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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Santa Claus-Latin Style-Meets St. Nick-Says He's Commercial
Los Angeles—(U.P.)—The three kings of the Orient, the Latin version of Santa Claus, met the American Santa today and pronounced him "too commercial."
But he's winning Latin America away from them anyway, they admitted. The children think the jolly round saint is more fun than the staid, dignified kings from the Bible.
The wise men, who bring gifts for every South-of-the-border child on Jan. 6, just as they brought myrrh and frankincense to the infant Jesus, were flown here from Mexico by Compania Mexicana De Aviación to meet Santa Claus.
It was the first official visit to this country of the robed and bearded men who are as important to Christmas in Latin countries as Santa is here.
"Santa is very jolly, but he is too commercial," wise man Enrique Ortega said. "He sells everything. With all the gifts from him, the real spirit of Christmas is forgotten.
"With us, Christmas is a time for fasting and prayers. We take it seriously."
seriously.
Ortega and the other two wise men, Juan De Domenico, a CMA official, and Pfririo Romay, Mexican
vice-consul, had a date with Santa and Mayor Fletcher Bowron under the city's 105-foot Christmas tree.
They showed up in the flowing blue robes, draped hat and false beards that the Mexican gift-giver substitutes for Santa's red suit and pillows.
The wise men ride on flying camels, instead of a sleigh.
Mexican children write letters to the wise men. Ortega said, and leave them with them in department stores. More advanced stores now have Santa Claus and a wise man side by side. A child who wants to be on the safe side can place an order with both.
"Families are trying to keep the old customs, but you can't blame the children for liking the jolly, laughing Santa better than a sober old wise man," Ortega said.
"Perhaps it will not be long until Santa Claus conquers the country and runs us out of business," the wise man said.
Holiday Socialites Frequent Dances, Parties
Delta Tau Delta fraternity held its annual winter formal Dec. 10 in the ballroom of the Union. Guests were:
Delts Winter Formal Guests
Becky Davidson, Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Hill, William Pattison, Marilyn
Franklin, Robert Carl, Patricia
Lynch, Amos Roberts, Naida Craig,
Patsy Lands, Marilyn Hintzler,
Georgann Vanderberg, Mary J
Bryant, Jeannine Wolfe, Diane
Wade, Ann Houge, Jack Shields.
Patricia Comstock, Georgie Ginther, Margaret Logan, Peter Underwood, Doris Jo Williams, Kenneth Smith, Donnie Jones, Ann Hendershot, Carolee Eberhart, Charles Howard, Jeennine Neilhart.
Mary Jewett, Diane Hornaday, Clara Nelson, Patricia Anderson, Donna Zrubeck, Robin McGeorge, Judy Buckley, Helen Henricksen, Nancy Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. William Ellis, Albert Miller, Martha Weed.
Claude Mason, Jody Bushy, Janet Maloney, Richard Humphreys, Joaillenell Ashcraft, Juana McWilliams, Shirley, Siefkin, Janet Coulter, Vera Rush, Carolyn Carmean, Wayne Atwood, Joyce Nickols, James Louisaburay.
Naney Linsey, Wade Arthur,
Claudia Anderson, Jack Barley,
Mary Lynn Heharty, Jane Heywood,
Doris Lyons, Robert Orr, Patricia
Watkins, Karmen Edward, William
Bailey, Robert Woods, Diana Sher-
wood, Lyn Oberg, Mary Helen Carr,
Alpn. Sellers, Jeanne Hillyer.
Leslie Buffer, Lois Johnson, Marilyn Bibler, Richard Dockney, Joanne Hartell, Donald Woodson, Jack Harper, Kenneth Simpson, Marilyn Bailey, Cheri Montgomery, Jackie Timmons.
Thimblins.
Jackie Ogan, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Turner, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Stryker, Kenneth Grubb, Robert Moore, Ninia Pearson, Sally Young, Robert Garrity, Dave Wilson, Ann Simms, Donald Wilson, James Davidson, Emily Trickett, James Hataway, Marcia McCambell, John Sites.
Susan Manovill, Wint Winter,
Carol Kendall, Dorothy Dudley,
Barbara O'Neal Richard Bibler, Lu
Ann Powell, Paul Coker, Nancy
Gemell, Gene Allen, Patricia Davis,
Jane Eby, Evelyn Wulfekuhler,
Linda Sanborn.
Lila Highton, Marilyn Todd, Mary Lind, Nancy Sunison, Milton Fadler, Barbara Ackerman, Ernest Johnson, Louise Oaks, Kay McClanahan, Patricia Henry, Joan Happy, Janet Stites.
Joe Bob Spangler, Jackie Kreider,
Robert Shmalberg, Sara Underwood,
James Black, Carla Ann Harber,
Janice Asplund, John Goodson, Mr.
and Mrs. Desmond Gibson, Marilyn
Gibson, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Mitchell
Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Greene, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stryker, Virginia Rose, Kitty Whitehead, Claire Coulter, Robert Haberlein, Suzanne Hartnett, Charles Arnold, Patricia Haas, Sandy Beels, Connie Kagey,
James Scott, Thomas Petee, Jea Biggins, Mary Witcher, Robel Shearer, Mary Moses, and Mr. an Mrs. Richard Good.
