University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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Franklin that he will l e after him at two to take him home. Baake is a self-appointed nursemaid to Franklin. However, not even Baake's tender care can keep Franklin from eating nothin ' hut pastry with pineapple tilling for Wednesday supj er. Besides his caretaking job Baake also is in charge of advertising copy for the Hurricane. Just after the weekly Hurricane social hour is Over Helene Putnam buzzes into the shop. She's all business and turns out copy double-quick; that is, after waiting two hours to nab a typewriter. She lingers long enough to type Seymour Simon’s, honorary co-sports editor, latest plea for baseball. Another Hurricane convert is Margaret Klotz, who holds down the glamour job. She’s scenery and romance. She writes features and gets called “Maggie” in the headline every week. After calling Franklin six limes on Wednesday afternoon to assure him he has a big scoop for the front page, Jacques Wilson swoops in about 10:30 and lustily declares that he has not even the ghost of a story. Having heard Wilson's choice explanations. one by one the staff members depart, and leave Franklin to bounce his head alone and to give vent to his passion for paragraphs. We’ve heard that this goes on until two or three in the morning. ViMlirr version at Hurryvtrriu; Ihlv lime with tire Impot-ftlblr otnfte u-ltinK f almost the entire »lulT gathered urouinl the vtonr. Thursday is devoted to odds and ends and mechanical details: make up, heads, proofs, and filling up holes that will sneak in. Twelve-thirty ticks by unnoticed; it is no longer a significant time in Hurricane production. Everyone relaxes and the pper goes leisurely on. By 4:30 the first copies are off the press. Corky and Jeff, after groaning over glaring errors, station themselves in the rear of the shop and insert the chocolate filling. So the Hurricane makes it appearance approximately at 5:30. Friday the staff steels itself to withstand the verbal blows of student readers. No week goes by without some mishap that won't be overlooked. This public reaction doesn't effect the staff seriously. Rather late additions to the Hurricane staff this year were Richard “Bubblenose Paige, Fred Nesbitt, and John I). Kendall, the first and last being sports writers. Paige played junior varsity tennis and was on Mr. Head's softball team; therefore, he wrote those two events consistently. Kendall took over football and boxing when the remainder of the staff became reluctant about frequenting the gym and athletic office, while Nesbitt was publicity director for the TKPs and the Debate Council. 22

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rjnuil CorriKun growl Into Ihr telephone ait Jim Jeffrey ■iinlUnli- on the pouilbllltlr of IKiroth) livin' lntr l production an wu trba»krt lining. a fury of activity. Both typewriters, the Hurricane veteran and the one snatched from the Ibis office, are being battered. From 2:30 to 6:00 Corky sits close beside one, swinging his keys and waiting for inspiration (he's strictly an inspiration guy). The ever busy typewriters furnish a legitimate excuse for columnists when they hand their copy in on Wednesday instead of Tuesday. By five o’clock Corky has definitely decided what his contribution to the editorial page will be. notes the time, and decides to write it on the morrow. On the whole Tuesday ekes out a fair number of frail bits of editorial copy. Once all the copy for page two was turned in Tuesday. Wednesday is still the great day of activity. Things remain unchanged in the office. The copy basket serves its purpose while Corrigan does his French. This is the day Red Estersohn, dubiously dubbed the man with the green mustache. darts in and out getting reactions on his latest music criticism. After one of his concert reviews has lieen blindly slashed his artistic feelings are soothed by the declaration, “You'd be music editor if we had one.” Wednesday afternoon from 1:30 on the staff members remove themselves to the print shop. Franklin s countenance beams and beams through the hours until he is forced to realize that some people just won't get copy in. Then activities on his fingernails becomes furious. He puses every few minutes to liounce his head between his hands and wail. Freshmen Preston and Levin take their journalism seriously and really apply themselves when they reach the shop. When things get a little slow Dotty devotes some time to cmbc|lishing Webster’s work. She concocts most grandilixjuent words. Her pet duty is reviewing plays; sloe's drama critic junior. Also she is a minor whiz at writing heads that fit. Elaine and Dotty work as a pair. They seem to think of the same thing at the same time. If Dotty