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Newspaper
The Lee Lantern
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1958
Page
2
Student editors present a Baytown Texas college publication with Lorraine Orton Frances Morris Bee Gee Gordon and Kathy Yandell as contributors. Assistant coach Ben Moskowitz and sponsor Miss Elizabeth Meeks credited for support in this Lee College periodical.
John Gunther’s condensed observations in Readers Digest reveal that Soviet students endure years of math chemistry physics and biology with high university entry rewards including state pay and military exemption. Fifty five percent pursue science while gaps remain in broader knowledge and the potential for self thinking beyond the classroom.
A Reader's Digest piece by C. Lester Walker cites a TV lecture series on modern fiction as a catalyst for a broad rise in reading. The spread includes 100000-plus outlets for cheap paperbacks and best sellers like The Odyssey and The Triad, plus other six-figure non fiction hits.
Limelight discusses collecting cartoon albums as dinner party diversion, praising The 25th Anniversary New Yorker Cartoon album and The New Yorker 1950 55 album. It contrasts Thurber Addams and Hokinson with a Punch compilation, notes humorous styles and social commentary, and mentions Hazlitt on humor.
A day in the life of roughnecks on an oil rig describes 12 hour shifts beginning at six, hauling and measuring thousands of feet of pipe, greasing engines, laying water lines, and assembling joints. The four man crew includes the driller and derrick man with two roughnecks who weld pipe and lower it deep into the earth until petroleum is tapped. They endure heat, heavy gloves, and long weeks as they move from site to site in pursuit of black gold.
A quotation attributed to English comic writers asserts that humans alone laugh and cry due to awareness of the gap between reality and ideals. It highlights the human capacity to perceive and react to discrepancy between how things are and how they should be.
A newspaper snippet describes a summer job exposing the refining process of crude oil into components from heavy lube oil to light gasoline. Large fractioning towers separate light molecules from heavy ones, illustrating the basics of petroleum refinement.
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