Barbara Parint, Jane Lutz, Mary
Beth. Fiegel.
Guests At DG Formal
Delta Gamma sorority held its Christmas formal dance Dec. 10. Guests were: James Martin, James Gurley, Wallace Rouse, James Fishback, Barnard Waugh, Robert Reen, E.A. Hathorne, Harvey Jetmore, Edwin Herleman, Charles Shrewsbury, Stanley England, Wilbur Spalding, Donald Ament, Gene Shumway, James Hastings.
George Learned, William Schaake
Gene Hatfield, Fred Stein, Merrill
Steile, Robert Meachum, Robert
Wells, Albert Moddelmog, Harlan
Ochs, Dale Corder, William Mac-
Gregor, Charles Bates, Charles Philbrick, Bud Johnson, Dale Mallon,
Donald Muir, Jack Luff.
Charles Hyer, Larry Silks, John Burnett, Robert Howerton, Bolie Waggener, Marvin Bills, Kenneth Smith, James Perry, Everett McGill, Paul Strand, Marvin Rollands, William Pierson, William Bute, Pete Stubbs, Bud Moore, and Mr. and Mrs. Dayton Molzen.
Patricia Glover, rush chairman,
Mrs. W. S. Shaw, housemother, and
chaperones. Mrs. John Skie. Mrs.
James A. Hooke, and Mrs. Charles
Mandigo were in the reception line.
Phi Gamma Delta fraternity entertained fourty nine Lawrence children at a Christmas party held Tuesday. Many children watched Paul Coker draw Christmas pictures while the remainder trimmed and decorated the Christmas tree. Later in the evening Santa Claus passed presents among the children. The party ended with Win Koerper and Woody Davis playing Christmas Carols and other selections.
Phi Gams Entertain Children
Race-Ritt Pinning
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Kappa Alpha Theta sorority announces the pinning Dec. 9 of Miss Marcia Race to Mr. Walter Ritt. Miss Race is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin E. Rance of Kansas City, Mo. and Mr. Ritt is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Ritt, also of Kansas City, Mo.
Miss Virginia Walsh and Miss Marjorie Crane announced the pinning. Miss Race wore a corsage of small white orchids and her attendants, the Misses Nina Ritt, Ann Ackerman, and Nancy Haffey, wore her white carnations. Mrs. Christine Alford, housemother, received a potted plant.
mother, received Miss Race is a College junior, Mr. Ritt is a College senior and a member of Phl Kappa Psi fraternity.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Payne of Eureka announce the engagement of their daughter, Joanne, to Mr. LeRoy E. Cox, son of Mr. and Mrs. U. J. Cox of Hutchinson. The wedding will be next June.
Payne-Cox Pinning
Miss Payne is a member and past president of the Mu Phi Nu, business sorority. Mr. Cox is a senior in the College and is a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
Gallup And Carr Initiated Into Scabbard And Blade
Capt. Alfred F. Gallup, assistant professor of air science and T. De-Witt Carr, dean of the School of Engineering, were initiated as associate members of Scabbard and Blade, honorary military fraternity, Dec. 13.
Theta Phi Alpha Party
Theta Phi Alpha Party
Theta Phi Alpha sorority will have a party at the Palm room of the Union from 9 p. m. until midnight Saturday.
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Los Angeles—(U.P.)—A woman doesn't need sex appeal today to succeed as a spy, a former counter-intelligence officer said, but she can't make the grade without brains.
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Michel K. Thomas, former chief of the French Maquis, said women were his best investigators but most of the famed agents tried to look like average persons instead of depending on allure.
Thomas, who settled down to running a language school here after three years with the American counter-intelligence service, said a Russian vocabulary was a must at present for aspiring Mala Haris.
A spy needn't concentrate on prying secrets out of impressionable generals, he said. She often can get just as much information from another woman—if she doesn't look like a spy.
Thomas said brains, ingenuity, and acting ability were the raw materials of which good spies are made. They aren't born.
"Most people who think they are born spies, such as the ones who keep watch on the neighbors, are very poor," he said.
The only slinky undercover woman of the old school Thomas knows is a French-born Russian countess who first spied for the Germans inside the Soviet Union. By snuggling up to a French general after the war, she escaped from an allied prison to the officer's castle, he said.
After Thomas broke up her plan to enter the United States, the countess moved to Paris and started spying for the Russians, he said.
At the opposite extreme was a nosy lady investigator on Thomas'
staff who helped track down his biggest prize, a German war crimes suspect, by working her way into his family's confidence. . .
"An attractive woman," he commented, "but no femme fatale."
New York Students Plan Booster Club
A meeting of the students is planned for 4 p.m. Thursday Dec. 29 at the Lorali on East 86th street Manhattan.
Approximately 20 University students from New York City plan to organize a booster club.
Anita Phillip, College sophomore and head of the New York organization contacted the alumni association in New York in an attempt to bring the students and alumni together in a meeting over the Christmas vacation. However, the alumni members will be unable to attend the meeting.
WAA DINNER TODAY
The Women's Athletic association will hold its annual "Hockey-Voleyball Feed" at 5:30 p. m. today in the Kansas room of the union. Purpose is to initiate new members, present awards to high-point women, and name the honorary varsity hockey and volleyball teams. For W. A. A. members only. Heels and hose will be worn.
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