually be cause of its high quality at a reasonable price. The purpose of a testing lab is to make sure that the products you purchase meet certain exacting standards. day in and day out. A testing laboratory in New York City has special means of judging emptor-tempters. In test ing small portable radios, for ex ample, technicians use an oscillo scope, an instrument that shows visually the changes in a rapidly alternating (or oscillating) cur rent. "Grass on the scope" means that sharp up and down lines are visible on the oscilloscope's fluo rescent screen - a sign that the radio signal is too noisy. When lab technicians "gaff" something, they arrange a make shift problem or solution. They may use a "klooge" - a make shift part. To these men, a "shaker" is not someone doing the twist, but a vibration table--used to rattle products around to test sturdiness. While these terms may be clas sified as technical "jargon" and are comparatively new, the words that you - the emptor -- use when bargain-hunting are cen turies old. In fact, people were looking for bargaignes in France more than 1,000 years ago! Next time you go shopping, you should feel rich indeed: the word "shop" is from the Anglo-Saxon sceoppa, or treasury. When you pay cash for your merchandise, you're harking back to the Italian cassa, a box or :hest to carry or keep wares in, such as a merchant's counter English poet Thomas Nashe is credited with first use of the termi to mean money in the form of coin or "ready money." lie wrote in his 1596 treatise Saffron-wal den: "lHe put his hand in his pocket but . . .not to pluck out snie cash." The checks you write derive from the chess term checkmate! -- an exclamation by a player when he makes a move that puts the opponent's king inl check from which there is no escape. Thus, aur checks are so-called from use >f the counterfoil, or stub, which "checkmates" forgery. Another tip for judging emptor tempters: look for a guarantee - just as Frenchmen in the Middle Ages demanded a guarantie for protection. The shirts and skirts for which you shop seem to have gotten mixed up somewhere along the historical line. "Shirt" derives from the Middle Dutch schorte. meaning apron - while "skirt" can be traced back to the Old N'orse word skyrta, which was a shirt! "Pants," on the other hand, ac tually is a contraction of "panta loons," which derives from Panta tone - a character in old Italian comedies who wore a tight-fitting combination of trousers and stock ings. The Middle English shoo was the ancestor of our shoes, but socks comes from the Latin word soccus, a low-heeled light slipper worn by the Romans.