needs a word or an idea Elaine supplies it and vice versa. Elaine writes her own stories and re-writes other people’s contributions. Between them they turn out a fair portion of the pper. Desperation crowds Linrothe, co-sprts editor, into a corner. Always there is not enough sports copy written. Girls intramurals is the most consistent delinquent on the page, not to mention I.inrothe's column. Linrothe’s sidekick. Jim Jeffrey, is always on hand to do an odd job. He is the one who maintains the friendly relationship between the Hurricane and the load papers. Each Wednesday afternoon he takes a jaunt to town and politely extracts necessary cuts from the morgues of the daily ppers. When the editorial page is a few inches short Jeff is ready to slip into any role and produce a letter to the editor about anything. His official capacity is Circulation Manager. He hauls copies of the Hurricane from the print shop to places where no one can find them. Charles Chester Baake. our rosy, burly business manager, usually drops in the shop to inform Mr. Ilurrlcanluii at II bright a Ihr »tnff lulu action twenty minute nflrr Ihr paper I »lippo c ! lu havr gone to pre ». 21

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Futile Forensics ■ A flexible membership system and an extensive schedule of debates made the competitive spirit of the varsity deleters stronger than usual this year. Guided by debate coach Dr. Charles Doren Tharp, the inter-school and practice debates were hard-fought battles. According to the new system members were eligible to try out for the varsity and freshman debate teams throughout the year. At any time members of either team could be challenged for their right to remain on that team by an applicant for the position. The contest for the place then would ! e held at the next practice debate and the winner would take the contested place in the team leaving the loser the chance to challenge again. The varsity debate team remained almost intact throughout the year. The memliers of the first squad (of whom four were selected to go on the barn-storming tour) were Irving Lebowitz, junior; Hen Axelroad, Jr., sophomore: Claud Corrigan, sophomore; Lloyd Whyte, junior; Jerome Weinkle, senior, Law School; and Lawrence Ropes, senior. On the affirmative team were Axelroad and Corrigan, while Lebowitz and Rojh s took the negative. at the majority of the home debates. Contracting for debates with other schools using this same subject, planning the trip, and acting as chairman of all home debates was Jack Madigan, varsity debate manager. First debate of the year was with an affirmative team from the University of Richmond, in which Irving Lebowitz. and Laurence Ropes. Miami’s speakers for the negative, were defeated. The contest was held in this year's debate headquarters, the assembly room of the administration building, February 29. Miami's negative team took on and defeated St. Petersburg Junior College Friday. March 15. Debaters for this contest were Jerome Weinkle and Lawrence Ropes, the latter a substitute for Irving Lebowitz. The next week. March 18, two non-decisions were debated with Rollins College. Hen Axelroad, Claud Corrigan. Jerome Weinkle. and Lawrence Ropes were the speakers for Miami. Axelroad and Corrigan were again the sjieakers for Miami at the debate lto| c , OirrlK»». Ubowlti, Wrinkle, m»l xrlro il »lun l Ml thr debater ' en garde poxltlun. with the University of Pennsylvania. Miami won this debate. Another decision debate which went against the varsity was the one held on March 29 against a girl’s team from the University of Vermont. Irving Lebowitz, who took Claud Corrigan's place on the affirmative team, and Hen Axelroad were adjudged the losers. Vermont was the last home debate before the barnstorming tour which is a feature of varsity debating every year. The schedule included colleges in the southern states, with four in Florida, two in Alabama, and three in Georgia. The first debate of the trip was with Rollins College which was held April 15. The debaters then went to Gainesville, to battle the University of Florida. Next stop on the schedule was Atlanta, where for the only time during the trip, the debaters met two schools in one day. During the afternoon of April 18, they went to Athens, where their foe was the University of Georgia. That evening they spent in Atlanta debating a team from Kmory University. April 19 the Squad met Hirmingham-Southern University, in Hirmingham, and from there trekked on to Tuscaloosa where they battled the University of Alabama. April 20. They spent a day in travel and met Florida State College for Women at Tallahassee, April 22. The remaining two debates of the trip were with Florida-Southern College, Lakeland, and St. Petersburg Junior College. St. Petersburg. 25